Q&A for How to Do a Standing Back Flip from the Ground

It might be that you're sort of scared. Keep trying it on the mat until you feel 100% confident that you can do it on the floor. It takes time.

You're probably not getting enough height, which means you aren't setting right. You can practice them on a trampoline before doing it on the floor. Having a strong core and leg base helps a lot, so conditioning will also help.

The tuck to the knees will initiate the rotate and flip your body around successfully.

As a gymnast, the best age is 9 or 10; if you're not a gymnast, it's preteen to teenage (12 to 15).

Yes, in any difficult technique like this, there is a chance of getting hurt. To be safe, enlist a spotter and practice on soft mats before flipping on normal ground.

You should practice your jumping first and strengthen you legs. Once you feel you can jump high enough, you can try the standing back flip.

Practice into a foam pit or on a trampoline. If you do it into a foam pit, make sure to try to over-spin onto your back, so you get a feel for that fast rotation you need on solid ground. Make sure to use correct form.

It's important to get a sense of safety. First, familiarize yourself with being upside down -- for example, hang from a bar and just take in your surroundings while the world is flipped. Use step 3 (using a chin up bar to do the flip) as much as necessary. Before that, you could practice tucking your legs in properly by jumping off the ground and grabbing your knees, then landing again.

You need to swing your arms more.

Yes, the only thing that is different is you swing your arms up to get enough height. Do NOT go back. Go straight up and do not freak out in the air.

Keep on practicing and if you have gymnastics lessons ask your coach for some extra help, however, be careful and don't try do anything without adult supervision - you can get seriously hurt otherwise. Work on mastering easier moves too.

Yes you can. It might just require more momentum to flip, so make sure you tuck hard.

You want to make sure that you lift your chest when you land, so you are standing straight up with bent knees in your landing.

The only way that this will happen is if you chicken out. if you don't chicken out, then you will be fine and you will land brilliantly as long as you block.

Ask them to get a mat so you wont hurt yourself, or maybe a trampoline. You could also ask them if you could take a gymnastics class, that way you'd have a professional adult who could spot you and guide you.

Try doing squats, as that helps with the actual jumping, or do rolls backwards. Also, if you already are good at tucking your knees in, go onto a trampoline and just try to do a back flip.

Don't worry. It will take some practice, but if you keep working hard, you'll do it.

I would recommend using a grassy area or even a mattress. Anything soft that wouldn't hurt too much to fall on would work as a substitute.

You might be throwing your head back. Look straight ahead and keep looking until your body is upside down. Then look down.

Get flexible! Take a gymnastics class, and stretch often. If you do these things and you're consistent, you'll be more flexible in no time.

Probably because you're comfortable having your height prepared for you, and you focus on your technique, therefore you struggle on ground because you trained on your technique and not height. Go from your normal height and decrease the height by around half an inch every successful time, and it will become easier.

In this case, you will fall to the ground. Try to land on your knees. It will hurt if you land on your head.

You can start by putting pillows around you, and just practice until you get comfortable enough to do it on your own. You can also have someone spot you.

Practice helps against fear. Take a step back to a previous exercise that you weren't too afraid to do, like from a box to the floor or back-flip on a trampoline. Repeat that a good number of times, like 50, for a few weeks, and you will feel your comfort zone expand until it includes the next step. Another thing that combats all fear is knowledge. You know what will happen if you under-rotate: you land on all fours, aka "you didn't die". So even if you're afraid, remember that a less-than-perfect execution is not a big deal, and you know how to react if it goes a little wrong.

Kick your knees up hard and grab onto your knees with your hands. You can practice this by hanging underneath a bar and lifting your legs. This will also build your abs.

There is no specific height requirement. But, to make sure you do get up high enough, set yourself upward and don’t bend back.

A trampoline is a strong, bouncy fabric sheet that is connected to springs, which connect to a frame. Trampolines are used kind of like springboards, except trampolines have softer surfaces.

Tuck your knees in. It will help you rotate 360 degrees in the backflip. Maybe try to jump higher as well, because you'll get more momentum.

Make sure you are getting your hips up and engaging your core so you can rotate fast enough.

Remind yourself that you have the ability to do whatever you set your mind to.