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A front handspring, performed as part of an acro dance routine.. A handspring (also flic-flac or flip-flop [1]) is an acrobatic move in which a person executes a complete revolution of the body by lunging headfirst from an upright position into an inverted vertical position and then pushing off (i.e., "springing") from the floor with the hands so as to leap back to an upright position.
Front handspring A gymnastics move in which the gymnast takes a running start, then places their hands as if a handstand. They kick one leg over, push off the ground, and come back up. Front tuck The act of running, jumping off of two feet, turning in mid air, and landing on the ground on two feet. FX The scoring abbreviation for floor exercise ...
A multiple-exposure image of a gymnast performing the vault at the 2012 Summer Olympics.. The handspring double salto forward tucked, known as a Produnova in women's artistic gymnastics and a Roche in men's artistic gymnastics, [1] [2] is a vault consisting of a front handspring onto the vaulting horse and two front somersaults in a tucked position off it.
Biles didn’t just change gymnastics, she changed our society. She is the GOAT of GOATs, as teammate Jordan Chiles called her, one of one. The Paris Olympics were the biggest sporting event of ...
Daniele Hypólito performing a Yurchenko-style vault at the 2016 Summer Olympics The three families of vaults in order from left to right: handspring, Tsukahara, and Yurchenko Yurchenko , also known as round-off entry vaults , are a family of vaults performed in artistic gymnastics in which the gymnast does a round-off onto the springboard and ...
Backflips off the bed. Front tucks onto the couch. Handsprings in the hallway. My 7-year-old daughter’s life has been thoroughly overtaken by gymnastics and her hero, Simone Biles.
Natalia Vladimirovna Yurchenko (Russian: Наталья Владимировна Юрченко) (born 26 January 1965) is a retired Soviet artistic gymnast, who won the women's all-around gold medal at the 1983 World Championships.
Whether it was adrenaline or the pain had truly melted away in the Parisian heat, Biles – at age 27, the oldest American to ever win an Olympic gymnastics medal and now the most decorated ...