Yeah, looks like a very very very very practiced gymnastic move. I think I've seen similar clips (although not multiple times like that) on the tube way back when but I can't find one now. All I find are gymnastic forward flips in movement and some parkour style front flips using hands or sideways.
I don't see how the physics work here. She does the legs flip, but while she is on one leg and the other leg is still up, she manages to pull her torso and body up. It looks odd to me.
She keeps up the momentum though while spinning fast, making her torso seem like a center of gravitational pull. It looks doable but very, very difficult and her movement seems just slightly off enough to not be wire-fu.
To me (after looking intensely) it looks like she's got perfect control of her center of gravity. Note her perfect landings (probably more difficult with wire-fu than without to make solid landings multiple times in a row) and how she places her feet when she kicks off again as well as how she positions her head when she's upside down, a perfect counterbalance to the legs.
It's world class but I truly believe it's 100% real. Also, a hard floor like that combined with hard shoes makes sure she doesn't lose any energy to a softer surface. She probably suffered from bad joints when she got older though since her feet and legs absorbed a lot of that force (and reused some of it to keep the motion going). I bet she could out-strangle a massive boa constrictor with those legs.
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