Sentence examples for attempt a flip from inspiring English sources

Don't attempt a flip if you aren't confident in your ability.

First had come the death of the snowmobiler Caleb Moore, whose four-hundred-and-fifty-pound machine came down on his chest during a failed attempt at a flip, at the Winter Games, in Aspen.

Anyone prepared to attempt a back flip on a motorbike - the trick Metzger is famous for - does not lack cojones.

In the past month, the 28-year-old Tennessean has turned her social-media savvy from music to politics in an attempt to flip a Senate seat from red to blue.

(He was also a dedicated break-dancer, who broke his front teeth attempting a back flip).

At the prestigious Pipeline Masters on the North Shore of Oahu in 1999, Slater attempted a rodeo flip.

That was two days before the defending X Games champion Daniel Bodin of Sweden broke vertebrae in his neck attempting a front flip into a foam pit.

Millions watched on television last week as 25-year-old Caleb Moore attempted a back flip on his snowmobile during the Winter X Games, only to wind up in an ambulance after being knocked unconscious during a crash landing.

The former world champion Daisuke Takahashi of Japan crashed while attempting a quadruple flip but recovered to win the NHK Trophy in Sapporo, Japan, and earn a place in the Grand Prix final.

After a near-fatal crash in 2005 while attempting a back flip during filming for a television show, he lost a kidney and four pints of blood, and found religion.

Not only did Biles fall off the beam attempting a front flip with a half twist, but she flailed wildly to catch her balance on a front piked somersault.