BackFlip

[fireman]

Are there any good progressions ir order to learn the backflip? Because i can do front flip and front handspring, but back flips give me fear, and I would like to take out that fear. What I can do?

Thanks you very much.

[Neal Winkler]

This was my personal progression.

Trampoline --> Springy gymnastics floor --> Floor

Plus you need strong enough legs for jumping high.

Again, this was only my personal progression. I am not familiar with how it is done in gymnastics in general.

[Blairbob]

1. Have guts.

2. Build general aerial awareness.

3. Jump up and throw your legs over you head and land. Basically jump up and stretch your arms up, then tuck your legs over your heap. Really, it's not that much more complicated than that but...

You need to know how to a backward tuck roll. This is stupid simple.

It's a good idea to know how to do a backdrop on trampoline and pop back up to stand. It's a good idea to be able to do a HS and better yet that you have worked the front handspring and salto first.

Without a harness, a decent drill is set the rings to nearly the max height of your vertical jump. Jump up and grab the rings and perform a skin the cat in tuck position as fast as possible and land.

You need to have a good vertical jump and the ability to tuck/pike your legs up fast. Actually the latter is more important than the prior because many of our gymnasts don't have an awesome vertical jump but they can tuck or pike leg lift really fast which gets them around in lieu of their dismal VJ.

[Seiji]

I learned by tucking my BHS and then fixing technique from there. Besides jumping back, start jumping more up.

Funny story, when I first got back tucks I jumped straight up. I got scared for some reason again, and three+ months later I try again (few days ago). Maybe I got stronger, but I jump backwards as far as a BHS and land higher. I'll fix it of course, it's just weird.

[Animalonfire]

Without a harness, a decent drill is set the rings to nearly the max height of your vertical jump. Jump up and grab the rings and perform a skin the cat in tuck position as fast as possible and land.

I gave the method a good try for a few weeks for learning a tucked back. I found it really helpful for aerial awareness, but because I was relying on it I got out of the habit of grabbing my knee's and my back tuck got sloppy and less reliable.

I think that it's a pretty good drill, but definitely not a mainstay. I'm now focusing on standing back tuck on a trampoline and it's getting pretty solid 8) .