do a somersault

and I tried a somerault in the park recently and made it half way round avoiding bashing my head although it was close, I’m not sure I have much chance of doing this especially since I couldn’t do the flip off the trampoline in school at the age of 10 and went round the box rather than doing the forward flip over it.

I’ve been in a lot of water recently (my hands get wrinkly fast now) and as there have been places to jump from I’ve tried somersaults which are going ok, but I’m nowhere near good enough to do it on land yet.

I tried a jumping somersault and got about 3/4 round which means if I was on concrete I probably couldn’t walk yet, but I reckon if I had a diving board I could get all the way round as it would have spring and better grip as well.

should be a good place to start, although this is likely to be on concrete and therefore even though the risk of failing goes down the consequences of the failure go up (can you tell I studied decision making at Uni?). Otherwise I could just go to a patch of grass and try a full somersault which would probably fail. I’d like to start with a trampoline, but I’m not sure they are as easy to find as they were at school or Uni.