back walkover

The back walkover performer begins in a standing position.

In artistic gymnastics, back walkovers are performed in floor exercises and on the balance beam.

Discourage students from attempting to perform front and back walkovers and backward rolls (directly over the head).

Back walkovers are commonly performed in a variety of athletic activities, including acro dance, cheerleading, and rhythmic gymnastics.

Throughout “Violin Concerto” there was too little force in her lethargic dancing, which included a scary near-mishap involving a supported back walkover.

A backwards kickover or bridge kickover is a back walkover with a pause in the bridge position.

The Lake Park High School gymnast banged her knee doing a back walkover on the beam, and she's hoping it's not fractured.

Vado Diamonde, a stilt walker, managed high kicks, as well as a back walkover in thrilling and suspenseful slow motion.

But, the last time we checked, there were still plenty of girls who wanted to make friendship bracelets, jump rope double-Dutch style, and show off cartwheels and back walkovers.

She got a 9.925; Silivas followed with a difficult routine that included two back walkovers performed without hands touching the beam, but she landed shakily on one and got a 9.90 score.

A back walkover is an acrobatic maneuver in which a person transitions from a standing position to a back bridge and then back to a standing position again, undergoing a complete revolution of the body in the process.

Wth more than 15 short pieces - veering from explosive to humorous - the 90-minute performance takes handsprings, back walkovers, pommel horse routines and other gymnastic movements and weaves them into evocative artistic vignettes with titles like "Machine," "Flower," "Dresses" and "The Head."

The most imaginative moments of this event, performed over the weekend at the Warner Theatre, came early: pairs of gymnasts turning back walkovers in such unreal unison it looked like double vision; a projection of blue sky on a scrim, with an airborne gymnast behind it appearing to soar through clouds.