Body Position for Back Handspring

Video Transcript

"Alright, so now we're going to be talking about the back handspring body positioning. The body positioning on a back handspring is pretty much like sitting in a chair we tell the kids and it really is, because the body position here is you want to keep your knees, your feet out in front you like this. You want to keep you legs at about this much of an angle, no lower than this when you're jumping into your back handspring otherwise it can cause you to squat. And we're just going to sit back and have our arms up by our ears. This is our basic body position when we're lying back for a back handspring, getting ready to throw it. When we're going to practice these, we're going to practice up against a wall. You can practice just a wall sit by sitting here, arms by your ears. Same position except we're not going to have a base underneath us now, we're just going to be holding it up like this. Arms up by your ears, big big stretch up here. Alright now, we're going to go ahead and start our back handspring. It's the same thing, we're going to start here with our arms by our ears reaching up. You can sit down, swing your arms down at the same time and lean back like that. That's how we're going to just start practicing our back handspring. So here, start reaching up, sit down and swing them up. Now, the faster you swing your arms, the better it's going to be because the quicker you have more reaction time just popping them up here, the easier it's going to be really really stretch it out and get to that handstand position fast enough is really important."