They say that if you mess with the bull, you get the horns. Surprisingly, however, one gentleman has attempted to disprove this age old adage, and succeeded with aplomb! Over on Reddit, a wild snippet of footage is making the rounds and it involves a professional Recortador — a fancy Spanish word for a daredevil bull-jumper — backflipping over a live, charging bull. Yep, you read that right.
The 22-second video gets straight into the action and depicts a young man dressed in a white and red uniform doing an insanely impressive stunt. In short, the Recortador manages to backflip over a fast-approaching adult bull as a camera records the footage in slow motion from a few meters away. Amazingly, the man times the daring stunt perfectly and lands safely avoiding any injury from the incoming danger.
At the moment, the viral clip is circulating across social media, and as expected, the internet is already chiming in with their thoughts on the footage. On the whole, a large swathe of public opinion is simply astounded by the pure dexterity and athleticism of the audaciously daring Recortador, with one user, writing:
How do you discover you can do that, and then seek to do it more than once?
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Meanwhile, other netizens believed that the man was lucky to be alive, with one Twitter user stating:
This is why women live longer than men
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On that note, another commenter added, “How do you wake up in the morning and decide to backflip over a raging bull that day??“
Lastly, another Reddit user on another sub-reddit quipped, “that bull was like “wtf?? I just got BAMBOOZLED“
From what we can gather, the incident occurred in Spain, where Recortes — a style of Spanish bullfighting — is a part of the country’s rich cultural heritage. As opposed to traditional bullfighting, however, the bull is not harmed or killed, unlike the alternative style, Corridas. In Recortes, on the other hand, there’s more of an emphasis on dodging bulls acrobatically, which this man absolutely nailed with both confidence and poise.
