How to Perform a Roundoff Backflip

Hi, YouTube users. This is tutorial on how to do a Roundoff Backtuck or Roundoff Layout. Now, even though a lot of people don’t need to use that punch, I can do fluidity. If you haven’t seen my fluidity tutorial, check that out. Well I’m going to demonstrate a roundoff backtuck first and then a roundoff layout. [Demonstration] Alright, now roundoff layout. [Demonstration] Basically, if you can’t do a roundoff, then you need to do work on that first. If you can try doing a backflip and get as close enough to where you can land here, then if you can use the rebound to the roundoff right, you can probably do that roundoff backtuck before you do a standing one. Now, the key to the roundoff—when I first started, when I went into a roundoff, I would kind go off to the side like here the way I punched off. So what you really want to do is focus on your legs, so if I was going on a dead on angle, you would want to kind of go—you do like a cartwheel, plant your feet together and push off. Now, if I do this slowly, you’re here, push off your hands—that’s kind of sketchy. But once you're in the handstand part, we’ll roundoff just about here, bring your feet together and then push off your hands. Let’s see, it’s kind of hard to demonstrate it slow, so I’ll do one real quick. I’m going to slow this down so you guys can see what I’m doing, so the side angle and then from a dead on angle. [Demonstration] One more, too close. Let’s see the roundoff. Handstand position, bring your feet together. Turn your legs at first and kind of reach out, push your hands and feet together, and then push off your hands, and don’t let your heels hit the ground. When you let your heels hit the ground, you’ll put too much strain on not only your heels but also your ankles. So work on basically trying not to let your heels hit the ground. When you punch down, keep your—try to stay in this position here. That way when you land or you push off your hands to punch, when you try to stay here, the weight and pressure coming down will bring you down because if you try and stay here, it will spring you right back up. That’s way you get a good enough height to get up. Now of course, you have to push off and sometimes if you’re good or if you know how to control it, it will happen. As for the backflip part for the layout, I would arch my back. If you haven’t seen my backflip tutorial, check that out because that’s really important, or any backflip tutorial. So you punch off the roundoff, come back, I go up. I always tilt my head back. Some gymnasts say it’s not good to tilt your head back. For me, it works. If it works for you, tilt your head back, try it. If it works keeping your head facing the other way then try that. I tilt my head back so I can spot the ground. Once I can see the ground, I will plant my legs and eventually just plant it on there. Again when I land on, I don’t land flat. I land on the balls of my feet to cushion the landing. The backtuck, it’s kind of the same thing. I go up, tilt my head back a little bit, and then I tuck. And the tuck will bring me around enough time to see the ground in that spot. So I’m going to do a roundoff layout. This will be in a slow motion. [Demonstration] Okay, and then a roundoff backtuck. It will be in slow motion as well. [Demonstration] That’s two ways to tuck, a few ways. One way, grab the knees all the way, grab the behind the legs, whichever way works for you. And again, like I say in—what I’m trying to start to say in my tutorials is, if something is not working for you that I mentioned in my tutorial, figure out what you’re doing wrong, what you would do to fix that, and then think of things that you could do to fix that, try a few things out. But again, if you’re still having problems, contact me, anybody you know who can do whatever I’m doing at the tutorial. And that’s pretty much it. That’s the tutorial for the roundoff backflip, thanks.