Ways to Practice(Standing Back Flip)
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– Jump –
You can practice the basic jump form of a standing back flip with mattress pile.
Put mattress pile behind you and jump and get on it on your back.
When you jump, arch your back slightly.
If do so, your body rotates automatically regardless of whether you intended to rotate or not.
Remember the sense of this jump.
Sometimes your will to rotate prevents you from proper jump.
A spotter to assist will also help you.
Get your body lifted by the spotter after you jump in the same way.
If you don’t have mattress or spotter, you can practice with slip floor.
Lay down your body and let your feet touch a wall.
Assume the wall as ground.
Push the wall with your legs as you lie down on the ground.
In this situation, you won’t be injured, so you can correct your jump form without fear.
– Tuck –
To practice tuck is very easy.
The point is how swift you tuck, the swifter, the better.
Pull in your legs(knees) to your chest.
Train your abdominal muscle.
And the other methods.
Jump straight and tuck in the air for practice.
We can’t initiate rotation with the momentum of tucking, so how early we make our forms small is everything.
There is no technique.
However, if you grab your knees earlier, you can pull your knees more easily by using your arms.
– Air Sense –
If you don’t have air sense, a back flip becomes more scary.
However, you can improve your air sense by practice.
One way is that you jump onto mattress on your back and then roll backward on it.
I know it’s not in the air, but your position is similar to an actual back flip.
And other ways need trampolines.
See this below.
If you do this, single flip(360°) is enough.
Actually, this is not an actual seat drop and this skill doesn’t have any name in general.
We named this as “hips drop flip”.
Don’t move too backward. These illustrations are shifted to right.
You jump straight and make tucking form in the air and drop to a trampoline on your hips.
You don’t have to do anything, but you can rotate.
Actually you can not generate rotation in the air and rotation has already started since your are off the ground.(Tucking is the action only to make efficient form for rotation)
So in this way, you can find similar feeling of rotating without any action.
If you are scared, you can do a kind of handstand.
Another way is here, pull over.
This is piked pull over but tucked pull over is almost the same.
Don’t move too backward. These illustrations are shifted to right.
Also, drop on your back and bound backward and rotate with tucking.
It is also similar, but if you do this, you can get a feeling of rotation with tucking.
If you are scared, you can do a kind of handstand.
Practice hard and get a better back flip!