Grass: Backyard Flips
No gym needed. Learn to flip on grass, from cartwheels to cork.
Beginner cartwheel tutorial on grass: hand placement, kick-over and finishing tall.
Dive roll tutorial by Fraser Malik: diving over distance into a smooth shoulder roll on grass.
💡 Learn to bail safely before you learn to flip.
A back handspring learned outdoors on grass with no mats or spotter, which changes the progression more than the trick. Rather than throwing it cold, the outdoor route starts low: squat, reach around to the side and hop onto the hands — essentially a macaco — then swing the arms more vertically and jump a little higher each round until the movement straightens into a true handspring over the top. The technique itself asks for a real lean back before the explosion, jumping backwards at roughly 45 degrees with the arms thrown by the ears into an arch. The hands land with shoulders, elbows and wrists stacked so the skeleton carries the load, followed by a hard snap-down from the core that pikes the legs under and pops the chest up. The classic faults are not travelling back far enough, not pushing out of the shoulders, and stalling in the arch instead of committing through the snap-down.
Sam Kojo teaches the tricker aerial - a no-handed cartwheel - the easiest way, on grass.
Macaco (valdez) tutorial on grass: sit back, reach over one shoulder and whip the legs over.
The butterfly kick performed on grass — a slightly softer takeoff and landing than sprung floor.
Step-by-step hack for landing your first butterfly twist on grass, starting from a grounded-twist drill.
Backflip performed on grass. Backward somersault, rotating heels-over-head with no hands.
How to add a full twist to your backflip on grass, with technique that sets up swingthroughs and later twisting variations.
Cork tutorial using a secret setup method, trained outdoors on grass.