The man you're watching flip in circles above is Horacio Llorens, a Spanish paraglider who just smashed the world record for consecutive infinity tumbles. An infinity tumble is basically a paragliding flip, but gnarlier; as the paraglider whips around the wing, he or she can experience up to six Gs. Llorens, jumping from 19,700 feet, did 568 loops in a row.
He was jumping to recover his world record, previously set by Max Marien earlier this year. Marien maxed out with 374 tumbles (if you want to get a better sense of just how dizzying the feat is, watch that video), a mark that Llorens, a four-time aerobatic paragliding world champ, absolutely destroyed.
“I used oxygen and at 19,300 feet I opened the paraglider and started looping,” Llorens said in a Red Bull release. “I was looping for around 15 minutes until I had the feeling I was close to the ground so I stopped at around 1,500 feet.”
But is Llorens the best tumbler in the world? I'm not sure he's earned the title just yet: