How To Back Handspring For Beginners

Hi, guys. In this video, I am going to show you how to flare. Now, before I move on to the stages of how to flare, I am going to let you know this is a really, really technically complex move.

It can take years and years and years of practice. So if you are sitting at home watching it, I do not want you guys to feel disheartened. However, I am going to try and break it down to three easy stages for you, to try and give you an idea of how the flare works.

Being a gymnast, a lot of flare work would obviously come from break dances and people in that kind of profession. However, as part of an elite British gymnasts' floor routine, it has to be included into it. So, this is where a lot of gymnasts will come to do break dancing skills such as the flip.

So, the first stage of doing the flip - you need to work out which way your body wants to circle around its hands. Now, the first thing to remember, when you enter any kind of circle or any kind of flare, your leading hip has to enter first. So, for example, as you can see, I am entering to the right.

My left hip will enter first, because obviously, that is the direction I want my hips to be. If I lead with my right hip, my circle is not going to work, because all that is going to happen is that my bum is going to lead, and that is not good. So, straight away, first of all, work out which way you want to circle around, and make sure that the leading hip enters first.

Once you've done that, you need to break the flare down into sections of how your legs are going to be. So, the first way is the minute your left hip enters the circle, your right leg needs to be off the floor. Your left leg then has to drive out and down towards the floor.

Once it has done that and is in that position, it then rotates up while the right leg starts to come in and cut itself. By then, your hands will automatically start to know where they are. So, mutually, as the right leg comes up, the left hand is down.

The right hand then goes down, and the left hand comes up. So, it is kind of a natural reaction. Once you have got the idea of this, then you can start to practice gently on the floor.

So, obviously, you can start to enter in slowly and do half a flip, and then jump, and do the second half of it. Once you reach a point where you feel that your hands and your wrists and your shoulders can not only take the weight of your body, but take the rotation of the circle itself, then your flare should actually look like this. Hopefully, that is how the end product will be.

Thanks for watching guys, and that is how you do a flare. .