Back flip

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Photo montage of a backflip with landing in the split

The backflip is a backward somersault that is one of the basics of many sports with an acrobatic background, especially freestyle sports such as skateboarding , extreme martial arts , snowboarding , motocross , BMX and free running . To do a backflip, you jump in the air and rotate 360 ​​° around the horizontal axis, then land on your feet again.

The counterpart to the back flip is the front flip .

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