Lets get ready to Tumble !

[Iwannabemargo]

well I'm thinking it will up the playground brownie points, "ooh can you do a flip like on the telly?"

 

[Libby's gym mom]

Yep definitely ! Although they already ask my dd to be a performing monkey lol

 

[Iwannabemargo]

my monkey loves to oblige, after giving them a hands on hips lecture about "its not called a flip, its a roundoff, flick, tuckback !"

 

[3 little monkeys]

Lol I remember getting told off at the beginning for saying roly poly!!

 

[Noideaaboutgym]

I get my terminology wrong all the time, I found this place and thought it would help but now i just use Americanisms instead!

 

[Noideaaboutgym]

DDs swimming coach is always asking if she can do flik flaks and she just looks at him confused. I think he means back flicks but not definite!

 

[Faith]

flic flac is the original term, haven't heard it used for years- been shortened to flic since forever. I remember flic flac being on BAGA badge 1 though!

DD was taught BHS at her gym. She seems to think BHS is standing flic, and a flic comes out of a RO. I suppose RO-flic is easier to say than RO_BHS.

I heard "long arm" vault the other week! Took me a while to remember...

 

[Iwannabemargo]

I learned Flic-flac as well @Faith, and it took me ages to stop calling a RO an Arab Spring, but what is a "long arm" vault, Handspring (as opposed to headspring which we used to do too)?

 

[Faith]

Long arm is a handspring with straight arms. If I remember correctly back in the days of the old "horse" vault and crappy springboards you were also allowed to do a bent arm handspring- (short-arm?)

 

[Noideaaboutgym]

flic flac is the original term, haven't heard it used for years- been shortened to flic since forever. I remember flic flac being on BAGA badge 1 though!

DD was taught BHS at her gym. She seems to think BHS is standing flic, and a flic comes out of a RO. I suppose RO-flic is easier to say than RO_BHS.

I heard "long arm" vault the other week! Took me a while to remember...

So he was correct then
DD tends to call it a back flick, don't think I have heard her use any other name, BHS is what i have read on here and I am sure she didn't have a clue when i said that to her, maybe some things are gym specific too.

 

[Iwannabemargo]

flick is very much a British term, just as Upstart is what they call a Kip

 

[stillgotmyleotard]

Most things are named differently to back in my day. When did the Arab spring become a round off, anyway? Flic flac was a nice term; taught the rhythm of the thing.

Something that pickles my brain daily is that my daughter knows every one of her coaches by their first name. That would have been a session sat out back in the day.

 

[Iwannabemargo]

lol, I still call my friends parents Mr& Mrs so and so