Flip Tricks

If you have mastered how to stay on your board and do the ollie then you are ready to move on to the next stage, now you will learn how to do flip tricks which (suprisingly) are tricks which you do on the ground by ollying are you flip your board in different ways...

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Kickflip- This is probably the easiest flip trick there is and is the one that most people learn first 'cos its so easy. All you do is get into the ollie position, but move your front foot so that only your toes and part of your foot is on the board and move it back a bit. Pull a large ollie and as you go up let your front foot slide ofto the left. Let it make a full turn and then place your feet back into the normal stance and bend your knees as you land...

Heelflip- Get into the ollie position but with your front foot, put it just behind the bolts, with your foot turned a little, make sure your toes are off the side of the board that your facing. Now, once you feel comforatable with this position, hit your tail, and slide your front foot up and off the side of the board your facing. You should jump very high so your board doesn't hit the back of your ankle and leg. Now... let the board rotate beneath you, and pull your feet back over it.Bend your knees on the landing, and ride away...      Click image for video

Varial Flip- Put your back foot half on the tail, place your front foot on a 70 degree angle. Now leen forward and do a pop-shuv it (see next trick) but kick your front foot down... NOTE: jump forward as your doing this trick.

Pop shuv it- (click image for video)>>>              

180 Ollie- (click image for video)>>>                  

Hardflip- A hardflip is when your board rotates 180 degrees like a frontside pop shove-it, but flips like a kickflip. Here is how its done... First compress for some pop and set your feet as in image. Keep your shoulders square with the board and ollie higher for this trick. Pop the board a bit like a frontside pop shove-it, but flip it like a frontside kickflip. This is tricky, but keep trying. Now you have to get your feet out of the way so the board will flip freely. Put your feet in the catch position. Flatten out and straighten the board, then extend your legs. Look cocky, you've just done a hardflip.