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What is the advantage of training a back walkover starting with one leg up?
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Just one slight addition. By keeping the weight on the back foot, it helps the walkover go straight on the beam instead of off toward the gymnast's less dominant side. i.e. a righty falls off to their left.
Can you expand on this? I'm not disagreeing, but I've done a lot of back walkovers on beam in my life and I'm not sure this is my personal experience. I think I'd be more likely to fall off to the left. Or equally as likely. That's hypothetical, but when I was less experienced.
When I did gym back in the 80's (giving away the fact I am old) starting with the leg up was standard and I believe that was how USAG had the skill written to be done. As a matter of fact at my gym a prerequisite to move from level 5 to 6 was a back walk over with the leg lifted to 90 degrees done slowly to a full 180 degree split in the air to a needle scale finishing in arabesque also 90 degrees. It held up a lot of kids. Although it was an elite gym and the move up standards were very high. Now USAG just wants the leg straight, pointed toes on the floor of the kicking leg, which is probably good as 99.999% of the kids could probably not do leg up until optional levels. I do miss seeing it though, it was beautiful!