Bit Rot

[Baegal]

Looks cool!

Although I'm not sure how much you need the motion blur for the back walk.
Have you considered making it less of a smoothly moving motion, and more of a buildup?

It could be frame 1+2 are buildup, 3 is a blur/jump back, and 4 is recoil, almost like an attack animation (in that it's a repetitive effort--does that make sense?)
Kind of like a snake pushing back
okay this is hard to explain, sorry

basically, I think it would serve the character better to have a motion more like a snake scooting back as a jut that repeats rather than that tail spin

Keep it up!