OK im about to attempt a front flip on my friends trampoline. Is there any way how i should warm up or how my friend can spot me before i attempt it. Any tips for front flips. I watched alot of tutorials and i feel confident i might be able to do it.

any replies are apreciated.
thanks


irwin

There's really no secret to it on a tramp, just jump up high and then tuck forward.. Honestly though, only use the tramp to get comfortable with the feeling of flipping, because after that it just hurts your form. As for your question specifically, it's pretty difficult to spot a front flip, so just do a search and read a few of the many, many, many front flip threads.

Flipping on a tramp is a different skill set, it doesn't translate into any "outdoors" situation. There is no super-bouncy ground anywhere but on a tramp, so there's different timing.

Ok when i was trying front flips on my friends trampoline i kept landing on my back or my butt. im jumping but i think im tucking too early. but if i tuck at the highest part of my jump i dont get much roatation. any help?

I think he means when transferring from the trampoline to the ground, you are used to the form you use on the trampoline. You have more bounce, you don't have to tuck as much, you can easily jump forward and still get the rotation you need on a trampoline. Whereas, on the ground, you don't have that extra bounce, you'll have to tuck harder, and you can't jump forward, you have to jump up. (Assuming you're doing it off the ground) Otherwise, even then, doing it off of a small wall, you'll still want that memory/form to jump up and not out.

I think the best way to transfer something over like the front-flip from a trampoline to the ground is to get SO comfortable with the front-flip that you can do it from standing (not even one push down with the legs) on the trampoline, and even then it will be a lot different on the ground.

Edit- Oh, and blocking, can't forget blocking You don't need blocking at all on a trampoline, so when you move to the ground, you'll have to learn a whole other technique.

What I did was just go to the Long Jump sand pit at my school, and plant my feet at the very end of the run, and flip into the sand pit. I would see how far away my feet were from my initial take-off, and over time of practicing it on the ground, I eventually got closer and closer, and the closer I got to my landing, the better the landing was.

if you have access to a pool i recommend trying to flip into that also. not off a diving board, just run and jump. this will tell you how you will land on flat ground. even try landing on a raft to see also
if your feet hit the water first, great, if not... well don't try it on land just yet..
(just from what i've experimented with. i have not flipped on flat ground yet, but can nail them into a pool.)

i hope you mean jump straight up, as high as possible, then tuck and rotate. lol

there is no need to spot a frontflip,
you are either determined to do a front flip or not
i'd suggest chucking frontflips into grass with a soft ground, i have a detention pond in my backyard, and the ground is very soft, when i do frontflips, my feet go into the ground about an inch or more

yeah.  Ilearned front flips by doing knee flips, thats also how  Ileanred cheat 540 frontflips (a frontflip 180, but u tuck so it makes the twist look liek a 540) and then I translaated that int oa real frontflip 180, that I'm stil lworking on. Flips are soo much fun, and once your comftorble with them, you can do them all the time and it's great. I Love my trampoline

the way I learned them only took me 5 minutes to be able to do it solo

Basically, we had someone (Strong enough of course) go hands and knees for us to front hand spring over (as they are more padded than a rail or something)

Each time we did a hand spring, we'd try and use less and less weight on the person and more and more in the jump and swing...  then we started to do more of a tuck instead of a lean and then before we knew it, we were front flipping over the guy... then, once confident enough, we told him to move and then did it solo

In fact...  I feel another sketchy tutorial coming along!

but just remember...  we all learn differently... this was the only way I could comfortably do the flip... some people may find this a little awkward or prefer a different way, that is fine and is what PK is all about

-Kyle(Rage)