TikTok parkour star shows off backflip skills on Mumbai beach

TikTok parkour star shows off backflip skills on Mumbai beach

Akash Shivdarshan Singh is a 23-year-old TikTok star (@wassupakash) and parkour practitioner from Mumbai, India.

The self-taught athlete demonstrates his impressive skills as he pulls off a series of ELEVEN backflips in this cool clip recorded on the beach in April 2019.

A resident of Worli in South Mumbai, Singh was 11-year-old when he started using YouTube and social media videos to learn parkour tricks, even enrolling himself in gymnastic classes to train his body for extreme stunts.

Since then he has dedicated his life parkour and is a member of the group Ultimate Striderz, promoting performance art incorporating parkour, gymnastic, dance, and acrobatics.

Now Singh boasts more than 4.6 million followers on TikTok and had roles in countless Indian movies.