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Summary: The forward roll is a basic movement in gymnastics that helps to improve tumbling skills for the floor exercise. Learn more basic gymnastic movements with tips from a professional gymnastics coach in this free video on gymnastics.
Yin Eloy Alvarez is a professional gymnastics coach who opened Universal Gymnastics located in Miami, Florida in 1995 with the intent of training internationally competitive gymnasts....read more
"In this clip we're going to talk about basic movements in gymnastics. Also is so many basic moves in gymnastics in every different event has basics move. Today we're going to use your floor exercise, we're using forward roll and back roll. Here is the forward roll. This skill is very important to learn because all the floor tumblings, all the front somersaults is coming from this forward roll. Over here we're going to show back roll. Also is very important to learn the back roll because all the back somersault is coming from this back roll. In gymnastics is very important. Practice the basic skills in how we say in the clip before talking also about the basic body position."
eHow Article: Basic Movements in Gymnastics