I feels sort of silly getting my cartwheel technique from nine year old girls on you tube. It would be really helpful Especially the recipe for doing more than one at a time, foot pivots etc. Thx
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could you post a cartwheel instruction video please
Started by Michael Slifka, June 15, 2018 · 6 Replies · 137 Views
There is nothing too complicated.
-write a line on the floor
-begin with hands overhead like in a handstand position . i suppose that you have already mastered a decent handstand. if not there are low probabilities to perform a correct cartwheel
-while standing on the line remember that all the body part must be place progressively on this like, if you fail on that probably the mistake is the handstand or the entrance.
-perform a lunge, front foot in the line, then first hand turned out of 90°, legs follow, second hand, now when you can feel the weight on both hands you should be in a straddle handstand. the movement is now symmetric as the first part. the first leg which has left the floor previously will be the first reaching the floor.
-i suggest to film yourself during an attempt and of course, check your handstand first.
thanks but what about the second cartwheel? The exit of the first cartwheel is sideways, and the first cartwheel is entered from the front lunge. Do i pivot and enter the second cartwheel from the front again, or stay sideways? I'm having spastic issues with repeating the move.
when you fall on the first leg then the second cartwheel begin with the "lunge foot" doing a quarter turn out to the side so that you can make a correct lunge again.
need to start from the begining. when placcing hands are fingers facing each other or are both hands pointed in one direction, finger tips forward?
Hands are pointing in the same direction as in an handstand position.
@Michael Slifka, I am learning cartwheels too now. I went to a few adult gymnastics classes, and one big correction for my current cartwheel was to aim with your hands far forward... on the line, just like Alessandro described, but far... that will give you a nice momentum to kick the legs over. And it will be easier to enter the second cartwheel, because you have a good pace/momentum forward that line.