Jackson Bunch Hurls What Might Be Surfing’s Biggest Backflip Yet (Video)

There’s no cool story about the origins of the backflip.

So, online trolls created one. They told the totally fabricated tale of one John H. Backflip, who performed the maneuver for King Edward II on Christmas Day in 1316. Backflip was later exiled. By whom, you ask? William Frontflip, of course.

As for backflips in surfing, their origins can be traced through a careful history of slowly inverting air reverses, combined with the once-popular rodeo clown maneuver. But straight-up backflips are still pretty rare ...