Can or could you do a back flip?

No, but I can do a quarter of one.

@ragingloli Where do you end up?

That would be my back.

@ragingloli – Ouch!

I can do a backflip and a cartwheel. I’ve been able to do them since I was a kid and have not lost the ability. :)

@Demosthenes – That has to be a great feeling! Like flying?
My husband told me that he could do them as well. I found it interesting as he is a big, beefy guy. XD

I can do it in water or on a trampoline, never had the balls to try it on land.
Wheelchairs look expensive!

I used to do one off a diving board, but not from standing on land.

I used be able to do a flyaway and a full-support flyaway from the swinging rings. Then I broke my shoulder 40 years ago, and that was all she wrote.

@ucme -Depends on where you find them.
I could never do them in any situation but I haven taken some spectacular falls.

@Brian1946 -I just watched an instructional video on how to do a flyaway.That looks awesome.
Armed with this knowledge, I will try one off the front porch. BRB.

@lucillelucillelucille I would like to commission a painting of one such fall, you could do it from memory, let the brush run wild!

@Brian1946 OW.
do not do this

@ucme -It would pain me to do it. XD
I injured my shoulder a few years ago by falling up the stairs. A few years after that, I fell down the stairs, bending my arm the opposite way.
It actually felt better for a short while
The lesson here is to always injure yourself in the opposite way to effect a cure.

@lucillelucillelucille

“OW.”

Don’t dance?

@Brian1946 -Definitely not in my case. “OW” as in pain
As for the flyaways, did it feel like flying? if only for a moment, of course

@lucillelucillelucille It is kinda like flying, especially when you do it in the middle of a big field. Certain things can only be appreciated when you’re upside-down. ;)

@Demosthenes -XD

@lucillelucillelucille

In a tuck position, it feels like spinning while falling.
Doing a flyaway in a layout position, feels more like flying.

@Brian1946 -That’s pretty impressive!

I used to be able to do it until I got too fat.

@anniereborn -How did you learn to do them?

@lucillelucillelucille I took acrobatic classes as a kid.

@anniereborn -That must have been a blast!

@lucillelucillelucille It really was. I took gymnastics for a short while too. That was a great deal of fun. I loved the bars.

@anniereborn -Two of my nieces did that for awhile and managed to live through it with no major injuries!
I doubt I would’ve got through like they did. I was called “Grace” for awhile. LOL

I could try, but I’d probably break every bone in my body.

@RabidWolf – I hear ya.