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By Brelaun Douglas via SWNS

Watch the incredible moment a man jumps THROUGH A TREE to land on his scooter. 

Dejion Taylor, 20, takes on amazing tricks and flips in his role as a professional scooter rider.

In the heart-pumping clip, Dejion tries to jump through the forked tree twice, falling on the landing each time. 

On his third try, he successfully sticks the landing, even grabbing onto the scooter's bottom in mid-air. 

“You have to put the fears to the side and just do it,” Dejion, from Long Beach, California, said about his gravity defying stunts. 

He began skateboarding when he was five, switching to the scooter as a teenager. 

“I started off as a skateboarder and as I was going to skate parks more often I started seeing scooters and I decided to try it,” he said. 

“I got one for my 14th birthday and I just stuck with it ever since.”

Now six years later, Dejion has been performing in competitions since he was 16, has won at least 12 of them, has his own signature scooters and has even performed on the “Go-Big Show.”

Flips and stunts like the tree jump are among Dejion’s favorite tricks to do on his scooter.

He added: “It’s fun going upside down. And doing big gaps, anything big I like doing.”

Dejion attributes his growth as a scooter rider to lots of practice.

“Starting out you get a lot of practice in,” he said. 

“Going to the skate park everyday, I learned about eight tricks a day, that was one of my goals.

“I’ve seen a lot of people try to get into it, but they’re not trying as hard as they should be or they’re not going back to the skate park as much as they should to learn more,” he said. 

“You have to be consistent and try.”

Even though he’s made scooter-riding his career, he still finds the activity fun. 

“I get to travel for competitions and see the country which I like,” he said. 

“But for me, it’s just more fun than anything.”

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