Apparently there’s a world backflip record, and this high school cheerleader just broke it

I’m always relieved when high school cheerleaders use their powers for good instead of evil, and this appears to be one of these times. Meet Miranda Ferguson, a junior at the all-girls Hockaday School in Dallas, TX. Miranda was goofing around one day at cheerleading practice and did 25 consecutive backflips — or handsprings, in cheerleader talk. When told that the world record was 32, she decided to go for it.

So on Friday night at a football game between host St. Marks and Oakridge School, Miranda — under the watchful gaze of two judges from the Guinness Book of World Records — reeled off 35 consecutive backflips on the football field to shatter the record and enter her name into cheerleader lore. Miranda:

“My back kind of gets sore after practicing: I’m sure I’m going to feel it tomorrow. … I was really nervous that if I did one more I was going to fall, so I stayed at 35.”

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Video here.