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Aerial
Roundoff
Description:
A
roundoff executed without the use of placing your hands onto the ground.
Think of it as an aerial where your legs are together throughout the move.
This move can also look like a front flip with a half twist.
Recommended
Prerequisites: aerial,
roundoff
Recommended
Progression:
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Your aerial
cartwheel should already be good and that you can do it flawlessly.
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Attempt
roundoffs with hands using a running approach.
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Next,
try a one-handed roundoff using your usual lead arm as the only arm.
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Once your
comfortable with this, try doing a one-handed roundoff using the opposite
hand as the handplant. At first it will feel funny, but work at it
so that you can do it without compromising your body's vertical nature
during the move.
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Next,
try taking a hop step and jumping into either one-handed roundoff, ie.
instead of planting a hand down and then kicking off the lead leg, kick
off the lead leg then put your hand down.
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Once you're
comfortable with hopping into an opposite hand-one-handed roundoff it's
only a short step left till the full aerial roundoff.
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Basically,
just do the exact same thing. This may be easier said than done to
many, but for many techniques you really just have to grow a big set of
guts, and just do the trick.
Helpful
Tips:
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Remember
to dip your body down as far as you can and touch your leaping leg before
jumping. Also bring up the back leg as high and fast up as you can before
you jump. This way, the torque you create from both of these are
far superior.
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Turn your
hips to the centre when you throw your legs together so you can land facing
behind you (opposite where you started)
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Keep your
body as vertical looking as possible, otherwise it'll just look like a
really messed up butterfly kick or something and it'll be really ugly.
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Take a
hop step into the aerial roundoff to build momentum. You can run too if
need be.
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Jumping
high from the takeoff and developing some speed into the aerial roundoff
are also very important.
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Have a
spotter help hold your waist while you practice flipping over. he/she should
only be there to help your legs flip over and not to hold you up.
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Keep your
legs apart at the take off but remember to throw your second leg together
with your first or it would no longer be an aerial roundoff.
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Throw
your arms upward and into the air rather than downward to create more hop
into your aerial roundoff. If you throw your arms downward, you won't get
as much height.
Variations/
Prerequisite for:
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Aerial
roundoff into splits: An aerial roundoff into
the splits.
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Axekick
Aerial roundoff: An Axe kick followed by an
aerial roundoff from a stationary position.
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Step-back
Aerial roundoff: While walking backwards,
you do an aerial roundoff after takeoff.
Note
on aerial roundoff: Another commonly used
name is a barani.
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