back walkover

What is the advantage of training a back walkover starting with one leg up?

After some of the posts today about fast tracking kids, I wanted to tell everyone that gymnasts really do get true joy out of the simple accomplishments and for me that is worth it. My 5 year old dd got her cartwheel on the beam and she was so proud of herself she just kept doing it. Yeah!

When I am doing my back walkover on the beam, I feel as if it is going too quickly and I cannot get my hands on the beam in time...can anybody help me slow down my back walkover so I have time to find the beam? thanks!!

Hi everyone im hoping you can help me...i am training level 6 and i really really REALLY want to get my back walkover on beam. only problem is that when I try them on the low beam with panel mats, my hands never make it on the beam, i don't know why but i'm actually AFRAID to put my hands...

I'm a beginner, and I can do a back bridge to kick over easily, but when it comes to putting my leg up before, it's very hard, and many times my hands will reach to the ground and I will fall over to my side, especially if I'm trying to put my hands together as if I were doing it on beam. What...

DD (almost 7) got her back walk over all by herself tonight. She just started learning it a tumbling class on Friday and today at her "regular" weekly class she did two on her one - 1 on the "squishy" mat and 1 on the spring floor. She was so proud of herself. It's so exciting with all these...

Hi, at the moment I am learning front walkovers on the beam, I really want to learn back walkovers too though. I used to be able to do back walkover on the high beam but then they started to get really dangerous, I was twisting as I was going back and had to bail out of every one. And the...

Today one of our coaches forced me to do a back walkover straight onto the high beam, with no padding on the beam, and barely any help :( after about 3 minutes of me saying 'I can't do it' and the coaches telling me to do it, I did it and landed it. But how can I get over my fear?

I am a level 6 gymnast and i totally have my backwalkover on more of a squishyish beam bu there is this one really hard beam at my gym that has absolutely no squish my forst question is are the beams at the meets really hard and my second is there any advice to get this wierd thing out of my...

I didn't want to brag thursday because I actually missed it. Of course.... I leave that night instead of watch and she gets it. However, lots of moms and her team mates were like yes she got it... I saw it. Turns out she did over 183 of them at practice. WEll I had scheduled a private after...

I have a few questions 1)I can do my backbend with my feet shoulder width apart by myself but I need my coach to fall back with one leg in front of the other .... Any suggestions on how I can train myself to do it with one leg in front ?? 2)do you lift your keg that you kick over with as...

Emily did it... 2 nights ago she finally actually started going backwards on the high beam by herself. I am so proud of her. She is still very apprehensive about the skill so the form needs some work but that will come as her confidence improves... 4 practices till first level 6 meet and I...

We're starting to learn back walkovers on beam and I'm not scared to lean back and do them but as soon as my hands touch the beam, because they are so close together i loose balance and fall off(I have never been able to kick over and land them properly) How do you learn to balance while your...

Hey my friend deven got her back walkover on beam on her first day and i dont get how she does it! I can do it on the lowbeam with a one finger spot but i dont know how to get my fear over on just going back wards. i know that i wont hurt myself but i still wont do it! does anyone have advice on...

Tonight's Practice was awesome.... Emily started on Bars tonight and was doing flyaway drills on the pit bar and then Emily did a flyaway into the pit landing on a mat instead of the blue pit foam. First time, I didn't think she would let go but she did just a bit late so she landed touching...

My daughter is a Level 5 gymnast and is starting to work on Level 6 skills. She is having trouble with her backwalk overs. She puts her thumbs together and starts her bend backward, but as she is bending, she pulls her hands apart and then her hand land wide of the beam. Does anyone have any...

Okay, I've been training back walkovers on beam a lot lately for long periods, and even though I warm up beforehand my back is just always sore these days. If I go a week or two without doing any it goes away but it always comes back. It's my lower back. Is there anything I can do to stop it...

I have pretty much always seen the BWO done with the 'thumbs together, fingers round placement. And the BHS done with one hand behind the other. In coaching girls age 6-8, their coach is telling them to do the BWO with the BHS placement. Why might this be? Is it to get them used to it? Also...

My daughter is having trouble with a back walkover on the beam. She is just in the beginning stages of learning it (she's not level 6) She hit her head on the beam last year trying one and I think she's a little apprensive doing them.. She does them at the gym with two panel mats on each...

so i have very flexible shoulders and back and have my backbend down. i am working towards kicking over from my backbend, and then learning a back walkover, but keep getting stuck. i can kick over fine when someone is spotting me, but by myself i get scared and just kind of lift my leg in the...