looking for a word in Spanish

[MaineGirl]

"back hand-spring"

[ricktoronto]

mano-resorte reverso, possibly.

NB: It's two words, three minus the hyphen

[Hillbilly]

Salto mortal al revés

Or "voltereta de mano al revés "

I think any Spanish speaker would recognize the former and gymnastics people wouold probably get the second.

Love from here, whee the rains are now in their forth day...pouring, pouring.

HB

[MaineGirl]

Thanks, thanks!

In class this week we did New YEar's resolutions....and that is one girl's resolution, to perfect this manuever.

I said the quick way to find an answer is to post on DR1.

And I was right.

[Mr_DR]

Originally Posted by MaineGirl

"back hand-spring"

You are talking about palm spring
cocotal primaveral.

[2dlight]

...resorte hacia atras. Salto mortal would be a back tuck(flip with no hand placement on the floor). Hope this helps.

Carlos-Head Coach, Gymnastics Pacifica, Ca.

[Hillbilly]

But the dictionary I consulted after I wrote 'salto mortal' (which I knew was in a tuck position, BTW), gave the first translation for "Handspring" as salto mortal and the 'voltereta' as the second.

I have not been near gymnastics for a long time, and "resorte" makes sense, for sure, so it may well be used for all I know. I have not seen any of my gymnastics people to consult on this

Oh yeah, Simon and Schuster's International Dictionary

HB

Thinking a bit further on this: This may well be one of those occasions where Spanish does not have the same flexibility as English. A back handspring can be in any one of three positions-lay-out, pike or tuck--and I honestly do not have that vocabulary on the tip of my tongue...

[Texas Bill]

venerable Spanish speaker!!

Who said Spanish was EASY?????? Even the native speakers have trouble. LOL

Texas Bill

[2dlight]

Originally Posted by Hillbilly

But the dictionary I consulted after I wrote 'salto mortal' (which I knew was in a tuck position, BTW), gave the first translation for "Handspring" as salto mortal and the 'voltereta' as the second.

I have not been near gymnastics for a long time, and "resorte" makes sense, for sure, so it may well be used for all I know. I have not seen any of my gymnastics people to consult on this

Oh yeah, Simon and Schuster's International Dictionary

HB

Thinking a bit further on this: This may well be one of those occasions where Spanish does not have the same flexibility as English. A back handspring can be in any one of three positions-lay-out, pike or tuck--and I honestly do not have that vocabulary on the tip of my tongue...

After reading this post I just "had" to consult a dictionary.It listed "voltereta" as handspring(not back handspring) first, and "salto" second. I prefer to use the terminology that USA Gymnastics (our national governing body) uses. BTW I just came back from Bela Karolyi's National Team Training Center in Huntsville, Texas where one of my athletes was training with the national staff. There was no confusion as to what a back-handspring was. The coaches from Argentina,Bulgaria, Dominican Republic,Guatemala and Ex-Soviet Block Satellites all agreed.

[Hillbilly]

RESORTE will be the term for handspring...

No sweat...

Thanks Carlos and congrats for having one of your kids at the National Training Center, I happen to know that it is not easy to achieve.

Cordially,

HB