round-off (redondilla)

Contexto del término In the last decade came this modality to perform, in the last part of the impetus, the hurdle onto springboard too, by executing the round-off. This modality has the advantage that gymnast’s body lay in a position favorable for backward handspring. The most important moment is the handspring on the apparatus, that should be done exactly in handstand (vertically forward), the arms placed as an extension of the torso in order to make possible the support reaction through body’s centre of gravity (CGC). From this specific moment, all variants of handspring vaults can be performed (tucked, piked, stretched, 360º, 540º, 720º or 900º twist) (Vieru, 1997). These vaults belong to the 4th group called Yurchenko (Smolevskij, Goverdovskij, 1999).