Chris explains how to teach a straight armed backward roll to beginner gymnasts.
Backward roll up on the floor.
Allow feet to leave the floor and roll from the small of the back to the top of the back until your hands make contact with the floor.
Perform tucked backward rolls in series.
One way you can learn to master the backward roll is to set up your mat in a v shape.
Stand up with your legs and back straight and your hands at your sides.
To do a backward roll you need enough abdominal strength to lift your legs and hips over your head.
Dish and tuck positions.
Backward rolls look easy but sometimes can be hard to master.
Backward roll part 1 duration.
Lift the gymnast at the hips when.
Neck flexibility and proper placement of the hands against the floor are necessary for avoiding injury to the neck.
As the buttocks touches the floor continue to roll backward by tucking the knees and the arms up beside the head.
The backward roll is more difficult for the gymnast than the forward roll because the rotation is going backward there can be a lot of pressure on the neck.
Tuck rocks to stand tuck activities with ball etc.
Straight arm backward roll to push up.
This helps you to protect your neck and learn how to roll in a straight line.
Push off the hands moving through a squat position and finishing in a stand with the arms stretched upward.
This guide will hopefully help you accomplish them.
Try putting the mats in a v.
The goal should be to pop up higher and rotate farther on each consecutive roll.
Shoulder width palms facing upward sit back tuck chin and knees to chest press from flat hands to roll body overhead feet meet floor on.
To build backward rotation sit onto the floor and simultaneously push forward with both feet while maintaining contact with the floor.
Backward roll common.
Attempt to push off the floor so that when your feet contact the floor at the end of the roll they are already well in front of you driving you into the next roll.
Chris explains how to start training a backward roll on the floor exercise for beginner gymnasts.
Bottom of the squat hands.