Good backflip dayz

commit and huck? im guessing your either not doing one of the two.

commit and rotate maybe a lil faster deending on the jump

you need to have bent knees and pop with the lip, and then keep looking back for your landing. if you dont pop with the lip and you just throw it its more likey you'll stall out and land on your chest.

was the jump big?

20 30 foot.

sounds good, but what was the lip like, in other words did it look like it was posible to make the rotation,.

you need to watch the top rated video. u can learn how to do them there

Backflips are simple once you get the feel for them, they are just really scary at first. Now that you got your first few out of the way you need to stop and completely relax before you toss one. When you are scared you just sling em and you cant spot shit.

1.Come up to the jump with enough speed to hit transition (that way if you totally spooch it you might not get hurt)
2. Have your arms down by your side you'll be needing them in a minute. Try to get "stacked as possible" arms out in front, legs slightly bent, head looking striaght ahead.
3. Now your riding up the lip, pop very lightly and lean back, as you are doing this raise your arms up it really helps not to stall the rotation when you are first learning them.

When you are airborne start looking back as far as you can, hopefully at this point you can see where you are in the air. If you arn't coming around fast enough grab your ankles and pull them around or just tuck up your knees you'll start rotating a lot faster. If you think you are going to overrotate, frog your legs (point your knees at each other and flex your abs, it slows it down a lot but don't stop spotting)

Once you stomp a couple they will start feeling a lot smoother and more natural, I remeber when I first started tossing em I couldn't spot anything or know what was going on in the air so I just tried to time everything (that sucks). Now that I'm completely comfortable in the air I can see the ground the whole time and everything is slowed down (maybe the whole going bigger thing is helping with that)

Thats about it, you can't teach someone how to do them, you can give pointers but ultimately they need to be relaxed and willing to take a few hits in the process.