Hello everyone and welcome back. Today we are going to be talking about the backflip.
Now the bakflip is one of my favorite moves to do. It's really high-impact,
you're a lot of speed when you're doing these moves and it's just really
enjoyable to go flying backwards over yourself. Now today we're going to be
talking about how to execute the backflip correctly and the things you
want to know when you're gonna try these backflips. There's five key things that I
want to talk about when executing a backflip. First is keeping your weight
forward. This will help you to drive forward and get a lot more speed when
you're going into the maneuvers. Secondly is to eye out the section and also get
your angle that you're going to approach the section on. This you're going to want
to do while you're watching all the way from the start of the wave and focus on
that section that you're gonna want to hit. You then need to use your head for
momentum. Flicking your head back in order to allow your body to follow the
movement that your head is going to be projecting. This will allow you to go
straight back up and over. And lastly will be to get your legs crossed. Now
this is up for debate but for me personally it's a lot better to have
your legs in that x position and really cross tight so that your body and
everything is in one tight compact little space. This allowing the rotation to be
executed a lot better and also if you need to you can throw your legs out to
slow you down just before you hit the water.
So let's get into it.
When you talk about keeping your weight forward and generating speed. This is
exactly what I mean. I stalled at the top of the way there and as I'm looking at
this section I'm leaning forward to gain speed and try to drive through these
sections. At the last minute I engage the rail, turn up to the lip and flip
backwards allowing my whole body to move at once.
Next we look at this wave.
From the start I've got my eyes focused on that one spot that I want to
hit. Then as I'm coming in here I'm trying to draw a straight angle all the
way up to the lip continually watching that section that I want to hit.
Once hitting it, that's when you're gonna lean back and start to focus on your head
being all the way tilted back to get that full rotation.
Next we're going to focus on the head movements.
As I'm driving through this one keeping my body
really far forward, I'm gonna keep my eyes on the section as you can see.
At the last second I'm gonna start to bottom turn and really use my head to
push through this lip and fling it straight back as faster than hard as you
can. We see on this wave as I hit this section I compact my body really tight
keeping those legs really close in behind me and as I land my hand comes
off but my legs are there to stabilize the whole move. Lastly we're gonna
put this all into one. This is leaning forward in order to gain momentum and
really I'm at that section that you're gonna want to hit. You're gonna drive
through keeping that angle of your board to the lip, really getting into the
section. Flipping back tilting my head all the way back, cross legs in the
shadow and landing spinning around.
I really hope this has helped you guys in some way to just explain how to
backflip and what you should be doing in the water if you want to complete this
move. I'm really looking forward to hearing from all of you guys. I'll see
you in the water soon. See you next time!