Tutorial of Standing Arabian Front
The illustration below is a flow of a standing back full twist.
In reality, you don’t move that much(An illustration of each form is shifted to right).
Ways to Practice (Standing Arabian front)
① Prepare to jump
Preparing for jump in a standing Arabian front is the same as a standing back tuck until your upper body become vertical to the ground.
(cf. Tutorial of Standing Back Flip)
You should start twisting at the same time as you starts leaning back.
Twist only your upper body, your lower body should be facing forward(the same as back tuck).
The gap between your twisted upper body and your untwisted lower body initiates twisting in the air.
If you also twist your lower body, you cannot twist well and jump well neither.
Or, you may not need the notion of “twist”.
Like Arabian front flip, only to turn around and do a front flip with a half twist may be enough.
You should swing your arms over your head.
Don’t tilt your swing of arms.
Also, if you cannot help moving your feet to turn around, you should intend to look at your heels behind your back.
It is because if you move your heels, you cannot see your heels behind your back.
② Take off
At the moment of taking off, your upper body should be twisted slightly.
And your lower body should not be twisted and facing forward.
If you take off the ground with this form and position, you can twist in the air automatically.
If you twisted too much while you’re on the ground, you’d over-twist in the air.
③ In the air
Before you half-rotate(your legs are over your head), you should tuck.
If you delay the timing of tucking, you’d over-rotate.
To stop your twist in the air, you should tuck early.
Actually, twist continues while tucking and we cannot rotate straightly.
Therefore, there are some people who do asymmetric tucks to rotate straightly.
It may help you after you get used to practice this skill.
The followings are the same as front flip’s
④ Prepare for landing
After you rotate enough, you should prepare for landing.
If you rotate enough and continue to tuck, your face will be hit by the ground or by your knees.
Prepare for landing has 2 ways, which are the opposite to the way of increasing rotation.
The one is to make your form big.
And the other one is to loosen your muscles.
In these 2 ways, you can slow down your rotation speed.
Unlike a back flip, it is difficult to find out the ground.
Therefore, you have to try again and again to know the timing of landing.
⑤ Landing
Bend your knees slightly otherwise you may break your knees if you miss the timing of landing.
After your feet touch the ground, you should bend your knees more and absorb an impact of landing.
To stick your landing, you should utilize your arms properly.
(cf. How to stick your landing)