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muxch t1_iw2oa76 wrote

Reply to comment by SimonSkodt in What not to do by a-filipino

Agreed They are scary to commit to but easier overall because after the initial jump backwards you see the water from about 140deg all the way to landing which allows you to adjust rotation with your tuck.

Front flips you are blind for the second half and therefore harder to land well

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czar_el t1_iw2iazu wrote

Reply to comment by VincentVancalbergh in What not to do by a-filipino

You have to flip both your arms and legs backwards during the jump. You see the pros pinwheel their arms and jackknife their legs, each of which adds the force of that extra muscle movement and the mass of the limbs to the rotation and speeds it up. You also tuck them at the same time, which speeds rotation in the way that figure skaters doing a stationary spin do. This girl just left her limbs where they were when she jumped, so instead of their mass adding to the spin and moving the mass inward like a spinning figure skater, her core mass was essentially "dragging" the limbs, which slowed her overall rotation down.

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