Have you ever wondered what it would be like to do a backflip off of one foot?
Well, today I'm going to teach you how to do the gainer.
My name is Dom Lewis and I'm here in my home gym, all American Flames
Gymnastix, where I started coaching 12 years ago, over the past 12 years, what
I've been doing is traveling around the world, doing clinics, seminars, private
lessons, and a lot of online coaching.
So today you guys are going to get a sneak peek glimpse at some of what I do
when I'm doing all these lessons around the world, but here on YouTube instead.
Now, before we get started, I always like to stretch and
do a lot of good warming up.
And a lot of the times, while I'm doing that stuff, I like to use my
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Alright, now, obviously one thing you want to know before trying a
gainer would be an actual backflip.
Now, when first starting these, you want to do it in a safe place.
So if you do have access to a gym, especially one that has a foam pit, you
can practice doing them into a foam pit.
You can practice doing them onto a Rezi mat.
You can practice doing them on trampoline, which I'll show you in just a moment.
All right now I'm practicing a gainer on the trampoline.
It depends on which direction you swing.
I a righty twister.
So I switched my left leg.
So I'm gonna approach the trampoline and jump on landing on
my right leg and swing my left.
So again, when approaching the trampoline and what you're going to do is jump
onto whichever leg of the direction you're going to be twisting or flipping.
And for me again, that is my right leg.
I swing up my left and you can watch as I wait until the
trampoline pushes back against me.
And then I swing.
Now, most of you will be lefty twisters, which means you will be swinging your
right leg up landing on your left, swinging that right leg up nice and high.
That is not necessarily my most comfortable way, but I will show
you so you guys can kind of see what it should look like for you
guys going in your direction.
So as you saw, I landed on my left leg, swung my right leg up nice and
high, and then completed my flip.
So after doing it on a surface, like a trampoline, you can do it on something
like a tumble track, which is more similar to a floor or an air track
because it does not bounce you as much as the trampoline, but it does
give you a little bit of balance.
So for me, what I'm going to do is land here on my right leg, because I swing
my left up, me being a righty twister.
So for you guys, and you played on your left leg, swing that right leg up.
So watch how I swing here.
Now, one of the most beneficial positions in all tricking is called the eagle.
Now, what eagle means is whenever you land for a swing through, you need
to make sure that you're landing on whichever legs are for me, my right
leg, those arms are behind me a bit.
So I'm like an eagle with my wings out really far.
My right leg is slightly bent.
My left leg is going to be behind me.
So this is eagle position.
So now you don't want to drop your chest too low because it's very
hard to swing from this position.
You'll probably clipewhatever foot you're trying to swing.
So here I am, chest is up a bit can lean forward, but not drop down.
The chest is up, right?
Like slightly bent.
Arms are back.
My left leg is here.
This is eagle position.
And this is going to set you up for a proper, huge swingthru.
Now I'm going to show you kind of what it's like to do those swingthrus so you
can watch my eagle position and you can watch that how much I swing my swing leg.
So my left leg, how high it comes up when I do these.
And I'm going to show you something.
So you could see whenever I landed, I was an eagle position
swing that left leg up nice and high to help me lift into the air.
And then as I come back around, I'm landing back into that eagle position.
All right.
Now, after you've done your gainers, practicing them into a pit on a
trampoline, on a tumble track, anything like that, you can work on doing
them on the spring floor or grass.
Now, if you don't have access to a gym, I noticed really
hard to get your training in.
That's how I grew up training was outside up until I was 16
when I finally came in here.
But if you gotta use what you have, so if you only have grass take all these
tips and pointers and still try to apply those, the best you can and in a safe
way, if you need someone to help you, someone to spot you or anything like that.
Yeah.
Make sure that you're getting some proper help.
And again, if you have access to a gym, make sure you utilize that.
Now, moving it to the floor, it is not going to be that much
different than the tumble track.
It does not dip as much as the tumble track or trampoline.
So you really have to make sure you're utilizing those fast switch muscles.
Make sure that right when you land on that foot.
So for me, my right foot.
Right, when you land onto it, you're gonna swing, you're
pushing off of it right away.
So almost like a really hard calf raise and that'll help you get that gainer.
So I'm going to show you really quickly and you can make sure
you're paying attention to my eag position and my swing for a gainer.
One more time.
Now, what you can see there is I land on that foot and I go right away into
that swing, but my leg is not too close.
Nice and far back so I can kick it almost like I'm trying to kick a ball really far.
And so as I land right when I hit the eagle position, swing up nice
and hard, get a nice high gainer.
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And if you do want to see any more type of gainer variations, make sure
you comment down below, let me know what scanners do you want to work on?
And I can make sure that I take those into consideration
when making my next tutorial.
Okay.
Now to reiterate the things that I just taught.
You make sure that you're landing in an eagle position when you start your swing.
So chest just slightly at the front, not too far down, because when that happens,
your swing leg can't make it all the way.
So chest here, running a little bit, whatever leg you plant.
So mine being my right leg, that just a little bit planted, nice and firm my
swing leg behind me and those arms a bit behind to help you properly swing up
because again, the biggest issues that will happen, especially with that Eagle
position is that chest dropping too low and it makes it swing very difficult and
pretty dangerous for the ankles and knees.
I've been filming a ton of tutorials lately in my most
recent one was on a flash kick, my favorite backflip variation.
If you guys want to check that out, you can hit right here.