Serious question

Kotelet

Kotelet

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Seriously... What are the chances of breaking one's neck while doing a flip ... Personally I haven't ever heard of anyone being so unfortunate, but...

Give me som examples (preferably with dates)

Im doing an assignment on skiing

 
if you havent done any flips yet, and your freaked about breaking your neck. Then try a front flip first, they are less scary, and not as high of a chance to break your neck. Also try them into powder.

 
whaaaaat, a backflip is about 100 times easier than a frontflip and isn't blind at all....start there on a small mogul jump with a ton of lip and just throw your arms back and tuck...if anything, you will over rotate and land on your butt or lower back...

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.'did you see what i said?' - matt on magic mushrooms....
 
just do it in pow untill you get a good feel for it... somebody did like did get inured, and i heard it was a broken neck

-Grant

Chicken Wang?
 
trampoline, then waterramp then snow, unless you got some rocks...then just go for it on snow...they are easier than 360's

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I wouldn't necessarily say a backflip is easier, it's certainly more comfortable because you spot the ground very early in the rotation. It's the first quarter flip that's the great unknown...

Your brain has to register the visual cues - things will appear blurry for the first few attempts but focus comes pretty quickly, as your eyes adjust, and it will seem a 'no-brainer' in no time.

The front flip is safer to execute because you get past your head in the first quarter while still maintaining visual contact with the ground. It's the landing that's trickier since it's more of a feel (a lot of people look to the side, for orientation, as they're coming around).

 
I cant do a whole lot of tricks but the backflip I have mastered. So it must be quite easy. But I dont agree that throwing your arms back will do the trick. I would much rather focus on throwing your head back and keep it back. I have heard of no one who died doing that.

Be Strong, Be Wrong.

 
i agree, i should have said head and arms to begin with....where your head goes, your body will follow naturally....the main point i think isn't the trick, but mental preparedness. you really want to have muscle memory of the trick before the snow, so a tramp helps 100 fold. Then, just make up your mind to do it and DO IT. he worst thing you can do is think about it before hand, wait 10 minutes to go and then flail in the air because you thought too much. that is the easiest and fastest way to get hurt. you have to think that it's much better to do a sloppy backflip, fall and be able to try again rather than go for it, start flailing in the air and land on your head and not be able to try again because you're either hurt already or too scared because you didn't even come close on your first try...just something to think about

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.'did you see what i said?' - matt on magic mushrooms....
 
Check out the movie on my profile of Becca Sedler trying a backflip, she weighs like 90lbs and she pretty much just had a neck ache for a week. If it were my 200lb ass though id probubly be dead.

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I have seen both kind of laid out backflips and tucked up backflips done really fast on small jumps. Which is the best way to try them? I want to try the tucked way but it seems like I'd be able to see my landing a lot sooner if I tried the layout style back. Any advice?

 
Ok, don;t worry about spotting your landing. And it helps to lay it out. You see that landing some so fast that it is wierd...i thought i pussed out because i never realy rememebr goin inverted. It was great. But, i tihnk it helps to lay it out. u will over rotate. i didn;t really lay my first one out and i brought my legs forward in fornt of me really fast, like as soon as i saw my landing and i over rotated....My advise is to aly it out and u got it.

 
Ok ... I got a lot of good advice... But don't any of you have more examples of people really getting hurt on flips? No pictures or vids, just names and dates.

Does it happen often? I could imagine that its a rather sensitive subject, and people would tend to 'just forget'.

 
what, are you looking to get hurt or something, that is dumbest shit i've heard, just be positive, commit and you got it, quit bein a puss

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.'did you see what i said?' - matt on magic mushrooms....
 
Lets see...My friends older brother just hucked himself off a table and tried a back...he broke his tailbone when he over roatated.

I heard someone broke their neck of a table at Breck a few years back...I also heard he was like 7 and couldnt even do 3s yet.

Last year at Buttermilk a guy did a back off a table and his equipment failed (his ski broke)and he broke his leg.

a mini skier tried a Lincoln off a table with no speed...landed on his head...and was fine.

 
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---- The rest of you that don't understand what I wrote? Sorry about that - not trying to be anti-social, just thrilled to meet a countryman!

 
I tried a double back over a 70 ft table and hucked it to early because I was paraniod about getting the rotation, and I didnt get enough pop and I landed directly on my head on the second rotation, right on the flat top part of the jump. Every single person in the entire terrain park thought that I had either broken my neck or died. But nothing happened, so I hiked up and kept trying untill I landed it.

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ok , so i can do a backflip on a tramp like its my job. no brainer, but is the transition from snow, with skis, BIG, from tramp, with no skis??

 
the only true difference is your moving forward. its usually all in the hips and head to do a good backflip

-Grant

Chicken Wang?

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i saw someone who was very inexperienced break their neck 2 years ago, and it was a pretty disturbing experience. i suggest you learn how to do backflips and front flips on trampolines first and become more confident and get the flow of it...don't just go try one if you've never done one on a tramp or anything before...especially if you're scared. just a suggestion...

Be who you are and say what you feel, cause people who mind don't matter, and people who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss
 
just try one you pussies, once you caan land sevens nice and comfy like, go for it

my intire crew waited for his ass at the bottem of the hill and beat the shit out of him. i broke his poles agianst a tree, and we snapped one of his skis. fucker got uppercutted so much. he was bleeding from his eyes and shit, crying like a little pussy. i busted out a body slam on his ass and broke both of his arms. the ski patroler broke up the fight and clipped all of our tickets. we where gonna beat the shit out of the patroller but my mom came to pick us up.

~mommy~
 
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