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mlballer91 
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 Topic: backflipsPosted: Sep/19/2008 at 5:17pm |
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alright well i was planning on adding this to my bag of tricks last year but never had the balls to try it. i can do it off picnic tables, and my trampoline strapped in pretty easily, but im sure theres some sort of transition bringing it to snow.. so any one have any tips for me? thanks
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Quiksilver19
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Posted: Sep/21/2008 at 4:13pm |
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pop hard, tuck the knee's in tight. its honestly 100 times easier then it looks.
it also helps to throw your front arm upwards when you take off. couple pics, they might help   |
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mlballer91
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Posted: Sep/21/2008 at 5:12pm |
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dude thanks. those pics help alot.
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Quiksilver19
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Posted: Sep/21/2008 at 5:38pm |
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yeah? let me know how it goes. i find backflips alot easier then spinning
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kobe
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Posted: Sep/21/2008 at 5:41pm |
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that looks like a frontflip.. I think backflips are scarier, if you under-rotate your face might eat some snow.
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Quiksilver19
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Posted: Sep/21/2008 at 6:45pm |
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how does that look like a frontflip?
im riding from the right side of the right picture to the left |
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kobe
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Posted: Sep/21/2008 at 7:29pm |
I was looking from left to right  |
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Ransak78
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Posted: Sep/21/2008 at 7:59pm |
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Looks like the top half of your body disappeared in the second pic.
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lukekim91
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Posted: Sep/21/2008 at 9:29pm |
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its better to over-rotate than under on the backflip.
i have a question though, what should i do them off if i don't have access to powder and i'm at the mountain? out of a halfpipe, off a hip, off a small kicker? |
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Quiksilver19
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Posted: Sep/22/2008 at 11:25am |
i learned on a little 3 foot jump at my friends house a few years back. just piled up a bunch of snow at the landing and went for it. i think i got a video of my first one i'll try to find it |
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Quiksilver19
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Posted: Sep/24/2008 at 3:10pm |
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http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=53754
heres a vid from a few years ago |
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mlballer91
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Posted: Sep/24/2008 at 5:06pm |
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thanks bro. |
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Geology Rocks
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Posted: Oct/05/2008 at 9:37am |
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my advice is this....
go big..its more fun to float a BIG backflip than almost anything I know of.:) Same as a normal trick just as you come to the top of the lip pop and look back at where you came from. This will rotate you half way. When you are upside down you will stall a small bit. Stay looking in the motion of the flip. You can spot your landing half way around and slowly pull the legs in and stomp it. The stall in the vertical spot is unnerving at first but if you go big enough its great to just chill there for a small bit. 1) confidence....you CAN do this 2) Dont just huck it...approach the lip, look vertically until you see the take off 3) Spot landing 4) Stomp it 5) Pick up chicks at the lodge joe |
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Quiksilver19
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Posted: Oct/07/2008 at 10:24am |
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step #5 is the most important part i might add.
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Geology Rocks
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Posted: Oct/07/2008 at 11:53am |
yeah...by far joe |
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Quiksilver19
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Posted: Oct/08/2008 at 2:11pm |
yeah thats why i like that one so much haha it was taken at a night session at my buddys house |
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lineears
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Posted: Dec/03/2008 at 2:36pm |
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thanks dudeS for the tips!
even tho the video didn't work to for me
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tubsolard
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Posted: Dec/11/2008 at 2:01pm |
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Man, this is the trick I want to learn!
I've done diving gymnastics etc so somersaulted has never been a problem, but I'm not an accomplished snowboarder, only just learning jumps, but I know I can do it, just need the balls to go for it! I WILL do it though! |
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Geology Rocks
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Posted: Dec/14/2008 at 2:27pm |
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take your time and dont be a 1 hit wonder.. learn the basics first and learn edge control and spin control..then go into inverts.
My advice is this...if you learn a new trick...learn it smoother...when you have that down learn it bigger. joe |
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lukekim91
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Posted: Dec/16/2008 at 4:23pm |
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Which Backflip do you guys think is easier.
There are basically two types. The first type, is most similar to a backflip done on ground with feet. you jump backwards look backwards, and your back arches in a dangerously precarious situation. Like the kind the guy does in this youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DHLaYnJW7A The second type looks easier to me because it is safer. It is basically the same rotation as a handplant, where you go directly backwards and tuck in like a reverse cartwheel or something. Your body is tucked almost like a cannonball and you are pretty compact. I think this is the type that was in quiksilver19's video a little while back. Which one should I do this season? Besides both, of course. Which one should I do FIRST?  |
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JPhillips531
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Posted: Dec/23/2008 at 10:08am |
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If you cant pick up chicks with a backflip, you are prolly an ugly mofo |
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ridesnowboarder
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Posted: Dec/23/2008 at 1:51pm |
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THeres a great trick tip for these, Ill try to find it
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Geology Rocks
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Posted: Dec/31/2008 at 12:19pm |
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I do a flip like the guy in the video..sometimes I will grab nose and bone it and other times I just try to lay it out as much as possible and stall as much as possible. I love hanging there inverted looking at the landing while flying through the air. Its surreal.
I have never tried it the other way besides forward while grabbing mute and spinning. doing a misty. joe |
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ridesnowboarder
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Posted: Jan/01/2009 at 8:27am |
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this is the one I was trying to find:
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