How to do the gymnastics double back flip

This is an animated gymnastics tutorial for the double back flip. 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 double back flip.

Double Back Flip - Gymnastics

In my opinion the double back flip is the technique that separated intermediate gymnasts
from the really good ones. Of course you should be able do all the single flips before you try this and I recommend everybody to try this flip into water at first.

Technical description: Double Back Flip - Gymnastics

* To learn the double back flip, build up mats and mintramp as shown in the illustration.
* Go into a handstand and bounce off a couple of times. This simulates a good roundoff.
* Then do a backflip on top of the mats and keep going with a backroll. The mats have to be super soft for this.
* Get this motion smoother and smoother. You will see results very soon.

Trainer advice: Double Back Flip - Gymnastics

* The mitramp version shown aboe is one of the best ways to learn the double back flip. 1m springboard-water-jumps can help too. A more professional method of learning this is jumping from a tumbling trak into a gymnastics pit (foam rubber cubes).
* Warm up and stretch sufficient before you work on difficult flips like this one.