New Spider-Man Tom Holland Shows Off His Acrobatic Moves

Tom Holland is really putting his back into this Spider-Man thing.

The 19-year old British actor showed off his gymnastics chops in a new video posted to Instagram this week. Holland, who assumes the role of the wall-crawler in Marvel’s upcoming battle royal Captain America: Civil War and then his own solo reboot film due out in 2017, has clearly been working on his backflips and side somersaults, as you can see in the video above.

The actor will obviously have a lot of help from wires, green screen and stuntmen in the finished movies, but having this sort of flexibility will be a major help. Holland has already spoken about a facial injury he suffered while filming Civil War.

“I basically fell over and bashed my face in front of about two hundred crew members, so not my most heroic moment!” he said last fall. “It was luckily just before my last shot; they were like, ‘Roll cameras!’ I was getting into position, everything went wrong, and they still did the take anyway. It looks great, and they’ll probably just CGI out all the blood, and yeah, I was very lucky.”