On the high bar... There is this instance when you’re on the bar and you make a complete swing, a circle. I did that, but my left hand grip gave way. So I’m flying around and I don’t know what I’m going to do. My left hand is off the bar, and I'm still flying around in circles.

The only thing I could do at this time was a kip. So-called kip dismount.

In the kip dismount your body is sort of in the shape of a D. When you do a kip from the letter D, you can end up in the shape of a letter C, so that when you leap over the bar you perform an arching thing and land on both feet.

I had done that many a time, but not while I was spinning, making a complete circle. ‘Cause that was pretty difficult.

So, when I was turning a circle, it was just before I had to make a decision. I decided a kip dismount. Well, I didn’t kip enough. When I let go of the bar, I just went horizontal. I went horizontal and landed about 10 feet away and my back hit. I landed right on a big rock.

So I got up and looked at the bar. 

I jumped up, grabbed it, got into it again. I made a couple swings, then I made a kip dismount and landed very gracefully on the ground.

Now I’m thinking that came in handy, because I was a daredevil. I would get into all kind of problems, but I always seemed to be able to address the physical ones.

We had gone to the store to buy some food, and  were carrying it in a cardboard box. I held it in front of me while I was walking out to the car.

I left the store, and I’m walking out, and I can’t see the ground too far ahead of me. Someone before me had accidentally dropped a bottle of mayonnaise and it was all over the sidewalk. So I figured, "goodness, how am I going to get out of this"

Anyway, you know how it is, you can think awfully faster than you could act. So when I took that first step in the mayonnaise, my legs slipped out from under me. What did I do? Automatically, I threw the box, or more like moved it way in front of me for counterweight. And I did what? You guessed it.

I did a kip dismount.

I landed on my feet. There was a man coming into the store who saw me. "How did you do that."

"Oh, " I says "nothing, no problem for me." So it comes in handy. Of course, you’re going to say, "you mean you actually would do that?" Yeah,  it wasn’t just once that I did; I did it many times. Cause like I say, I always was running the wrong direction, doing everything wrong.