The other night while playing a game of Tennis Chainsaw Massacre at the public park, there were a couple of people doing this Brazilian type of Martial Arts/Exercise. It was sort of fun to watch ‘em…they were doing it in super slow-motion and in a sort of rocking back and fourth motion.

There’s always something strange happening in this public park.

After our game, we stopped and watched these people do some interesting moves. I guess that’s how we got on the subject of this… but I started saying how when I was younger I used to dress up in a black Ninja outfit and sneak out and night. [grin] I then mentioned that I was sure to do a bunch of back flips to freak people out [Ah the fun things to do as a teenager in Detroit].

Ruf asked me if I could still flip…it’d been years since my last tumble but I just replied with a quick "of course" …I’m not sure of the exact wording next, but it was something along the lines of "let’s see!"…. And so… he recorded me back flipping on his cell phone and sent it to me. It’s a good thing he taped it, in the event that I landed on my head. I know landing on my head would have made for a more amusing blog but I’m sorry to disappoint

[UPDATE: YOU MUST INSTALL THE NEW FLASH PLAYER 8 IN ORDER TO VIEW THE VIDEO LINK ABOVE...it's free and easy and you're going to have to install it eventually ;-)...here's the link:http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/ ] (you don’t need a high speed connection–it’s a small file)

It’s weird to flip around after so long of not doing it. As a kid, I remember running through fields and flipping around just to see how high in the air I could get. [No, I wasn't always in the Ninja suit...that was just for fun]

It’s sort of nice to have my last back flip documented…I doubt I’ll be doing any more in the future…I’m not sure I have a reason to…After all, the Ninja suit no longer fits so it wouldn’t be as much fun.