That's the point! When doing back flip, you do not land directly on the head. To do so, you should miraculously freeze in the air in the middle of a swing. Which is against physics. And, if you do all moves properly, you get quite a swing.As someone who has done backflips off ice: when you mess it up you tend to land on your feet first before falling. This is no different than a figure skating jump. You land on your feet then you fall.
If we go through all moves in slow-mo, there are head-down and back-down stages; but, to drop down during any of these stages, you need to lose the speed completely. Which would mean freezing in the air. But you can't freeze the actual movement like you freeze the slow-mo frame.
This is what I thought when I read about Alexey Vasilevskiy accident. How could he do it?! How exactly did it happen? At which stage of learning? Did he do everything to the book?
I know that there can be all kinds of crazy accidents (see the bed injury statistic above). But, if you tell me: "he fell on his head when doing a back flip", this is inexplicable for me.
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