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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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Elbradamontes t1_iw2sy0v wrote

It’s the throwing your head back. The trick, for noobs, is to bring your knees up and not throw your head back. Bring your feet over your head not your head under your feet.

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czar_el t1_iw2vx6z wrote

Yup, that's part of the "bring limbs closer into the center like a figure skater" advice. The head and core form the center of mass when tucked together, and whipping the arms back then pulling in as you whip the legs and jacknife them in towards the core adds extra rotation to that center of mass. When the head is thrown back away from the core and the limbs drag, there's no center and no added rotation.

The head is one of the heaviest parts of the body, so it's definitely worth pointing out, thanks.

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