27 Webster Front Flips in 27.98 Seconds: Luka-Marko Suslov Sets New World Record
The Ukrainian athlete surpassed the strongest prior published benchmark of 19 during a blistering summer attempt on a grass field in Antalya, Türkiye.
By Atlas Editorial Team
8 September 2026 • Antalya [Türkiye]
Thirty Seconds Is Longer Than It Looks
Thirty seconds is enough time to tie a shoe badly, forget why you walked into a room, or watch Luka-Marko Suslov turn himself upside down 27 times.
On August 5, 2026, on a broad patch of grass beneath the Antalya sun, Suslov began running. Then came the first Webster front flip: a one-foot takeoff, the free leg driving upward, the body pitching forward through a complete rotation before returning to earth.
Then another. And another.
For most people, landing one would constitute a fairly convincing argument against attempting a second. Suslov kept going.
He completed 22 Webster front flips in a single traveling line before changing his approach and using the remaining seconds for five additional repetitions. By the time his final foot returned to the ground, the visible stopwatch read approximately 28.70 seconds. His first takeoff had occurred at 0.72.
Elapsed time: 27.98 seconds.
Total: 27 Webster front flips.
Atlas World Records certified the performance as the world record for Most Webster Front Flips in 30 Seconds.
The strongest prior published benchmark identified through Atlas World Records’ cross-archive research was 19.
Suslov beat it by eight.
There was no purpose-built arena. No sprung gymnastics floor. No air-conditioning. The temperature, Suslov recalled, was somewhere around 39 to 40 degrees Celsius. The sun was hard. The grass was slightly slippery. It was, in other words, not an especially sensible afternoon to make history.
The Trick He Taught Himself
Suslov is from Ukraine and grew up in Kolomyia, where the infrastructure for a young person interested in parkour and freerunning was essentially what he could make of it himself.
There was no established local community waiting for him and no specialized facility around which his training could orbit. So he learned outside.
He began parkour and freerunning in 2014 and taught himself his first Webster front flip around 2015. Later, after moving to Lviv, he found something he had been missing: other people doing the same improbable things.
There were athletes to train alongside, techniques to exchange and a community in which progress did not have to happen alone.
By 2020, he had moved more seriously into tricking. Eventually, acrobatics became not merely something he practiced but part of his professional life.
Through all of it, the Webster remained.
Some athletes have a particular movement that simply seems to belong to them. For Suslov, this was it. He performed the trick so often that people within his tricking and freerunning circles began to associate him with it.
Years of repetition made something objectively difficult feel ordinary.
That matters, because world records often live in that strange territory where one person's absurdity has become another person's muscle memory.
Before the official attempt, Suslov had completed 18 Websters in roughly 20 seconds during training. He had never reached 27 in 30 seconds.
Then he went online and found the published world benchmark of 19.
His response was uncomplicated: this looked possible.
Not easy. Not guaranteed.
Possible.
Twenty-Seven
The attempt was deliberately documented. Two independent witnesses observed and counted the repetitions. Two independent timekeepers handled the timing. A primary camera recorded the attempt continuously from a tripod, while Suslov's girlfriend, Sofiia Penkova, followed the action with a second camera to provide another view.
Suslov warmed up, drank water and thought through a simple strategy.
He would make the first sequence as long as his body allowed. Whatever seconds remained belonged to individual flips.
He was not aiming specifically for 27. He thought he could get beyond 25. Then the clock started. Twenty-two came in the first line. Five more followed.
When it was over, Suslov's reaction was almost comically restrained for a man who had just established a world record.
He was pleased. The plan had worked.
More importantly, the record represented something considerably longer than 27.98 seconds.
It traced back through more than a decade of training: to Kolomyia, to practicing without a proper parkour community, to teaching himself outside, to Lviv, to finding other athletes, to turning acrobatics into a profession, and eventually to a brutally hot field in Antalya with a stopwatch running.
Suslov hopes the record will mean something to the students he has taught and to people beginning in circumstances that do not look particularly promising.
The lesson, as he sees it, is not that facilities and coaches are unimportant. It is that their absence does not have to be the end of the story.
You can start with little.
You can keep showing up.
You can find people along the way.
And, eventually, something that once looked impossible can become the thing everyone else is trying to beat.
For now, that number is 27.
And Suslov has already suggested this may not be his last record attempt.
Certified by Atlas World Records on 8 September 2026