Tsukahara (vault)

The Tsukahara can refer to a specific vault and a family of vaults in artistic gymnastics.

A Tsukahara vault consists of a half turn off the springboard onto the vault table, then a push backwards, usually into a back salto or layout.

[1] In Japanese, this technique is known as a "Moonsault".

[2] Any vault that has a handspring with 1/4 - 1/2 turn onto the vault table into a salto backwards is classified as a Tsukahara vault.

Some variations on the Tsukahara vaults include:

Petro Pakhnyuk competing a Tsukahara vault at the 2020 Summer Olympics