Teaching gymnastics is a challenging job. Not only do we as coaches spend hours writing lesson plans and teaching new skills, but we often have to fix things that a student "got" during a backyard practice session. One of the most common skills and most difficult to fix is the infamous back handspring. When attempting to fix the handspring, the first thing to do is to fix the sitting position. Most students sit down too …showed first 75 words of 477 total…

…showed last 75 words of 477 total…elevated surface, then push off their hands so they land upright on their feet. The back handspring is used as a stepping stone not only for basic tumbling, but for all apparatus in gymnastics. It is crucial that it is a clean and polished skill. Although it may seem a tedious task, it is a fundamental job of the instructor to find and fix the problems in this skill in order to create better gymnasts.