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Frontflips or Backflips

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EasyEast
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Which do you think are better/harder frontflips or backflips?

Jul 8 2008 6:27PM
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Tinga
Posts: 11349 - Karma: 2,333
well body mechanics wise back flips are easier but i think they are harder to commit to.
Jul 8 2008 6:30PM
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reverendwrong
Posts: 3145 - Karma: 142
fronts easier to throw, backs are usually more steezy if u get them down nice
Jul 8 2008 6:32PM
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JamesR
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^ true but a long  smooth front off of a cliff or over a gap looks very nice
Jul 8 2008 6:54PM
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Malcolm
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backflips are easier but frontflips are less scary
Jul 8 2008 7:18PM
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Bigwoods
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Switch frontflips are where it's at.
Jul 8 2008 7:36PM
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frstyl46skier
Posts: 566 - Karma: 18
backflips are easier just cause you can see where you are landing but frontflips are easier to throw. I have to say frontflips over 40+ ft gaps are way more steezy when they are like supermaned out
Jul 8 2008 7:44PM
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TheJerz
Posts: 549 - Karma: 67
ask any gaper..

Teh Backflip!

but i think backflips are steezier except super man fronts are the shit
Jul 8 2008 7:48PM
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Holte
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Backflips are easier. However, I broke my back underrotating a textbook backflip last Saturday. The worst injury I've ever sustained from a crashed frontflip was bad shin bang. I kinda hate backies for ruining my next few months.
Jul 8 2008 8:07PM
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STwoops
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Do both, duh
Jul 8 2008 8:15PM
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rudager
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fun stuff
Jul 8 2008 8:31PM
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walcott
Posts: 319 - Karma: 39
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Jul 8 2008 8:39PM
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Tex.
Posts: 1106 - Karma: 124
front flips is is is is tits
Jul 8 2008 8:47PM
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skiEER
Posts: 4089 - Karma: 79
ive never tried fronts so i would say backs are easier

Jul 8 2008 8:52PM
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strongmark
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frontflips are the new black
Jul 8 2008 9:01PM
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GetPitted
Posts: 3443 - Karma: 2,299

I can't believe some people are claiming that backflips are scarier and or easier.  I've tried a front flip only once and it was probably the scariest thing i've ever done.  I mean the pressure you get on your tips as your coming off the lip?  It just fights against you.  So scary

Jul 8 2008 9:04PM
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Tex.
Posts: 1106 - Karma: 124
maaaaaan dis foo is frontin' i seen him doing SIDE flips once! and diagnal!! that shits hot!
Jul 8 2008 9:06PM
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MrJesseHealy
Posts: 927 - Karma: 96
I assume you mean:

Side Flip: Lincoln

And I have no idea what a diagonal would be. Maybe like a Backflip 180 or an Underflip or something.
Jul 8 2008 9:11PM
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Tex.
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nah man i mean SIDE
Jul 8 2008 9:14PM
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the.hoffman
Posts: 1372 - Karma: 283
exactly, backflips are sooo much easier and soo much less scary
Jul 8 2008 9:15PM
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Karcher
Posts: 3788 - Karma: 1,934
frontflips all the way. they are just amazingly cooler
Jul 8 2008 9:16PM
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GetPitted
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thehehe
Jul 8 2008 10:02PM
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dandougherty
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david lesh is crazy good at it
Jul 8 2008 10:04PM
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ben802
Posts: 565 - Karma: 16
crazy gay
Jul 8 2008 10:08PM
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i.ski.troll.
Posts: 4692 - Karma: 247
frontflips for sure

but like tom wallisch does some sick backies
but then again he does that super steeezy super man frontflip in hyphy edit 1.5
Jul 8 2008 11:27PM
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PhilboydStudge
Posts: 3431 - Karma: 206
wow dont hate on lesh, he destroys
Jul 8 2008 11:46PM
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Pippin
Posts: 4846 - Karma: 661
LAWNDART front flips FTW
Jul 9 2008 12:39AM
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rynmartn
Posts: 2697 - Karma: 21
I love doing frontflips. I think back flips are scarier....but easier. were is frontflips are harder, but probly less scary to try, i dunno thats my opnion
Jul 9 2008 12:53AM
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PhilboydStudge
Posts: 3431 - Karma: 206
ya backs are easier if you commit, idk who wouldnt agree with that. its going the same way as your momentum, and you can see your landing. but lawn darts are just dirty
Jul 9 2008 1:03AM
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Pippin
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how so?
Jul 9 2008 1:28AM
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gibvicious
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super man fronts FTW!!!
Jul 9 2008 1:36AM
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PhilboydStudge
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have you ever seen one in person? i cant do them, but i think they look like the most stylie things ever
Jul 9 2008 1:37AM
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FellowJibber
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frownflips. if youre badass, you can do a double front, which is way sick. do it dumont style : SOOPERMAN
Jul 9 2008 2:00AM
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DopeSauce
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Backflips are so much easier, they just go with the roatation of the lips. Fronts you have to work against it
Jul 9 2008 6:01AM
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Pippin
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haha yah i thought you were disagreeing with my previous statment
Jul 9 2008 1:00PM
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PhilboydStudge
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o no way lawndarts are so so sick
Jul 9 2008 1:18PM
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jfbolieuvaldi
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i land front flip on the first try..that was not a steeze frontflip style but its easy to do.. switch front flip are very easy i land it on the first try to but the second shot  i hit my face on the jump lol            back flip are more scary and  harder...but its my opinion
Jul 9 2008 2:34PM
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DJSTEVEINNIAMIXX
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Jul 9 2008 2:39PM
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landonn
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backflips are the funnest trick. you can do them off anything with a little bit of lip pretty much.
Jul 9 2008 2:40PM
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SHampson
Posts: 2355 - Karma: 1,180
i have yet to land a frontflip, but i'vee landed tons of backflips on park jumps etc, trying to lay them more.  i think backflips are a little scarier when you try them for the first time and harder to commit to.  but i had trouble committing at the end of the frontflip, right before i landed.  i've only tried one frontflip.
Jul 9 2008 2:58PM
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skiRay
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5 words: seth morrison double front flip
Jul 9 2008 3:34PM
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GetPitted
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11 words: Seth morrison double front flip one hundred and fifty foot cliff
Jul 9 2008 3:42PM
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.j.Scrilla
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LE BACKFLIPP
Jul 9 2008 5:18PM
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Bab.
Posts: 766 - Karma: 22
ive never tried a backflip but frontflip are scary but pretty easy. you just hav to throw it pretty hard and youre set.
Jul 9 2008 5:40PM
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minnesotajibber
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frontflips look cooler,but backflips are harder
Jul 9 2008 8:46PM
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ben_southworth
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Jul 9 2008 11:50PM
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TheButterHashira
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I want to try a front on skates the next time I go to a skate park. I am scared of landing on my head with backs, but with fronts I always get past the apex of the flip and the worst that would happen is I land on my back.
Jul 10 2008 12:39PM
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drumbumocdp
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defiantly.
Jul 10 2008 1:57PM
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