If this flip .GIF was a lifestyle, people would be all about that. I have no idea if this is even a real thing or who this person is (Reddit says it might be a Kansan named Michael Guthrie, so it's probably "real," even though it looks like a movie), but it is utterly sublime and Friday in every possible way. Everyone is just watching him flip! Is it some kind of competition? Did he just go, "Hey everyone, clear off a space, check this shit out!"
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Regardless, that's a man in some pretty great shorts doing a really sick flip that, at its midpoint, gets kicked into overdrive. Ever so briefly, he enters bullet time and makes a mockery of our physical world. This is pretty much the apex of human achievement. Those dudes in the foreground are trying to be unimpressed, because being impressed by another man's flip would be considered a social faux pas, but they are clearly wowed. Who wouldn't be?If our flipper here is Michael Guthrie, by the way, he's basically a one-man And1 mixtape of jumping and twisting his body around.PS: This sudden flexing or whatever it is that makes this flip suddenly INSANE and makes you convinced that all our theories of gravity are wrong is called "tricking." The more you know!David Matthews routinely trips while walking. Follow him on Twitter.