London 2012 Olympic gymnast Louis Smith breaks most Thomas flairs on a pommel horse record

The most Thomas flairs performed on a pommel horse in one minute is 50 by Louis Smith (UK) on the set of Guinness World Records - Smashed, in London, UK, on 21 April 2009. Louis Antoine Smith (born 22 April 1989) is an English artistic gymnast from Eye near Peterborough. Louis went to school at Arthur Mellows Village College in Glinton, Peterborough. His strongest event is the pommel horse, at which he has been junior European champion (twice) and Commonwealth Games champion. On 8 September 2007 Smith won a bronze medal for pommel horse at the World Championship in Stuttgart. He represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics. On 9 August 2008 he qualified in 5th place for the Olympic final of the men's pommel horse, and on 17 August he won a bronze medal in the finals, becoming the first Briton to win a medal in the individual gymnastics at the Olympic Games since Walter Tysall won a silver medal in 1908 and the first Briton to win a medal in gymnastics at the Olympic Games since the women's team won a bronze medal in 1928. He is also the first black man to win a medal in an Olympic Gymnastics competition since Jair Lynch of the United States in 1996. Subscribe for more amazing videos: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=guinnessworldrecords Welcome to the official Guinness World Records YouTube channel! If you're looking for videos featuring the world's tallest, shortest, fastest, longest, oldest and most incredible things on the planet, you're in the right place. Willkommen im offiziellen Guinness World Records Kanal! Wenn du auf der Suche nach den größten, kleinsten, schnellsten, längsten, ältesten und unglaublichsten Dingen der Welt bist, dann bist du hier genau richtig. LIKE us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/GuinnessWorldRecords FOLLOW us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/gwrnews Find out more: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/ Add us to your G+ circles: http://bit.ly/GWRgplus

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1. sorry buddy but all bboy know that flare/thomas are more harder on the floor, that's why its more challenging
2. On the floor is more difficult. ERROR DETECTED
3. funny how he's one of the slowest pommel circlers in competition!
4. I counted 27
5. Is the guy in the orange t-shirt Welsh ???
6. Wow. Outstanding movie clip. My pal had been a flabby. He went from 283 lbs of pure fat into 210lbs of genuine lean muscle. Shit's off the wall! I just registered myself coz I have to expand my whole body. He used the Muscle Building Bible (Google it)...
7. l counted 55 but than l can't count.lol
8. 0:40, the pain starting to burn, hes probably saying "stfu!"
9. I counted 29... Don't get it.
10. I counted 30.
11. Is it really that tiring to do flairs continually on both pommels for a minute straight? I'm not saying it's easy, but these guys do routines that are like ten times harder for about 40 seconds.
12. So gorgeous <3
13. flaires are easier on pommel horse than floor haha
14. Its so weird to louis smith go that fast because he is one of the slowest pommel horse workers lol. But slow doesnt mean bad whatsoever this man is a beast on the pommel horse
15. The ad at the beginning made me want to puke
16. that's 29 flares only not 50
17. Connie Huq has big tits.
18. not on the pommel horse, maybe on the floor but not on the pommel horse that's very difficult
19. BBOY CAN DO MORE
20. what did he say?