Sorry, i will understand if this gets deleted because it is a major claim.
so me and my friend(snowboarder) were over at this small jump i made( 4ft ish) and after a while of me practicing my 3's we took a break. While he was sitting down fixing his bindings i started putting a bunch of powder on the landing.
Him- "what are you going?"
Me-"putting powder on the landing"
Him- "why?"
Me- " because im going to do a backflip" at this point i am totally joking around not serius at all
Him-" haha, ya right"
Me" no honestly im going to do it"
Him- "really?"
Me " ya" still totally joking.
so then after a little while i started thinking to my self "maybe i should try it". Then i kept thinking, no this is only my second year skiing, im only at 360's. So i kept thinking about it and finally decided to give it a go, just trying to remember what people said about tucking throwing your head back. So after like 20 min i finally decided to go up to the drop in and go( 20 min is usually a long time for me because im usually the guy who does think about it to much and just goes for it). So i go for it and faceplant. Even though i faceplanted i realized that i could do this so after 4 try's of faceplants i was walking up to the top of the hill saying to my self " i can do this, i got this, this is easy stuff, i can do this" . I then drop in approach the jump, pop, throw my head back, tuck and stomp it!!!! I was super stoaked.
and i know lots fo you will be like " ooh backflip thats not that great" but i dont care because im happy i did it.
Moral of the story, it doesnt matter how much you think you suck, just believe you can do it and go for it because you never know , something that started as a joke turned out to be reality. Good luck!