All-Star How Old Were You When You Threw Your First Back Handspring? Full?

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Back Handspring: 14 (just a couple months ago!!)
Running handspring: 14 (literally a day after i got my standing)
Tuck? Hopefully Soon :)
 
I got my BHS at around 8 or 9. Getting that was a huge struggle, I had a mental block from the start. Through out many mental blocks I managed to get my layout, standing tuck, jumps to tuck, and other level four skills but this past season, my senior year, I refused to throw anything. They like to call me difficult :D haha tumbling was never my thing. My younger sister on the other hand, got her handspring at 6 or 7 and her full at 13 ish.
 
My CP got her bhs at 11 which to me was pretty impressive because the previous year she couldn't even do a forward roll. After injuries and a couple of severe mental blocks she now has a layout and started working on fulls at 15.
 
I'm definitely the type of person that needs progression to learn things. Slowly but surely I'm getting my elite tumbling skills. It didn't really click for me until I knew I needed a skill to secure my spot on my team. I worked to fix all of my bad habits I learned when I was younger and push for my full.

Back handspring: 8

Roundoff handspring tuck: 11 (I got this one by accidentally doing a really high back handspring. Not the most conventional, but I've had it ever since.)

Standing tuck: 11

Layout: 13 (I just ended up piking over my tucks until they were laid out enough. I needed to go back and fix them to make them twistable.)

Full: 15, a couple weeks ago so it isn't the most consistent.


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I overlooked the full part of the question, but I got my full when I was 12 or 13. I would've gotten it sooner if I didn't have mental block issues.
 
Back Handspring: First threw it on my eleventh birthday (New Year's Eve 2010) and I never threw it again until October of 2012, so I was twelve when I got it consistent. Then I got my round-off tuck this past March (2013) so I got it while I was thirteen. Hopefully I'll get my roundoff handspring tuck at thirteen too ;)
 
BHS/Tuck: 13. I got both the first year I started cheering.
Layout: 14.
Full(ish): 18. First started them when I was 14, and by the time I retired, I was landing them maybe once every 10 times. Pure luck. I also landed 2 to fulls before I landed running fulls. Just not my thing, I guess!
 
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