Garden Trampoline: First Flips
From safe bouncing to your first flips — the classic backyard progression. Master each step before moving on.
Back bouncing is the fundamental of repeatedly landing and rebounding on the back in a controlled flat position. The base skill for all back-drop tricks.
💡 Control before airtime — clean back bounces set up everything.
A front drop lands you flat on your stomach and rebounds you back to your feet, teaching a controlled horizontal body position on the bed. It's one of the first trampoline fundamentals and the base for pop-to-feet tricks like the kaboom.
From a back landing, pull backward over your head and land on your feet — a classic first trampoline trick.
💡 Your first over-rotation — a backflip in disguise.
Drop to your back on the trampoline and rebound straight into a front somersault back to your feet.
Backflip performed on a trampoline. Backward somersault, rotating heels-over-head with no hands.
💡 The milestone. Commit, spot the bed.
A frontflip is a full forward somersault, tucking and rotating over the front axis to land on your feet. The garden trampoline's rebound gives the height and airtime to complete the rotation, making it a much softer place to learn it than the floor.
Frontflip with a half twist, landing facing the way you came.
Backflip with a half twist on the garden trampoline, the classic first backward twist.
Back Full performed on a trampoline. Backflip with a full 360 twist.
Cody performed on a trampoline. Backflip initiated from lying/stomach position, popping up and rotating back.
💡 Bounce off your back into a flip — opens the whole cody family.