Arabian handspring (Floor Exercise)

Oksana Omelianchik – 1985 World Championship Event Final

Event
Floor exercise

Skill type
Hand support

Value
A

Known as
Arabian handspring
Jump 1/2 to front handspring
Floor Onodi

About
You’re unlikely to see this element outside the 1980s, when a hummingbird-quick series of complicated back handspring variations was all the rage. Probably done in back-to-back rebounding tumbling passes too. What a time.

It’s basically a floor Onodi, just that you’re expected to be a little more reboundy out of it because of floor, so it has to finish with a front handspring instead of a front walkover.

Because gymnastics is a comedy, not a drama