do a somersault

Yesterday was a great day- i landed on my feet standing up for the first time!
Incredible feeling :-)

I am trying to really land my sommersault in the grass with my superb spotter- it´s really hard though- but yesterday it was the first time i landet one from the trampoline into the water :-)
Was a great feeling- no fear- and seeing your feet go straight into the water was fantastic!!

I’ve been told that although with all my weight loss (80lbs) and increased agility in 07, this would be risky because of other factors. Ah well, so much for reliving my youth.

This is all par for the course in my Udo classes. My only advice would be that you must simply get over the fear of going up-side down. Once you finally get up the courage to throw your feet over your head, you will wonder what all the fuss was about!

I am 39 and I am about to learn to do a somersault at an adult class in my local gymnastics club…you are never too old to learn anything. I am doing it as part of a list of things to do before Im 40. The gymn club’s oldest new starter to date was a 44 year old man who learnt to do a back flip within 3 months.
Bring it on!
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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.

I’ve been trying to do it for years but didn’t have the confidence to actually try to land on my feet, always landed on my back..which hurts. it snowed a LOT last night so i went out and thats the first thing i done, because i was in snow i didn’t really mind if i failed so i just went for it! only thing i can really say that might help is jus keep ur eyes open and spot ur landing.

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.