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Cartwheel/Handspring questions
I know this has been discussed before, and I thought I was on the right track, then I saw this. It is titled as a handspring, but isn't…is it? This is what I call a cartwheel mount (she just approaches it slightly different than I do.)
What is it really?
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It's a cartwheel.
Here is an OLD video I did, it shows a Full Cartwheel, Cartwheel mount (head and torso moves forward and down) and Handspring (head and torso moves back and down) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sag8kwfYBmU&list=PLyXWQXP3dueofybLatPPuLCbvfSPF2oSF&index=16
Here's a cartwheel tutorial, I'm not doing the little leg switch she does, I like the way it looks without the little switch hop. Sounds like you do it without the switching too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTxwC6v14Pg
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Forgot to add, this is what I consider a true grip https://www.studioveena.com/galleries/view/4f875b7d-3fac-4d65-950b-40a20ac37250 Thumb down not up.
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Many people call both cartwheels and handsprings simply "handsprings", you'll notice that.
For example I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "twisted grip cartwheel", only "twisted grip handspring" even though most people actually do a cartwheel mount when they are using the TG.
And also to me that's not a true grip that Nadine uses in the video, but a normal thumbed grip.
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If I say 'cartwheel' I mean what veena means for cartwheel. Handspring is my generic way of saying any way of getting up into a pole handstand sort thing. Everyone uses different terms!
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Thank you all for your quick responses! I do think of it the same way Veena explained based on which way the head is moving. Sometimes all of the different names just get so confusing!
Things can change just from instructor to instructor, but when you start to add in that we are all from different countries and speak different languages that makes it even crazier! -
Yep – different names for different studios, individuals and countries. I am forever having to learn new names for moves. To me this is a handspring (Australia) as it uses a spring motion, and in my current studio is is called a handstand mount (Canada), and here on SV a cartwheel. To me a cartwheel is a full rotation from standing to upside down to standing again in one motion (like a cartwheel in real life, but one arm stays on the pole at all times). There are so many names for different moves and they seem to change all the time – I learnt an inside leg hang in Oz which became a fallen angel in my current studio and on other places is the gemini or the scorpio (hot debate as to which is which). It really is a buttered side up vs buttered side down thing.
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