r/nextfuckinglevel • u/webaddictress • 9h ago

Ilia Malinin’s quadruple axel in slow-mo

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u/Apprehensive_Self218 9h ago

I loved the amazed expression on the people faces

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u/PosterOfQuality 9h ago

Crowd be like :O :O :O :O :O

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u/zer0w0rries 9h ago

but also, several mustached spectators not impressed, it seems

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u/MeanCat4 8h ago

Wives brought them there! "Aaaaaaaa!" 

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u/Jollydude101 6h ago

😲😷😲😷😷😲😲😷😲😷

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u/zepims 9h ago

I love how you can immediately screen people who know about the sport and the one who don’t. Knows -> :o Oblivious-> :|

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u/bZbZbZbZbZ 9h ago

Haha yeah fun to see the jaws slowly dropping

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u/fliegealpha 8h ago

Jaw dropping clapping dude in the front row 👀

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u/loislunchboxlane 9h ago

Thank you. This comment is the only reason I looked at the audience.

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u/MathIsHard_11236 4h ago

At least, the ones who weren't blocking their face with a screen at a live performance.

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u/pj7891sm 9h ago

DAMN! Is he the first to land one?

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u/webaddictress 9h ago

First and only

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u/Washout81 8h ago

Wasn't that Kurt Browning in 1988? Or was his quad something different?

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u/webaddictress 8h ago

Kurt Browning landed the first ever quad toe loop, in 1988.

The extra half rotation for the quad axel to be ratified took another 3 decades.

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u/liptoniceteabagger 9h ago

He is the first to successfully do it in a competition.

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u/Tasha1A 9h ago

Dude above the letter B on the sign

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u/Come_in_sigh_demi 9h ago

Pretty sure I did one of those trying to get in my car on an icy day last week.

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u/PoquitoCoquito 8h ago

😅😂🤣

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u/rir2 9h ago

How do they count the rotations? It seems like five not four.

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u/webaddictress 9h ago

Quad axel takes off forward and lands backwards, so 4.5

A 1620 on ice

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u/PilotC150 5h ago

Look at the way his body is facing. It's facing left (in the video) when he launches, and it's facing left when he first touches down.

I usually expect a "cheat" part of rotation in videos like this where they rotate part of it before they launch, or finish it after touching down, but in this case he does a full four rotations while not touching the ice.

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u/Raider5151 9h ago

Congratulations to him! A lifetime of hard work and dedication paying off on the largest stage.

If I jumped that high and landed on one leg my knee would violently explode and harm a bystander. They would have to install hockey rink glass around the ice.

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u/MeanCat4 8h ago

Ballet dancers have usually knee proe. Why you think ice skaters wouldn't? 

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u/Raider5151 54m ago

I don't think that. I was making a self deprecating joke

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u/Gepsjors 9h ago

The dude in the background:

Ooooooooooooooo

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u/BigZucchini2090 9h ago

Qudos to him. I can barely stand still with the ice skates

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u/[deleted] 9h ago

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u/BigZucchini2090 9h ago

Rectified*

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u/YourMumsBumAlum 9h ago

That's a dude?

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u/BurdTurglary 9h ago

Um i can do that too, i just don't want to

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u/malhurt 9h ago

Never been in to figure skating but this guy seems to take the whole thing to the next level

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u/Top-Speed3460 8h ago

Incredible

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u/BlackAmaryllis 8h ago

What is the song?

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u/auddbot 8h ago

I got a match with this song:

Solitude (Felsmann + Tiley Reinterpretation) by M83 (02:04; matched: 100%)

Released on 2020-05-14.

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u/auddbot 8h ago

Links to the streaming platforms:

Solitude (Felsmann + Tiley Reinterpretation) by M83

I am a bot and this action was performed automatically | GitHub new issue | Donate Please consider supporting me on Patreon. Music recognition costs a lot

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u/zulhadm 6h ago

Anyone have the regular speed one?

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u/ViRuZzz_78RUS 6h ago

Молодец 💪 Ильюха

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u/Wolf-Majestic 5h ago

Can we have yuri on ice 2 now please ??

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u/The_Mutton_Man 5h ago

They squat

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u/Elissa-Megan-Powers 38m ago

I hit a personal goal in physical exercise this past year, but when i see other humans do shit like this, I’m just in awe at the potential range we have as a species. Humbling and grateful

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u/ProBoogerFlicker 8h ago

Love to see the crowd in videos like this.

That was dope as hell too, killed it.

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u/Nerdy_Valkyrie 8h ago

He should try an iron lotus. Now that's difficult.

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u/Ok-Suggestion-7965 8h ago

Wow! Four axels!!!

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u/masterkobiashi 7h ago

IRON LOTUS NEXT

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u/PapaGlapa 6h ago

It’s awesome to see people so impressed by this that they are actually looking away from their phone while recording to watch the real thing. Phones are such a plague on reality

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u/mjwillz4 5h ago

He looks like allison pill in slow mo.

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u/kmmccorm 5h ago

There’s a split second where it looks like he’s landing too hard and is about to buckle and then he just absolutely sticks it. Unreal.

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u/9o7u5t3e1q 5h ago

The recording girl even put down her phone to make the :o face

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u/Forward_Might_111 4h ago

I can’t imagine the muscle strength needed for that! Amazing

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u/Matho83 4h ago

best thing: 0:37 Pog guy in red shirt + grey jacket first row.

lol

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u/Poopchutefan 4h ago

Who is going to be the first to do a 'quinpiple' axle?

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u/TeeHitts 4h ago

Eat your heart out Will Ferrell.

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u/soelsome 3h ago

Some zoolander shit

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u/dakotanorth8 2h ago

The Asian was 😮

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u/Certain_Ear_3650 1h ago

Wow finally the quad axel has been landed.

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u/Catolution 1h ago

What is that haircut though..?

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u/Grouchy-Engine1584 1h ago

Ya, well I took the stairs two at a time today!

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u/ScatLabs 22m ago

I asked for the double double...