heelside roll to revert

blndside088 · Outlaw Joined: 22 Jul 2003 Posts: 110 City: South Carolina

aight, i been doing backrolls and stuff for a while now, and i can do many other inverts, but its just that roll to revert that gets, and its bugging the heck outa me. either i slip out, which i havent been doing latley cause i learned to pull the handle to my hip. but what happens now is i get about halfway through, let go off my front hand, and then it pull sme over the front? any ideas?

Sbt3 · Soul Rider Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Posts: 279 City: Okauchee

When you are going into the wake edge away from the boat more than you would a regular backroll. This will help to bring the board around and put you in a better postion to get over top of it. The hardest part is not skipping out which you say you have down. I am not sure why you would get pulled out the front, that doesn't happen to me. I have them down w2w now I am starting to try to take then to the flats. Try to rotated you back shoulder around that may help to not go out the front. good luck

blndside088 · Outlaw Joined: 22 Jul 2003 Posts: 110 City: South Carolina

thanks alot. ill def try that, i think ur right i dont edge away from the boat right, ive been trying to do a regular roll, then letting go off my hand. thanx again.

Nathan Newman · Addict Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Posts: 711 City: Baylor

yeah, I've been slipping out on these too

addicted2riding · Newbie Joined: 04 Aug 2003 Posts: 10 City: omaha, ne

when i first tried hitting a back roll, i was underrotating, that hurt. Then i found myself over rotating to revert. Once you release off the wake, look real hard over your left shoulder (if you ride regular) it will really get you around a lot quicker and you'll have a ton of time to spot your landing. Once you can get to that point you'll feel like you're doing a w2w 180. That's one trick you should already have down.