Talking about the basic backflip where part of your body is always touching the ground.
Talking about the basic backflip where part of your body is always touching the ground.
bartholomew_maxwell wrote:
Talking about the basic backflip where part of your body is always touching the ground.
Idiot. There is no backflip where part of your body is always touching the ground.
Doing a somersault backwards is something that surely every able-bodied child can do.
Not true and it's just an issue of semantics. Some say potato, some say potata.
elvid33 wrote:
bartholomew_maxwell wrote:
Talking about the basic backflip where part of your body is always touching the ground.
Idiot. There is no backflip where part of your body is always touching the ground.
Doing a somersault backwards is something that surely every able-bodied child can do.
Probably pretty athletic but you don’t have to be light. I’ve seen many 220lbers and heavies during wrestling season from D2-D1 schools do wall running and regular backflips as a warm up or when winning big tournaments
AverageForFun wrote:
Probably pretty athletic but you don’t have to be light. I’ve seen many 220lbers and heavies during wrestling season from D2-D1 schools do wall running and regular backflips as a warm up or when winning big tournaments
Yeah I know there was this big dude known for doing them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRl8z15naUkbartholomew_maxwell wrote:
Not true and it's just an issue of semantics. Some say potato, some say potata.
elvid33 wrote:
Idiot. There is no backflip where part of your body is always touching the ground.
Doing a somersault backwards is something that surely every able-bodied child can do.
It’s not a potato/pottato situation. One is a roll, the other is a flip.
Do you call a somersault a forward flip? No. Therefore what you describe is not a backflip.
And as said above, a backward somersault doesn’t take any natural talent. It’s something kids do when working out how their bodies work.
I was never learned how to do a backflip or somersault.
bartholomew_maxwell wrote:
I was never learned how to do a backflip or somersault.
u never learnt 2 identify them either
bartholomew_maxwell wrote:
Not true and it's just an issue of semantics. Some say potato, some say potata.
Actually all potatoes are potatx now.
If canceled, u end up mashed.
bartholomew_maxwell wrote:
Talking about the basic backflip where part of your body is always touching the ground.
Nobody really knows.
Raggedman wrote:
bartholomew_maxwell wrote:
Not true and it's just an issue of semantics. Some say potato, some say potata.
It’s not a potato/pottato situation. One is a roll, the other is a flip.
Do you call a somersault a forward flip? No. Therefore what you describe is not a backflip.
And as said above, a backward somersault doesn’t take any natural talent. It’s something kids do when working out how their bodies work.
Wait, he really was referring to a reverse somersault????
Ok, then it takes a 1.1/10 athleticism to be able to do one, if 1/10 is a quadrapalegic who can still control their face.
An actual backflip, I'd say is about a 3/10, which is where most normal/abled people, but not quite all, can learn to do it.. Its easier than a front flip, which takes about a 5/10, which is where about half of abled people could learn it in their prime.
bartholomew_maxwell wrote:
AverageForFun wrote:
Probably pretty athletic but you don’t have to be light. I’ve seen many 220lbers and heavies during wrestling season from D2-D1 schools do wall running and regular backflips as a warm up or when winning big tournaments
Yeah I know there was this big dude known for doing them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRl8z15naUk
Gable Stevenson is amazing.
You're talking a back handspring?
A somersault is where you turn in the air.
A handspring is where you arch onto your hands and then rotate on your feet.
A roll is like the somersault but your don't ever leave the ground.
the problem with backflips is the fear that if you fail to rotate completely and land on your head, you could be killed. And that fear is correct and may directly cause you to hesitate and rotate incompletely! So if you have the slightest fear of a backflip it is dangerous.
You can also fail to rotate even if you are not afraid of that, so a backflip is truly a lose-lose situation engaged in by utter fools. Don't envy them.
Not sure but I think if you landed just wrong enough you could be decapitated. Imagine that.
Bad Wigins wrote:
the problem with backflips is the fear that if you fail to rotate completely and land on your head, you could be killed. And that fear is correct and may directly cause you to hesitate and rotate incompletely! So if you have the slightest fear of a backflip it is dangerous.
You can also fail to rotate even if you are not afraid of that, so a backflip is truly a lose-lose situation engaged in by utter fools. Don't envy them.
Not sure but I think if you landed just wrong enough you could be decapitated. Imagine that.
The average person is probably not going to leap high enough for the landing to be fatal if missed but I could see an ill landing leading to paralysis for the unlucky soul.
Bad Wigins wrote:
the problem with backflips is the fear that if you fail to rotate completely and land on your head, you could be killed. And that fear is correct and may directly cause you to hesitate and rotate incompletely! So if you have the slightest fear of a backflip it is dangerous.
You can also fail to rotate even if you are not afraid of that, so a backflip is truly a lose-lose situation engaged in by utter fools. Don't envy them.
Not sure but I think if you landed just wrong enough you could be decapitated. Imagine that.
It's serious stuff:
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/15422514/two-olympian-jamie-nieto-paralyzed-mishapNeed a good spotter:
The backflip is not that hard. I'm almost 50, totally out of shape, and about 60 pounds heavier than when I was a good runner. A couple years ago my kids were starting gymnastics so my wife and I did a few adult gymnastics classes thinking it would just be conditioning. Nope, they started us immediately on some skills. After only about 4-5 1 hour classes I had progressed from jumping backward onto a mat, to doing a backflip into a foam pit, to doing a backflip on a thick mat on top of a trampoline (without bouncing - it just makes the landing easier). Instructor said I was ready to go to the regular floor with it but that was about the time our classes ended. I never had any gymnastics skills as a child, was not athletic as a child (other than running and being generally well coordinated), and was on the verge of mastering this as a 50 year old fat man who has no vertical jumping skills.
It is, however, a dangerous skill to learn. I would not recommend someone trying to learn this without coaching. When one of the world's best high jumpers (Nieto) paralyzed himself doing it, I wouldn't recommend doing it on the street to show off.