How do u do a cartwheel? i NEED help with this for cheerleading!?

Question

I am joing a cheerleading squad and i need help on how to do a cartwheel i don't know i am sort of slow and i don't know how to do it!!!! can u give me step by step directions or a website please? do not say ehow because i already went there and it did not help!!!!! please make the directions as simple as it can get!
thanx ciao

Answer 1

there's a website, hope it helps

Answer 2

To have a beautiful cartwheel you need to have a beautiful handstand. That means no arch in your back; feet, knees, hips and shoulders all in line. Eyes just _barely_ looking at your thumbs on the floor. (Throwing your head back to really get a good look at your thumbs leads to an arch in your back, so keep your head 'neutral'.)

This website shows you how to do a cartwheel. http://www.gymnasticsrevolution.com/GymInteractive-Floor-Cartwheel.htm

Here is another video. She does cartwheels between her back handsprings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyIRLU-PiJY

If you throw to your right hand, make sure you pull your right knee and foot up before you throw. (Or if you throw to your left hand, pull up the left foot and knee.) In the website pics above, you see the gymnast at the point just after she would have stepped forward onto that raised leg. Before that moment she would have looked like this: http://sjl-static14.sjl.youtube.com/vi/EPXa2XqK1iU/2.jpg

Some common mistakes to be wary of: (Have someone watch you, or better still video you, so you can analyze your progress.)

1) Hands too close together or too far apart makes it difficult to get the cartwheel all the way over.

2) "Fanning" your legs is when you don't get the full upside down handstand position, usually for fear of falling on your back.

3) "Piking" when you sort of hit somewhere between a cartwheel and a slow round-off. Your feet should not come together in the air in a cartwheel. You always land on one foot then the other, not both together.

4) Bent legs. Snap your knees to straighten, and be sure to be working on straddle and hamstring stretches to for a nice position as you turn over.

Speed will help you get that cartwheel over, but you have to work up to it. Eventually once you master the sideways foot-hand-hand-foot process, you'll start working on the quarter turn cartwheel which starts out like you are going to throw a handstand, but at the last second you turn your torso to do a cartwheel.(The link I gave at the top of my post shows one of those.) Then you'll move on to a hurdle cartwheel, which has a running entrance.

Here is a how-to website that gives you step-by-step instructions for excerises as well as the cartwheel: http://www.coachwayne.com/tumblingtips0042.html

Answer 3

Do a trunk rotation in the direction you wish to cartwheel, with your hands in the air, place one hand on the ground in front of you, other hand following, then push off with one leg, extend it as far as you can from the other leg with both toes pointed while off of the ground. When one foot makes contact keep good posture while you bring both hands back to their original position, and stand upright.