What is a Backroll?
-
Toby
- Very Frequent Poster
- Posts: 50522
- Joined: Mon Sep 24, 2001 1:00 am
- Kiting since: 2000
- Weight: 95 kg
- Local Beach: Cumbuco, Brazil
Barra do Cauipe, Brazil - Favorite Beaches: same
- Style: Airstyle
- Gear: Rebel 2015 18
- Brand Affiliation: None.
- Location: World (KF Admin)
- Has thanked: 842 times
- Been thanked: 2402 times
- Contact:
-
JakeFarley
- Very Frequent Poster
- Posts: 920
- Joined: Sun Nov 27, 2016 11:54 pm
- Kiting since: 2001
- Weight: 92kg
- Local Beach: Florida Left Coast, USA
- Favorite Beaches: Any that are not crowded.
- Style: Dinosaur style (Velociraptor)
- Gear: Kites: Flysurfer Speed5 21m, Soul 12m, Cabrinha 16m Xbow, 11m Xbow, Best 14m HP Nemesis, 9m Yarga C Hybrid
Boards: Crazyfly 135 x 46 Pro, Cabrinha Spoiler 140, 6' custom surfboard, 122 x 46 custom twintip
Wing foil: Naish Hover 110l, Slingwing 6.4m, F-One CWC Strike 8m, Slingshot Hover Glide Fwing (Infinity 99), Slingshot Phantasm 926 and E 990 - Brand Affiliation: None
- Location: Pearl City
- Has thanked: 187 times
- Been thanked: 144 times
-
Toby
- Very Frequent Poster
- Posts: 50522
- Joined: Mon Sep 24, 2001 1:00 am
- Kiting since: 2000
- Weight: 95 kg
- Local Beach: Cumbuco, Brazil
Barra do Cauipe, Brazil - Favorite Beaches: same
- Style: Airstyle
- Gear: Rebel 2015 18
- Brand Affiliation: None.
- Location: World (KF Admin)
- Has thanked: 842 times
- Been thanked: 2402 times
- Contact:
-
longwhitecloud
- Very Frequent Poster
- Posts: 3676
- Joined: Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:15 am
- Style: Master Baiter. Oracle of windsport.
- Gear: 2 sets of Flysurfer VMGs 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 15, 18. Foilboards ( Masts 75 90 110 125 Wings 880 950 1100 1350 1750) all with Ronix Ones attached. Soon to retire to Wingfoiling.
- Has thanked: 108 times
- Been thanked: 175 times
Re: What is a Backroll?
"64 with some health issues. I "punished" my body when I was younger."
tell me i am going to be ok :-0 lol, any advice on keeping things in check?
tell me i am going to be ok :-0 lol, any advice on keeping things in check?
-
NorCalNomad
- Very Frequent Poster
- Posts: 838
- Joined: Thu Feb 13, 2014 4:40 am
- Local Beach: San Francisco
- Gear: Why should it matter?
- Has thanked: 0
- Been thanked: 3 times
Re: What is a Backroll?
What Starsky said. f*** I had some 20 something dude who works at facebook try to haggle on prices of kite gear today. Homeboy is definitely not progressing the sport.
The reason wakestyle stuff is more expensive is because it cost more to make on average (alot harder to make a board handle and perform for Hadlow's riding than your average KF rider) and it's not a volume play, and most kite companies don't have enough volume elsewhere to cover/ write off that loss.
-
longwhitecloud
- Very Frequent Poster
- Posts: 3676
- Joined: Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:15 am
- Style: Master Baiter. Oracle of windsport.
- Gear: 2 sets of Flysurfer VMGs 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 15, 18. Foilboards ( Masts 75 90 110 125 Wings 880 950 1100 1350 1750) all with Ronix Ones attached. Soon to retire to Wingfoiling.
- Has thanked: 108 times
- Been thanked: 175 times
Re: What is a Backroll?
Manufacturing wise it makes little difference, it's a volume thing for sure - if you don't price it high the volume is so low on those models it is not worth doing.
working for facebook is a good reason for not selling him any gear at all IMO :-0
working for facebook is a good reason for not selling him any gear at all IMO :-0
-
Tone
- Very Frequent Poster
- Posts: 2291
- Joined: Tue Dec 23, 2003 2:34 pm
- Has thanked: 5 times
- Been thanked: 30 times
Re: What is a Backroll?
I think the biggest bastardization of any trick is the s-bend, watch that Lou vid here
https://youtu.be/PhFVKGbvD_g?t=195
https://youtu.be/PhFVKGbvD_g?t=195
THAT is an s-bend.
That's an s-bend. All these guys claiming double s-bends to blind is utter nonsense.
/different thread needed for that!
https://youtu.be/PhFVKGbvD_g?t=195
https://youtu.be/PhFVKGbvD_g?t=195
THAT is an s-bend.
That's an s-bend. All these guys claiming double s-bends to blind is utter nonsense.
/different thread needed for that!
-
JakeFarley
- Very Frequent Poster
- Posts: 920
- Joined: Sun Nov 27, 2016 11:54 pm
- Kiting since: 2001
- Weight: 92kg
- Local Beach: Florida Left Coast, USA
- Favorite Beaches: Any that are not crowded.
- Style: Dinosaur style (Velociraptor)
- Gear: Kites: Flysurfer Speed5 21m, Soul 12m, Cabrinha 16m Xbow, 11m Xbow, Best 14m HP Nemesis, 9m Yarga C Hybrid
Boards: Crazyfly 135 x 46 Pro, Cabrinha Spoiler 140, 6' custom surfboard, 122 x 46 custom twintip
Wing foil: Naish Hover 110l, Slingwing 6.4m, F-One CWC Strike 8m, Slingshot Hover Glide Fwing (Infinity 99), Slingshot Phantasm 926 and E 990 - Brand Affiliation: None
- Location: Pearl City
- Has thanked: 187 times
- Been thanked: 144 times
Re: What is a Backroll?
For me it's been staying active as much as possible - biking, kayaking, yard work when there is no wind. And avoiding extremes in everything which has been a challenge. I tend to overdo things like staying out for 2-3 hours straight without a break. Also important is a good diet taylored to your metabolism and health issues (avoiding food that cause inflammation - hard to do).longwhitecloud wrote: ↑Sun Jun 04, 2017 10:10 pm"64 with some health issues. I "punished" my body when I was younger."
tell me i am going to be ok :-0 lol, any advice on keeping things in check?
-
Toby
- Very Frequent Poster
- Posts: 50522
- Joined: Mon Sep 24, 2001 1:00 am
- Kiting since: 2000
- Weight: 95 kg
- Local Beach: Cumbuco, Brazil
Barra do Cauipe, Brazil - Favorite Beaches: same
- Style: Airstyle
- Gear: Rebel 2015 18
- Brand Affiliation: None.
- Location: World (KF Admin)
- Has thanked: 842 times
- Been thanked: 2402 times
- Contact:
-
Starsky
- Very Frequent Poster
- Posts: 4373
- Joined: Mon Apr 19, 2004 12:12 pm
- Brand Affiliation: None
- Location: Ontario
- Has thanked: 0
- Been thanked: 3 times
Re: What is a Backroll?
It's never been an issue of name. It's only about what is and isn't lame.
A killer long powered slide can be pretty fucking cool.
Obsessing over filming yourself do it 600 different ways is lame.
A killer long powered slide can be pretty fucking cool.
Obsessing over filming yourself do it 600 different ways is lame.