If you slip in the bathtub in a cool way and you bust your head open and die, you die. There's nothing epic about death. Death is tragic.
Failing a test in school may seem epic at the time, but once you repeat the 9th grade for the 10th time you're not epic, you're a loser.
Plus, your triple backflip is a contradiction, if they land it then it isn't a fail, hence they landed it. Falling afterwards is the fail, not the backflip.
(point-made to your point)
I think I'm going to do a tryout :D