Attempting to elude their grasp, he executes a somersault that lands him in a row of nervous fellow recruits, also stripped to their briefs.
35 OBITUARIES 39-40 FAlexanderder One of the few trapeze artists to execute a triple somersault was 75.
Fay Alexander, who soared to stardom as one of the few trapeze artists to execute a triple somersault and who performed the aerial maneuvers for movie characters played by Tony Curtis, Doris Day and others, died on July 16 at his home in Sarasota, Fla.
As the desiring brother, he behaves from the beginning as if he were auditioning for a very mad Hamlet: his body is bowed, his voice barks, he is inclined to drop to his knees, to give speeches flat on his back, or, at a particularly tense moment, to execute a backward somersault.
I hit the side of his bonnet at 40mph and executed a perfect somersault over the bars into the road.
The crew installed emergency masks and lights in the laboratory, hooked up the air-circulation system and computers and executed a few somersaults.
Execute a front circle punch.
"Yes, but can your fiancé do this?" he said, executing a perfect back somersault and landing on his feet with a grin.
During Saturday night's gymnastics coverage, NBC pursued the story of Blaine Wilson, who fell off the high bar executing a risky double-back somersault that he had added to his routine a day before when a Japanese judge said a high bar move that he and two of his American teammates were using would not be worth much in the scoring.
Sometimes, you can accidentally do a somersault if you do not time this right.
"I can barely do a somersault," he said in Virginia.
