"La Mosca" doing a backflip over one of his training partners. BTW, if you want to learn to flip over something or somebody, you should learn how to flip over a pile of foam first. Don't try to jump over a fireplug right away. ;)

Round-off to backflip with extended knees. When you look close, you will notice that the knees are fully extended, but the ankles are flexed. Looks funny and makes the whole thing kinda unique. The guy doing this is "La Mosca" from pequenosmandingueiros.8m.com. I taped this in La Paz - Bolivia.

This video shows how to do cartwheel without hands twist ( in chinese: Ce Kong Fan - Zhuan ti ). This skill is also called aerial twist and hypertwist. There are 2 ways of learning this skill.

1) Do a butterfly Twist without the butterfly runup and swing the right leg higher than to horizontal level ( easier way )

2) Learn the front whel and then twist ( much harder, but looks much better ).

I recommend you learn the b-twist variation first and then work on your front whip and straighten the technique. At the beginning make sure you have a soft landing area ( a sand pit, a gymnastics pit with foam cubes or jump into water ).

Performed by Lu Peng Cheng from the Song Jiang Wushu School.

Coach: Wang Guang Ming ( wushu head coach ) .

In this video you will see some Ce Kong Fan ( cartwheel without hands ) variations. On the first view all of them look the same, but if you look closer you will see that all are slightly different. Some people for example like to bounce from the ball of the foot, while others roll over the heel. Another difference you can see is the arm-swing. For detailed instruction on how to do this jump, click the FM button and check the animated tutorial. ( wushu section )