Flip trick
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A flip trick is a type of skateboarding trick in which the skateboard does a flip. In many tricks, the skateboard flips upside down and/or end over end. Many simple tricks, such as a kickflip and heelfip, as well as a pop shove-it, can be combined to form more complex flip tricks.
Flip Tricks
- 360 Flip / 360 Kickflip / Three flip / Tré Flip
- A combination of a backside 360 shove-it and a kickflip. It was invented in the mid 1980s by Rodney Mullen, and has gone on to be one of the most popular flip variations ever invented. [1]
- 360 Heelflip / Laser Flip
- The 360 Heelflip is simply a heelflip merged with a frontside 360 shove-it. Lesser known than its opposite trick, the Tré Flip, many skaters consider the 360 Heelflip to be much harder than the Tré Flip mainly because the 360 shove-it involed rotates behind the skater.
- Anti-Casper Flip / Back Foot Casper Flip / FS Casper Flip / Hospital Flip
- Back foot casper flips are a 1/2 kickflip, then the back foot hits the tail of the board and rotates it frontside 180.
- Big Spin
- The board spins 360 degrees, while the rider spins 180 degrees in the same direction. Usually done backside, but can be done frontside as well. Sometimes it is combined with a Kickflip or Heelflip, which then produces a trick known as a Bigflip. The trick is named after Brian Lotti, who's name sounds much like "lottery." His friend named the trick after the California Lottery's Big Spin game.
- Casper Flip
- A casper flip is a complex skateboarding styled tricking maneuver. It occurs when the skater pops the board diagonally and performs a half of a kickflip, laterally rotating the board frontwise along the downward axis, then with the front foot pushes and rotates the board inverse clockwise back to positive stance. This is usually followed by an inward rotation of the body to increase stabilization effects. It is often confused with an anticasper flip, the difference being casper flips are rotated with the front foot, and anticasper flips are with the back foot. A variation of this trick, known as a "Hospital flip" is executed in the same fasion, only without any assistance from the back foot in mid-air.
- Frontside/Backside Kickflip
- A kickflip combined with a bs/fs 180 ollie. A frontside flip is generally considered more difficult, as the skater rotates the same way he or she flicks.
- Hardflip
- A Hardflip is a frontside shove-it with a kickflip. This is known as one of the hardest tricks to learn because of the awkward way the feet have to move in order to make the board spin correctly.
- Heelflip
- An ollie heelflip is the same as a kickflip, only the board spins toe-side(towards the toes). For a regular skater(left foot in front) the board spins clockwise from the perspective of one behind the skater. Again, there is a kick as part of the ollie but unlike the kickflip it is directed forward and outwards away from the rider's toe side (diagonal), so that the last part of the foot to leave the board is the heel, hence the name.
- Impossible
- An ollie impossible, commonly known as an impossible, is an Ollie where the board completes one rotation by rolling around the skater's back foot, in much the same manner as spinning a baton with one's hand. It is considered good style to make the board flip as vertical as possible. If the board spins laterally or comes off the back foot it tends to end up looking more like a 360 Pop Shove-it.
- Inward Heelflip
- An Inward Heelflip combines a backside Pop Shove-it with a heelflip. The name comes from the rider's point of view, because while doing an Inward Heelflip, the 180 degree rotation of flip moves the board inward instead of outwards as in a varial heelflip. This is considered the heelflip version of the hardflip, and is similar due to the awkward positioning and motion of the feet.
- Kickflip
- Invented by Rodney Mullen in the mid 80's, this trick came about as a failed attempt at the new trick he had created, the flatland Ollie. He noticed that if he ollied and dragged his feet off the board, it would flip. Kicking or flicking out imparts enough force to flip or spin the board on an imaginary axis running from the nose to the tail. The original name for this trick after conception was the "magic flip" because no one understood how it worked or flipped. The kickflip is a trick in which the rider does an ollie, but while dragging their foot up the board to level out the Ollie, flicks their front foot off of the board to the heel side to create enough force to spin the board one full 360 rotation along the imaginary axis described above. If flicked harder, two or three full flips can be imparted on that axis. These are called double or triple kickflips.
- Late flip
- A kickflip performed after the highest peak of an ollie. These are normally (But not always) done with the backfoot (always, regardless of positioning on the board, the foot one pops with).
- Late Shove-it
- Similar to a late flip, this trick combines an ollie with a pop shove-it, usually frontside, done at the peak of the ollie. One example is Caswell Berry's, down the famous Barcelona four stair (MACBA).
- No comply
- When one is riding, he/she removes the front foot off the board and places it on the ground. The rider then pops with his/her back foot and while in mid-air places his or her front foot back on. Many tricks can be done from the no comply, such as shove-its.
- Nollie
- A name for a stance or the single trick itself. Nollie stance is standing on the nose of the board or moving the front foot up to the nose of the board with the back foot in the middle of the board. Any trick done in this position is labeled a nollie(for example, nollie kickflip) trick. To do the trick, a nollie, the skateboarder rides in nollie stance and pops the board with the front foot on the nose, dragging the back foot to the back. [2]
- Ollie North
- The Ollie North is an ollie during which the skateboarder moves the front foot forward off the front of the board, instead or sliding it only to the nose of the skateboard. During the trick the skateboarder hovers in mid air with his/her front foot outside and in front of the skateboard. The trick was invented by Rodney Mullen. [3]
- Pop Shove-it
- A pop shove-it is a combination of the ollie and the shove-it. During a pop shove-it, the rider initiates an ollie, but the back foot smacks down the tail with a "shove" towards the heelside while the front foot lightly assists in the rotation of the board, if at all. The skater must then quickly lift his or her legs out of the way to let the board rotate( clock-wise if regular foot; anti-clockwise if goofy-footed) and rise to its highest point before catching with the feet. The initial popping of the tail determines the height of the pop shove-it. This trick can also be done in reverse where the back foot shoves the tail towards the toe-side. Pop shove-its were also known as ollie varials (the original varial is a trick performed by grabbing the board), but nowadays the term varial is used only with "combined" tricks such as ollie heelflip varial, or to refer to the original varial.
- Pressure Flip
- Any flip trick that is done with solely the back foot(the popping one). Any trick that rotates on a vertical axis can be done like a pressure flip.
- Shove-it Sex Change/Disco Flip/Shove-it Body Varial
- A Shove it sex change is a backside pop-shove it and a frontside body varial, or a frontside pop-shove it and a backside body varial. It can be performed in all stances i.e. regular, switch, nollie, fakie. This is sometimes known as a Kastellarial or a Twisted shove it.
References
- ^ "Flip Tricks". 360flip.com Skateboard Community. Retrieved 2007-08-21.
- ^ "Nollie". skateboard.about.com. Retrieved 2007-08-21.
- ^ http://tricks.skateboarder2.com/other-tricks.htm
Varial Flip: a varial flip is when you do a pop-shuv it and a kickflip in the one trick/movement.
Varial Heelflip: a verial heelflip is the same as a varial flip but instead of doing a kickflip you do a heelflip.