Attempted first ever backflip today!!!

[Kawi06]

Yep ive only been riding standups for about 4 weeks and decided it was time to try a back flip.....i actually tried it twice and had no success....ive seen vidoes of guys doing them off of boat wakes ....but i his a 5 foot swell and still could not get it to come all the way around.....do i need to go fast? Do i need footwells...i have an sxr so i dont know if its any diffrent from doing a b/f on a sj......what do i need to do to help me actually filp around...and i wanna try a barrell roll but that didnt work either...thanx
:spam:

 

[T-bone]

ouch.................good luck.i really think footholds are very nessasary.

 

[raidermike]

Just keep trying.
but i think there are somethings that help foot holds, HP but being i never try iam nor sure.

mike

 

[LBE]

Yep ive only been riding standups for about 4 weeks and decided it was time to try a back flip

Crawl, walk, run. Less injuries that way newbie.

 

[sunny_az]

Yeah, don't kill yourself and make the sport look bad, please.

I tried one today(with lifters to defy gravity) and took a bad bounce priming the pump, landed square on my back. Hurt real good.
Knew it was too choppy, I was being stupid today. Speaking of, don't try WOT subs, you can never get low enough.

 

[Mike Serlin]

Learn how to really ride your ski first. Get comfortable. If you can, ride some buoys and get really comfortable. And for god sakes don't attempt anything inverted without footholds and don't get footholds until you get more time on your ski, they can cause some serious injuries if your not ready for em.

 

[MADMAT]

FOTHOLDS FOOTHOLDS FOOTHOLDS......but its killer that you attempted one!

 

[ski4]

not that you can't learn to ride in four weeks,but it took me just a couple of weeks to really feel good making turns at speed in both directions.:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: I may be a slow learner?????????

but become a confident rider, then start with little things, ( subs, stabs etc)

then go get some footholds and the other goddies and then tear it up:biggthumpup:

 

[yamaslut]

Get footholds and then start doing rolls and flips... I was rolling 4 months after stepping foot on a ski... I still can't turn on flatwater though:biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:

 

[Exile]

You have the guts, so now use ur head, pulling off a backflip takes sum serious knowhow and hours of riding,o lot of hours...

Study the videos and you need to be hooked on2 the craft to fly inverted!!

Keep up the riding!!!!

 

[Kawi06]

well ive been riding blasters for a year or so...so i know bacics on turning...i can already stab and sub...so i need to learn some rad **** too pull off....i almost landed the backflip...if i can do a backflip on a bike a do one on a ski.....i dont have fear of getting hurt and i have never been hurt so...untill i get hurt im gonna learn to land that danm backflip...one way of another...the only reason i didnt land it in the first place cuz my feet sliped off ...

 

[yamaslut]

well ive been riding blasters for a year or so...so i know bacics on turning...i can already stab and sub...so i need to learn some rad **** too pull off....i almost landed the backflip...if i can do a backflip on a bike a do one on a ski.....i dont have fear of getting hurt and i have never been hurt so...untill i get hurt im gonna learn to land that danm backflip...one way of another...the only reason i didnt land it in the first place cuz my feet sliped off ...

the attitude will get ya there.... keep trying

 

[BlowStuffUp]

Get footholds and then start doing rolls and flips... I was rolling 4 months after stepping foot on a ski... I still can't turn on flatwater though:biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:

im the same way. ill eat it going straight, on my way out to the waves. i just learned how to turn last weekend.

 

[Ross_C]

well ive been riding blasters for a year or so...so i know bacics on turning...i can already stab and sub...so i need to learn some rad **** too pull off....i almost landed the backflip...if i can do a backflip on a bike a do one on a ski.....i dont have fear of getting hurt and i have never been hurt so...untill i get hurt im gonna learn to land that danm backflip...one way of another...the only reason i didnt land it in the first place cuz my feet sliped off ...

Quickest and easiest way to secure yourself to the ski is with footstraps...just go to a local surf/windsurf shop and look for em..

 

[SXR-FOREVER]

Hell yea keep trying! Get some pics of that **** too!

 

[All Stock]

well ive been riding blasters for a year or so...so i know bacics on turning...i can already stab and sub...so i need to learn some rad **** too pull off....i almost landed the backflip...if i can do a backflip on a bike a do one on a ski.....i dont have fear of getting hurt and i have never been hurt so...untill i get hurt im gonna learn to land that danm backflip...one way of another...the only reason i didnt land it in the first place cuz my feet sliped off ...

Keep trying, it will happen.

Like they say, "If you haven't hurt yourself, you aren't trying hard enough."

At least you are really putting forth the effort .

 

[JensNonsens]

well it seems that I m the biggest wussy on earth, caz it took me four years before starting to try them, or..... whatever. Just let us see some pics when you got it.... :cheer:

 

[yamaslut]

Jens.....
"can't make chicken salad out of chicken poop"
:biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: j/k

:biggthumpup: ....I like the guys attitude... he is throwing himself into poop he pretty much knows he can't land.... that's what this sport needs to progress... crazy ****ers willing to give up the body...

 

[Idok]

it is a good attitide, but just think of sicki......

 

[Legdragger]

I tried my first backfilp Sunday as well. I am glad the first one is over. I was the the most scared of heading at a wave that looked like it was about to suck me back over and eat me. I got perfectly upsidedown and pancaked it. It really didn't hurt. I held on to it TIGHT and let it push me in. The motor didn't even stall. I just swam back up and got back on it. Then checked to see if I was still alive or dreaming. It really wasn't that bad but I have had a bad experience backflipping a snowboard so it is a little erie doing it again. I am feeling like the next try will be a lot easier to concentrate on my form rather than just not crapping my pants.