learn to do a cartwheel

...good stuff. Backflip next.

1. Handstand
2. Headstand

As a child I did kartwheels all the time. One day, as a thirty-somthing year old, I did a few and the next day I hurt so bad!! My inner thighs were on fire!!
It’s easy to run in heels though! Stopping is the problem:) hahaha

I can do it better starting off on my right hand though…it’s just one of those lopsided things in life

1. start in a lunge position with your good foot forward.
(if your a righty try your left foot also and vice versa for
leftys) i am a rightie but do a left handed cartwheel
better.
2. put your hands up by your ears and start to tilt down. turn your hands slightly to the left for a left handed cartwheel or to the right for a right handed cartwheel. put the same hand as your foot down first.(if your left foot is out then put your left hand down and then your right hand.)

3. while doing step 2 your back foot should be gradually lifting up over your head. when it is up over your head you should push off your front leg and get that over your head also.

4.if you are a lefty your right foot should come down first and then your left foot should come down slightly behind.(vice versa for rightys)

TADA you just did a cartwheel :)

I could never do a cartwheel. I have tried so many times, but I just end up with a fall on my butt or a suckish round-off. I have asked my mom to help, but every time I try and fail, she just says something like, “You can’t do it because you don’t think you can do it.” like that. Then I tell myself that I can do it, and I mess up again. Then she tells me not to be such a smart a**. Why can’t I do it???

i’ve never been able to do a cartwheel…even when I took karate type classes as a kid, whenever they’d have us trying to do cartwheels i’d fail miserably.

worse yet, my younger sister is a gymnastics genious, and is constantly rubbing it in my face that i can’t seem to do this simple thing.

the reason i’d finally like to learn to do one?
just so i can cartwheel circles around that bitch. lol.

seriously, everyone knows how to do a cartwheel. american as apple pie.

I never learned to do a cartwheel when I was a kid and now I’m scared to try!

I’ve decided that not being able to do a cartwheel is not my fault. My brain just resists any actions that might put my precious brain in jeopardy. My husband, for the same reason, cannot dive into a swimming pool. Our kids have NO chance I guess. : ) I pledge to overcome my inability to do this during 2007.