Some of you may know I use to do gymnastics what I consider "back in the day", every once and a while I still get the chance to go play gymnast at a local gym and see what I can still manage to do.
Here is kind of a fun little video that shows how much momentum helps. I can barely do a standing back handspring, but with the momentum working in my favor I'm somehow able to pull of a round off double back handspring. Far from super pretty but it just proves that momentum is definitely my friend in the world of gymnastics!!
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Holy cow that is amazing Bre! I would love to be able to do that! So I see how momentum would play a large role in allowing you to accomplish this. Being a physicist, I like to think about learning these things is such terms. I currently am trying to master the hand stand and finding that it is not as easy as it is in my head haha... Still, I would love if you could talk about things like where your center of gravity is and the rotational energy required to do this. I would think that both of these things would also play a very important role in accomplishing the back hand spring. I look forward to future explanation of this so I can try and learn, and probably hurt myself.
Thanks! I'm definitely not a physicist but its surprising how much of the physics one learns just learning to do the tricks. Thats a great idea for posts! I have one started about rotational energy for twisting tricks and a "how to" kind of post for a handstand could be a lot of fun but please no hurting yourself...they make mats for a reason :).
I'm not entirely sure how the center of gravity plays into handsprings, but the rotational energy definitely does! I'll look into those more for you, though you probably understand it slightly better!!
Also another interesting aspect of the tumbling is the fact that the floor actually has springs in it, which jelps significantly!!
This is AWESOME! Thanks for including the vid of yourself.
I think Aaron's comment is a good one. You might consider teaming up with a physicist to co-write a post to try to explain the science of what is happening here.
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