Watanabe – advanced bwd handspring

Naama Arad, like me, was challenged by this Gymnastics Minute instructional by coaching legend Mas Watanabe.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

… My advice to Naama is to consider this an advanced technique. Beginners should perfect long, low backward handspring series first. (Think of a rock skipping across a lake.)

Manjak has gymnasts do many sets of 5 normal ffs every day, for example.

Much, much later you can shape the skill for specific reasons, as Watanable is doing here.

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