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POWER BOCKING EXPERIENCE => Bocking Tips => Topic started by: Trixter on September 03, 2007, 08:17:39 PM
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I know this wont be open to all bockers as we cant all flip but ive been practicin on trampolene n stuff, was just generalising flipping not just on bocks but trampolenes from standin (if possible)
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backs are obviously easier
a) you can spot your landing way before your feet are near the ground
b) just easier to throw it and hang
.. fronts take a little more to think about.. gotta prepare my mind atm to do fronts, and you cant spot your landing like you can with a back.
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Totally agree with Kiola their
and once you learn Baranis It becomes harder to land fronts as well i found
Backs are just so much more relaxed and easier to do from a greater height in my opinion
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So far all I have is trampoline experience (getting some bocks soon) but ive always found front flips more relaxing, less scary, and easier, go figure ^^
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yer i have the same problem but i will try some day,
Nephew
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ive always been much more confident going forwards, i used to dive a lot and i only got backflips down in the last few ytears.
i can do a frontflip on my feet though, after a lil run up anyway.
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I would love one day do just one flip, but with my size and weight things could go very wrong so I don't think I ever will :(
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I am going to try and start again soon
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DK
Might be able to try in safety at the Lincoln meet
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DK if you can do it on a trampoline, or learn until you can there is no reason why you couldnt learn it on bocks. Its all about ability and confidence.
Ability you get on the trampoline, confidence from tescos. £2.99
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DK if you can do it on a trampoline, or learn until you can there is no reason why you couldnt learn it on bocks. Its all about ability and confidence.
Ability you get on the trampoline, confidence from tescos. £2.99
I've never done a flip in my life !? ...... Wait did once for a motor bike !
Didn't go very well flow 20 feet and then landed on my back I was saved by a cheap R/C motor car.
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I may try to buy a cheap trampoline or a cheap crash mat, and use it in my back garden, when I go back home at the end of may
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i cant yet but i do tricking so i can do it on my feet and backs r defo easyer by far and duz eny 1 no if the stilts make a difrance in doing them coz i wanna give it a go but im being a pu**y about it lol ;D
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duz eny 1 no if the stilts make a difrance in doing them coz i wanna give it a go but im being a pu**y about it lol ;D
They do make a difference, increased area means increased resistance in the air, and combined with the additional weight means you need to put in more effort into the rotation.
However, once you get the rotation going the increased weight on your feet also means they increase momentum and help to pull you round a bit more.
But they are certainly easier on a trampoline than on bocks.
Can you write a bit better though please? Took me a while to work out what you had written :D
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lol k il try im a bit dumb ;D am disleksic or how ever u spell it lol ( the thing where u wright letters and stuff the wrong way )
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Fair enough :)
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oh i read that straight away he rights in msn and text talk its very simple to read XD :banana: :nana:
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lol its coz i cant spell most of the words :thumbs:
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dont worry greg11 im the same dislyic lol ( i think )
* why put a word for some one who cant spell as suc a hard spelling ????*
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Dyslexics of the world,Untie!!! :biggrin: :biggrin:
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Dyslexics of the world,Untie!!! :biggrin: :biggrin:
;D Love it! Thanks. ;D
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im Dyslexic, i sold my soul to santa
differently now ive landed a backflip they waaaaaay easier, although i still find them easier to screw up then fronts, landing fronts is the hard part, as with your weigh slightly forward your prone to having to gambol once landed and if your back the hooves may slide or bounce out.
once you have the tuck for fronts its only the landing but looking over your shoulder is the best way to kill a good backflip
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dyslexic here too.. i wanted a career change and thought i'd take up pimpin' low and behold i ended up buying a warehouse :( as for the flips i can see the backflips being easier i can pretty much land them on my feet from standstill off the floor but then i guess most the flips are just a case of repetition and confidence..
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i gota get a helmet so i can try a flip one day =)
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dyslexic here too hah just askin i can do back and front standing on trampoline and back on the floor on good days will i be able to flip ???? :Straddle5:
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What happens if its a bad day? :D, and short answer no, because its so different. :)
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backs are obviously easier
a) you can spot your landing way before your feet are near the ground
b) just easier to throw it and hang
.. fronts take a little more to think about.. gotta prepare my mind atm to do fronts, and you cant spot your landing like you can with a back.
ye backs is easier but i found it fills safer to do front i dont no why tho lol
i started fliping on my feet umm i dono iv allways done it lol
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ye backs are mentaly harder but physicaly easyer
fronts are mentaly easyer but physicaly harder
it all is just about the confidence !
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One Day if i Pluck Up The Courage Or Buy a Mat Ill Do a Flip On Bocks I Can Do Front On Tampoline But Im Too Scared To Do Back Cos Ur Neck Is UnProtected And 1 Slip And *Snap* Gonner
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One Day if i Pluck Up The Courage Or Buy a Mat Ill Do a Flip On Bocks I Can Do Front On Tampoline But Im Too Scared To Do Back Cos Ur Neck Is UnProtected And 1 Slip And *Snap* Gonner
Your best bet is to go to a gym meet where other would be more than happy to help you :)
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I personaly disagree with the whole backflip being easier then frontflip thing.
I am able to do front flips from standstill, on my feet of cause, and even befor I could successull do them still found the rotation and the prospect of landing easier. I have always failed every atempt to do a backflip. May just be my technique or something. However I have tryed fromtflips on my bocks, on to a crash mat. I actualy found it a faily smooth sensation with none of the panic that I had orriginaly antisopated. I wasn't successully landing them however. It was within my first month of having my pro jumps, so I wasn't getting much height, and the crash matt was thick, about a foot heigh, meaning it was harder to land. I wasn't far off however and was landing on the hooves, I was to leant back though.
I would recomend any one with reasonable experiance on bocks to give flipping a try, in a controled environent, as I esure you it is mainly a confidance thing and once you have attempted one you will want to try another.
I'm probabaly not the best person to be saying this as I myself am still unable to perform a flip on bocks. I havnt had much axsess to a crash mat.
I appolagise for any spelling errors, I'm also another dyslexic.
Thought I would at that in wile the topic is presant.
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I'm pretty sure the confidence differential between front and back flips is mainly to do with three things. First, you can get a running start for a front flip, which gives you more lift. For a back flip, the best you can do is start with a roundoff (a cartwheel that you land with both feet and facing the direction you started from), which does help a lot. Second, you can't see where you're going when you take off from a back flip. You actually get a clear view of your landing on a back flip as opposed to a front flip but when you're standing ready to do the flip you can't see where you're going at all. Third, when you see things going wrong with a front flip, it is landing on your butt or, at worst, on your back. When you see things going wrong with a back flip, it is landing on your neck and being paralyzed or killed. I'm pretty sure this is not significantly more likely than with a front flip (and improbable with either) but the fear remains until you can actually make yourself do one and experience first-hand that it's not going to happen. Unfortunately, that fear is exactly what makes flips dangerous because bailing out of a flip halfway is the way to hurt yourself badly.
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There is another way...
Jason's way (http://www.projumpforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=1115.0)
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Thanks Naz I had forgotten that :Claugh:
When I clicked on it I was expecting this one
http://www.projumpforum.co.uk/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=841
Not as much fun but funnier :Claugh:
Jason :Hoofies2: :CGEEK: