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A backcross is a crossing throw that is made behind the back, with the object coming forward on the same side of the body where it will be caught.
World records
Backcross world records with publicly available video evidence:
Balls
- 5 ball backcrosses: 2 minutes and 17 seconds by Ty Tojo in 2012 (video)
- 6 ball backcrosses: 71 catches by Ty Tojo in 2012 (video)
- 7 ball backcrosses: 125 catches by Ty Tojo in 2013 (video)
- 8 ball backcrosses: 8 catches by Ty Tojo in 2013 (video)
- 9 ball backcrosses: 9 catches by Ty Tojo in 2015 (video)
Unverified claims:
- 3 ball backcrosses: 18 minutes and 36 seconds by Dave Leahy in 2011 (claim)
Rings
- 3 ring backcrosses: 183 catches by Matan Presberg in 2017 (video)
- 5 ring backcrosses: 35 catches by Delaney Bayles in 2017 (video)
- 7 ring backcrosses: 7 catches by Pavel Evsukevich in 2012 (video, video) and Laido Dittmar in 2014 (video)
Unverified claims:
- 3 ring backcrosses: 200 catches by Heydar in 2016 (claim)
- 3 ring backcrosses: 2 minutes and 37 seconds by Andy Ford in 1992 (claim)
Clubs
- 3 club backcrosses: 16 minutes and 38 seconds by Chris Fowler in 2007 (video)
- 5 club backcrosses: 203 catches by Kristian Wanvik in 2015 (video)
- 6 club backcrosses: 14 catches by Wes Peden in 2008 (video)
- 7 club backcrosses: 7 catches by Anthony Gatto in 2007 (video at 5:15), Vova Galchenko in 2007 (video), David Ferman in 2012 (video), Jack Denger in 2013 (video), Wes Peden in 2015 (video), and Kento Tanioka in 2017 (video)
Records with insufficient video evidence:
- 5 club backcrosses: 237 catches by Kristian Wanvik in 2018 (non-public video)
Unverified claims:
- 3 club backcrosses: 18 minutes and 41 seconds by Chris Fowler in 2007 (claim)
- 4 club backcrosses: 5 minutes and 19 seconds by Thomas Dietz in 2004 (claim)
- 5 club backcrosses: 280 catches by Thomas Dietz in 2004 (claim)
- 5 club backcrosses: 320 catches by Wes Peden in 2007 (claim)
- 5 club backcrosses: ~360 catches by Kristian Wanvik (claim)
- 7 club backcrosses: 7 catches by Manuel Mitasch (claim)
Variations
- Scissors - a variation of the wimpy pattern where either every throw is a backcross,(video) or only one hand throws a backcross at a time, with a different hand doing the backcross in each pair of throws (sometimes called half scissors or alternating scissors).(ball video, club video)
- Backselves - a non-crossing version of backcrosses. An object thrown as a backself from the right hand is thrown behind the back, comes forward on the left side of the head, and is caught in the right hand.
- Shoulder throws
- Body throws
- Reverse backcrosses
- Backcross rolls
- Contortion
- Blind behind the back
- Behind the back looking
- Behind the back madness