Some frontflip assistance

[Mister socks]

Allright, here's the deal.
I'm a noob, I reference this daily, so please forgive my incompetence on a move as simple as this one, but I'm asking for this wonderful forum's help in order to remove said incompetent behaviour

Tadaah, the attempts (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-E9F7qv0k8)

This is me failing awfully at a frontflip, several times, from two amazing angles.

My problem in this is, my landing is the ultra suck, I use a thick crash-mat in order to keep my shins intact, because the force of impact I keep landing with is retardedly hard, compared to what I see on samplers and whatnot.

Thing is, I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, I think my vert's not great, but good enough for something of this kindergarten level, so I suspect there's something else that might be up.

Any advice, good forum?
(If this advice consists of "Stop tricking and kill yourself", it will be kindly disregarded)

[naota]

http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/4042/fflipstl8.gif
http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/8985/frontsummiefrompointanl3.gif
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/7533/rookey341115621367zw9.gif

its called the reverse arm swing, it makes your frontflip from crap to the shit (wow thats lame) set your arms up like you are, but just as you are about to punch the ground with your feet swing your arms in a circle back to where they were. it WILL feel awkward, just fight the momentum, thats what a good frontflip is all about

[Mister socks]

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I'm not sure I can land this on grass yet, really, the force of impact is pretty hard, even on this crash mat.
On a floor that doesn't move at all, it seems a little less certain it won't give my leg muscles that all-too-familiar blast at impact that'll stop me from walking normally for a week again.

Also, I tried to cut my hair, but I discovered it's sentient, it does not allow me to.

naota:

Thanks for that pointer, I'll try that lil' bit of technique out, let's see what it does for my flips.

[thereid]

you should probably block more,maybe stalling a little more too.

[biyak]

u dont have any momentom take a jog or some thing plus blook!
legs in front of body ( dogen tut might help) and stall a bit more,
and train!!! ^^

[biyak]

his name is joe isnt it?

[Salmon]

Check Naota's second and third gif. Look at how he jumps into the frontflip, you know that small jump before the actual jump and flip. His jump in is long and low, which is what you want because in the actual jump you convert that to vertical force. Your jump-in is high and short, well this would be fine on like... a trampoline... but nowhere else. A jump-in like that kills height. So take more of a jog and do a long and low jump-in and put your legs a bit in front of you and STALL the flip alittle. You stall OK on some of your attempts but on others you just let it rip as soon as your feet leaves the ground. Wait for your peak.

Good luck

[Phil D]

you could easily do taht on grass, the mat is about 8 inches high, so if you do it on grass thats an extra 8 inches on height for you. Take a fast run up and throw everything UP!!

[A-jay]

if you are scared about the impact then land on your toes.
That way you won't mess up your shins.

[Mister socks]

Great tips everyone, really, it's appreciated and I'll try the lot of them.