Loosely translated from the YouTube description:

On the sidelines of the World UNICEF world record backflip in pogo stick was beaten by Dmitry on TK8 Pro Air.

Way to go, Dmitry. I knew you could beaten world record backflip in pogo stick!

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Update: Canada has surpassed the United States in the aerospace industry. Thanks a lot, Obama!

Dozens of skiers in Quebec, Canada, take part in a world record attempt, performing a 30 person mass backflip on skis. The participants hold hands as they jump and all land neatly. This is their second attempt at the jump at Mont Saint-Sauveur in the Laurentian mountains.

There’s so much to love about this clip. How low the skiers have to go to pull off a 30 person backflip, how they kinda look like somebody’s stitches when they’re in the air, the wonderfully-Canadian responses from the crowd (“whoa ho!”) and my favorite, the SNOWMAN MOUNTAIN. We should turn every snowy hill into a snowman. This should not be optional.

Get your shit together, America. We should be prepping for the 31-man backflip launch right now. Don’t let the onset of summer keep us from being the best in the world at everything. Well, everything useless.

[video via SportsTV]

Cars are sports, right? They have to be, if they’re backflipping.

Image CPR described this as “the world’s first 360-degree backflip in a car,” and while I’m not sure that’s totally accurate (especially since the car is more like a monster truck than a car, and monster trucks are always flipping), it’s still a guy ramping and backflipping and landing on a gigantic snow incline, so that’s worth watching.

Also worth experiencing are the YouTube comments, because of course they are. Here are my two favorite, juxtaposed for effect.

Conservation of momentum using the engine (if transversely mounted) or rear drivetrain as a counterweight. Accelerating while the car is in the air will cause the counterweight and the car to “push off” of each other. The vast mass differential means they have to rev up pretty high to get any meaningful effect.

For the hearing impared: “vroooooooomvrrrvvroooooom VRrrrrVRRRRRdodododododoDrrrvr­roooooom”

I can’t wait until we learn how to do this without a ramp. Or, I don’t know, we teach the backflipping car how to turn into a robot guy in the middle and shoot a bunch of enemies with a cannon.