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My name is Garrett Okun.
Oh my god, there is an Iphone down there! My name is Garrett Okun.
Where are you? We're in Wilson, haha.
Whistler, B.C, Bro!!!
Yeah, that's where we are. We are in Whistler.
The trick I'm going to teach you today is how to do backflips.
Before you try a backflip you want to be comfortable
clearing a jump with a reasonable size gap,
definitely know how to straight air a jump, you want to be comfortable
doing 360's so you have some air awareness.
Hopefully you have done flips into pools, on trampolines so you're comfortable
upside down, so you don't get freaked out the first time your heels
go over your head. When you're going into a jump for a backflip
you want to make sure you have enough speed to clear the jump and you want a
little
extra speed because you're going to be going upside down and
definitely don't wanna come up short on this one. Take the necessary speed but
don't take a lot of unnecessary turns once you get your speed dial.
Flat base a little on your toe edge.
Right as you're about to take off
you want to make sure to not pop early, if you lean back and pop to early
your going to know you dome off the takeoff. No go.
You want to pop at the proper time, look up at the sky,
helmet doesn't fly back.
So you want to get to the same point where you're going to pop
for a normal jump
and you're just gonna look back.
In the air you need to think about controlling the speed of your flip.
Whether you need to stay tucked or open up a little bit to slow it down.
Just focusing on keeping your rotation, spotting your landing.
Seeing your landing, stomping it bolts.
The number one rule is don't freak out. If you're going to do a backflip
you have to tell yourself,
alright today I'm doing a backflip I'm not going to wuss out once I get in the air.
That is the
number one worst thing that can happen. If you
get upside down you decide, well
doing a backflip wasn't a good idea. Yeah, you're going to have a bad time.
Just commit, commitment is key.
It's like having a girlfriend you know you can't have a good relationship if you're
not fully committed.
Otherwise you're going to land face first in the snow.
My first back flip experience was at my home mountain
back in North Carolina. They built a back flip jump right into a landing
of one of our jumps. It's was like a
huge scoop, almost vert jump. It was just a backflip jump. It was just a pretty
steep take-off,
with a nice landing. The first time I ever did it me and my roommate just went out
and said we're going to learn backflips and tried to psych each other out.
Went out and we were like we're learning backwards today.
The first few times we weren't committing and just kinda landing on our backs or our
stomachs.
Then finally tucked and did it.