Backflip record broken by teenager from East Yorkshire

Speaking after he had completed 1,426 flips, already surpassing the record, the teenager said: “I’m doing one every 20 seconds. I’m having regular breaks, keeping hydrated… I just keep chugging away.”

“You can’t do them fast because you fatigue too fast, and then you get cramps,” Austin explained.

“I feel amazing.

“It’s something I could only dream of,” he said.

Tracey Beasty, Austin’s mother, said she was very proud.

“A bit emotional, but it’s fantastic.

“He’s worked really hard for it,” she said.

Austin lost his older brother, who he was very close to, four and a half years ago.

“We had a really, really good network of people, and the gymnastics club – that support network for Austin, was amazing,” Tracey said.

Austin has raised money for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance and the gymnastics club previously with a fundraising backflip attempt when he was 14. On Sunday his JustGiving page total for this challenge had passed £3,000.

“It’s really nice to give something back,” Tracey said.

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