My 63-year-old father attempting a backflip off a bridge in Donegal. He didn’t give up until he got a clean one. Inspirational.

45 comments

1. Is that the bridge to Cruit?

2. Never seen anything more graceful.

3. Fair fuks to him. I didn’t spot the ladder until near the end and thought it was a fukin walking frame. Ha!

4. Grace and beauty

5. Legend!

6. What a legend. Fair play to him

7. He was just doing an RKO on John Cena

8. Brilliant!

9. Top bombing! Worthy of a John Smiths advert! 10`s across the board!

10. Cool….

    Is that the bridge over to Cruit?…

11. Us old feckers still got it

12. Thats class. Fair play to him.

13. He’s some man for one man!

14. Looking forward to seeing him at the next Olympics

15. Up DONEGAL good man

16. Your auld lad is a martyr, there won’t be a dry pair of knickers in donegal tonight.

17. Brilliant, I love it. My dad is 74 and can dive off the top of BlackRock with the fucking smallest of splashes. Makes it look easy.

18. There’s frames in this video that remind me of Rooney’s bicycle kick.

19. Fair balls! You are never too old to try things.

20. Fungi? More like fun guy! I just finished a bar shift, forgive me

21. I love him

22. 100/10 for background music. I genuinely am emotionally invested

23. Cruit bridge really is a local attraction. Everyone jumps off of it.

24. That’s really fucking cool 🤙

25. I thought his wiener was out. The print on his shorts has bad placement lol

26. That’s what life’s all about, I hope when I’m that age I’m still messin and havin the craic

27. Fair play to him

    Talk about reliving your youth…. what possessed him lol

    “*I only say that because of step ladder which I presume he normally doesn’t carry”*

28. Fantastic effort!

    If he does it again, he needs to tuck, both knees and arms, will increase his rotation speed

29. What’s it like being Tom Daleys son Op?

30. This is the kind of 63 year old I aspire to be

31. The kids and I all cheered when he got it! Love to see young at heart people.

32. If he’s from Derry, he can say goodbye to his DLA.

33. Fair fucks to him lad that’s put some smile on my face! Your dad’s a legend.

34. Giving off some Guinness advert vibes “Tick follows tick follows tick follows tock”, fair play to him

35. Your old man is a legend

36. Why am I not doing this today…

    👍👍

37. I thought I’d seen this before; was about to call you a dirty reposter, but you posted it elsewhere 8 months ago.

38. H’up the Da!

39. I dont say this lightly, but your father is the greatest hero in all of Irish history

40. You may not like it, but this is what the peak male form looks like.

41. What a man !!!!

42. Now he’s got people on the internet who are full time fans, me included. Especially loved that you included him stumbling with the latter and having to take a normal jump haha.

43. Look at him there, like a majestic Salmon!

44. r/Wholsome

45. That is cool. Fair play to OP’s Dad.

    Inspiring is a good word. I am 45 and was on holiday last year. Loads of people were jumping off a pier similar to the video. Kids as young as 10-12 and middle aged people too.

    I really wanted to try it but could not work up the courage. I was thinking ‘if I was 21 and with the lads I would definitely jump…peer pressure would be too much’.

    But I talked myself out of it….what if I get hurt and can’t work, what am I trying to prove, this is not the stuff of middle aged men etc.

    Great to see someone not limit themselves.