How to Do a Back Hand Spring

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Shyra from Excel Rebels in Orlando Lakes, Florida. I'm going to be doing advanced cheer leading on behalf of Expert Village. The next thing I'm going to come over is a backhand spring. I'm going to demonstrate and instruct a standing backhand spring. The backhand spring is used in most all-tumbling sequences. It's utilized with the round off and then it goes into other sequences afterwards. You can add a tuck, a full, a layout, so a backhand spring is really the root to most of your tumbling sequence. In a backhand you're going to start with your legs together, hands by your side. You're going to go into a sitting position. Your arms are going to swing back keeping your chest right over the top of your toes. You're going to come here and then your arms. You're going to straighten your body, jumping backwards. Your arms are going to come locked up straight by your ears. You're going to be pushing back. You want to get your body into a handstand position once you've gone up side down, pulling your toes over and snapping through. Once you're into a hand stand here, you want to shrug through your shoulders and pull your body back up, getting your chest back up off the ground so you can go into your next trick. So you're going to be standing with your feet together, arms by your side and you sit, arms go back then you push through your legs, arms are tight here. You're flipping backwards. Then you pull your feet all the way down in the handstand position. Then you stand up here, arms up. I'm going to demonstrate a backhand spring."