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'This Is Real Flex': Russian Gymnast Dangles From Hot Air Balloon In Terrifying Video

'This Is Real Flex': Russian Gymnast Dangles From Hot Air Balloon In Terrifying Video

News1824-06-2025
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This Russian gymnast's stunt will have you holding your breath and biting your nails.
A video of a Russian gymnast performing a high-risk stunt mid-air has taken the internet by storm. The gymnast, identified as Sergey Boytsov, is seen executing a daring gymnastic routine while hanging from a hot air balloon, thousands of feet above the ground.
The breathtaking visuals have left many viewers stunned. The video has since gone viral, drawing admiration and anxiety in equal measure across social media platforms.
Sergey Boytsov is a 30-year-old bodybuilder and gymnast from Russia. He has now become the face of one of the most daring stunts seen online in recent times. In the clip, he is shown hanging on a square platform that is attached to a hovering hot air balloon at an altitude of 1,500 meters. Though there is a platform and what looks like some rope structure, Boytsov appears completely untethered during the performance. He is wearing a long gymnastics jumpsuit and performs high-level movements on a horizontal bar. The stunt is not just risky, it is deadly.
The video was shared on X (formerly Twitter) along with the caption, 'Russian bodybuilder and daredevil Sergey Boytsov claims to have set a world record. Boytsov claims to have set a world record for the world's first gymnastic turns under a balloon at an altitude of 1,500 meters without a parachute. Boytsov says there was no 'insurance,' meaning if something went wrong, he was done. Boytsov is 30 years old and is from Russia."
One person wrote, 'This is real flex, not a Lamborghini", while another called it simply, 'incredible."
Someone pointed out, 'I don't even know how you could be harnessed in a situation like this. Twisting around the bar would probably make any kind of a harness system more risk than reward. No parachute either."
'Pretty sure that even if he had insurance, if something went wrong, he was done," an individual sarcastically wrote.
A comment read, 'There's no point to this," while a viewer added, 'How useless of a thing to do."
Recently, a tragic incident involving a hot air balloon took place in Brazil. Eight people were killed after a balloon carrying 21 passengers, including the pilot, crashed in the early hours of Saturday in the southern state of Santa Catarina. The balloon reportedly caught fire mid-flight and went down in a forested area in the city of Praia Grande. According to the state fire department, thirteen survivors were taken to nearby hospitals.
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