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The move where you trust your neck more than your brain for one full second.
means A full forward or backward flip of the body in which the heels go over the head and you land, hopefully, on your feet.
from From French sombresault, itself from Old Provençal sobresaut — literally 'over-leap,' built from sobre (above, over, from Latin super) and saut (jump, from Latin saltus). It somersaulted through French spelling before landing in English in the 1500s, picking up that distinctly English 'somer' along the way for no reason beyond the usual carelessness of borrowed words.
- origin
- from French sombre saut, literally over-leap
- physics
- needs angular momentum, not just courage
- gymnastics term
- called a flip once you add twist
- animal kingdom
- geckos somersault mid-air to land upright