Acro Terminology

The artistic use of bending, twisting, rotating, balancing, and stretching movements to perform skills.

The artistic use of acrobatics and tumbling skill combined with dance and usually performed to music.

skills requiring controlled movements, utilizing a normal amount of flexibility.

Skills requiring an unusually supple and flexible body, often stretching the body beyond its normal limitations.

A circular sideways handspring with the arms and legs extended.

When the body is turned heels over head with the back of the neck resting on the ground.

When the body is rolled backwards, by crouching on the ground and lifting one's legs complete over one's head and lifting the head at the end.

When the body is arched backwards and downwards from an upright position until the hands touch the floor or arched upwards from a supine position, using the hands and feet for support.

A move starting in a lunge going into a split handstand and continues to walk over and step out onto the feet.

A move starting and finishing on the feet and made by lifting one leg, arching back into and passing through a handstand position by bringing one foot, then the other over the top and stepping down from the handstand into a lunge.