How To Do Front Flip

Hi guys. My name's James McGranaghan and I'm the Managing Director of James Gymnastics Academy, a leading branch based here in Beckenham, South East London. Today, I'm going to talk you through a variety of videos based around the sport, gymnastics, so I hope you enjoy it.

Hi guys, in today's video, I'm going to teach you how to become more flexible. The first one we're going to show you today, is something called the gahanna position. The whole process of this is slowly step by step, what we want to try and achieve is to the gymnasts have their arms out flat in front of them and have their chest and their stomach flat to the floor.

So Lianne if you would like to put your arms raised for me. Slowly, Lianne is going to pull down to the floor, very, very slowly and nice straight position so you can see from her hips to her hands, the straight body line and her belly is touching the floor. This can actually be used to do different moves in gymnastics.

One move that we're going to show you from what you've seen a minute ago with Lianne is actually a shuttle jump. All that is that you're in a kind of position where her body was flat to the floor in stage one, her body's going to be upright and her legs are actually going to come up towards her head. So Lianne if you would like to demonstrate the perfect shuttle jump for me.

So she swings her arms, she jumps, her legs go up and she lands perfectly. Okay, another stage that we can use to try to get yourself more flexible is something that you might have heard of, the bridge. So what you need to do, in a tight position where Lianne's feet are now, okay, she's going to lay down onto her back, keeping her knees bent and what we need to do is try to bring her feet as close to her bottom as you can.

From here, Lianne is going to rotate her hands backwards so her hands touch the floor. Then when Lianne's comfortable, she's going to push on both with her arms and her legs simultaneously and push up to her body off the floor. Lianne would you like to push up? When she's here, she can start to move her shoulders backwards, keeping her legs and her feet together, creating the arch or the bridge shape as you can see there.

And that there is a bridge. And that was J'amies Gymnastics Academy's guide on how to become more flexible.