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Basic Gymnastics Positions
Basic Movements in Gymnastics
Conditioning for a Gymnast
Gymnastics Training Tips for Beginners
Gymnastics Weight Training
How to Be Flexible as a Gymnast
How to Do a Back Walkover
How to Do a Back Bend
How to Do a Backflip Off of a Wall
How to Do a Backflip On the Ground
How to Do a Backflip Twist
How to Do a Backflip Without Jumping
How to Do a Front Flip
How to Do a Perfect Cartwheel
How to Do a Running Front Flip
How to Do Gymnastic Flips
How to Land a Backflip
How to Learn a Handstand or Handspring
How to Perform a Somersault
How to Round Off Into a Backflip
How to Do a Heel Stretch
How to Do a Back Handspring
Learn to Do the Splits
Spotting in Gymnastics
Steps to Do a Cartwheel
Stretching for Gymnastics
What Is a Backward Roll?
Summary: In gymnastics, the standing somersault and back somersault are performed on a variety of events. Practice the somersault 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
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"In this clip we're going to show you how to perform a somersault. It's two somersault, forward somersault and backward somersault. The forward somersault is like this. (Demo) And this somersault can be combined with another skill. Like, for example, front handspring somersault. (Demo) The back somersault, performing like that. (Demo) This is a standing somersault. We can using back handspring somersault. (Demo) These two are skills in gymnastics using a floor exercise and also in high bars, and P-bars, and beams for the girls, and balls using a different way. But it's also front somersaults and back somersaults."
eHow Article: How to Perform a Somersault
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