Ok so i need to learn how to do a back handspring by friday. Could you guys please give me some advice and help me and tell me how to do it?
2007-03-13 13:10:20 · 4 answers · asked by skimboardergal6 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Dancing
Haha no, I could NEVER do one, I tried but I just couldn't wrap my head around the jumping backwards thing. In any case you have to spring backwards so the only safe way to learn it is to get somebody to spot you. You have to sort of squat down then spring up and backwards, throwing your arms up to help propel you and to land with. You don't really flex your back like in a walkover. To try that you SERIOUSLY need someone who knows what they're doing to help you so you don't break your neck!
2007-03-13 13:26:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are MANY factors that go onto learning a back handspring.
Can you do a bridge? a handstand? a backbend and pull up to standing? a backbend and then kick over? a front limber? a front walkover? a back walkover? a back arabian? a front handsping?
As a gymnastics teacher all of these questions have to be answered yes, or at least very close, before I will start teaching you a back handspring. You body has to be strong enough and flexible enough to handle the jumping and landing that the back handspring requires.
Once you can begin training for the back handspring, it can take months sometimes a year before you can achieve one perfectly on your own. I know, I work with girls every night of the week who want to be able to do one.
So, to answer your question.....if you have not already begun training with a gymnastics coach, you will not learn one by Friday. And PLEASE DO NOT just try one on your own, or try one with a person who is not a certified gym coach.
Every year at cheerleading try out time girls think they can learn a back handspring and try it without proper training and without proper spotting by certified coaches and they injure themselves. I have seen injuries from sprains -to broken bones -to terrible neck injuries---all because girls are trying to do a back handspring just for try outs and they don't have the proper training.
2007-03-14 17:39:12 · answer #2 · answered by heart2dance2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you know how to do a back bend and if you are a dancer I'm guess you can, just practice doing the back bend and instanly put your legs over your head.
2007-03-13 21:17:10 · answer #3 · answered by hottie_oh_my 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
go to gymnastics and ask them just to teach you how to do a backhandspring it will only cost like mabye 10 or 5 dollars!
2007-03-13 21:10:04 · answer #4 · answered by Linzey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