Misties off of diving board

Drop a shoulder towards your toes and try to reach out with that arm to grab your feet. Throw your other arm up and behind you.
 
it's 80% flip, 20% spin. but when you start out it's good to think 50/50.

Counter clockwise misty (goofy stance):

do a front flip, but cork your right shoulder in a rotatin motion towards the inside of your right knee. it helps to swing your arms in the direction you plan to spin as it helps the rotation.
 
also, jump forward. if you try to do it stationary, or close to stationary, you migh hit your chest because when i started out i would always land with a hunched back.
 
i stick my arms out jump start to flip and bring my arms in and i can do it like a 360 and a front so misty flip is what i call it. i cant do a gainer thogu. i tryed before and its scary off a water tramp into water
 
thank you. misties begin with 540. then they go up to whatever. but a misty 540 is about as low as you can go. drop your right shoulder like you're going to hit someone on the football field. and throw your right arm down across your body toward your left hip. make your head do the same. your body will follow.
 
The way I learned them, was to try adding a 180 to my frontflips, and then try to spin a bit earlier. after a while, they just became misties
 
exactly. But make sure you start to frontflip before you spin once you're working on higher rotations.
 
once you lern them try not to do them constantly. cause thats what i did and then it took me for ever to lern corks cause my body got so used to throwing forward that every time i tryed something different like a cork i just went right into a misty. took me forever to get rid of that
 
jump, and throw your right shoulder down, kinda like flipping, but only with one shoulder, then you will feel like your comming down from a backflip, so you need to keep your shoulders turned to keep spinning. For me the last 180 is after the flip.
 
that was at my house, and the board isn;t even a foot off the ground, probs 10 inches or so. I think i can throw cork 5's off of it now, im gunna try some more tomorrow
 
hopefully this thread will still be up around sat or so...ill get some shit of misties, rodeos, and ty battersby doing these crazy switch misty and switch backflip deals where on the approach he pops a 180 at the last lil bit then flys into orbit for the trick...sooo rad!
 
u meen like running foward, then doing a 180 on the board and backflipping? my friend and i do them, they r soo ill
 
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