switch leg

[tumblerK]

Back when I was a new level 5 my coach had me try a front handspring step out. I was quite awful at them, so she had me try it off the cheese, and I managed to do a switch leg front handspring step out and according to everyone there it was actually quite graceful too. Of course I didn't manage to replicate it again, but I decided that I was going to work on it. I forgot about it for a while, but a couple summers ago I started working on a switch leg front walkover, and it took a while but I did manage to master it and now I can even connect 3-4 of them. They have actually become one of my favorite skills, and I was wondering if anyone else has ever tried a switch leg front walkover before. I highly recommend them I kick up as I would into a bad leg handstand and then finish the front walkover just as I would a normal front walkover. Try it and tell me what you think!

 

[Mack_the_Ripper]

I would think that this would be a fairly big deduction in competition. Occasionally we do switch-leg BWOs for fun, but whenever someone switches their leg when they're not told to, they're yelled at. Maybe I have a misconception about this...

They sound like they would look cool fast, though.

 

[gymkat]

For compulsories, it would be an issue, but not for optionals.

Some optionals at my gym have done switch leg FWOs in their routines.

 

[flippinlolly]

I often do them in the gym for fun (not in routines) and I do them on both legs and I do switch leg BWOs too!I think theyre really graceful and i do them super slowly to work on control too!

 

[canadiangymnast_eh]

i have done a few switch leg front walkovers but last year i started working switch leg front handsprings on beam. I never got very far with them, only the low beam, but they seemed fairly good. now i don't get to work on them anymore but i get to start other skills soon.

 

[gracefulone]

For awhile I played with a switch leg backwalkover connected into a fronthandspring. I started with my good leg, then switched so that my bad leg landed on the beam first and I could swing my good leg through.