Backflips

DaveBrowning · Posted: Mar 02, 2003 6:23 pm Post subject: Backflips

How do you do backflips on a trampoline!!?? I cannot figure it out! I tried like all afternoon. I kept going way off to the side... never right over the top. I really need some help!!

BoardC3 · Soul Rider Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 380 City: Ithaca, NY

look straight up as if you were trying to look behind you and keep youre head pointing the way you want to go. jump and then throw it, DO NOT throw it as your jumping

DaveBrowning · Posted: Mar 02, 2003 7:18 pm Post subject:

i think that's my problem... trying to throw as i'm jumping. that and i'm a little afraid i'm gonna like land on my head or something!! Laughing

Jerry · Posted: Mar 02, 2003 7:21 pm Post subject:

It's not easy to land on your head. You are probably throwing you head to one side a bit so you can see our landing earlier, maybe a security thing, thats what I used to do as well. just think about throwing your head straight back

J_DOGG · Posted: Mar 03, 2003 9:06 am Post subject:

You want to be at the peak of your jump before you throw your head back....
Bounce a few times to get a feel for when that is and then when you bounce again wait as long as you can before you huck your head back...

I find reaching like I was doing a grab helps me wait for the height you need for a smooth flip.

If you try to flip as you are going up, the tramp will throw you off if you are not careful.

PEACE

wakeboarder_360 · Posted: Mar 11, 2003 9:38 am Post subject:

It also helps to have someone spot you because it will give you alot more confidence. If you have someone spot you correctly there is now way that you will land on your head. throwing your arms straight up and setting will help u stay centered on the trampoline.

Gbgonzal138 · Addict Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 887

toothpick · Posted: Mar 22, 2003 10:08 pm Post subject:

The key point already made that I agree with, is to lead with your head. But some people have to conciously think: First you will see sky, then the upside down world around you, then the tramp, then the world right side up again.

I've seen many people look down at the tramp right after seeing the sky and that stops their rotation. Good Luck! And make sure you post when you stick it, so we can stop replying Wink

wakeboarder_360 · Posted: Mar 31, 2003 4:38 pm Post subject:

I find if you grab your knees or just under your knees and pull them into your chest it will speed up the rotation . I used to just throw my head back and curve my back but then I got help at a gym. Now I can do them standing on floor. If you go to just an open gym the people there are usually really helpful and you can learn it very fast. Once you get it it doesn't feel much different then a normal jump unless you do it layout.

Eander · Posted: Jul 04, 2003 12:33 am Post subject:

Ok, I have a fairly small trampoline, I need to know how how to do a backflip without moving too far from my origional position, any help?

criminally_minded · Posted: Jul 04, 2003 1:23 am Post subject:

Push your chest out as you throw your head back, that should keep you from going backwards.

And don't throw it straight off the jump, wait a little.

numbfoot · Posted: Jul 12, 2003 11:03 am Post subject:

I couldn't do them either, i would get scared and go sideways. Then i just went balls out and tried it and i stuck it first time. It will also help to do it off of a raised up dock, or off the tube part of a floating trampoline. I can jump and do them and over-rotate them onto my back off of our friend's floating trampoline that's probably3 or 4 ft off the water.
Just remember to look straight back and not move your head to the side(i used to do that cuz i thought i would land on my head.)

and most important, make sure u get high eanough.

I don't want my post count to move Puppy Eyes

Kaizer · Newbie Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 16

Just learn it on a diving board first and then onto a trampoline.

hundel · Criminal Joined: 25 Apr 2003 Posts: 93

Idea - if your point is to learn the rotation for wakeboarding, and you don't have a board on your feet, find someone with a pool. Take your handle and tie it on to something off to the side of the diving board. Hold the handle tight to your center as you cartwheel off into the water. The downside is you're probably not going to do backwards rotation, but in the end, even the forward cartwheel felt a lot more like the rotation in wakeboarding than the tramp (spin like you do in wakeboard backroll but moving in the other direction). It seemed much less dangerous than jumping on a tramp with a board and a rope, and you learn what works as far as line tension, etc. Works for 360s too.

homewardbound · Newbie Joined: 06 Mar 2004 Posts: 5

This seems like a great way to practice on a trampoline: Bounce Board - http://www.funspot.com/trampoline_bounce_board.html

finkle · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 4067

homewardbound, yeah, I disagree. You can't position your feet like you want to on the board, thus making it uncomfortable and therefore possible to cause more injuries simply do to having to adjust how you might do some tricks. Plus, that's not worth 100 bucks....try selling it for 20 and see what kind of response you get.

ben · Outlaw Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 168 City: Pasco

i fell off my trampoline doing a backflip yesterday.........up, not back

J_DOGG · Posted: Mar 08, 2004 9:24 am Post subject:

homewardbound, cost too much coin......as mentioned above....

I would use a ska8 deck and duck tape my (old) shoes in my stance before I would buy something like that.

sorry, that's just my opinion.

pooser · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 4738

homewardbound, hahaha your killing me your trying to act like thats not your product. but when you have five posts advertising the same thing people tend to notice.

J_DOGG · Posted: Mar 26, 2004 9:09 am Post subject:

Eander, If you go up first then lead with the head you will land right where you took off from. I bounce right in the center with two hands on the handle like I'm cutting in on my HS edge, on my second bounce I square up with one hand on the handle just like you would off the wake. Once square wait to go up before you lead with the head and you will land right where you took off. if you jump even slightly to the edge of the tramp it will shoot you across as you mention even if you lead with the head that's just the physics of the tramp.

I only do a few tricks on the tramp where I take off from either edge of the tramp, my crow mobe blind landing. and most of the off axis stuff I do. I find for the TS off 5 it works best for me to jump from the edge I'm facing so I bounce slightly back to the center of the tramp. This too me feels the most like the kick the wake gives and really shoots my hips out and up behind me.

I LOVE TRAMP TRAINING!