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Hi, my name is Virginia, and I'm here at Encore Gymnastics, and we are going to teach you
how to do a perfect cartwheel. It's really important to remember that whenever you do
any sort of gymnastics, you want to make sure you stretch out all your muscles. For a cartwheel,
some important muscles to stretch would be your wrist, so on your hand and knees, you
can stretch them back, flip them over flip them over stretch them forward. Always be
very careful with your muscles, you don't want to overstretch them and hurt yourself,
so get a nice stretch. And then we're also going to stretch our ankles, and you're also
going to want to stretch your Achilles with a nice heel stretch, over the top, hands down.
Some other muscles you're going to want to stretch are straddles, you're going to want
to stretch your hamstrings, straddle splits you can open those legs up nice and wide like
this, reaching in the middle; (very nice, and come up Amanda). Whenever you start your
cartwheel, you're going to want to start in a nice lunge, (so let's see a nice lunge).
It's important when you do a lunge, start stretched, and as you go in, you want to make
sure there's a straight line from your fingertips all the way down to your heel. As you go into
your cartwheel, you're going to turn your shoulders, push, kick this leg in back, push
off the front leg, through, hands down, nice big wide straddle, turn the hips, arms finish
up, again, nice straight line between your wrist to your ankle, and then finish. Can
we see that in full effect. Arms up, (come forward a little bit), nice lunge, big stretch,
over the top, push through the toes, finish arms up, and it's finished. And there is your
perfect cartwheel.