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Pool flips?

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toominator
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anyone practise flips off the dive boards at the pool?

i dont have a tramp so would this be a good alternative or is it a bad idea to be landing bad onto water?
Feb 23 2007 2:35AM
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MatRich
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I love it, and try to do it as much as possible. yah its more painfull messing up than on a trampoline but that helps you build up nerves. i find it good to get air sense for mistys and corks.... I even tried double lincoln loop to get more balls and if I had a 12 food diving board I would like to go for a kangaroo flip or something like that. now I want to go diving
May 31 2009 6:29PM
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Magnetic
Posts: 845 - Karma: 229
Ya I just came in from doing some diving, but I can really only do froward momentum tricks like that other guy. Front flips, Misty 9s, Bio 9s, normal 10's, grabbed out flat 5's, bio 5s and bio 7s of the side. I wana learn backflips but my body wont let me.  
May 31 2009 6:42PM
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cjcantor87
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i don't have a diving board. but I can still frontflip pretty easily. I can't do licolns instead I spin and land on my back. It hurts so bad.
May 31 2009 6:50PM
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onearmwanderer
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most people call em arials (sp?)
May 31 2009 6:51PM
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special_k10101
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wow, i have no idea how to spin on diving boards...
i always just flail
i can only do like a 7 or misty 7
my friend can cork 12 off a diving board though

but i learned backflips by running in on the diving board then pivoting to a backflip, it's a little less scary because you clear the board by a lot more.  just look over your head really.

gainers are my favorite though
May 31 2009 7:02PM
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Freeskim@n
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Lincoln 540 and front 540 are my best and favorites trick. very slow lincoln are so cool and i think its like skiing for them.
May 31 2009 7:03PM
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50in07
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I have a pool so i do a lot

May 31 2009 9:06PM
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james44
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i dont know why the claiming started here but if everyone else is i guess i can also...
i can cork 12 mute both ways and double gainer from just standing and double front and rodeo 9  and im working on kangaroo flips and double corks..
May 31 2009 9:35PM
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Luc.
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yea mad fun. got a nice bio 7 in my videos from a few years back.
May 31 2009 10:00PM
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deleted5
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as a competitive diver of 12 years it really only help with my flips and fast spins but I can't grab and it did not help with cork or rodeos it dose give you a good feel for where you are in the air though
May 31 2009 10:39PM
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nick_GAPER
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im pretty much at the local pool avery day going off the boards, so much fun to try stuff with little consequence
Jun 1 2009 1:24AM
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[_KyLe_]
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i just like going to the dive platforms and doing huge gainers and stuff, gainering a 10m platform is such an epic feeling

Jun 1 2009 2:50AM
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Newschool_Pope
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its so fun going off of divingboards. i made so much progression on them. tricks like 9s become relatively easy, because from the board you can get alot of grip. i wanna learn a kangaroo flip by the end of summer. im at a double lincoln atm. ive stomped double fronts from 1 meter high. they feel really strange. you just try to roll yourself together as tight as possible. and then you see everything around you  just spinning past. the hardest part with tricks in a pool is actually getting the mindset and not be afraid.
however doing a running backflip is harder from a divingboard then on skis, but dont ask me why XD
i think divingboards are the best in summer, for people like me who dont have a garden.
they ahve helped my progression alot. wanna upload a video soon. so check it once ive uploaded it.
peace guys
Jun 1 2009 6:46AM
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forrestisthabomb
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my bro can do double fronts double backs and a misty to backflip
Jun 1 2009 1:37PM
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AC_breezy
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haha i can do it off the side of  the pool and on the tramp
Jun 1 2009 3:06PM
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theblacktaco
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ur not talking about a backyard board are you ?
Jun 1 2009 3:11PM
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Sky.
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ZOMG!!!!!!!111!!!!!1!!!!1!!!!! Claimzzzz

Jun 1 2009 9:42PM
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almostaskier
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Gainers into pools are the only tricks worth doing.
Jun 1 2009 11:45PM
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james44
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haha nahhh the side of the pool!




jk im talking about the 3m spring board
Jun 2 2009 12:30AM
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sick-as-aids
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i learnt misty 7s and 9s just of the lake hayes pontoon (refernce for thread creator), which isnt high... i lost my form a bit one day, just stopped being able to do them, and got some slappage, but i kinda liked the fear of getting slammed, coz its kinda like trying a new trick on skis, and it makes you focus harder on doing it right!
Jun 2 2009 2:27AM
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