Viral video shows girl stepping over an invisible box 

A baffling video has gone viral of a high school cheerleader seemingly walking in mid-air.

Ariel, a cheerleader at Manvel High School in Manvel, Texas, is first seen patting what appears to be an invisible box.

She then steps onto the ‘box’ with her right leg and leaps over it with her left leg, landing on the other side.

The video, shared to Twitter on Saturday night, has been retweeted more than 54,000 times and liked more than 98,000 times, and it has left internet users stunned.

The cheerleader later posted a hilarious ‘Part 2’ video that showed a friend kicking away the ‘box’ before she could step on it, causing her to fall to the ground.

Ariel, a cheerleader at Manvel High School in Manvel, Texas, is first seen patting what appears to be an invisible box

A baffling video has gone viral of a high school cheerleader seemingly walking in mid-air (right) Ariel, a cheerleader at Manvel High School in Manvel, Texas, is first seen patting what appears to be an invisible box (left)

She then steps onto the 'box' with her right leg and leaps over it with her left leg, landing on the other side

The video, shared to Twitter on Saturday night, has been retweeted more than 54,000 times and liked more than 98,000 times

She then steps onto the ‘box’ with her right leg and leaps over it with her left leg, landing on the other side (left and right). The video, shared to Twitter on Saturday night, has been retweeted more than 54,000 times and liked more than 98,000 times

Stepping over invisible boxes has become the latest trend in a series of viral videos.

Anderson University football player Dontez Hines shared a video on Twitter of him performing the move in August. The clip received thousands of likes and retweets.

And in a video posted to YouTube, dancer Marcos Grados, from Guadalajara, Mexico, is seen completing the move during a performance.

In one of the first instances seen of this trick, the video has been viewed almost 889,000 times. 

The invisible box trick seems to go back a while, with a few posts on Reddit asking how to pull it off. 

Apparently, it’s all about jumping with one foot while keeping your ‘stepping’ foot still. 

So the performer has to essentially hop forward on one foot while keeping the other fixed in mid-air.

Last month, Men’s Health fitness editor Ebenezer Samuel broke the move down one leg at a time.

The cheerleader later posted a hilarious 'Part 2' video that showed a friend kicking away the box before she could step on it, causing her to fall to the ground

The key to pulling off the trick is to essentially hop forward on one foot while keeping the other foot on the 'box' fixed in mid-air

The cheerleader later posted a hilarious ‘Part 2’ video that showed a friend kicking away the box before she could step on it, causing her to fall to the ground (left and right). The key to pulling off the trick is to essentially hop forward on one foot while keeping the other foot on the ‘box’ fixed in mid-air

According to Men's Health fitness editor Ebenezer Samuel, the move requires a great deal of flexor and glute strength combined with core stability (Pictured, Ariel)

According to Men’s Health fitness editor Ebenezer Samuel, the move requires a great deal of flexor and glute strength combined with core stability (Pictured, Ariel)

The leg that is stepping on the box uses a great deal of hip flexor, glute and core stability. 

‘All [the] hip stabilizers on the right side are firing on overtime to hold that hip in position,’ he said.

‘You’ll notice [the] body rotates toward the leg on the step as well; there’s a ton of oblique and ab stability maintaining that position.’

But the moving leg that hops forward faces a greater challenge. ‘Very explosive hip flexor, abdominal and glute strength is what is driving the leg up and over the box,’ Samuel said. 



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