First, here is her brother Adam showing her the ropes.
Adam is big enough to touch the ground in a handstand before flipping over, so it's not such a stretch. Not a stretch for an 8-year-old that is, you won't be catching me doing this move!
When Dova hangs, her hands don't reach the ground.
So she actually has to unhook her legs and fall towards the ground before she can catch herself with her hands.
She did many belly flops onto the bark mulch before she mastered this. Here's a sequence where she successfully flipped down.
Yay!! She was so proud of herself. Definitely going to be a gymnast.
So you tell me, are posting photos going too far? They have been up on Flickr for a few weeks completely untagged, and they have significant more views than the nearby photos, so the sickos are definitely checking them out. But she is not naked, and there's nothing obscene or suggestive. It's really not that different than if she were wearing a bikini bathing suit under her dress. And we both agreed that it was postable (we have yet to see whether she will be too embarrassed five years from now). She said that next time she's going to wear a skirt under her dress so she can do her flips. I guess you can't take the monkey or the girly-girl out of her!
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