Oooh, now I get ittt (Almost a new skill!)

[Izzie]

So for the past few weeks, whenever I would practice my front handspring on floor or vault, my coach has always been telling me that if I arch and not pike I'll land it just fine (and not on my back, ouch!). I've never really understood what he meant, so just kind of ignored him.

Today, I was attempting a handstand limber onto my couch, and I was getting annoyed because my feet kept hitting the top of the couch and not the pillows I had set on the cushions. Then it clicked, I wasn't bending my back at all!
So I finally landed it with my feet on each pillow... But I was stuck! There was no way I'd be able to stand up, coming down would land me on my hand, and I couldn't roll over? What to do
After landing on my head a couple of times, I finally managed to kick back over onto my feet!!

I checked on YouTube, and apparently all I have to do is land with one foot down (not on the couch, either XD) and I'll have my Tick Tock!
Definitely not something /I/ thought I'd be getting anytime soon O:

It's so weird how the 'arch' thing just suddenly clicked to me, and now I'm on my way to a new skill ! This ever happen to anyone else?

 

[Izzie]

Dang, it just happened again!
Apparently, if you actually go vertical on a handstand (or as I call, ankle clicking XD) it's actually possible to hold for more then 5 seconds ;'D I actually made 10 seconds without the wall for the first time ever!

 

[kflipz]

well, i learned my tik tok by watching stick it when i was about 8 or 9. I watched it and just before i was going to bed I went upstairs and decided i wanted to try a tik tok. And, well what do you know I learned how to do a tik tok on my first try, Craziness!

 

[jazziigymnast]

Well done!! I knew how to do a front hadspring by accident, I always thought it was a front walkover but instead you run, when I was little!

 

[Izzie]

Well done!! I knew how to do a front hadspring by accident, I always thought it was a front walkover but instead you run, when I was little!

Wow XD
I learned my front handspring by a family member showing me it ONCE, and then I spend a couple hundred time trying to imitate it... Usually landing flat on my back (hmm, wonder why... could it have anything to do with arching?).

 

[CamSeawind]

I did that with my giant, I suddenly learned to pike slightly to get past the low bar but my excite was short lived, the next week I got scared to and I've been scared since.

 

[nicci1999]

That's great! I. Love it when things just click. Its kind of an oh duh HATS what they meant but satisfying nonetheless. Good job