How to Apply a Gainer

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Summary: Watch an expert martial artist explain how to apply a gainer in this free video clip.

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Alfred Hsing Alfred Hsing is a UCLA grad that has trained martial arts for over 9 years. He has competed at tournaments nationally and internationally. Currently a member ... read more

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Anybody who does a gainer to avoid a car or bat is an idiot.

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How to Apply a Gainer

OK so before we get into the gainer let's take a look at some of the applications. There are a few martial applications and also other applications in terms of stunting and tricking. When you're able to get the momentum or to do the gainer, you can use it for various purposes. One is while you're moving forward, you can obviously do a gainer, which is a jump motion that rotates you in the air, and then lands while you still move forward. So again, although this is a more flashy or vivid movement, you can still avoid, dodge objects that are coming at you while you're still moving forward and rotating backwards, to either have a vehicle or a bat or something swing under you while you're flipping under it. Just a few various applications you can use for it. Also, from a stand still, if you perhaps, if you crouch down and someone's approaching you, you can also do a gainer and be able to kick someone in the face or in the jaw or chin or various different locations as they approach. You're also able to kick an object behind you or upwards in the sky. So there are definitely different applications you can use to do a gainer, but predominantly it may be used in films or in the stunt industry to do a movement that is more exciting to watch or something that is flashier to see. And now we'll take you in a further look into some of the differences of a gainer and a back tuck. But before we go into the differences, there's a few things that we need to take a look at next and they include warnings and spacing and other kind of requirements that you need to do and take a look at before we go into the actual differences.