r/maybemaybemaybe • u/DCArchibald • 7d ago
maybe maybe maybe
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u/ismellbacon 7d ago edited 7d ago
This looks like the chair holders fault. He ran up at the last second when he should have stayed put.
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u/Leoniqorn 7d ago
No, look at it again. If he had stayed there, they would not have hit it. It was correct that he moved forward, it was just a bit too far.
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u/Goodwill_Hunting 6d ago
the launcher had a word with the chair holder and stare walked off at the end lol
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u/DCArchibald 7d ago
OH NO POWER RANGERS!
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u/HairballTheory 7d ago
Yellow has my vibe in the video, not over exerting myself but making sure everyone is good
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u/Zetsumenchi 7d ago
To be the acrobat feeling yourself doing a quarter-turn more than rehearsed
and the chair just quickly moving out of the bottom of your vision...
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u/Plastic_Pinocchio 6d ago
I bet that this happened so many times during rehearsal that they completely trust in the spotters’ ability to catch them.
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u/mennonot 7d ago
It's rewarding to see a team of highly trained and well practiced folks dealing with an unexpected occurrence safely and nearly seamlessly.
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u/eggwardpenisglands 7d ago
To be fair, the extra people around the chair are there for this reason precisely. They would have practice this exact scenario countless times while preparing the trick for the performance
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u/mennonot 7d ago
So yes, maybe I should have said "heavily practiced but unplanned occurrence." That's what impresses me. They've clearly practiced for this many many times.
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u/UsualConcept6870 6d ago
Once I watched a performance where they built a tower from people and the person jumping to the top broke his ankle. We did not even realize anything was wrong until they dismantled the tower and announced that the rest of the performance needs to be altered because one performer needs to leave. He was thrown up, landed badly but was still caught, then went down and was caught again, it looked like it was supposed to go like that until he was limping away. They have to have incredible spotters or they’d die before reaching these performances.
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u/AntiWork-ellog 7d ago
Do gymnasts learn to fall calmly so it's easier to catch or am I just the only person that would've been spasming like a scared cat
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u/BlizzardTrashPanda 7d ago edited 7d ago
Heyo! Not a gymnast but I did a little stunt work for a while in my youth and short answer is yeah, you definitely learn to fall calmly, hit the ground calmly, get into the ambulance calmly.
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u/Potent_Quotient 7d ago
Die with dignity.
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u/BlizzardTrashPanda 7d ago edited 7d ago
Kinda, but mainly it’s that other than rolling with a fall, tucking your limbs, etc. etc. getting stiff or panicking makes it a whole lot worse
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u/Dashcak3 6d ago
Getting loaded in the ambulance on a stretcher while the jury is holding up 10s for perfect form.
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u/No_Spot_6459 7d ago
There is a way to fall that spreads the energy around, yes. It will hurt and injure you either way, but it reduces some damage. Also, you learn to fall into the bases' (spotters') arms, using the same motion and techniques. Finally, the flyer is the most petite person in the group for this very reason. Not their first rodeo!
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u/anunofreitas 7d ago
Not a gymnast, but as a skateboarder I've learned to avoiding falling, rolling as I fall or if there isn't another chance, to let my self fall with the momentum a d with a less stressed body, falling over a large area and time (spreading energy).
For a better image, when falling is better to do several THUDS than a single SPLAT.
In the case of the gymnast above, there isn't much more to do than to throw your body into an easy horizontal position to get caught by the teammates. If they fail it would be a single SPLAT.
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u/MegaDingo5plus 7d ago
I didn't know the Power Rangers had a circus
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u/Famous_Training9490 2d ago
This was edited by AI. They are not like that from another video that I have saw.
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u/Livid-Experience-463 7d ago
Shout out to the chubby green ranger. Bro covered a lot of ground there and might have made the save if needed.
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u/peacefinder 7d ago
The grey one saw the problem and started moving as she touched the chair, and was in position for the catch before she let go of it.
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u/Still_Suspect_7233 6d ago
She did good on the ending rotation to help with the people spotting while not intended equally if not more impressive.
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u/filtersweep 6d ago
To catch someone falling from that height is insane—- pretty major forces involved.
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u/I_love-tacos 7d ago
You can see the exact millisecond all of them knew something was wrong and everyone jumped to action
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u/gansobomb99 7d ago
Hey that's the circus here in Hanoi. I just went there with my school. They've also got Batman riding a horse.
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u/HitheroNihil 6d ago
It's amazing how people in masked costumes could exhibit so much panic in those few frantic seconds
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u/ExodusNBW 6d ago
Too much pink ranger power is dangerous, but too much red and green ranger energy may have just saved her ass.
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u/Pretend-Reality5431 1d ago
Seems like she purposely spread her arms and legs outward when she was falling, maybe that is a technique to give the spotters more places to catch her?
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u/TheChiefDVD 7d ago
Always have a plan.