Video 1 : Overview of the training on the back walkover on beam
Video 2 : Technical analysis
- Introduction
- Overview of the skill
- Analysis of the starting position
- The descent phase
- Moving from support on the foot to support on the hands
- The landing phase
- The back walkover from the gymnast’s perspective
Video 3 : Prerequisites
- Introduction
- Anterior-posterior split
- Level of active flexibility in flexion
- Overall flexibility in opening position: The bridge
- Descent into back bridge
- The back bridge
- Handstand split on the floor
- Handstand with legs squeezed on the high beam
- Handstand split on the high beam
Video 4 : Pedagogy
- Opening of the shoulders at the beginning
- Getting familiar with inversion into the handstand
- Performing the entire skill in complete safety
- First, the front walkover
- Progression to the back walkover on the floor
- Back tick tock
- Bridge on the high beam
- From floor to high beam
- A suggested strategy for getting gymnasts onto the high beam . . . alone
- Practicing on the high beam
- Front tick tock, walkover, and repetition
- Improving the landing phase
- Increasing the difficulty in order to stimulate mastery of the skill
- Things to keep in mind!
Video 5 : Spotting
- Overall description of the coach’s actions
- The spot from the coach’s perspective
- To spot or not to spot on the high beam?
Video 6 : Specific Physical Preparation
- Exercises for hip flexibility (psoas and rectus femoris)
- Example of overall, passive work on hip flexibility
- Stretching and contraction in order to improve the inversion phase
- Overall stretching of the quadriceps: what is the most suitable position?
- Strengthening the movement through the handstand split
- Flexibility of overall flexion
- Flexibility of specific flexion!
Video 7 : Live performance
- Influence of the back leg in a front tick tock
- Influence of the front leg in a back tick tock
- Comparison of errors in two back walkovers 1
- Comparison of errors in two back walkovers 2
- Side view of a back walkover
- Comparison of errors in two back walkovers 3