This kid really thought he was going to nail this, didn’t he? Look at the confidence in his stride. He has a shit-eating grin on his face like he just got out of fourth period English class by making up a lie about getting food poisoning from lunch. He just doesn’t have that cliff-jumping flip swag yet.
As Douglas Adams says in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, knack for learning how to fly comes from learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. You’ll grow into it, dude.