👉 Roll Over Bridge (Tinsica's) - The 4-Step's I Use to Build Them Out

Let's talk about the Roll Over Bridge (rolling Tinsica) — one of the trickier skills to teach well.

Here's the thing most teachers run into — they start their students from standing. The problem?

Standing up tends to make their legs go up too high, and they end up looking more like a cartwheel than a bridge.

So in this teacher tutorial I show you how to teach it from the knees instead.

Knee to knee is actually harder than foot to foot — but it's the position students NEED to learn to find that arched-back bridge shape.

I take my student Lauren through all four steps:

✅ Step 1 — Bridge Inside Out

✅ Step 2 — Jumping into the Bridge

✅ Step 3 — Dart out the first leg out going into the Bridge

✅ Step 4 — Put it together: Go for it! (not landing in the Bridge)

📌 Before you even start this progression — check the bridge inside out. If your student can't do a linear bridge inside out, they will struggle with roll over bridge. That's your prerequisite.

📌 Watch the legs. Bent, relaxed legs put so much pressure on the low back. We want them straight and strong.

📌 And shoulders over wrists — always. This is a bridge, not a handstand. If your student doesn't have the shoulder flexibility for a proper bridge, they won't get this trick.

Take a look and let me know which step your students tend to get stuck on — I'd love to hear how it's going in your classes!

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