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Summary: When performing a round off into a backflip, remember to bend the knees and practice the maneuver step-by-step to build technique. Round off into a backflip 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 show you how to do round off to back-flip. The first step that we're using is round off jump. The second step that we're using is round off jump, the coach is helping them, and they just, bend your knees up. And the next step is doing the round off back-flip, or back summer-salt. In both case, the gymnast, before to do the back-flip, or the back summer-salt, have to do so many steps, like, I said before."
eHow Article: How to Round Off Into a Backflip