Ways to Practice(Running Front flip)
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– Jump –
1.Dive roll
You can practice jump form with a dive roll.
Run and do a dive roll.
If you make your form small or put strength to your muscles in the air when dive roll, you will rotate too much for dive roll.
Therefore, you shouldn’t do them and just roll(land on your back on mattress or trampoline).
2.Dive roll onto mattress
If you succeed in improving your jumping form, you’d rotate too much when dive roll.
The next step is to do a dive roll onto mattress.
As you can get more height, make the mattress higher.
3.Front flip onto mattress
If you can do a good dive roll onto mattress, tuck in the air ; try to do a front flip onto mattress.
If you can land on the mattress or have conviction that you can land without mattress, try running front flip without thick mattress.
Be careful, don’t make your knees hit your face when landing._
And don’t rotate too much and land on your face.
– 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.
– Practice with trampoline –
There are 4 phases and you can put mattress and do skills onto the mattress in each phase.
1.Hands and knees to dive roll without putting hands on the trampoline
Drop on your hands and knees and shift your weight forward.
You can rotate a little.
2.Knee drop to Handstand (and roll)
Do a knee drop and shift your weight forward.
Swing your arms downward and put your hands on the trampoline and do a handstand.
Put your hands just in front of you, not far.
If you flex your hip-joint earlier to put hands on the trampoline, you cannot get power from trampoline.
Like just knee drop, your hip-joint should be straight.
And just before jumping, flex your hip-joint slightly.
3.Knee drop to dive roll
After you can do a knee drop to handstand easily, do a knee drop to dive roll.
After jumping from knee drop, pretend to put hands on the trampoline but don’t put hands on early delay the timing.
If you intend to do a knee drop to dive roll directly, you cannot concentrate on takeoff, so do that.
As is the same as knee drop to handstand, flex hip-joint just before takeoff.
After you get used to do this, do a knees to dive roll without putting hands on the trampoline.
4.Knee drop to front flip
Practice hard and get a better front flip!