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PostPosted: Aug 18, 2006 10:20 pm    Post subject: are backrolls easy? Reply with quote

Are backrolls easy or somethin? I see a lot of intermediate riders talking about them, it seems like they must be easy or something. Can any 1 telll me?
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PostPosted: Aug 18, 2006 10:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes
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PostPosted: Aug 18, 2006 10:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

really? is it just like i think it is? like cuttin in, goin off the wake, then doin a back flip?
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PostPosted: Aug 18, 2006 10:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's actually a reverse cartwheel. I've tried a few this season and have taken a beating. Some find tantrums easier to do than backrolls but it's your call.
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PostPosted: Aug 18, 2006 10:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

is a tantrum just like a front flip?
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PostPosted: Aug 19, 2006 5:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

wakedjs679 wrote:
is a tantrum just like a front flip?


Its a heelside backflip.

Check it out... http://www.wakeboarder.com/tricks/tantrum.phtml
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PostPosted: Aug 19, 2006 9:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anyone have a good backroll video? I've been thinkin of tryin them but have yet to see any really good examples.
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PostPosted: Aug 19, 2006 10:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

edge through the wake and you will go that way lean to the right and put your head on your shoulder get through the flip Smile
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PostPosted: Aug 19, 2006 2:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

if a tantrum is a heelside backflip then wut the hell is a backroll
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PostPosted: Aug 19, 2006 2:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

QNev wrote:
It's actually a reverse cartwheel.


It's not quite a flip, It's more of a roll to the side

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PostPosted: Aug 19, 2006 2:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

o ok
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PostPosted: Aug 19, 2006 10:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

here watch my backroll videos there very easy i learned then im twenty minutes today

http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g71/thekpan/?action=view&current=100_0404.flv

http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g71/thekpan/?action=view&current=100_0409.flv

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PostPosted: Aug 20, 2006 12:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

haha wut was the first trick in the first video?
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PostPosted: Aug 20, 2006 7:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

a suicide where you wave your arms around lol i think its funny i dont go big and try it though its to scary
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PostPosted: Aug 20, 2006 11:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Its only easy when you can do it Laughing
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