turning backflip into backtuck

[GSimp]

Ugh this is pissing me off. Well I can do a backFLIP ok, but I can't necessarily backTUCK. Basically I am flipping like a half-tucked back pike, but I want to roll over instead of flipping over. I hope I am not too vague in this. Basically I am landing farther back than where I started because of the flip, I wish to jump up, roll, and land. How do I do this?

[queer54]

Ugh this is pissing me off. Well I can do a backFLIP ok, but I can't necessarily backTUCK. Basically I am flipping like a half-tucked back pike, but I want to roll over instead of flipping over. I hope I am not too vague in this. Basically I am landing farther back than where I started because of the flip, I wish to jump up, roll, and land. How do I do this?

hahah i have the same problem according to my instructor, tighter tuck and hold it for longer...

thats for me, but u need to make sure u are setting/stalling and then tucking too

sounds to me like you are doing like a kind of back flip whip over (arching ur head/back backwards)

look forward

[GSimp]

I never arch my head, but I get my back horizontal, then try to tuck, but it just whips me over. Odd, I need to find a way to tape myself doing it for specific advise.

[queer54]

I never arch my head, but I get my back horizontal, then try to tuck, but it just whips me over. Odd, I need to find a way to tape myself doing it for specific advise.

then in that case u are doing what i do...which is untucking too early

we both need to hold the tuck longer and tuck tighter

[GSimp]

Then why don't we do just that? problem solved! :good:

[queer54]

Then why don't we do just that? problem solved! :good:
haha, ill try...ur ahead of me, im still working on getting my back tuck on the floor at my gym, hopefully this week ill have them

[Flowers]

How about you grab your knees?

[GSimp]

If I grab my knees, I just land in that position, all crouched up. If I grab and then untuck I just, I dunno, that doesn't work at all. :)

[queer54]

If I grab my knees, I just land in that position, all crouched up. If I grab and then untuck I just, I dunno, that doesn't work at all. :)

how do u land if u do ur pike thing? relatively standing, relatively crouched? completely crouched?

[GSimp]

If I do the pike thing, I land from fully standing to semi crouched, depending on how high I jump, if I tuck, I just land in the position I tuck in, because if I untuck..it like..I don't get all the way around or something and my toes smash into the dirt.

edit: My friend says mine looks almost exactly like the guy in the club540 tricktionary example.

http://www.club540.com/tricktionary/backflip.mpg

Looks just like that.

[Bertie]

Post a vid

[GSimp]

I just did you idiot

[kristo]

I have a suggestion that I'm surprised nobody's mentioned yet: JUMP UP! It's in every single guide ever written to back tucks.

[Gazapo]

Post a vid
I just did you idiot

HAHAHAHA

[Birch]

i think he meant a vid of ur backtuck/flip not the club 540 version

[saulus]

jump straight up, stay straight till you reach your highest point,then tuck in tight and hard...otherwise you will not get the rotation....now just do it...

[Dragonic MiKe]

Dovica has a tutorial... though I'm not sure what the general feeling towards dovica is at the moment. :eh:

[cepopeye]

He is Eigo

laughter!

[lak89]

I actually have this problem too lol, i just don't tuck tight enough, and it's a issue about abs strength, do you practice tucking while doing a backward roll?

a high level roundoff backtuck only needs you to tuck for only about a second if you get enough height, because you also have to know how to open up for the landing. Look at my coach's roundoff backtuck for details

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgLPj_Q1vxM

[JKT]

Wow thats alotof hight! Was it spring floor?

[lak89]

yup it was springfloor haha, but not a lot, i'm not sure how the mat he did it on affects the jump though