What is it called in Gymnastics..?

Question

its this thing that gymnasts do on beam and they do a back handspring. and then the sorta twist and turn. when done right there really really pretty.

Answer 1

i think you thinking of an onodi :) it starts as a back handspring and turns into a front handspring in the middle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmlAb5Xjd...

its in this video :)

you could be thinking of the "worley" aswell, there are a couple of back handspring tricks with twists

Answer 2

well there are many twists that a gymnast can do after a back handspring... there are arabians which is a half turn followed by a front tuck (while in air) arabian doubles (double front tuck), arabian piked (piked position front sumi) arabian half,full, one and a half, double( straight body arabian with twist) arabian layout (straight body) then there are normal back sumis, back tuck, back pike, back layout, half, full , one and a half, double twists and then there are combinations... maybe double back, maybe full in and back out (back full twist followed by a back tuck/pike/layout in mid air) double twist double back and many more variations

Answer 3

Pommel horse?

Here's a list of other gymnastics apparatus:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Gy...