/backflip is a film and collection in which Nikita Diakur attempts to learn a physical feat indirectly by training a digital double through machine learning. Using reinforcement-learning techniques based on motion-capture examples, an avatar studies human videos, repeatedly fails, and gradually improves while feeling no pain or risk. The work frames athletic mastery as a computational process of imitation and error, turning practice into data and perseverance into iteration. Oscillating between humor and unease, the piece reflects on ambition, the appeal of delegating experience to machines, and the tension between control and unpredictability as artificial systems approximate human behavior.