Practicing rodeo 5 into foam pit. Found TJ's old trick tip vid to be very helpful:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVxul3gAGTsI just need to flatten it out more by sending my shoulder a little more up.
Found out today that our pool took down the diving board for the winter :-( I will have to wait until I can get back to the gym again. I think this all boils down to how you can get your head wrapped around a trick. For me, the off axis back flip doesn't work. Every time I try to take a back flip off axis, I end up rotating and it turns into a cork 7. I can see why this ^ wasn't a rodeo, but it is easier for me to visual a progression from this to a rodeo than it is by trying to go Andreas' way and try to change the axis on my back flip. It just keeps failing for me. Whatever the trick is above, I was throwing my shoulder to 12 o'clock. I think if I throw it towards 1 O'clock, then 2 and keep stepping it around, I will get to a rodeo. If it works, I'll post up the progression. If it doesn't, I'll take up knitting.
when your running onto a tramp like that you want to think of doing a gainer then drop your left shoulder towards the ground. while your doing that take your right arm and swing it down to your left foot like if you were to grab japan, and once you start to get the feel of the motion, put the japan grab in there and it should bring you around for the rodeo
^ Thanks. I kept trying that, but the best I could get was a gainer going sideways and couldn't get the rotation out of it. I think I am just going to build something this year and huck it into pow. I think I have the concept of doing it from the carve. The mini tramp just screws me up.
A true rodeo off that setup is near impossible, much better off to do it on a real trampoline. I like to think of rodeos as a flat 3 with a 180. Some people throw the flat 3 really flat and others more flippy
