Sydney Kennett is a regular competitor in the Wind Games, about which I’ve written before. She dances in mid air, under (and sometimes over) a jet of air traveling between 100 and 185 MPH. Interestingly enough, though, the talented, brave young woman isn’t particularly interested in jumping out of planes. You see, Sydney Kennett is afraid of heights.
“It kind of feels like the Matrix. I’m basically defying gravity.”
– Sydney Kennett
Though she’s been indoor skydiving since she was 4, the 14-year-old initially trained as a gymnast. That training has served her well in her flying work. She’s well known for her scorpion maneuver, wherein she touches her feet to her head while floating on her stomach. That move has been helping her win world titles since she was 12. And when she was 12, she also not only beat the previous world record of 30 box split spins in one minute, in fact, she nearly doubled it, making 77 spins, achieving than 1 per second!
Kennett has dedicated herself to flying. A social media darling, she is home-schooled so she can travel around the country competing and training.
You can follow Sydney Kennett on her website and on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
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January 30, 2021 at 8:54 am
Amazing
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January 30, 2021 at 9:30 am
One more time, five stars are just not enough. Amazing, beautiful, etc. I am not going to attempt to remember all the names for each move but she has all of them. She probably invented a lot of time. I wonder if she is going to ‘hit a wall’ when she gets older. GREAT – Hal
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January 30, 2021 at 8:18 pm
That’s an interesting idea. It is pretty rare that what we think we’re going to do with our lives at 12 is rarely where we end up.
Now, I wonder that about her, too!
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February 1, 2021 at 4:41 pm
I was thinking about just a few years. Her body will gain weight and size. Will her muscles grow also and allow her in just a few years to do the same routine? I have watched your gymnasts stop after three or four years. — Hal
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February 2, 2021 at 11:31 pm
I saw the same with ballerinas. You just can’t know what your body is going to be.
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January 31, 2021 at 4:31 pm
Wow! Amazing! I especially liked the judge’s commentary in the second video.
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February 1, 2021 at 1:37 am
That was really illuminating!
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