i'm going to sound really dumb here but are front/backflips taught in tkd?  I am new to it but sounds good.

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Nor does mine.  If you want to learn to do front & back flips, take gymnastics from a qualified instructor.  Theres more to it then just "throwing" a flip. 

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Old enough to know better; Dumb enough to keep going!

even those who do flips didn't learn it as a curriculum of tkd.  they learned it to do demos and such.  that's why there are only few people who can do flips in each tkd school. 

when i was a kid, bunch of my friends from tkd and i used to watch kung fu movies every saturday after tkd.  and, obviously, we would go straight to the sand box and try those flips.  after landing on our heads and backs for few months, most of us were doing flips with hands like it was nothing. 
i think the fact that we were too young to care about injuring ourselve as a result of failed flip is what got us doing flips.  i was 13 yr old when i did a front flip without hands and landed properly, and i was 15 when i did a back flip without hands.  and until then, i went through a lot of rolled ankles, twisted ankles, sprained wrists, etc. 

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See, doughboy illustrates why I said to have someone that is qualified.  Take it from someone that has pulled their neck muscles on more then one occasion.  I am very lucky not to have neck/back/disk issues. 

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Old enough to know better; Dumb enough to keep going!

Couldn't agree with NarcSarge and others more on this.

Gymnastics is specialty training.  Don't learn it from 'anyone' that isn't a certified gymnastics instructor.  If you do not have one, and want to find one...

Go through the appropriate amateur gymnastics organizations for your country. 

Once you start upending your body and doing things with it besides walking and running... you'd BETTER be doing so under the auspices of an instructor who knows how to teach you to do things properly.

You'd be amazed how many gym teachers get their students seriously hurt, when they try to teach more than very basic tumbling maneuvers, (forward roll, backward roll, diving forward roll, cartwheels, and roundoffs)

I had a gym teacher teaching us somersaults...  and he had students arranged to spot us, when we went over, to be sure we even 'got' over.

Well, the students spotting us were not trained gymnasts... and neither was our gym teacher.

When I went for my go at it, I naturally did NOT make it over, and the students caught me and tried to give me a little extra air time 'to' make it over.

They put too much umph into that, and I went up a little too high, and came down perfectly FLAT on my back on the mat, knocking every last ounce of my breath out of me.

To say that HURT, would be a monumental understatement.  I was down on that mat for 15 minutes and the gym teacher was seriously thinking about calling an ambulance there for a time.

This stuff is just 'nothing' to 'fool with'.  Learn it right under a certified gymnastics instructor... or don't screw with it.

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