Warm Up Jumps for Back Handspring

Video Transcript

"Alright, so now we're going to talk about the back handspring. We're going to talk about different drills you can do to warm up your back handspring, get ready for it. The first part we're going to talk about is just a jump, a stretch jump in the air. A stretch jump just looks like this: we're going to just sit down and jump and reach back. But when it comes to a back handspring, what you want to do, is you want to actually be sitting in a chair so you can jump back into it rather than jumping straight into the air which would make a back handspring really short and gainered and crunched up. So we're going to practice just jumping in the air while leaning back too at the same time. Trying to keep our chest, our shoulders back and our head up. So we're going to lean back and jump. It's going to make you go back and that's okay, that's exactly what you want. So, we're going to reach up again, sit back and jump. We can also practice that up against a wall. We have the mat right now wet up against the wall. And we can practice just getting into that position, sitting in the chair and jumping back up against the wall. We'll do that again. Reach and good. It's a really nice way to not worry about falling over so much. You can just practice that over and over and over again. Just sitting back and jumping and not worrying about falling, tripping over backwards and it's a really good drill to warm it up."