Progress has been real good in my gymnastics class recently.
Here I wanted to show a backflip video of not one but five backflips in a series.
They’re not the prettiest back tucks but they are getting increasingly easier to do. A week or two ago was the first time I could ‘see’ the ground as I flipped. I don’t think it was that I closed my eyes before, just that the ground moved to fast.
In this series I was jumping too far back with each one. It was near the end of the night and I was fatigued. Plus it gets hard doing backflips repeatedly as I begin to get dizzy and jumping straight up becomes even harder. But for the most part my take off, my tuck and everything is better than ever.
With the progress here I’ve even started doing these backflips again outside at the beach, on grass and dirt.
It’s funny. Back flips are one of the easier basics of tumbling (much easier than a standing front flip!) yet they can be one of the scariest moves to do. Once you get over that fear and progress to being able to safely doing this skill you may find it can be easy. For more details on getting started check out the article How to do a Backflip.
My current goal is to do ten in a row like this. After that I’ll move on to more difficult variations like those found in Tumbling Illustrated.
I hope you liked the Backflip Video that I made.
Good Luck and Good Flipping,
Logan Christopher
Logan,
Great work! I like seeing your progress and the realistic goals you are setting with your gymnastics. Keep it up. You are right about the whole fear thing. I don’t think I will even try to start back flips until I can find an instructor or someone who knows enough to help catch my uncoordinated body properly. Otherwise, I think I will be in need of a quick trip to the ER following my first attempts.
-Jon
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