This past Sunday I was studying the week’s best pictures features on various news media- always a fun pastime. But I found myself over and over again returning to this image by Greg Baker for the AFP showing Switzerland’s Ilaria Kaeslin captured in midair as she competed on the uneven bars at the Gymnastics World Championships in Nanning, China. The thing about it is – well, how can anyone do that?  How can anyone bend that way? I keep checking that if I were to jump up in the air and kick my feet backwards – doesn’t paint a very pretty picture does it – would my feet really be oriented the way Ms. Kaeslin’s feet are oriented.  I have concluded, well, yes, kinda maybe!  It is just amazing. And note that in anticipation of the next microsecond of action she has one palm down and one palm up.  It is a beautiful photograph and a testament to the flexibility of youth.