How to do a back handspring

This is an animated gymnastics tutorial for the back handspring. Use the controls to pause, slow down and follow along with detailed step by step text instructions that match up with each movement. This instructional gymnastics video is incredibly in depth and a great guide for learning the back handspring.

Gymnastic Back Handspring

In this lesson you will learn how to do a proper back handspring. Before you try the back handspring, you should learn the handstand, the back roll to handstand and bridge variations. The gymnastic back handspring goes back quite far. For beginners sometimes it is easier to learn the wushu back handspring first. That's because you can strike out further and you don't have to jump back that far.