Flip Tricks

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

The 360 flip is a classic street trick first invented by the father of street skating, Rodney Mullen, and originally was made popular as a street trick by pro-skater turned actor Jason Lee. This is the combination of a 360 Pop Shove-it with an Ollie Kickflip. It is also known as Ollie 360 kickflip, 3 flip or tré flip.

360 Heelflip

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. It is commonly known as a Lazer flip.

360 Pop Shove-it

Also known as an Ollie 360 Varial, this trick is simply a pop shove-it except that the board is rotated 360 degrees instead of 180.

Anti-Casper/Back Foot Casper flip

Back foot casper flips are a 1/4 kickflip, then the back foot hits the tail of the board and rotates it frontside 180.

Backside 180 Ollie

Turning in the direction of the rider's toes, the rider and the board spin 180 degrees in the same direction and at the same time. It is sometimes shortened to "B/S 180".

Backside Flip

A kickflip plus a backside 180 ollie, or a varial kickflip with a body varial in the same direction. This trick is easier to learn than a fronside flip

Backside Heelflip

Similar to a bs flip except it it done with a heelflip instead.

Big Spin

The board spins 360 degrees, much like a 360 shove-it. At the same time, the performer does a body varial in the same direction, which is simply spinning 180 degrees in the air. This trick can be executed in many different ways: Nollie, fakie, frontside, backside. However, the trick is not known as a Big Spin because it "spins big", it has nothing to do with the way the trick acts at all. It was named after Brian Lotti. His last name sounds like the word "Lottery", and the "Big Spin" was the name of a Californian lottery going on at the time.

A "perfect" Big Spin execution would be as follows: The rider executes a 270-degree shove-it, spinning his/her body 90 degrees. At this point, the rider catches the board in midair with their feet and rotates the remaining 90 degrees with the board. This perfection of the Big Spin is rarely seen.

Big Spin Flip

Like a Big Spin, only instead of doing a 360 Shove-it, the skateboarder does an Ollie 360 Flip (usually an Ollie is also required to complete the flip element). When done frontside, usually a 360 Heelflip is done, this becomes a Big Spin Heelflip. It can be done frontside (with Ollie Heelflip), fakie, nollie, and backside.

Cab Flip

A kickflip combined with a 360 fakie ollie (a Caballerial, hence the name).

Casper Flip

A casper flip is when the skater performs 1/4 of a kickflip, then with the front foot pushes and rotates the board 180 degrees, backside. It is often confused with an Impossible/Ollie Impossible, the difference being Casper Flips are rotated with the front foot, and Impossibles are with the back foot.

Casper slide

To do a casper stall or slide you ollie into half kickflip and land with your front foot under the griptape and your back foot on the underside tail of the board. After that you land and either slide on the ground or stall.

Disco Kickflip

Not to be confused with the "disco flip"(see sex-change) the Disco Kickflip is a variation of the kickflip where the board completes the flip while the tail is still touching the ground, making the board appear as if it is spinning on its tail.

Frontside 180 Ollie

Turning in the direction of the rider's heels, the rider and the board spin 180 degrees in the same direction and at the same time during an Ollie. It is often shortened to "F/S 180".

Frontside Flip

The Frontside Flip is the act of performing a kickflip and turning the body 180 degrees at the some time.Whenever this trick is performed and it just looks like the board flips over, it is known as an Illusion flip.

Frontside Heelflip

A heelflip with a 180 degree rotation frontside.

Ghetto Bird

A nollie hardflip to backside revert. Popularized by Kareem Campbell.

Half-Cab

A fakie 180. Half of a caballerial, hence Half-Cab.

Half-Cab Kickflip/Heelflip.

The rider executes a half-cab with his hips and kickflips or heelflips the board with his feet.

Hardflip

A Hardflip combines a Frontside Pop Shove-it with an Ollie Kickflip. Can go vertically or horizontally. But both complete a 180 degree rotation FS and a kickflip.

360 Hardflip

The same as a Hardflip but the board continues to rotate until it has returned to its original orientation.

Heelflip

An Ollie Heelflip is the same as an Kickflip, only the board spins outwards away from the rider's body and under their feet before they land. Again, there is a kick as part of the ollie but unlike the kickflip it is directed forwards, so that the last part of the foot to leave the board is the heel, hence the name.

Hospital Flip

Hospital flips are a b/s 180 and a Casper Flip.

Impossible

An Ollie Impossible, commonly known as an Impossible, is a combination of an ollie and a spinning maneuver. This involves the rider taking their front foot off of the board and using their back foot to create a midair scooping motion that wraps the board around the rider's foot. The rider then catches the board with their front foot and lands.

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, 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 by accident, it would flip. When a skateboarder ollies and kicks out and off of the board, the board is free of gravity and suspended in the air. 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 done with the backfoot. If it was done in the Nollie stance, the late flip would be performed with the front foot.

Mother Flip

A mother flip is a combination of a 360 flip and a 360 body varial, turning the opposite way of the 360 flip.

Nollie

A name for a stance or the single trick itself. Nollie stance is standing on the board in Switch Fakie, 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 trick. To do 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. The name is derived from either Natas Ollie after Natas Kaupas, or Nose Ollie. Bs and Fs aren't switched with the Nollie term.

Ollie One Foot "Ollie North"

Ollie One Foot is an ollie during which the skateboarder moves the front foot forward off the board. 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. It is also known by various other names such as "One Foot Ollie" or in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater: the "Ollie North"

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 shifts the weight of their back foot so that the board spins 180 degrees vertically. 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 without any pop. This is accomplished by applying pressure to different spots on the board to make it do flips. The most common pressure flip spins like an inward heelflip There are also ones that spin like a hardflip, varial flip, varial heelflip, and many others.

Sal Flip

This trick is done when the skateboarder is in the air and and grabs the nose of the board and flips a 360 pop shove-it with his or her hands.Mostly done in video games but is a real trick.

Salabanzi Flip

This is a normal kickflip but the skateboarder lands with his/her legs crossed. Also called a pretzel flip.

Scissor Flip

The heelflip version of the casper flip, it is a 1/4 heelflip then a FS shove-it done with the back of the front foot to land the skateboarder back on the board. It often helps when learning the varial heelflip.

Semi-Flip

This trick looks similar to a hardflip, and is often confused with it. It is mainly done by Rodney Mullen. The board is flipped about one quarter of a kickflip rotation and then pushed into a varial heelflip motion with the back foot. This can be seen clearly in the DVD version of Rodney Mullen vs Daewon Song Round 2, in the early part of Rodney's part that is in a blue tint. Rodney also does the trick to manual in the Globe video Opinion.

Sex Change

This trick is a combination of a heelflip or a kickflip and a body varial. The heelflip variant of a sex change is also known as a Disco Flip.

Shifty Flip

A shifty flip is when the rider turns 90 degrees frontside while flipping the board, then turns 90 degrees backside in midair, landing in the sameorientation [regular/switch] as they did when they started the trick.

Still Flip

A still flip is an inward heelflip and a 360 body varial the same direction as the board's rotation.

Small Spin

A small spin is a backside pop-shove it and a frontside body varial, or a frontside pop-shove it and a backside body varial. can be performed in all stances i.e. regular, switch, nollie, fakie.

Varial Kickflip

A Varial Kickflip is a trick which is a combination of a Backside Pop Shove-it and a Kickflip. The board spins 180 degrees while flipping.

Varial Heelflip

A Varial Heelflip combines a Frontside Pop Shove-it with a Heelflip.