Are these somersaults or backflips? In this video of Chinese acrobatics.

[Scott Downey]

https://x.com/DudespostingWs/status/1903497401165373846

 

[Reggie Belafonte]

I rermember a little fat old Jew we worked for once and if any mention of money was made to him to fork out for, he always said POOOOOWWWARRR ! I almost did a backwards somersault !

So I think of such as standing and doing one backward flip and stand back on your feet directly. hands do not touch the ground at all !

If one use your hands as well on the floor that is a somersault ?

That Jew was a funny bastard I and my big brother would laugh at him all day and night killing ourselves laughing at him, at his sayings and actions. never met anyone that funny ! but he was not trying to be funny at all, he was dead serious !