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• n  an acrobatic feat in which a person goes from a standing position to a handstand and back again

• Whenever he wins a fight, Welterweight Jimmy ("Baby Face") McLarnin turns a handspring in his corner of the ring before he makes the conventional gesture of clasping his hands and.
• His technique: a running, springing aerial twist into a backward handspring, which supplies momentum for a final backward double somersault up over the bar.
• Obstacles that would be hard barriers in any other game, she just does a handspring over.

News & Articles

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• Circus acrobat sets new handspring record in Troy
  Members of the Frequently Asked Questions: A Circus Collective are appearing at the Schacht Fine Arts Center in Troy. Acrobat Sidney Bateman attempted to exceed current records for consecutive handsprings.
  July 11, 2013 - WNYT Albany

Quotes

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• Randy Winn in New York Times
  Tim Lincecum could walk around the corner and do a handspring, and it wouldn't surprise me at all,Winn said. "But I wouldn't expect Moises Alou to do a handspring."