[tkdninja]

you dont kick your legs up just push towards your arms and your shoulders should carry you over, I said this before

[B_boy_mhm]

Originally posted by Hiddin Image Hey, I don't say much here at breakdance.com. I just read all the nice guides and practice for dances. This summer I went away to a Physical Fitness camp. I'm not lieing about this, they actually taught me to do backflips in like 10 minutes. I'll give you step by step of how to work up the balls to do this. -Step 1- A) Stand up tall B) Lean back and try and look behind you. (Further you look the better) C) Hold this position for about 20 seconds. Repeat this step until you feel your compfortable to move on. Also the longer you hold this the better. -Step 2- A) Sit on the grass with for feet pulled up to your chest. B) Roll yourself backwards (Backwards summersault) C) First few times roll once. After compfortable roll 2. 3 times is pointless. This step is just to prepare you for the next step and so when you do your back flip you to them right and not twist your body and break a bone. -Step 3- A) Stand Tall B) Bend Knees C) Sit down and once your close to the ground do a backwards summer sault D) When your almost done of the summersault, use your hands to help push you up and land back on your feet and stand tall. Hold that pose for a few seconds REPEAT this step many times also!! -Step 4- A) Lay down facing up B) Get on all fours still facing up. Now make sure your hands are in the right position, like your half way done of a backflip. Meaning wrist towards your feet and fingers towards your head. C) Kick up with your feet and land on flat feet. This step took me a few tries to get compfortable. At this point you must realize in your head that when you do attemp this backflip everything will feel natural and you will not mess up. Unless you rushed too fast pass one of the steps. So please make sure your comportable with all of them before moving on. -Step 5- A) Stand Tall B) Hands out in front and swing down and back up over your head. C) Look behind like in !!Step 1!! Then land on your hands. You do not have to jump in the stage. Just put yourself in the position like the start of step 4 D)Kick feet up like in step !!4!! E) roll yourself flat to your feet like in !!Step 3!! Now your completly used to doing a backflip!! Now as you practice it you can perfect it and jump and land on your hands and everything. I wish you the best of luck. I have no camera to make a video of each step but its all common sense anyways, Peace... If you run into trouble please post here and i'll answer them ASAP. Also if your trouble is your scared. Then I can't help you. Just do 1-4 steps over and over.

YO BRO! CAN UN MAKE A LIL CLIP, SO I CAN SEE HOW U EXPLAIN HOW 2 DO THE BACKFLIP!!! I DON'T KNOW 2 MUCH ENGLISH SO I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND SOME MOVES U SAID OR POSITIONS...
AND THANK A LOT FOR THE GUIDE EVENTHOUGHT I DID'T UNDERSTAND IT GOOD... PEACE AND THANKS....

[Cizza]

nicely put out but now i need a clip of some one doing it!

[Breakin' Boyz]

da ownage guide to backhandsprings is all i can say...i got it within 5 mins itz as ez as doing a normal handspring itz great

btw how do u ppl not understand it...its pure n simple

[B-B-B-B-B-Boy]

naw this didn really work for me

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in step 4 when you flip yourself over. I keep landing on my face, is this because of lack of arm strength or something else?

EDIT: actually, dont worry, i did it, wasn't that hard after all.
Step 5, here i come O_o
owww, my hands starting to hurt.

[Simba&jazzy]

I don't understand the step 4. Could you exsplain it a little more? THANKS!

[Simba&jazzy]

Does anyone know how to do a back walkover? I really want to do one but just can't get my feet to kick over! How can I get the feeling of it? PLEASE HELP!

[brigand]

Hi Hiddin Image,

Just to make sure I got it right: In step 3, in C, when you say "do a backward somersault" do you mean back flip/back tuck or a back roll on the ground like in step 2 B?

Thanks!

[Krtrzu]

Is step four supposed to be a bridge walk over or something else? If it is... Not everyone can do that, and if it isn't... Can you explain it in a little more detail or maybe get a couple of pics or something? Thanks man.

Jeremy

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in step 4, i can flip myself over and i'm sure i'm ready to go onto step 5, but i'm rather slow at getting my whole body over. Like, it takes a few seconds instead of one quick flip over. Is there a certain speed i should flip myself over at or can/should i just move onto the last step once i can do it? Also, i tend to flip one leg over before the other, is that ok or should both legs be going over at the same time next to each other? and are the headaches normal?

[ToMmY g]

headaches are just becasue ur not used to all the blood rushing to ur head so that wll passs. both legs should go ver at the same time. if u go faster u will be able to do it better an not take as long.

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thanks, i guess i'll stick to step 4 for now and move on when im faster

[BackTrakplaya]

Yeah man I kinda agree with what d@rk_wr@ith was sayin about gettin hurt...I mean if i mess up a six-step it may result in a rug burn but like if i get the flip to fast im screwed! if i get it to slow...im screwed so i need some tips on how to do it perfect..cus i dont wanna die...dancing, also when i did try a backflip with no experience... but I can do a front flip ok but i cant land on my feet... im just a useless noob...

( need tips on flips)

[tkdninja]

omg you cant die from doing a backflip, you ask anyone that can do flips and most of them have landed on their heads and they are still alive. This guide breaks down the BHS for you so you understand the movements involved, all you realy need is a spotter which will reduce your hurting factor to practacly 0