hey guys welcome to a new tutorial
today, finally I will show you the back handspring
many of you asked for it for years now
but I never did it , because I don't really like my back handspring
but for my 850k subscriber special
I invited a special guest who can do a really good back handspring
John is with me today and together we will show you
how to learn it outside without a crashpad
only with a helping friend
befos you can start with the back handspring
you need to do some exercises
first of all you need to be strong enough in the arms and shoulders to hold your own weight
so please check if you are able to hold an handstand for at least 5-10 sec.
you can lean to a wall with your feet or your friend can hold your legs for that
just try to hold it for 5 to 10 sec
and don't bend your arms
when you do the back handspring your arms has to be straight
while doing the back handspring you will land on them with your full bodyweight
and if you are not able to hold that you can fall on your head and hurt yourself
so train the handstand first
if that works out for you
you can start with exercise 2
go into the handstand, than push yourself up a little bit to do a little jump and land in the handstand again
you don't have to hold the handstand after that
this exercise is just to give you a feeling how it will be to land on your arms
and warm up your wrists
John shows you what I mean
that little push is important
to push you up
to push out from the handstand to your feet again when you will do the back handspring later
if you are able to do exercise 1 and 2 you can start to train the macaco as the third exercise
John shows how it looks like
ok, go down into a squat
touch the ground with one hand
the fingers need to point to the back
that is the starting position for the macaco
we will start with a more simple version of it
normally you have to swing your arm over your head and throw your legs straight over your body
but for the beginning
you can go over the side
so from the starting position you swing your arm over the left side to the ground
it is more a cartwheel than a macaco
it looks pretty bad but is a good exercise before trying the macaco
if you feel comfortable with that you can start to go more and more straight over your head
that means you have to swing your arm straight over your head and than to the ground while you jump up with your legs
and do not forget to push up with your legs
use the momentum of your swinging arm and jump up from the squat
if you are able to do the macaco
you can start with the 4th and last exercise for the back handspring
this one will help you to overcome your fear to jump backwards
with both arms parallel
and not over the side like we did at the macaco
you have to forget about that when you try to do a clean back handspring
and throw both arms parallel to the back and than jump on your hands
and that is the movement we will prepare with the next exercise
find a distance to a wall where you can just touch it
you should not be to far from the wall and also not to close
otherwise you could miss the wall or hit your head to it if you are to close
try out carefully first
with one arm and Brin in your second arm like we did for the macaco
find the right distance with that move
and than try to do it like you would do a back handspring
throw both arms to the back and puh your arms backwards over your head to the wall
it feels a little bit scary, but its less scary than a back handspring
ok now it's getting serious
when you feel safe with all exercises we showed you today you can try to do the back handspring
but for the first tries you should do it with a strong friend who can support you and hold your weight
John will tell you how to support a back handspring
one hand holds the hip or belt of the jumper
I take the left for that
grab the belt, to have a good point to hold him and to control his main emphasis in the middle of the body
and for the beginners I also have the right hand at the shoulder blades
like that he is able to swing his arms without being interfered
if he is not going all the way with his arms he can not land on his hands but would fall to his head or neck
if the jumper stops his movement, the supporter needs to hold him and stop / reduce his impact with the right hand
so this is my position to safe hin
now you know how to support a back handspring
now we will tell you the 3 most important things for the back handspring
and you can do it without much help of the supporter
first of all you have to jump more to the back than up
this feels very weird if you already learned the backflip
because for the backflip you have to jump aas high as possible, but now you need to jump not up but backwards
to generate as much momentum as possible
so do not jump up, but lean back a bit and go down as if you would sit down to a chair
than jump backwards into the back handspring
step two, your arms
also the movement of your arms is different from a backflip
do not think about throwing them up
but throw them back over your head as far and fast as you can
do not stop that movement before you touch the ground
always hold your arms straight over your head to not fall on your head
keep your elbows straight
otherwise it is way harder to hold the impact
and the 3rdthe 3rd importantthing is the landing
keep tension after you touched the ground with your hands
the trick is not over with the landing on your hands
the goal is to come back to your feet with a nice move
so after touching the ground you have to puh out like we did in exercise 2
and fold down your streched legs to the ground
with as much power as you have
that is the back handspring
that was the back handspring tutorial
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