Backroll | First Invert Wakeboarding | Tips and Tricks

This video is a comprehensive tutorial on how to do a backroll. Generally speaking, a backroll is one of the first inverts/flips people learn on a wakeboard, the other is a tantrum.
In this video we break the trick down into four parts:
1. The approach
2. The take off
3. The Trick
4. The landing
We also discuss some great hacks for trying it for the first time ever. These include:
- trying it with one hand
- doing it one wake
- letting go of the rope
- help from the boat driver.
I really hope this video helps you get the courage to try learn a backroll.
Good luck!
Thanks for watching.
Dave

[@blakerice1761]

Personally I liked your first tutorial on the back roll. Hahaha. You’ve come a long way since then. I landed my first hs backroll last summer and your video was a major help. Thanks for helping was mere mortals out.

[@mattbroderick8434]

Your a Legend Man!!! They need a Nobel Prize For Wakeboarders so you can win for your tutorials. Thanks Man!!

[@DavidOCaoimhWakeboarder]

hahah thanks Matt!

[@1minutecomicswalahollywood648]

My passion,
Thank-you, Sir.

[@tuglife4354]

Could you learn this getting tow’d behind a sea doo?

[@chnouchi92]

Hi ! Thanks for the tutorial !! I suceed backroll one or 2 time on a g23 with a big wave but more difficult on a smaller. I have two questions :
- the board orientation on the wake is more 10h or 11h
- do you transfer the body weight from heel to toes at the top of the wake ?
Thksss

[@alexeydementyev3913]

Hi David , if I can do a backroll on a cable between two towers , will I succeed behind the boat ? What should I pay attention to ? Thank you for your videos, I really like them .👍

[@crayk7598]

i've no boat. Is it easier to learn it over a kicker in park?

[@thecarpetchemist9663]

Please help with my first invert. th-cam.com/video/QBVWK1Rp2dw/w-d-xo.html I think I am leaving the wake in a 4pm (scooping behind the perpendicular line to the boat - Im goofy) causing me to land too sideways. Should you leave the wake at 3pm/9pm? Do you want to land on heel edge or is it a matter of how you land and just edge as needed? I can also see I need to connect the lead hip more, look over the shoulder more and maybe release the back hand before landing. Am I on the right track?