Author Topic: Help with flips (Read 4857 times)

ParkourChick · « **on:** February 19, 2006, 07:36:10 PM »

Ok, my and friend are tying to learn how to do flips. we have no idea how to even practice (we cant go to a gym to use pads cuz our school hates us and we cant find a gym) any ideas?
please and thankyou

Josh Klute · « **Reply #1 on:** February 19, 2006, 07:44:26 PM »

Got any mattresses? They work as makeshift pads, or you could make a huge pile of pillows, just try flipping on something soft

. I don't know a whole lot about flipping, so someone else can help you out with that (in fact I think there is a topic pretty close to this somewhere in the movement forum). Just make sure you have something soft to land on

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ParkourChick · « **Reply #2 on:** February 19, 2006, 07:52:49 PM »

i think i know which one you're talking about, but that was not really on HOW you flip, it think it was more on landing the flip after a vault. haha im gonna practice tomarrow and hope i dont break my neck

Mike "Pyro" Araujo · « **Reply #3 on:** February 19, 2006, 09:45:35 PM »

I can give you some advice but not a whole lot. take a bit of a run up. not to far and don't go to fast. Before you take off take a long(not high) step. then when you land take all your foward momentum and use it to up. while jumping shoot your arms up towards the sky. then when in the air tuck and bring your arms down to your shins.

Ryan Ford · « **Reply #4 on:** February 20, 2006, 02:04:25 PM »

id suggest you dont even try any flips for a few months. take the time to learn at least the basic movements. once you get those down, the body control you will have learned will make things easier.

jmanndriver · « **Reply #5 on:** February 20, 2006, 02:58:21 PM »

Jmanndriver

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i find it to be like a swing. when your laying on the seat and you wind the swing up. you let go and you are spinning and your arms are hanging out, but when you pull them in you spin faster. i think of it like that.

I agree with demon. i hurt my ankles doing flips and it took me a few weeks to be able to do pk without hurting. now my only problem is my wrist lol.

Unique · « **Reply #6 on:** February 20, 2006, 07:54:53 PM »

Im not trying to be mean but why do you need to learn flips (its parkour remember) anyway just use a pool our a sand beach or playground.

jmanndriver · « **Reply #7 on:** March 12, 2006, 07:57:56 PM »

i do a hop right before i do the flip and jump very high and curl inwards TIGHT and release so i slow down and land on my feet. it is likew when ur laying down in a swing and ur spinning andwhen u pull ur arms in you move faster. it is also like those olympic figure skaters.

Invisiblex · « **Reply #8 on:** March 18, 2006, 06:40:53 AM »

for padding i use my old matress and ive used a stack of pillows

as for technique
frontflip: hop and stomp down and up then flip, tuck in tight to spin faster then just follow through and land

backflip: hmm havent done these in a while, but tucking a little does help with the spin

fastt · « **Reply #9 on:** March 29, 2006, 11:21:27 PM »

for the beginners. when u guys attempt to do a flip, do u have a feeling ur gonna land on ur neck??? i have this feeling

JumpOff · « **Reply #10 on:** March 30, 2006, 06:23:47 AM »

Here is the problem with taking advice over the internet, especially that of physical advice.

Invisiblex: The advice you give is about as helpful as saying to do a wallflip, you just run up to a wall and flip. Try dictating your words a little better, or even better providing some pictures or etc. The name of a backflip is a "backTUCK" so a tuck would probably be a good idea.

Fastt: That is the dicipline involved in learning a flip. When I started learning flips, landing on my neck WAS a fear with backflips...and then I actually landed on my neck. After recovering, I started learning from scratch again, tweaking here and there. Once you can do them over and over again, you begin to develop a conciousness as to where you are in uyour rotation, and if you feel as though you are going to bail, take the neccisary actions.

Recently, I was trying to learn gainers(the tricking gainers where you take off one foot, otherwise known as a "gainer flash"). I tried just swinging one leg and taking off into a backflip. As soon as I took off, I knew I wasn't going to make it all the way to my feet, but I was still going around. To avoid landing on my neck, I did the most simple and ingenious thing: I tilted my head to the side, so instead of landing on my neck, I would do more of a back roll onto my shoulder. I don't think a reaction like this can be forced, but is more instinctive reaction that saved my life.

