How to do a flyspring for gymnastics

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Flyspring - Gymnastics

The flyspring is like a front handspring where you jump off from both legs together.
(opposite of a back handspring) Jump forward from both legs, land on your hands in a handstand position and whip over
your extended legs. Then land on your legs again. It is necessary to learn the flyspring before you try the frontflip layout. Before you try the flyspring you should be able to do dive rolls and front handsprings.

Trainer advice: Flyspring - Gymnastics

* I can't say it often enough: Try to keep your body extended and don't reach for the floor close to the spot where you jumped off. A flyspring is like a dive roll where you don't roll down after touching the floor.
Instead you extend your body even more and whip over your legs. (and not only over - the legs are whipped far forward)
* Don't buckle down as you jump off for a flyspring.
* Training Methods:
-Do a handstand an mats and let yourself fall over with a totally extended body. (so that you fall with your back and on the mats - stay extended)
-Improve your front handsprings.
-Jump from a trampoline onto a pile of mats. (running towards the trampoline like if you were doing a frontflip)
-Stand on something about 1 meter high and let yourself fall down onto a trampoline. Then do a flyspring onto a pile of mats. This way you can concentrate on going forward instead of going down. Keep in mind that the feet have to be behind hip level as you jump off from the tramp.
-Video tape your flysprings. Check how extended and far your flysprings are.