Nationwide — Gavin Robinson, a 17-year-old scholar from Plantation, Florida, went viral after a backflip at his highschool commencement led to an unintended collision with a classmate. Each college students have now shared their facet of the story, saying there was no hurt finished.
The incident occurred on June 1 through the commencement ceremony at South Plantation Excessive Faculty in Plantation, Florida. Simply earlier than receiving his diploma, Robinson tried a backflip on stage to have a good time. However mid-air, he unintentionally crashed into Amelia, the coed strolling behind him. The second was caught on video and shortly unfold on TikTok, gaining practically 4 million views.
Amelia later confirmed she was the woman within the video. “Sure, it’s me within the video,” she captioned in her put up, holding her diploma, and reassured viewers she was high quality. She additionally requested folks to not ship hate towards Robinson, saying he had warned her concerning the backflip upfront, however she acquired distracted.
Robinson later shared that he had deliberate the stunt days earlier than and informed a number of associates about it. He needed to do one thing daring and memorable.
“Once I took off into the air and felt myself hit my classmate, I assumed, ‘Oh this will’t be taking place,’” he informed People.
He defined that he had solely met Amelia two days earlier than, throughout rehearsal. After the incident, each of them laughed it off whereas seated on the ceremony.
Although the video introduced some harsh feedback on-line, Robinson stated he doesn’t remorse doing the backflip. “Trying again, I 1,000% nonetheless stand on doing the backflip as a result of I personally assume that is simply nearly as good an consequence, if not higher, than if I hadn’t finished it.”
He added, “And to not blame her, after all it’s equally my fault, but when she didn’t run ahead, I’d’ve landed it.”
Robinson stated he checked on Amelia after the ceremony to verify she was okay. Each college students say there aren’t any laborious emotions and hope folks can transfer previous the second.
