Learn Gymnastics Online - Animated Guides

If you're trying to learn gymnastics online, these animated guides should help you improve your technique. I mainly focus on floor exercises, and my main sport is actually wushu—but a basic understanding of artistic gymnastics has really helped me. And that’s what this guide is for.

I don't have any Olympic-level advice for you, just practical stuff I’ve learned and practiced myself. I’m also planning to add some progression videos, so you can follow along more easily.

Start with the basics: handstands, then rolls, move on to handsprings, and eventually flips. Take it step by step, and train safely.

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Floor Exercise

Handstands & Planches
- Gymnastic Handstand
- Handstand Hop
- Handstand Turn
- Handstand Bridge
- Straddle Handstand
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Rolls
- Front Roll
- Forward Pike Roll
- Dive Roll
- Pike Roll (Handstand to Front Roll with Straight Legs)
- Back Roll
- Back Roll to Handstand
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Bridges & Walkovers
- Back-Bend to Bridge
- Front Walkover
- Back Walkover
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Handsprings & Cartwheel Variations
- Cartwheel
- Round-Off / Rondat
- Headspring / Flip Flop
- Front Handspring
- Front Handspring Stepout
- Flyspring
- Back Handspring / Flic Flac
- Back Handspring Stepout
- Back Handspring Belly-Landing
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Front Flips
- Front Flip (Tucked)
- Front Flip Back Crash (Wushu)
- Front Flip Layout
- Front Flip Stepout
- Front Flip Half Twist / Barani
- Front Flip Full Twist
- Double Front Flip
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Back Flips
- Back Tuck / Tucked Back Flip
- Back Flip Layout
- Flashkick
- Flashkick Layout
- Back Flip Half Twist
- Back Flip Full Twist
- Double Back Flip
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Other Floor Drills
- Butterfly
- Tong Bei
- No-Handed Cartwheel
- No-Handed Cartwheel Twist
- Frontwhip
- Frontwhip Stepout

The Vault

Basics
- Exercise 1 – Knees on Table
- Exercise 2 – Feet on Table
- Exercise 3 – Tiger / Cat Vault
- Exercise 4 – Handstand Fall
Front Handspring

High Bar

Swinging Basics
High Bar Handstand

Parallel Bars

Support Position
Support Swing

Pommel Horse

Double-Leg Circle
Flair / Thomas Flair

Balance Beam

Back Handspring Twist

Training Extras

To learn gymnastics online, use these bonus drills to build strength and improve technique:

Eccentric Bodyweight Exercises
Handstand Alignment Drills
Twisting
Trampoline Round-Off
Water-Based Jumping Practice
Build Your Own Springboard

Advice for Learning Gymnastics at Home

Practice your handstand daily to improve balance and posture.
Follow the listed order: start with handstands → rolls → walkovers → handsprings → flips.
Always warm up and stretch.
Use mats, trampolines, or springboards when possible for safer training.