Flip trick

See also: Shove-its

A flip trick is a type of skateboarding trick in which the skateboard flips in a particular way. In many tricks, the skateboard flips upside down and/or end over end. Many tricks can be combined to form more complex flip tricks. Flip tricks are usually performed while the skateboarder is rolling, although it is not unusual to find newer skateboarders practicing these tricks whilst stationary.

Flip Tricks

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A skateboarder doing a 360 flip over a gap.

360 Flip/Tré Flip/3-Flip.

A combination of a backside 360 shove-it and a kickflip. Invented by Rodney Mullen, a 360 Flip is a skateboarding stunt in which the skateboarder does an ollie, kicks the board to initiate a kickflip and spins the board backside in a 360 shove-it, thereby doing a kickflip and 360 backside shove-it simultaneously.

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 360 Flip, many skaters consider the 360 Heelflip to be much harder than the 360 Flip mainly because the 360 shove-it involved rotates behind the skater.

Bigspin flip / Bigflip

The Bigspin flip is exactly like a normal bigspin, except the board performs a kick flip or heel flip as well.

Casperflip

A Casperflip is a single midair trick comprised of two parts. Part one is a half-kickflip that is caught upside-down with the back foot on top of the tail and the front foot cradling the downward facing forward portion of the deck. Part two is a backside shove-it spun from this brief aerial stall. An Anti-Casper is a nollie Casperflip.

Disco Flip

A body varial is executed while performing a heelflip.

Fingerflip

To flip the board in any direction by using your fingers on the nose.

Forward flip/Dolphin flip/Murder flip/Thunder flip

This usually performed by popping the tail straight down and sliding the front foot directly off the nose of the board instead of off one of the sides causing it to flip vertically between the riders legs, the rotations of this trick could be described as a inverted vertical varial kickflip or an ollie late nollie hardflip.

Front foot Impossible

a Front foot Impossible is an Impossible but using your front foot (or the foot you didn't pop with when referring to fakie or nollie stance) to Spin the board 360 degrees vertically.

Frontside/Backside Heelflip

A Heelflip combined with a backside or frontside 180 ollie. This trick is also known as a frontside/backside heel.

Frontside/Backside Kickflip

A kickflip combined with a backside or frontside 180 ollie. A frontside flip is generally considered more difficult, as the skater rotates the same way he or she kicks. This trick is also known as a frontside/backside flip.

Gazelleflip

This is a 540° shove-it where the rider also spins a 360° body follow and either a Kickflip or a Heelflip.

Hardflip

A Hardflip is a frontside pop shove-It with a kickflip. Because your foot slides out in the same direction as the board, this trick is very awkward to execute. Although not necessary, the board usually goes in between the legs of the skater to get around the flipping foot. This trick is the opposite of an Inward Heelflip and the 360 degree version of it (twice the sideways rotation) is often called a "Lunch Tre" due to it being the hardflip version of a 360 or "Tre" flip.

Heelflip

A 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.

Hospital Flip

A Hospital Flip is similar to a Casper Flip. In a Casper Flip you turn the board onto your foot (Grip-tape to shoe laces) with your "sliding" foot, and rotate the board back with a 180 degree turn with your back foot. A Hospital Flip still turns the board, grip-tape side down onto your foot, but then that same foot pushes it back right-side up with a 180 degree turn, instead of using the back foot.

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.

Kickflip

Invented by Rodney Mullen in 1983, 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. If flicked harder, two or three full flips can be imparted on that axis, these are called double or triple kickflips. The original name for this trick after conception was the "magic flip" because no one understood how it worked or flipped.

Late flip

A kickflip or heelflip (much more uncommon) performed at the highest peak of an ollie. These are normally (but not always) done with the back foot (always, regardless of positioning on the board, the foot one pops with).

Ollie 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.

Pressure flip

Any flip trick that gains its rotational direction from the same foot that popped the nose or tail. Pressure flips are executed using a scooping technique.

Sal flip

This maneuver involves catching the nose of the board after performing an ollie then spinning the board 360 degrees while in the air.

Sex Change

A body varial is executed while performing a kickflip.

Twisted flip/Unity Flip

A varial kickflip in which the rider does a body varial (body turn) in the opposite direction.

Underflip

Flipping the board by using one foot that is under the board and flipping it in a heelflip direction.

Varial Heelflip

A Varial Heelflip is a Heelflip combined with a Frontside Pop Shove-It. The Opposite of this trick is an Inward Heelflip, which is a Heelflip with a Backside Shove-It.

Loe Flip

this is trick follows the same principle as the forward flip,except after the front foot slides directly off the front of the board, the board flips in the heelflip direction, not the kickflip direction. somewhat like a vertical varial heelflip.

Varial Kickflip

A Varial Kickflip is a kickflip combined with a Backside Pop Shove-It. The board flips while also spinning 180 degrees.

References

Small Spin: First done by David Gonzalez in 2008. The board spins a full 360 whilst the rider spins a 180.