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Okay, I consider myself acrobatic enough... I can do a front-flip, side flip, heck, maybe I could flip diagonally backwards as long as my head's looking at where I'm going, but for some reason, I just can't get a backflip off. I'm very confident that I CAN do one, but I just can't convince my body to try it and that it won't get hurt. This is probably more of a mentality thing than an actual physical thing. So I'm wondering, those of you that can do them, how did you bring yourself to actually attempting them?

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by starting on a trampoline. A guy I used to train with was a part time gymnastics coach, and he was able to get me into the gymnastics club for free once a week.

 

The biggest problem I've seen with people trying to backflip - and the same problem I had - was that they actually try to jump backward. DO NOT DO THAT. All of your effort should be used to get you as high as you can go, giving you plenty of room to flip without landing on your back/head.

 

jump straight into the air and swing your arms upward while simultaneously pulling your knees to your chest - this is where the backward arc begins. stay tight into a ball and you will continue flipping backward.

 

And yes, you are correct about the mind - it's scary going backward, and is hard for many to deal with. once you can get over that, you can get the backflip.

 

That said, I haven't tried one in years and likely can't do it anymore, but I know how to obtain it again, since going backward is no longer a problem for me.

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I consider myself as acrobatic as well but I can't do anything, my acrobatic skills involve jumping high and far between objects but,

 

How do you perform a frontflip fast enough to return your body to its original position?

 

I can flip and land on my back with my feet landing first but that about it please inform me.

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Thanks, Seven-Star. I guess I'll look around for some place for me to safely practice it. Or maybe I'll just group a bunch of pillows together in my living room. :)

 

Taku: When you're doing a front flip, it's kinda like Seven-Star said about backflipping. Your priority should be getting air, and making sure you have time to complete the rotation, rather than trying to spin faster or something.

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it might be hgelful if you get two of your freinds to kind of hold you as you do it. it might help to get over the fear a little. the trampoline is also a good idea. defnitely becareful about it and best of luck.

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The trampoline's even worse for me, actually. Because now I'm afraid of landing on my neck, and having my body twist off it in some weird, and fatal way. At least if I were to land on the ground, it would just hurt. Not kill me.

 

That probably makes no sense. But hey, not many things do.

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Rokuman,

 

I get what you mean, I don't even attept backflips because if you slow down a bit and land on your head, you could die!

 

But thanks about the frontflip advise, I also think trmpolines are a bad idea because they mess up your timing and after being on one you think you can get more height than you actually can.

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that's actually the benefit of the trampoline. the increased height give you more time to flip - you can work your technique. It's like anything else - for example, the MA principle of spiraling. you will begin with hug spirals, but as you get more comfortable with it, you can produce the same power with increasingly smaller spirals. at the gynastics school, we started on a trampoline. then, a flooring that provided less bounce than the trampoline. Then, to the normal gymnastics floor.

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i have a friend who's been doing gymnastics her whole life, and whenever i have to learn something tricky in my dojang's curriculum, or feel like being a raging bad * and learning something cool, i give her a call to spot me and give me a few pointers. most gyms have at least one open night a week and it's a safe place to try out new stuff like this. personally, i'm always a little hesitant to try stuff on a trampoline too; i have this nagging fear of launching off the blasted thing and... on my neck. still, it's the best way to start learning, i think.

"I hear you can kill 200 men and play a mean six string at the same time..."-Six String Samurai

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