chucks quest for flips

[chuck]

first video in the series of my training (finally).
i'm old and fragile and taking it slow so be easy on me

[chronicbarbarian]

Thats awesome keep it up!

[XarnuSonci]

nice job, looks like your trying it the same way zackiz did, which looked like a good technique to me. Wish i could find a gym near here, still looking

[bmthbloke]

cool, Im going the trampoline route. On an 11 week course, and whilst the instructor knows Im really interested in flips and is concentrating on them she is concentrating on me getting as perfect a technique as possible. Im ure she is right , but is getting a lil frustrating now . Unfortunatly dont have any crash mats. Which means  when I go live , it could be  a hard landing . 

But we gotta do it!

[Dawesome]

Looked good! looking forward to the next installment!

[stevie]

thats realy cool, keep it up, good luck and keep us posted on your progres,                      well done, Stevie.
 

[hemoves.com]

That was a perfect jump for that exercise, if your doin that good every try you are soon going to have it.

Well done Chuck

[`esco]

let go chuck, you soon will get it.
Nice technique in rotation.

[zackiz]

Very good! And it looked as you had good control over the tuck to. Really good rotation too! Great work! And I'm really excited about you putting up your whole progress, I'm arealdy waitin for th next video

One thing though, use wristguards. I fell beckwards when I trained in stockholm and didn't have them because of all the soft areas. But after that, I put on the wristgurads. I think you can see it in the film about it.

[jono]

Yeah nice did keep it up 

[chuck]

after a bit of time doing flips on the tumble track and then as shown with the stilts doing flat-backs on the blocks i was pretty much beat.  i'm confident enough now to begin landing them and will next time at the gym.  we copied the training zackiz got from our resident pros as it looked like a great safe way to learn the feel of the stilts in rotation.

i had already planned to use wrist guards next week when i start working on my landing, and will wear full gear and helmet when i'm ready to take it to the field.
also i wear a good level 2 knee support as i worry more about knee damage than anything when doing tricks, and my bocks have always caused me some knee discomfort. it's something everyone should consider as i've seen here several instances of knee injury recently.  i spent @ $90 on the pair but it's not that much compared to a trip to ER or surgery to repair, and down time would suck!

shown here

[zackiz]

Yeah! I, myself, wouldn't even dare do any trick out in the field without full gear How long do you practice at the gym every time?

[chuck]

one hour @$60 so that's also incentive to learn fast.  i had a tough time finding a gym to help me, out of over 300 students they have i'm the only adult right now but in the past they've helped others such as pro wrestlers.  they were interested in the stilts because it's something different.   

[zackiz]

300 students, don't you have to jump on the roof to be alone $60 PER HOUR!!!!! Thats very much, I pay only 80SEK($11) an hour.

[swebounce]

Well Zackis
Your teacher wasen't the most expensive ones.

And great work Chuck.
I do belive in that way of learning.
Just keep on working and you will get it.