National Gymnastics Day 🤎 pic.twitter.com/oNYZBzvXZc [1]

— Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) September 19, 2020 [2]

Saturday, Sept. 19 was National Gymnastics Day, and the GOAT of GOATs herself, Simone Biles, shared something she's been cooking up at practice: a triple backflip. That's three flips in the air without stopping, and Biles even did it in a piked position as opposed to with her knees bent (that would be a triple tuck instead of a triple pike).

For those of you wondering, yes, that's an incredible feat for a gymnast. In fact, a triple backflip does not currently exist in the Code of Points for women's gymnastics [3]. It does, however, exist in the men's Code of Points — it's called the "Liukin," [4] named after Olympian Nastia Liukin [5]'s coach and father who was the first athlete to perform it [6] correctly at a major competition.

Biles did this awe-inspiring flip into a foam pit, but she has enough height here to keep working up to the floor. She may be a ways away from adding it into her floor routine [7], but if anyone could do it, she could (after all, we're taking about the most decorated gymnast in World Championship history [8] who has four skills named after her [9]).

Biles has been using the extra time before the postponed Olympic Games [10] next summer to play around with more difficult skills. There's her triple-double dismount off beam [11], which is an upgrade from her name-bearing double-twisting double dismount [12] on that event, and high-flying tumbling passes [13] like this new one she shared and others. Because, so far, only she can outdo herself — and we love to watch her try!