skate tricks

Ollie/Flip Tricks

pop shove-it: A pop-shove it is like a regular shove it, only the board gains more height. This trick can be used to form a compund with a kickflip, forming a varial kickflip.

360-shove-it: This trick is simply a shove-it execpt that the board is rotated 360 degrees instead of 180.

Kickflip: A kickflip is an ollie where you kick the board and make it spin under your feet before you land. The board flips such that the toe side of the board moves upwards initially.

Heelflip: A heelflip is a variant of the ollie in which the board spins towards the riders front while maintaining its direction of movement. Basically like a kickflip but the board spins the opposite way.The heelflip is sometimes deemed harder than the kickflip since that you are kicking the board with a much harder-to-control part of your foot.The trick involves the rider to ollie ,slide the front foot up at an angle and kick the board with your heel...hence the name.

Nollieflip: The Nollieflip flips the same way like the kickflip but you pop it with the nose (with your front foot). All variations you can do in regular or goofy stance are possible in the "nollie-way", too.

Varial kickflip: A varial kickflip is a trick which is a variation of a pop shove-it and kickflip. The board spins 180 degrees whilst flipping.

Varial heelflip: A varial heelflip combines a frontside pop shove-it with a heelflip.

Inward heelflip: An inward heelflip combines a backside pop-shove-it with a heelflip.

Hardflip: A hardflip combines a frontside pop shove-it with a kickflip. Due to the difficulty of this trick, a similar looking variation has been popularised which is similar to the pop shove-it, in which the board rotates as it would with a pop shove-it only at a higher angle, so the board rotates 180 degrees vertically rather than horizontally.

360 Flip: A classic street trick first invented by technical freestyle legend, Rodney Mullen, and originally popularised as a street trick by pro-skater turned actor Jason Lee. This is the combination of a 360 pop shove-it with a kickflip. Also known as 360 kickflip, 3 flip or tre flip.

360 Heelflip: Also known as the Laser Flip. The origin of this trick is not clear though it was probably performed not too long after the 360 flip. This is in the same style as the 360 flip except that it is a combination of the 360 pop-shoveit and the heelflip. This is a much more difficult trick to perform than the 360 flip, but it is unpopular due to its low visual appeal.

Impossible: As the name suggests this is one of the most difficult skateboarding tricks. This was invented by skateboarding pioneer and legend, Rodney Mullen in the early 1980s, and has never really achieved popularity amongst professionals, until Ed Templeton transfered the trick from freestyle to street. To achieve this, the board does a complete backflip in mid air by wrapping around your foot(front or back). The reverse of this trick the Front Foot Impossible, thought and perfomed by rodney mullen.THAT TRICK WOULD BE HARD

Caballerial: This trick was first performed and named after pro Steve Caballero in the mid 1980s. This trick consists of riding backwards (or nollie) and then performing a fakie ollie followed by a 360 degree rotation, landing in switch again, or if performed on a ramp, as it was originally, landing forwards. The skateboarding trick the, half-cab, is a reference to the caballerial and as the name suggests it is a 180 rotation (either BS or FS) rather than the full 360.

Big Spin: As the name suggests a big spin has many parts "spinning". One would spin their board 360 degrees, much like a 360 shove-it. In the same time the performer would do a body varial in the same direction, which is simply spining 180 degrees in the air. This trick can be executed in many different ways: Nollie, fakie, frontside, backside.; A "Perfect" Bigspin would be to do a shove it, catch the board midair, after the shove it, then rotate the remaining 180 degrees, the board following the body, even though this is rarely done.

Big Spin flip: Like a bigspin, only instead of doing a 360 shove it, you do a 360 flip.; When done frontside, you have to do a 360 heelflip, this becomes a bigspin heelflip.; Also know as a bigflip.; Can be done: frontside(with heelflip), Fakie, Nollie, Backside.