When the spine is bent backwards, it is in an arch.  The arch is used in hundreds of skills, and must be as strong a position as its opposite, the Hollow.  Many skills involve an arch position in one phase or another.  Often, the arch should be felt in the upper back, as opposed to the lower back.

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• Aerial

• Arch

• Back Extension Roll

• Back Handspring

• Back Limber

• Back Tuck

• Back Walkover

• Backward Roll

• Bridge

• Cartwheel

• Forward Roll

• Front Flyspring

• Front Handspring

• Front Handspring Stepout

• Front Limber

• Front Tuck

• Front Walkover

• Handstand

• Handstand Forward Roll

• Hollow

• Lunge

• Pike

• Piked Forward Roll

• Round Off

• Straddle

• Straddle Forward Roll

• Tuck