Side Flip Tutorial

[urbantricker]

The subject says it all.

You can see the video on my website with a short written intro to it at,

http://urbantricking.com/index.php?contentId=93

Or here is the YouTube video:



Dawesome also added some excellent advice that I recommend you read!

very good tutorial ian! its a very simple rotation but learning to send ur body in the right way is difficult.so totally agree with u saying you should have it comfortable and at a good standard on the floor/trampoline before you try on bocks.

On the knee angle thing, im actually very much aginst the take off rather than the landing for this (get to that later), ian does turn back to face the way he came and this is a must when you do it on bocks, and i do it that way. if you turn that extra 90 degrees in the air during the flip you land like you would land a back flip and is fine on your knees.

I find the power that can and will be generated by running and then throwing that momentum into a landing sideways for the take off is very dangerous and agree with anyone who says this is bad on the knees, because it will be. landing sideways means there is a chance that if a hoof slips or something else unfortunate happens like a break of the stilt in some way then your knees are gonna be under pressure that can be minimised/avoided.

if you jump high and then turn a 90 degree turn while doing this, you can get very high (less high than running as u lack the extra power the momentum of the run gives u, but still a great amount) and your take off is now just like any other jump. I do sometimes jump slightly forward to turn but only a maximum of half a metre, usually less than that.

I personally would advice the jumping into it technique as a safer alternative on the knees (plus if you learnt on the trampoline you would have learnt from jumping up and down and just doing it anyway), which for me is still good as i can still do the extra 90 degree turn for the landing and backflip after it without any problem so i find it good.

Appreciate your comments, good or bad!

More to come soon!

[badambomas]

wow good tutorial.....im not quite ready to attempt this but it was very well done

Thanks...

I know i can refere to this in future when i am ready

Cheers Badambomas

[XarnuSonci]

some of the text was a bit fast so i had to skip back but it looks good, don't think i'd ever try this trick cause it looks very dangerous to your knees, but for those brave enough it should give them a good starting point.  You should definately be able to do this on a trampoline before attempting it on bocks.

[X-Eagle]

i dont know what i am doing wrong... everytime when i try a sideflip i go into a backflip while spinning...

so i am doin a side to quarter twist^^

[Paul-Self]

when i learnt this move on the floor i at first rotated as well what i found was the best thing to do was

when you take off looking forward fix your eyes on say a object in front  of you and keep looking at it as you go over, i found as you were concentrating on that object you dont turn your head and then turn to the side.

Thats how i stopped turning to the side, its really just like learning to flip again as a lot of people when they first attempt flips go over one shoulder etc

hope thats some help to you

Their is one in my vid below off a trampett which is a nice place to learn them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51dUw5wqUfY

[Sprog]

Nice tutorial Ian, very clear and simple

some of the text was a bit fast so i had to skip back

Wow you read slow then Nick

[lidor1980]

some of the text was a bit fast so i had to skip back

I just push on the pause button everytime..
That was a very invested tutorial like the first one, thank you for that Ian.
But  i am not sure that i will do that.. i can't take the chance to land wrong and stay without knees for 6 month...
Although that i am dieing to know to do it.

[urbantricker]

Cheers for the comments, I did forget to mention you shoudl definately be confident doing this on the floor before on your bocks!

I have some more tutorials coming soon!!!

i dont know what i am doing wrong... everytime when i try a sideflip i go into a backflip while spinning...

so i am doin a side to quarter twist^^

Upload a video and we can try and see what you are doing wrong!

when you take off looking forward fix your eyes on say a object in front  of you and keep looking at it as you go over, i found as you were concentrating on that object you dont turn your head and then turn to the side.

Yes thats a really good point.

some of the text was a bit fast so i had to skip back

I will bear that in mind on the future ones I do!

[Ska]

some of the text was a bit fast so i had to skip back

Wow you read slow then Nick

Same here. Well english isn't my mature language so I have to read and understand in the time others only have to read.

I wonder how the stuff is called when you just pull your feets up when jumping. Always though that THIS is called a "side flip" and not the stuff you can see on the video. So how its called then? *confused*

Nice vid!

[sctrojnvirus]

don't think i'd ever try this trick cause it looks very dangerous to your knees

I can't say I understand why everyone thinks that this particular move is more strenuous on the knees than others. You land with both legs at the same time and keep them basically together. Certainly the move is dangerous, by virtue of being a flip but why does everyone think it's so dangerous on the knees?

[juhuv]

because you land sideways

and bouncing of and landing is both a bit more of a stress for your ligaments in the knee... and if you underrotate the flip, you land almost only on one leg, while leaning very much to the side... not THAT good for your knee


greez juhuv

[urbantricker]

I wonder how the stuff is called when you just pull your feets up when jumping. Always though that THIS is called a "side flip" and not the stuff you can see on the video. So how its called then? *confused*

Sorry, I don't get what you are trying to say?




Yeh some people tend to find it dangerous. When I do it though I jump up rotate and come down landing pretty much as if I had just jumped into the air and to the side a bit. Lol, almost.

I can say I have never injured myself doing this and I feel safest doing this move but that is only where I have practiced so much without my bocks on!

[Ska]

well sth like this for example.. thought those were "flips" too.

[Athoul]

well sth like this for example.. thought those were "flips" too.

Thats a trick.
A flip is when you rotate and your feet go over the top of your head.

I think it got lost in translation 

[Lukey]

Personally, I'd call this a barrell-roll and its what I'm REALLY keen on nailing! They rule man!

A trick can be a flip, they're one and the same thing. A trick can be a grab or a split etc as well as a flip/sumi etc.