TS Backroll

AbsoluteRida · Outlaw Joined: 24 May 2004 Posts: 156 City: Atl

I can do a hs backroll. i am learning tantrums and almost have scarecrows and frontroll but i have yet to try a ts backroll because people act like it is so hard. But i am goin out tommorow and i was wonderin if i am supposed to take a progressive edge and do i just huck it or what??? Any tips will help thanks..

midwest wake · Addict Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Posts: 629 City: Middleton

if your still working on tantrums and to front variations inconsistatly, you probably shouldn't overload and try another.

i'm working on trhis trick too.
Idealy you should be able to do it as a reentry. just stand in the trough and try the ts back.

wtbamoomba · Addict Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 808 City: raleigh

ts backrolls scare me because i dont want to underrotate and dig my nose

jpminter · Posted: Sep 15, 2005 11:06 am Post subject:

"Digging your nose" on backrolls really isn't bad. Because of your rotation, it really just stops your body it doesn't whip it.

natxbrotha · Criminal Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 68

i reccomend trying as many new tricks as you can, and the ones you are getting close on, work on them a little more than the ones you arent close on til you start landing them. trying new things will overall help you progress fast.

for the ts backroll you have to take a progressive edge all the way into the wake. this is an edge trick, not a trip flip. you dont huck it either. edge, pop off the top of the wake, then look straight back. imagine you could look straight down your spine. the landings are the tricky part on this. if you leave the wake too early you will come up short and under rotate. if you leave the wake at the top but start to initiate the flip portion of the trick too late you will come up short. it needs to be an equality of the two. pop off the top then initiate your rotation. keeping the handle close to your body will speed up the flip as well. on the landing try to push the handle behind you and look up to shore line and bend at the waist to help get you over your toes. good luck.