eHow launches Android app: Get the best of eHow on the go.
Summary: Perform a perfect cartwheel, by placing the hands down on the floor and in line with the body to maintain proper alignment. Practice the cartwheel 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 I'm going to show you how to do perfect cartwheel. We're using cartwheel from the standing and we're using cartwheel from your knees using this line and telling the gymnast, put their hands on line. This way to do cartwheel making the gymnast obligated to pass the back leg from your hands and put your hands straight and the cartwheel will be perfectly straight. Now we're also using this skill and making the gymnast open their legs very well to help them be more faster and also more straight. Here we do the same thing, we're starting the skill in the air, open and finish."
eHow Article: How to Do a Perfect Cartwheel