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  2. Backbend - Wikipedia

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    A backbend is a gymnastics, contortion, dance and ice skating move, where the spine is bent backwards, and catching oneself with the hands. Throughout the move, the abdominal muscles, obliques, and legs are used to steady the performer while curving backwards. Modern yoga includes some backbending asanas. Backbending can be acquired from ...

  3. Glossary of gymnastics terms - Wikipedia

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    Cassina Kovacs straight with 1/1 turn; named after Igor Cassina. Chestroll This skill to bend the back. It is also called a chin stand. Cartwheel The maneuver where one moves sideways, from hands to feet, in a straight line (in the motion that the wheel of a cart would follow), while keeping the back, arms, and legs straight, and the feet pointed.

  4. Contortion - Wikipedia

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    Frontbend - Any pose that features an unusual degree of frontward bending of the waist and/or spine, either with the legs together or parted. Front split (also called: stride split) - A split in which one leg is extended frontward and the other leg is extended backward, both at right angles to the trunk. Ideally, the hips are square facing to ...

  5. Flip (acrobatic) - Wikipedia

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    Aerial – The knees are unbent, with legs in a forward or side split and aligned on the rotational plane, resulting in a front aerial or side aerial, respectively. Tuck – The legs are together with the knees fully bent and drawn to the chest , and the hands clutch the knees or are otherwise held close to the body.

  6. Hypermobility (joints) - Wikipedia

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    Hypermobility, also known as double-jointedness, describes joints that stretch farther than normal. [2] For example, some hypermobile people can bend their thumbs backwards to their wrists and bend their knee joints backwards, put their leg behind the head or perform other contortionist "tricks".

  7. A year after a 'catastrophic' leg injury, gymnast Brody ... - AOL

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    A year after a 'catastrophic' leg injury, gymnast Brody Malone is back and maybe better than ever. WILL GRAVES. May 31, 2024 at 2:15 PM. ... he botched the end of a tumbling run and bent awkwardly ...

  8. Korbut flip - Wikipedia

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    The Korbut flip is a gymnastics skill performed on either of two different apparatus. Both were first performed internationally by the Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut. [1]The more spectacular version of the skill used to be performed on the uneven bars, where the gymnast, from a stand on the high bar, performs a back flip and regrasps the bar.

  9. Auburn University gymnast breaks both legs during competition

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    Auburn University senior Samantha Cerio, 22, was attempting a handspring double front on the first tumbling pass of her floor routine when she landed awkwardly, dislocating both knees and breaking ...