Top 5 Best Belly Flop Fails (and Wins) We Saw This Week (July 15, 2022), You’re Gonna Get Soaked: An Epic Big Man Flopping, a Drunk Girl Dropping, and Even a Dog Sending It Into the Lake

Picture it: You’re 8 years old at the public pool in your neighborhood. It’s July and it’s hot as heck outside. The ice cream truck just went by, so you and all your friends have colorful cartoon-inspired ice creams with bubble gum eyes melting down your wrist and you hear the lifeguard scream “NO RUNNING” for the hundredth time.

Then you see him.

An enormous man, who could only be described as a celestial body, moves from his lounge bench and towards the diving board. Some moms lower their glasses and their jaws drop; his belly swings a bit as he saunters towards the pool. Everything starts moving in slow motion and anticipation crackles through the pool yard as every hopeful child moves to the water’s edge, hoping to get into range of the man’s glorious splash zone.

Finally, he gets to the top of the diving board, poised and graceful, bouncing on the tip to gain momentum. The diving board strains under his weight, but launches him higher and higher and higher until…

WHOOSH.

He’s airborne and horizontal. His jowls, arms, and legs spread wide to his sides as the heft of his belly flops towards the pool below. The man’s momentum crashes into the surface, sending gallons, no- TIDAL WAVES of water in every direction.

The children scream victoriously as everyone within 20ft is soaked. The big man grins as he exits the water, knowing he just developed a core memory for every kid at that pool as he became the world’s best belly flopper.

Here are this week’s best belly flops in honor of that man and this made up memory! 

This big man's got his tactical cargo shorts and his belt on and everything. 

This one hurt to watch

Challenge accepted

She's too drunk to take this slide correctly. FAILED FLOP

Even a doggo flops better than you can