Your Hardest Flipside Components

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Your Hardest Flipside Components

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List the components you had the hardest time learning on your flipside. I'm most interested in the components that feel extremely awkward and/or scary. Try to keep the list short.

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pixie
downtime illusion
swirl
drifter
symposium whirl
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Post by Ners »

Eggbeater
Fairy set
Swirl
Flail

Flip Osis tricks were troublesome too.

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Post by Nathan »

ducking osis (SO HARD)
eggbeaters
spins
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Post by Matt K »

Symp. Whirl
Nuclear; to a degree. When it works, it's just as good as strongside.
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Post by acxel22 »

symposium tricks
stepping set
double down
eggbeaters
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Post by Muffinman »

Mostly the things that are restricted due to injury, otherwise I try so hard to be bothsided that if something is just too hard, I won't even do it goodside, even if it is super easy on good.

Atomic
Eggbeater
Rev swirl
Pixie
(probably my WEAKEST thing...and my goodside is awesome, but I never do it because my flip is so bad)


I think pretty much everything else is almost actually bothsided, or close enough that it doesn't make too much difference. Well, I can't do "goodside" double downs anymore, but that's injury-related and I just don't do the flip, resultantly...
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Post by janis »

osis :cry:
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Post by Jeremy »

Swirls

I can hit sailing butterfly swirl with my weak sailing set, but struggle to hit normal swirl on the other side :oops: I went through a stage where I drilled them heaps but I guess I lost interest. Like Erik, the fact that I can't do them on one side is why I very rarely hit them on the other side - especially in public.
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Post by jay7 »

Quantum.
Fairy.

I try really hard to get EVERYthing, the first day I learn it, both sides. I just learned quantum 2 weeks ago, and fairy is just something I try and do when I am bored. So, I am happy to report that everything else I can think of is both sided, comfortably.
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Post by professor »

Pdx!
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Professionals practice until they can't get it wrong.

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Post by C-Fan »

Pixies and swirls, which I would guess makes sense, because they are both variations of weak ATW. Flip furious is still too inconsistent for me to even claim as a flip component, but it gets a nod as well.
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Post by semiconscious »

The ones that are giving me the most hell:

DLOs and eggbeaters
Atomic
Symp anything

There are 'nuff others, but Until I have them semi-dialled strongside, I guess they dont really count...
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Post by brinard »

flip whirls seem to elude me. im not scared, or have pain, i just cant move fast enough.

or flip DD's. i cant even datw flipsided. sooo much aggrivation.
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Post by Zeb Jackson »

flip stuff....hmm....

pixie
dlo
atomic
is mostly what comes to mind
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Post by BenRea »

agree with nathan, ducking osis
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Post by ianek »

fairy set
dlo
eggbeater
butter swirl
eclipse (still can't)
stepping ducking (only hit 2-3 times)
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Post by slapdash21 »

pixie and rev swirl. similar to jeremy, i cant hit ripwalk rev. swirl, sidewalk rev swirl, spinning rev swirl, but it takes me like 5 tries to hit reverse swirl flipside.

oh yeah and flip nuke.
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Post by Psilocybe »

Fairy
Spinning(!)
Ducking
DLO
Symp whirl
illusions and mirages somewhat weak too

need more practice!
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Post by MatS21 »

WHIRL
eggbeater/dlo's

Other than that, double dexes feels hard but I haven't worked them enough to say they are an hard flipside component, time will tell. I've footed it lately when giving them a try.
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Post by Rozo »

pixie and fairy set
barfly
symp whirl
swirl
blender
dyno
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