hi, my name is caroline, and i'm here at encoregymnastics with amanda, and today we're going to teach you how to learn a back flip. beforeyou do any activity like this, you're going to want to stretch your muscles, especiallyyour wrist and ankles, (go ahead and show us how to do that), push back and flip themover, and push back again. she's also going to stretch her ankles, you want to make sureyour muscles and everything is ready for your
how to make a dance floor on grass, landing, (other ankle), and her achilles,here she's going to be stretching the muscles all through here, (and the other leg), andlastly we're going to do our neck, back and forth, and up and down. before you do yourback flip, your going to want to warm up with some jumps. so we're going to start with ourarms up, she's going to swing her arms, she's
going to try to jump up over my head; letsdo that again. start up, this time she's going to pull, her knees into her stomach, swing,and, very good. now if you have a spotter, your spotter can start with their hand onyour back, she's going to swing, jump up, and flip, and finish. the things you wantto make sure you're doing, is when you're jumping or when you're setting, you're goingto pull your chest up to the ceiling, when that happens, that's the point in which youpull your knees into your stomach. you also
want to make sure you're rotating throughyour hips instead of through your shoulders. so we're up here, we're going to swing, finishin the same place where she started. i'm going to go ahead and let amanda show that to youon her own; very good. that's how to learn
a back flip.
