a small backroll ?

[mrmike]

Hi guys,

and sorry - I presented more or less this question already in common discussion forum, I should have done it here instead.

My boat is just a 5 meter boat with 50 hp 4S outboard with 200 kg's of extra weigh. So this means no huge wake there!

I can pull quite nice and high jumps, also 180's and 360's, backscrathers etc. I'm determined to accomplish my first invert now.

Now, I've been trying to do a very small (and fast - kind aggressive) back roll as I have once seen a experienced guy doing this with a small wake.

First, I'm not 100 % sure about the name of this trick but some one said it's back roll.

I've learned from web that a back roll can be done small but I have only seen videos taken from big and airy backrolls.

I'm now trying this in following way:
-closing wake carving with heelside deep in water
-looking over front shoulder for landing spot
-just at wake I'm bowing my upper body forward to begin a fast backroll
being as a rather small package
-trying to keep the handle in the middle of this package

After trying this for 30-50 times my back behind the forward shoulder is completely black because of water shots...

I'm not giving in cause it's so close. The driver says I could have made it couple of times if I just didn't let the handle.

Is it really a small backroll that I'm trying and describing above?

Any comments or hints on this....?

I'll appreciaty any thoughts or help!

Thanks,
mike

[Fredrick Eisenhauer]

Some time i board behind an even smaller boat then urs (4m 30hp and about 125-150 kgs of weight) and i can nearly land them my board is hitting the water well b4 my body on a good one. ALl you hafta do is throw it real fast, you could even try and half arse it by starting it b4 u even release, you hafta be carfeful though so you dont develope bad habits.