do a back handspring

Hi! I’ve been trying my back handspring for almost 2 years!! and i’m starting to feel more frustrater than ever…yesterday my coach told me that i’m just wasting his time and that he might just quit with me!! and it blocked me even more!!! I’d change gym but there isn’t other in my town…what can i do??!!! i need help!!

I almost have it!!! I can do one with an airspot i just freeze up when I try myself

I haven’t been able to do it yet because of time issues, (who should be learning how to do a handspring when they’ve got oodles of homework to do!!) but I found an amazing tutorial on how to do this.

The title says it’s a back flip but it’s actually a handspring.

I ran into a bunch of time now so I want to learn this!

From: http://www.bboy.org/forums/flips/44001-do-backflip-10-minutes-guide-.html

This summer I went away to a Physical Fitness camp. I’m not lieing about this, they actually taught me to do backflips in like 10 minutes. I’ll give you step by step of how to work up the balls to do this.
Step 1

A) Stand up tall
B) Lean back and try and look behind you. (Further you look the better)
C) Hold this position for about 20 seconds.

Repeat this step until you feel your compfortable to move on. Also the longer you hold this the better.

Step 2

A) Sit on the grass with for feet pulled up to your chest.
B) Roll yourself backwards (Backwards summersault)
C) First few times roll once. After compfortable roll 2. 3 times is pointless.

This step is just to prepare you for the next step and so when you do your back flip you to them right and not twist your body and break a bone.

Step 3

A) Stand Tall
B) Bend Knees
C) Sit down and once your close to the ground do a backwards summer sault
D) When your almost done of the summersault, use your hands to help push you up and land back on your feet and stand tall. Hold that pose for a few seconds

REPEAT this step many times also!!

Step 4

A) Lay down facing up
B) Get on all fours still facing up. Now make sure your hands are in the right position, like your half way done of a backflip. Meaning wrist towards your feet and fingers towards your head.
C) Kick up with your feet and land on flat feet.

This step took me a few tries to get compfortable.

At this point you must realize in your head that when you do attemp this backflip everything will feel natural and you will not mess up. Unless you rushed too fast pass one of the steps. So please make sure your comportable with all of them before moving on.

Step 5

A) Stand Tall
B) Hands out in front and swing down and back up over your head.
C) Look behind like in !!Step 1!! Then land on your hands. You do not have to jump in the stage. Just put yourself in the position like the start of step 4
D)Kick feet up like in step !!
E) roll yourself flat to your feet like in !!Step 3!!

Now your completly used to doing a backflip!! Now as you practice it you can perfect it and jump and land on your hands and everything. I wish you the best of luck.

I am so close to my standing back handspring and round off back hand spring on the ground!!

Yesterday I did a standing backhandspring on the trampoline! It’s so great. You know, with tumbling, you just have to go for it. It’s amazing!! =D

i am learning this in cheernastics and can almost do a roundoff back-handspring

Its pretty easy. If you don’t have a trampoline, make a stack of pillows waist high and jump backward over them.

this seems 2b easier than the front handspring

want this 4 cheerleading

Basically, as with most any tumbling, you can’t be afraid. You are going to to fall, you might get hurt, and it doesn’t come easy, but you CANNOT be afraid of this. Fear is what makes these things impossible for many (not that everyone is going to get to the same levels of course, plus overall fitness and weight is obviously important). But definitely don’t attempt to learn this (even if you could previously do it at one point) without either being at a gym where they have equipment that gradually helps you achieve back/front tumbling or on a soft surface with a spotter who knows what they are doing. The handspring is where people usually start get scared in their training, or anything where you take both hands off the ground, even for those few seconds. You just have to go for it if fear is what is getting in your way. I was a gymnast from when I was young until when I was a teen so I had extensive training from a young age. My sister didn’t, so when she became a competitive cheerleader it was a huge hurdle for it and most of her problems stemmed from fear and the mental block it causes.