Flip trick

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 while stationary.

Most tricks do not have specific names in the system of skateboarding flip tricks. You have the basics, kickflip, heelflip, frontside and regular Pop shuv-it. Though most of the simple combinations have names, like varial kickflip, hardflip, inward heelflip, varial heelflip, most can be described simply by using rotation math and the basic name. (i.e. Frontside 360 heelflip, 360 kickflip)

Skateboarding terminology is a sort of 'jargon' as many terms in skateboarding can be used to reference more than one trick. (i.e. 360 kickflip) 360 Pop shuv-it with a kickflip. Not to be confused with a Kickflip 360, which is a kickflip with the body doing the 360 motion with the board.

Flip Tricks

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A skateboarder performing a 360 flip over a gap.

360-flip/ Treflip/3-flip/Trezor

Invented by Rodney Mullen, a 360 Flip is a skateboarding trick in which the skateboarder does a 360 Pop Shuv-it, kicks the board to initiate a kickflip and spins the board in a 360 shuv-it, thereby doing a kickflip and 360 Pop shuv-it simultaneously.

360 Heelflip / Laser flip

The Laserflip is more than the opposite of a 360 flip. Lesser known than the 360 flip, many skaters consider the Laserflip to be much harder than the 360 Flip mainly because the 360 frontside Pop shuv-it involved rotates behind the skater. This can be awkward. This trick is handled by the skater scooping the board outward,when the 90 degree angle is reached the person must flick their front foot out in a heelflip manor to give the board extra rotation. Jumping back with legs high will also increase rotation. Problems include the board landing beside the skater,this can be fixed by following the board.another problem is not enought rotation or flick,this can be fixed by either foot placement or force of scoop and flick.

Bigspin

When the rider does a 360 shuv-it, while the rider does a 180 with his or her body in the same direction. Can be done either frontside[1] or backside[2].

Casper Flip

A Casper Flip 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. invented by Ellis Weatherspoon

Fingerflip

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

Forward flip/Dolphin flip

This usually performed by ollieing 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 an inverted vertical varial kickflip or an ollie late nollie hardflip. This trick is extremely difficult

Frontside/Backside Heelflip

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

Frontside/Backside Kickflip

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

Hardflip

A Hardflip is a frontside pop shove-It with a kickflip. Because this trick is awkward to execute it sometimes appears to move vertically through the legs.

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. Instances of multiple spins are named according to how many spins are completed (e.g. double, triple, etc.).

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 more full flips can be imparted on that axis, these are called double, triple, quadruple, etc. kickflips. The original name for this trick after conception was the "magic flip" because no one understood how it worked or flipped except Louie Barley.

Impossible

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 Shuv-it. This trick can also be done with the front foot. That is called a "Front foot impossible".

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. Nate Sherwood is well-known for his extensive array of pressure flip tricks.

Underflip

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

Varial Kickflip

A Varial Kickflip is a kickflip combined with a Pop Shove-It.