Floor Gymnastics Front Handspring

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name's Jordan Dahl. We're talking about intermediate floor gymnastics, and the next skill I wanted to talk about was your front handspring, and this has a lot of similarities and differences from your back handspring. The biggest similarity would be that your arch, the arch of your back and your body is what mainly pulls you over, and helps you complete the pass. A big mistake that comes along with your front handsprings is people will do the front, the the first half of it really nice, and in a good arch position, and from then, from from halfway on, they'll snap forward, and and hollow out of that arch position, which it'll pull you over of course, but it's not going to look as nice as it could if you were to stay in the arch position the whole way through. Another thing that really helps you get over is your shoulder pop. From your hurdle, you want to make sure you're taking it in your shoulders, and not in your elbows, making sure that you're popping down on the floor with your shoulders like that. So the arch position that will help you get over on on your front handspring is a little bit different than the one that gets you over on your back handspring. It it's going to be, your chest is going to be what pulls you over, so you're going to want to make sure that's where most of your arch is going. Your arms are still going to be staying up by your ears, like like your back handsprings are, but your chest is leading, and you're just going to land in that the whole way through. Stay in that arch position as long as you can until you complete the pass. Going along with that arch position is something else that will really help you to get up is your head position, like we've been talking about. And for your front handspring, it's not as far back as as your back handspring head position would be, but it is your chin is just tilted up a little bit; maybe maybe as if you were looking up at something interesting on the ceiling. So make sure that your chin is in the right position for your front handspring. In previous clips, we talked about our hand positions, and how that can become really crucial later on, as we learn these harder tricks, and the front handspring is a really good example of that. You have the same exact hand positions as you did for your handstand, which is just straight out in front of you. As you reach forward and hit the ground, your hands are are flat on the ground just reaching straight forward, exactly as they would be as if you were doing a handstand."