HS FrontFLip Problems- Wierd Spin/Flip

Lantzvillian

Hey there,
I went out yesterday feeling quite gutsy and I was like I can do slims on a tramp why not a hs front on the water. I took an easy cut - mid sized actually. A progressive hard edge in and poped and threw it down. I tried it for about an hour. Today my bum feels like its been beaten with a stick. I get to the three quarter point and see the water, but it doesn't fee right so I chuck the handle and land on the board sometimes. At the mid point of the flip you'll see in the pic it looks like an ugly off axis three. Suggestions please. Very Happy

K-wood Kid · Posted: Jun 27, 2005 11:00 am Post subject:

Keep the handle even between your hips and close to your waist and keep your front ear on your lead shoulder. You might be ducking your chin so you flip funny like a really mexican backroll. As you cut in have extra weight on your back foot then transfer it to your front as you hit the wake and cartwheel!!!!!

Lantzvillian · Posted: Jun 27, 2005 11:12 am Post subject:

yah I sort of throw my body over my front knee. So your saying cart wheel like and keep my chest facing the boat sort of right?

K-wood Kid · Posted: Jun 27, 2005 5:34 pm Post subject:

http://forums.wakeboarder.com/viewtopic.php?t=44221

gohuge · Newbie Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 10

The biggest thing I see is that your not staying far enough on your edge!
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You need to go side to side and big for the front. You should be cutting almost as hard as a raley but just not as long (you don't need to be as far out when you start your cut for the front).
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Once you get enough cut you will feel alot more rope to hang on to and pull on then you are feeling now. That's why your falling away instead of being blown up out of the water.
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The front in one of those tricks that when done right really launches you up and out of the water AFTER you come off of the wake. The wake should help you get tension and help you get stuck to create that tension, but the majority of the air you get will come from the board being pitched up over your shoulder after you come off of the wake.

Tony

gohuge · Newbie Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 10

Ohh and I just noticed in the photo... Keep both hands ON the rope all the way thru the trick, you will need both hands to handle the tension that you will create when the trick is started correctly (at least for the begining of the trick, once you get the trick you can let go after or right at the point when you go completely inverted).

Tony

toothpick · Posted: Jun 29, 2005 10:57 am Post subject:

Do everything gohuge says. There's also the mental aspect. The flip will rotate slower than on your tramp. Give it time and let your legs get above your body without trying to get your head back up right away. That should help you keep your body taller all the way through the move.