A hippie flip is an advanced trick in which the skateboarder approaches a rail and performs a kick flip or a heel flip, then goes over the rail while the skateboard goes under it. The skateboarder then lands on the board and rides away. These instructions are for those who skate with their left foot forward. If you skate with your... more »
Learning and perfecting the heel flip trick on a skateboard is an essential building block for learning more-complicated tricks and combinations of tricks. In order to do this move effectively, you will have to know how to do a trick known as an "ollie," which is a jump on a skateboard. more »
One of the most essential skills that every good skateboarder needs to learn to take his riding to the next level is how to jump, (known as an Ollie) and flip the board while in the air (known as a flip trick). This move has a lot of different variations that will help develop your skills, but the most basic jump flip is called a... more »
In the 1950s, surfers came up with a method to ride their boards when they were not in the ocean. By the 1960s, skateboarding became a true sport and skateboarding companies began having competitions. Popularity of skateboarding has been up and down. The 1990s brought the X Games, and more skateboarders were trying to learn new... more »
Scissor flipping a skateboard is a tough trick to master. The trick involves a 1/4 heel flip with a pop shove it. A pop shove it is when the board stays flat and rotates 180 degrees. It may sound crazy to put these two tricks together, but it is possible to do and it looks great. more »
A fakie kick flip on a skateboard is similar to a normal kick flip, but it is executed...more »
To flip a skateboard, you're going to need a lot of patience and practice. Learn to flip a...more »
In skateboarding, the hard flip turns the front side of the board 180 degrees while it flips in...more »
The primo flip on a skateboard is done by using the toes to flip the board up on its side....more »
The goal of any skateboard trick is landing as clean as possible. Learn how to land a 360 flip...more »
Skateboarding tricks such as a fakie kick flip are difficult but a lot of fun once mastered....more »
When doing a kick flip, it's important to start slow and go through a trial and error period....more »
Flip tricks are an important part of any skater's bag of tricks. Kick flip, heel flip, 360-degree kick flip,... more »
Skateboarding involves a number of cool tricks. With enough practice, you can master many of them. Here are some... more »
A spin flip is a skateboard trick that involves kicking the foot of your skateboard so that it spins 360 degrees... more »
Tech deck skateboards, also known as fingerboards, are 96 millimeter replicas of regular skateboards and can pull... more »
A Girl Flip is a combination flip of an ollie, kickflip and varial kickflip. Impress your friends and the ladies... more »
Do the Finger Flip trick on your skateboard and impress all your skating friends on the street. While skateboarders... more »
A bigspin flip is a skateboarding trick that can be attempted by the experienced skateboarder after she's mastered... more »
Landing a skateboard trick is more than half the trick. As one skateboard luminary stated, if you don't land the... more »
While Tony Hawk brought skateboarding into the mainstream with his incredible vertical skating, street skating and... more »
A pressure flip is an advanced skateboarding trick that is extremely difficult to master. Very similar to the way an... more »
Skateboarding tricks are an integral part of the exciting sport of skateboarding. Each trick presents a new... more »
This is a new variation on the freestyle kick flip where you flip the board into a backside 180 while at the same... more »
There are literally hundreds of skateboard tricks that range in difficulty from very easy to very hard. This... more »
Skateboarding tricks are an integral part of the exciting sport of skateboarding. But for the novice skateboarder,... more »
The heel flip is a fun trick to learn after you've mastered the ollie. This trick begins as an ollie but after... more »
Skateboarding is good exercise and lots of fun at every skill level. Once you have obtained a skateboard and the... more »
Getting proficient on the Tech Deck takes a lot of practice since there are so many tricks to master. One of the... more »
Modern day street skateboarding includes both grinds and flip tricks. Flip tricks make up more than 50% of the... more »
This freestyle skateboarding trick combines a normal Finger Flip where you make the skateboard go into a 180 Varial... more »
An inward flip, also known as an inward heel-flip, is an advanced skateboarding trick. It is called an inward flip... more »
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