(n.) A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the front and back walkovers and during the back handspring, maximum lumbar hyperextension occurred very close to the time that impact force was sustained by either the hands or the feet.
(2) Segmental masses and moments of inertia were estimated using the elliptical zone model and the model then repositioned into two configurations: a layout position from a back handspring and a tuck position from a back somersault.
(3) I didn't know anything about Handspring so I had no idea that this horse would be so articulate and that it could act so well.
(4) Tom knew I wasn't convinced, so he invited me to London to see a video of Handspring Puppets in action – a giraffe.
(5) 'Missed move' was most frequently cited as the injury mechanism, while somersaults and handsprings were the most injury-producing moves.
(6) The skills performed were the front walkover, the back walkover, and the front handspring, the back handspring, and the handspring vault.
(7) When Handspring came over from South Africa, I took the puppeteers down to Devon and we spent some time on a farm, so they could get a sense of what horses are like.
(8) Of the skills examined, the handspring vault produced the highest vertical and lateral impact forces, and the back handspring and back walkover required the greatest amounts of lumbar hyperextension.
(9) Tom was determined to do a show with Handspring Puppets , but because of its talent for lifesize animal puppets he needed something with an animal hero.
Somersault
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Somerset
Example Sentences:
(1) Whether it was leaning through the ropes to interview Ali, as he famously did between rounds during a one-sided fight for "The Greatest" against the Dutchman Rudi Lubbers, or coming up with quips such as "the ego has landed" as Hamed somersaulted over the ropes to enter the ring, Reg always managed to remember that he was entertaining his audience.
(2) Athletes were asked to perform one specific movement structure: a backward somersault from the standing position.
(3) Hyperextension somersault trauma is characterized by a plunge from a low height, with the danger of somersaulting of the body and impact at the forehead while the head is retroflected.
(4) Maybe some of these lads who do triple back somersaults and that sort of stuff.
(5) The most serious injuries are head injuries from falls or damage to the spinal cord in the neck (from failed somersaults, or over-bending or over-extending the neck).
(6) Industrial policy with a £2bn green investment bank, stimulus for small business and forcing banks to lend is a somersaulting U-turn from the old New Labour – and Peter Mandelson is the acrobat.
(7) The fast-computing architecture and large memory of this system allow rapid generation of a series of high-quality 3D images in each plane of rotation (x or spinal axis, z or somersaulting axis) that can be viewed as independent static images or as an animated real-time video loop.
(8) Segmental masses and moments of inertia were estimated using the elliptical zone model and the model then repositioned into two configurations: a layout position from a back handspring and a tuck position from a back somersault.
(9) But he was then trumped by Boudia, whose forward four and a half somersaults scored 99.9 to lead at the halfway point followed by Qiu and Lin, who maintained the pressure with scores of 92.4 and 91.8, leaving Daley fourth and out of the medals.
(10) Angular momentum estimates were calculated during the flight phases of nine twisting somersaults performed on trampoline.
(11) Body movements of trampolinists landing upright from forward somersaults, with eyes open and closed, were analyzed to test a theory of how braking and timing of actions are conjointly controlled.
(12) ECV attempted after intravenous injection of 10 micrograms of hexaprenaline, using either forward or backward somersault over a maximum period of 5 min.
(13) It’s not impossible that even after such vitriolic rejection of the EU deal, the Sun could somersault at its master’s bidding: it’s been done before to its perplexed readers.
(14) Rooney’s jubilation manifested itself in the leaping somersault that we first saw from him when he was bludgeoning defences at Euro 2004.
(15) Posterior auricular skin ia attached to the medical aspect of the helical rim, then somersaulted laterally into position, recreating the helical curl.
(16) QPR are “not in crisis,” says the former Bradford somersaulter.
(17) We emerge with wrinkly fingers, while a more recent arrival performs somersaults to assembled applause.
(18) Children from the waterside villages stopped their somersaults into the river to squeal at us.
(19) As he ran through the somersaults and balances he had practised a thousand times, his Ukrainian rival already looked defeated as he prepared for his routine on the rings.
(20) He lost additional points for flubbing the end of the somersault in Israel when he tried to explain the economic differences between Israel and the Palestinian Authority through a cultural prism (that may end up offending Mexican Americans as much as he appeared to offend Palestinians).