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Video: Sneaky Dad Motivates Kid Into Doing Backflip Every Day For Year
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Ben Yakas
Published Jan 25, 2012
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While you've been updating your Google feed for news on Blue Ivy, other people have been out there doing things, man. To wit: Syracuse University student Sam Morrison’s dad bet him $100 he couldn’t do a backflip every day for a year. And now Morrison has earned all ten thousand of those pennies. Watch a video compilation of his feats below.
Morrison, a junior who expects to graduate with a bachelor’s of science degree in Information Management and Technology, catalogued the year-long project on his Tumblr here—not all the flips were in the video above because of poor-lighting, but he says all of them are on his Tumblr. Now, he is thinking about going to the next level: "doing a backflip on EVERY continent, starting with North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia this summer."
You might scoff at his achievement, but as Morrison told the Syracuse Post-Standard, it wasn't just about the act itself—it tested his willingness to complete a four-second task, day in and day out. “Some days I didn’t feel like getting up to do it,” Morrison said. But if you're impressed by that, then get a load of this: we wash our hands for up to 10 seconds at a time MULTIPLE times a day (after flicking the light switch three times back and forth and hopping over any cracks in the floor).
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