How to do the gymnastics vault front handspring

This is an animated gymnastics tutorial for how to do a front handspring over the vaulting table. 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 how to do a front handspring over the vaulting table.

Gymnastic Vault - Front Handspring

In this lesson you will learn how to do a front handspring over the vaulting table.
Before you try this, you should learn the handstand, all the previous vaulting exercises for straight vaults and the flyspring. Make sure the landing are is protected with sufficient mats and ask your coach to support you.

Trainer advice: Gymnastic Vault - Front Handspring

* Keep your arms and your legs totally extended. Don't bend your elbows as you block off.
* A fast run up is essential for a high vault.
* Fill the landing area with mats. Bridge down from your handstand or try flysprings with the landing mats as table-tongue height. Then remove mats gradually.
* Do flysprings from a springboard and then put more and more mats to the place where you push off with your hands. (until you are blocking from a high pile of mats) The height of the landing area has to stay the same from the very beginning.