Women How easy is it to learn back twisting from an arabian?

[Mthegymqueen]

Hello, I am an xcel platinum (working diamond), and I am not a huge fan of backwards tumbling (slowly working back to rbh and rbh tucks), but really advanced in front tumbling (working front fulls and front 1.5s).

I need to work on upskilling my back tumbling, but I was wondering if I started training an arabian, could it possibly help to turn into a back half or more?

My thought process: If I did an arabian, and add more twists to it (extra half to be a full, extra full to be a 1.5, etc.), it would be credited as a back salto instead of a front salto.

Please let me know if this is not correct, and I should focus on a different strategy to work on back twisting

Thank You!

 

[Geoffrey Taucer]

That's a pretty common way of training a full.

You really really REALLY have to make sure that your Arabian is square on takeoff, and avoid any early twisting, but yes that's a perfectly fine way to learn a full.

 

[JBS]

My thought process: If I did an arabian, and add more twists to it

100% yes... here is a great video...