How to do an Backflip
1st. -Make sure you get a wave that is going
to give you some speed the more the better. If the wave
has a wedge in it or has a steep take off
or has some size you will be able to generate
speed a lot easier.
2nd. -Drive off the power pocket of the wave
to use what ever speed the wave has. Some time the
power pocket is at the bottom and some times it is
at the top. Where depends on the type of wave. A wedge,
or really steep wave has a power pocket more at the bottom
which lets you drive off your bottom turn towards the lip
and regular waves have the power pockets higher
up and you have to stay high and race towards the lip
from there.
3rd. -You are racing towards the lip with all the
speed the wave can give you.
Have to see where the lip is pitching and aim at it.
It helps to hit the lip at the same moment it throws out.
To early and you go flying off the back, to late you get
stuck in the lip and sent to the bottom, but if you
hit it just right you get sent soaring in to the
flats like a champ.
4th. -You hit the lip at just the right time now and throw
you body and board off of the lip and in to the air.
5th - the rider hits the lip with maximum speed projecting out away from the wave upside down doing the equivalent of loop, landing facing backward toward the wave. Hard, blind landings put this move at the high end of the difficulty/consequence scale.