Backroll Classification

(billy2603) · (billy2603) **Join Date: Mar 2007** 07-11-2008, 8:46 AM

My friend and I have different styles for our backrolls - one does it mexican and the other does it normal. But we have a disagreement on which one is mexican. Is mexican the position in picture 1 or picture 2?

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(hawkeye7708) · (hawkeye7708) **Join Date: Feb 2007** 07-11-2008, 8:48 AM

Mexi roll looks almost like a front roll from the heelside. Regular backroll looks like your going around a pipe on a skateboard.

(fly135) · (fly135) **Join Date: Jun 2004** 07-11-2008, 8:53 AM

Picture 2

(jtd) · (jtd) **Join Date: Jul 2006** 07-11-2008, 9:13 AM

I dunno exactly what a mexican backroll looks like irl but I would say 2 for sure. Like Ben said...regular looks like going around on a pipe (regular = #1).

(hyperliteguy_04)

Great work on the pictures by the way!

(trickyboarder08)

yea, 1 is a backroll, 2 would be your mexican. Actually, on number 2 if he only had one hand, i'd say he was throwing a tantrum.

(wake2blake) · (wake2blake) **Join Date: Jun 2008** 07-11-2008, 9:31 AM

number 2 is a mexican
very nice pictures, haha

(dustin_w) · (dustin_w) **Join Date: Jun 2008** 07-11-2008, 9:34 AM

Awesome pictures.

(Message edited by dustin_w on July 11, 2008)

(ryan_shima1)

Billy, a normal backroll looks like a reverse cartwheel with the nose of the board edging up and away from the wake.

A mexican roll, is just as Ben A described above, looks like a frontroll roll from the HS. Equate it to a barrel roll, where your head is thrown between your legs as you leave the wake and the board rolls edge over edge.

(wakeviolater) · (wakeviolater) **Join Date: Sep 2004** 07-11-2008, 11:25 AM

(srh00z) · (srh00z) **Join Date: Jun 2003** 07-11-2008, 11:30 AM

Great drawings, but wakeviolator's is a little more accurate.

(focker) · (focker) **Join Date: Aug 2006** 07-11-2008, 11:31 AM

HAHA - post of the day!

(hawkeye7708) · (hawkeye7708) **Join Date: Feb 2007** 07-11-2008, 11:42 AM

i'm bustin out a sombrero next time i ride....

(jtd) · (jtd) **Join Date: Jul 2006** 07-11-2008, 12:14 PM

i love it!

(billy2603) · (billy2603) **Join Date: Mar 2007** 07-11-2008, 12:17 PM

Haha, thanks for the response guys.

Nice addition wakeviolator - that will definitely set us straight. I'll post real pictures if I can find a sombrero for him to wear.

(billy2603) · (billy2603) **Join Date: Mar 2007** 07-11-2008, 12:18 PM

oh, and all stick figures normally wear USCGA life jackets!

(johnsvt) · (johnsvt) **Join Date: Dec 2006** 07-11-2008, 2:40 PM

^^^^funny stuff

(96formula) · (96formula) **Join Date: Apr 2007** 07-11-2008, 2:52 PM

Where did the Mexi roll name come from?

(hawk7) · (hawk7) **Join Date: Apr 2007** 07-11-2008, 3:02 PM

Mexican Roll: A Heelside Backroll where the rider throws his head and body down instead of to the side. It was named after Andrea Gaytan, a former female professional rider from Mexico. It's normally considered an uglier version of a Backroll, but it's the rotation style used for a Roll To Blind or KGB. It's sometimes referred to incorrectly as a heelside Front Roll.

(charman) · (charman) **Join Date: Aug 2006** 07-11-2008, 3:23 PM

holyssssss this thread is classic.

(brhanley) · (brhanley) **Join Date: Jun 2001** 07-11-2008, 3:35 PM

I would imagine it was considered "ugly" by the early trick skier influence on the sport. Fairly sure the "traditional" backroll is a trick ski trick. Anyways, I personally think the average mexi roll looks better than the average traditional roll. Maybe it's the fact the rider is usually naturally more tucked and usually less of a hucked rotation...that or the sombrero.

(wakerider111) · (wakerider111) **Join Date: Jul 2006** 07-11-2008, 7:36 PM

Return of the wake funnies heahahah