Point is, practice. Some things take trail and error, but you should always give your 100% especially with flips, to reduce the risk of injury.

Flippusmn · « **Reply #11 on:** March 30, 2006, 04:13:38 PM »

I have landed on my neck doing flips and it is one of the most painful things I have ever felt so I just try to refrain them a bit but there isn't really much to them Pyro said it for the front and the backflip is easier. No running

. You do have to tuck most of the times depending on object height but for land you do. Flips arn't important when freerunning so don't worrie about them until you atleast start to flow with your environment. There usually how I get hurt and there how I became more afraid to do things, they basically ruined my flow for the time being. Yeah there cool but are they worth it, there not even Parkour $:-\$ .

ender · « **Reply #12 on:** April 07, 2006, 07:18:20 PM »

Also, the flip tutorial posted by Sov (way back) on the UF forums is awesome, very very helpful. It's stickied under Techniques so you literally can't miss it!

Good luck, and dont let the prospect of landing on your head psych you of out doing these things. You will bail, end of story, but you just have to get back up and try it again. Once you overcome the fear, you'll be fine.

breokizaki · « **Reply #13 on:** April 13, 2006, 06:53:13 AM »

Backflips. I have been practicing on backflips, not from the flat ground, but from an elevated surface or a 1 or 2 step up a wall. We tried the matress idea, but the thing is, when you have all that padding, it's as if you don't even try, but it's a great way to learn flipping control, (over or under spinning) I happened to over spin on my first real try at hitting a wall with my foot and spinning, but i landed on my back.

I definately need more practice. AND i can't find a free gym.

Florida pisses me off because of all the frugal people here, it's all about money and no fun. Well, good luck on the flips.

Josh Maciel · « **Reply #14 on:** April 13, 2006, 11:57:43 AM »

One thing better than landing on matresses is getting a spotter to help you with your first couple of flips. The spotter places one hand on the lower back then the other on the legs to help the flipper in spinning when they jump and tuck. That will help you get over the fear and you'll be confident enough to do it on your own.

JumpOff · « **Reply #15 on:** April 13, 2006, 02:22:37 PM »

Spotters are good, but its all a matter of developing yourself.... You cant do it comfertably until you develop both the mental AND physical capacity to do a backflip-which could take some time.

Um, as for the elevated surface idea.... I remember trying to learn this way in the start, and I found two things:

It develops bad form if you ever want to learn a real backflip on the ground, because you arch your back(because you depend on the height rather than the tuck), that on ground, you would never make it around.
Furthermore, when someone dosent have the sense to jump BACK, they sort of spin in place(like a gainer, but not), and sometimes hit their head on the object which they are taking off from.

deltron3030 · « **Reply #16 on:** May 08, 2006, 06:43:43 PM »

do not use matress or pilloow to practice flips. use grass. it is the best and it doent hurt. belive me i jsut tryied to do som flips and landed on my back like 10 x it doesnt hurt. also matress get u use to the bouncey effect wich is bad and pillow losse there fluff. grass is jsut by far the best to flip on

michiganparkour · « **Reply #17 on:** May 10, 2006, 05:59:50 PM »

okay before i evan knew about parkour and stuff when i was five i was learning front flips but i had a trapoline to acces all the time so if you could find some one with one that would help alot...and today i landed a front flip on the ground and its awsome when you do it for youre first time...i love the feeling of it

Unique · « **Reply #18 on:** May 24, 2006, 12:46:29 PM »

quote from jumpoffmyroof- "Here is the problem with taking advice over the internet, especially that of physical advice."

Well then whats the point of having a movement page in the forums.

Sat Santokh · « **Reply #19 on:** August 04, 2006, 08:04:20 PM »

Haha when I was 10 it was this girls birthday party and I was really happy so I'm like "hey I'll do a frontflip" and I did it was pretty funny. As for backflips I'm not saying my standing backflip is perfect but its not bad. I learned off a bed onto two mattresses. Then my friend is like do it with one, I was like no I'll get hurt, then when I was in the air he pulled it out. Then I tried doing it without any matresses and started doing it obsessively outside off of higher and higher stuff. I tried a standing once and didn't do very well. Then a month or two later I tried again and since then I've gotten a lot better.

http://s103.photobucket.com/albums/m151/satsantokh/Flips/?action=view&current=b7ce86fe.flv

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