Frontside Flip Tutorial

All right, we are at the lovely McVicker skate park here today and we're going to be learning frontside flips. But first let's put the gmas back on and we're ready to rock. We're going to give this one our best shot. This one's interesting. It's a frontside 180 and a kickflip put together obviously. Let's get right into it I guess. So if you watched the kickflip one before you know that's a key factor in this. Something we didn't cover was the 180 aspect of it and I guess we're going to need to really hone in on that being that that is a very important part of a frontside flip. You want to have kickflips for sure but a frontside 180 is the main factor in the rotation aspect. So when doing a frontside flip you would set up around the same as a kickflip. I kind of set up just about the same either way. The difference for me with a frontside flip is that my shoulders come backwards first to wind up and then when I go for the frontside flip my shoulders allow me to give it like a kind of a scoop with my back foot and a flick with the front foot. But my flick at that point is almost down at the ground due to the fact that I shouldn't stay down at the ground because either way when you kickflip I kind of flick at the ground. But when you do a frontside flip similar to how when you did the backside flip you're flicking kind of this way at the peak flick similar the frontside flip is the same but this way. So you're going to be flicking right about here when you go for a frontside flip. So when you go for one it's set up just like a kickflip and because you're going to be rotating this way I almost have my feet I guess maybe a little more faced that way frontside way. If you're goofy it's this way you know what I'm saying. So my feet are almost kind of directed a little more that way already and then my shoulders being that they're going to wind up this way that almost kind of compensates. It's really awkward when you're moving slow but moving fast going for a frontside flip you're going to have your legs basically already kind of going frontside. For me at least this is how I go about them. Your legs are already approaching your frontside and your shoulders kind of wind up this way so that way when you go for it you have kind of that full spring-loaded rotation ready to go. It's really interesting to explain breaking it down and slowing it down but uh yeah some um what are they called working your way ups progressions I guess you can call them would be to kickflip nose manual and revert that's actually how I would do it a lot growing up as a kid playing older people's skate that had frontside flips all popped and good I was like man I gotta be able to land this trick somehow some way so I would do a kickflip into a nose manual and revert it just like to land the trick I'll see if I can't do one kind of hurts my knees these days to do it yeah you get the point flick into the nose manual and revert it if you don't have enough time in the air or you can learn it out of a bump that'll give you some more time in the air to finish the rotation so as far as like your foot positioning I tend to have mine in the center of the tail but then when I end up doing the trick it's usually a little lower but that's never seemed to bother me so much as it does with the hard flip frontside flip you're usually flicking down that way so you catch the concave either way regardless of where the back foot's really lined up for you at least for me see that's the thing with skateboarding though there's so many different ways to do it if you're like familiar with the musca flip there's you know that way and I you know can't give you any tips on doing it that way because I don't prefer to do it that way therefore I don't really acknowledge that way of doing it when I do do it like that on accident I just try to focus on doing it this way the way that I like to do it which is like a kickflip 90 degree catch finishing the rotation if I can and yeah I'll see if we can't get a few more of those here on flat ground to kind of show you guys the example so set up wind up pop flick and turn and there you have a frontside flip so like I was saying about that the little kid way with the kickflip nose manual 180 funny enough I would do it a lot growing up as a kid but now it's like a torque on your knee so I really try not to do it so much but that's the example right there frontside flip nose manual 180 it's like your progression to it so yeah mind you like learning it on flat ground I had to do the kickflip nose manual 180 so I would find like a two or three foot drop and try to do it fully rotation try to do it fully rotated off of a drop do a couple more on flat see if any other uh things about the trick come to mind you do want to keep your weight very centered you don't want to be too much weight over the front or too much weight over the back you'll get like you'll get a very looped out frontside flip which is not what you want so make sure your balance is very centered with enough weight over the flick foot and enough weight over the pop foot to do what they need to do once they take off so set up wind up I wish I could like slow the thing down in the air for you guys I guess I'll just slow mo it that's kind of all it really is to a frontside flip I think the main things like with the backside flip how when you're doing it you know it's not like it's not like you pop and flick there you know like I said that's kind of how you get the ghetto bird but you pop and you flick there for a backside flip it's you know the same thing with frontside flip you pop and you want to flick there and ideally that's what should bring the back up to and give you a real nice hopefully a tweaked out catch or if you at least get a leveled one be thankful with that because you could get a rocket one or you know so that one didn't have too much shoulder wind up so I didn't finish the rotation all the way ended up having to kind of tic-tac a little bit we'll get like one more on flat ground and try and take it to like the step up and see if we can't get some slow-mo's for you guys and show it in different angles and let you guys pick it apart yourselves so I kind of want to hone in on something frontside flips on a bank are a little different because like I was saying earlier the frontside flip you want to flick sideways and like down at the ground at least that's how I do it so flicking down at the ground if you're on a pyramid is more so kind of out not so much at the ground and I think that's why I prefer doing frontside flips on like banks and frontside flips because you don't have to like flick so aggressively downward but I have done a lot of frontside flips on a bank and the next thing I know I'm wondering why I can't frontside flip on flat ground because those are two different angles when you're frontside flipping the frontside flat ground is more of a downward at the ground flick and then off of a bank is the same flick but because you're angled backwards slightly you're down at the ground becomes more so left in the air so flat board flick down at the ground going up a bank flicks kind of more out like that right so there's a difference in flat ground and on banks for you guys and then a quarter pipe would be the same essentially but instead of kind of thinking like a bank that's more like a loop so that one you almost like end up flicking way out here somewhere but I'll try and get a couple of those so you can see too the difference in that flick as well all right so something I'm noticing about when doing it on a quarter pipe this foot the one in front needs to be a lot more pointed up that's kind of been uh something that's been going through my head through all these attempts that it works the best when uh my front toe is pointed as straight as it can be basically but that's only for this quarter pipe