Body positions Somersaults may be performed with different positions, including tucked, piked (bent at the hips), straddled, and layout (straight body). Somersaults are often completed with twists. Arabian saltos begin backwards, continue with a half twist to forwards, and end with one or more saltos forwards. They can be trained by beginning with an Arabian dive roll and adding a front salto to it. They are counted as front tumbling in
women's artistic gymnastics and back tumbling in
men's artistic gymnastics.
Multiple rotations By 2003, the tucked double back salto had become common in women's gymnastics. The triple back salto exists in men's gymnastics but was rarely competed until 2017. In 2019, American gymnast
Simone Biles was the first woman to complete a back triple double: two saltos backwards with three twists in a tucked position on the floor. The skill was first performed four decades (1964) earlier in
Trampoline Gymnastics – where the skill is named a "miller", after its creator Wayne Miller. Subsequent skills have since been coined: "miller plus" (or "killer")—double somersault with four twists throughout—and "miller plus plus" (or "thriller")—double somersault with five twists throughout. == See also ==