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Learning Backflips

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rasta_bry29
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I really want to learn backflips this coming season, I never really wanted to but last year i started to ski a ton of park and now this coming season want to learn a few more tricks. What is the best way, learn on a tramp? Or just lean back? Some help would be great thanks guys
Aug 4 2013 9:00PM
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At0micski
Posts: 256 - Karma: 169
1. learn on tramp with no bounce

2. learn on ground

3. then it is the easiest trick ever
Aug 4 2013 9:05PM
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Bock
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find a small jump with a forgiving landing and just go for it
Aug 4 2013 9:11PM
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Pugalope
Posts: 376 - Karma: 508
Confidence is your friend... Learn at a tramp gym/water ramps/ anything and then find a jump with a forgiving landing, then profit!!
Aug 4 2013 9:18PM
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Miomo
Posts: 4302 - Karma: 14,133
They're easiest to throw the first time when you do it off an 85 foot kicker
Aug 4 2013 9:23PM
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tcurle
Posts: 1256 - Karma: 5,280
How to do a backflip:
1 do a backflip
2 stomp the shit out of it
3 claim that shit
Aug 4 2013 9:50PM
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Nate.Dog
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I find doing gainers on a tramp/cliff/foam pit helps you not freak out the first time taking it to snow. It gets you used to the forward movement as well
Aug 4 2013 9:55PM
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quixotic
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it's all in the hips. power thrust your hips to the sky while simultaneously throwing your arms/head up and back. learn on the tramp first for a confidence boost before you try it on snow.
Aug 4 2013 10:23PM
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SamSandmire
Posts: 289 - Karma: 4,536
Learn on tramp first with a good spotter &/or loose foam pit, if you have access to one. Most gymnastics clubs have tramp classes & some even have classes for skiers/boarders. A front flip you can learn on your own & just huck on tramp, cuz if you don't make it, you just land on your back or butt. But if you don't complete your back flip, you can break your neck.
Aug 4 2013 11:39PM
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speedin
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I haven't been on a trampoline in 6 years. I learned backflips using an airbag. Took me 1 time, I stuck everyone after the first one. Truley one of the easier tricks. I have a harder time spinning 360s then back flips.
To me a backflip on skis feels just kinda letting your self go. Lean back pop and pull your legs UP to your chest and hold that position nice and tight.
The more comfortable you get with the jump and backies the easier it will be to lay them out more
Aug 4 2013 11:50PM
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Aladeen
Posts: 257 - Karma: 412
I've got backies down no problem on a tramp and all that. I'm thinkin first big snowfall just build a backflip jump with a nice a soft landing and take it to snow. Did anybody else do that? Any tips? I don't wanna make my own thread
Aug 5 2013 12:11AM
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Balbertt
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Like everyone says learn them on the tramp. Then make a jump with a steep lip to a forgiving landing. Try it on that, then take it to a bigger jump.
Aug 5 2013 4:44AM
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NH_OPERATOR
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I have been learning them almost exclusively on an Airbag and that seems like the best way to go. Ive never really been able to throw backflips ever (could always do fronts on tramps, into pools, stuff like that) and the bag has really helped. Took me a few dozen times before I wasnt landing on my head, but it def seems like the way to go if you have access to one.
Aug 5 2013 4:46AM
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Balbertt
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The weekend I landed my first backy there was a airbag at my home mountain so I was going to try them on that first. I took one look at the airbag and fucked jump they had up to it and threw a back first try on a real jump. /claim fyi the fucked airbag was at mount snow.
Aug 5 2013 4:52AM
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Austin.ski
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All you need to do is remember to pop at the top of the lip and just lean back. Let your legs drag behind you a little bit to lay it out but not too much or you'll under rotate.
Aug 5 2013 9:38AM
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Aladeen
Posts: 257 - Karma: 412
Ya that airbag is super sketchy. My plans to just make my own jump with a nice soft landing and learn backflips
Aug 6 2013 12:46AM
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RubberSoul
Posts: 11249 - Karma: 14,642
wait there's an airbag at mt snow?

and it wasnt legit?
Aug 6 2013 2:01PM
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fortyvalve
Posts: 1442 - Karma: 1,573
Serious question, what does the no bounce do rather than bouncing and flipping? not even a high bounce just one to start then flip the next one. i get that you would essentially be teaching yourself to speed up the rotation but whats the difference between the two that makes taking them to snow that much easier?
Aug 6 2013 3:26PM
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mt.hemel
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I had them down really well on the trampoline then just sent it on small jump off the knuckle first few times I over-rotated but then you just stomp the shit out of it.


Aug 6 2013 5:12PM
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Balbertt
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One of the weekends I went they had a bagjump. The jump up to it was basically a aerials jump. Sketchy as hell.
Aug 6 2013 5:21PM
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coldcuts69
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get em on tramps

get em on snow

have fun all year, because backys are the FUNNESt trick ever
Aug 6 2013 5:24PM
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RubberSoul
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interesting. you'd think they'd have their jumps dialed..
Aug 6 2013 5:31PM
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ESB
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YOU GOT THAT SHIT DOGGGG
Aug 6 2013 5:34PM
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RubberSoul
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and you know what rasta_bry? fuckin SEND IT SON
Aug 6 2013 5:37PM
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Balbertt
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Yeah it was weird. I think they had a better jump for it the other weekends.
Aug 6 2013 5:40PM
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Bozite
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Powder
Aug 6 2013 6:41PM
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Chinchi
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do exactly what I did in my video:

1) build back yard jump
2) grow a nutsack
3) stomp it and realize how easy it is
Aug 6 2013 6:43PM
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fortyvalve
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I'm pretty positive the weekend they had it up it was really shitty weather, i went one day it was up and it was way too windy
Aug 6 2013 6:48PM
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-WZ-
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I can gainer into the lake off a dock... do you guys think im ready for a backy? i always just psych myself out on snow /:
Aug 6 2013 6:53PM
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RubberSoul
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yeah absolutely, backies on skis are a little easier than gainers IMO. just remember that you'll have way more swing weight on your feet skiing...BUT for a gainer you have to punch yourself into the rotation, whereas on skis the jump does that work for you
Aug 6 2013 7:02PM
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Balbertt
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yeah, and towards the end of the year it started to rip. Then it did rip so they patched it. But it ripped again.
Aug 6 2013 7:12PM
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Aladeen
Posts: 257 - Karma: 412
And where is said video?
Aug 6 2013 7:17PM
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Jakelapham
Posts: 139 - Karma: 2,657
Yep do this. If you can do it on tramp, you can do it on snow. It's just the mental barrier.
Aug 6 2013 8:13PM
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fender3113
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-Get the feel for the backflip (foampit, tramp or whatever floats you're boat)

-when winter comes around  if it ever does... Build a decent kicker into 2-3ft of Pow.

-Keep flipping until you stomp it every time

-bring it to the park
Aug 6 2013 9:49PM
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At0micski
Posts: 256 - Karma: 169
It was meant more for transferring them to the ground. Because if you can do it on the ground, you can do it anywhere. Just my mindset, but everyone is different.
Aug 6 2013 10:25PM
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rylee.the.jedi
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First time I did mine I just popped and leaned back into a ball. Came around and stomped, just can't sike yourself out
Aug 6 2013 10:44PM
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