Q&A for How to Do a Roundoff

Yes, it is easier if you have already mastered the cartwheel, and it is different for everyone, some will learn in a couple of days, others will take weeks or months.

No, in fact, if you move your hands after you have placed them, you might accidentally fall on your head.

First, try to land with your feet touching the ground at the same time. Then, you should focus on making your feet land next to each other. It also might help if you first try doing cartwheel step-ins.

No, you learn the roundoff first. Roundoffs are the basis to tumbling, and you require a roundoff for a handspring, not the other way around.

Put a scrunchie or a small resistance band around your legs. Do a few roundoff that way, to help train your brain, then do a few without the item.

Practice cartwheels, then at the end, go into a handstand then go down and also land with your feet together.

Squeeze both of your arms next to your ears the whole time. This will help you release both.

Yes, but the mat is to help with safety. You can also use the carpet if you are more comfortable with it.

Keep trying and you'll eventually get it. Just make sure to close before you land so that you don't hurt yourself.

That means you don't have enough momentum and you should try pushing off harder. Also, bring your legs together as tightly as possible.

You will need to do a cartwheel and as you do it put your feet together to land.

A cartwheel is with your legs apart. A roundoff is beginning of a cartwheel, then putting your legs together while landing.

If you can do a normal cartwheel then it shouldn't take more than a week or so to learn a roundoff.

Let's say you're doing a roundoff: start with a long hurdle, don't go high, keep your hand by your ears at all times and your legs squeezed together, round out your back like an angry cat. When you're doing it, slightly turn in your right arm if you're using your left leg and left if you're doing your right. Make sure you push off your hands, popping from your shoulders. Keep your hands by your ears when you come up, snap your legs in to get good power, don't try to jump up, you should just bounce off the floor. This helps me -- my rebounds used to suck but now they're good and I can connect 7 handsprings as well as tucks.

Maybe just use some gymnastics chalk or something with the same base to keep you from slipping.

Keep your arms by your ears from start to finish. When you land, be sure you are in a tight hollow position and plant your feet so you do not fall.

You can practice calf raises. If you have a cheer mat, you can stand on the edge with your toes on the mat and your heels hanging off. Point your toes. When you do this, you will lock your knees. If you practice these often, they will become a habit and you will automatically lock your legs in the air. Be sure to keep your chest up as well.

Run as fast as you can, then hurdle and do a cartwheel, but. when both of your legs are in the air, put them together and keep them straight when you land.

Just bend the arms very little and bend your knees to a 90 degree angle and when you go to jump, act like you are kicking something and use your hands to jump while doing your handstand.

Make sure you push the knee that comes up outward, and don't let it come across your other foot.

First, start with a cartwheel. Then work your way up. When you first try a roundoff, do it with a spotter, who will help you keep your legs together.

A round off is a cartwheel but when you are about to land, you pull your legs together. A round off is basically a cartwheel.