Hardflips?

[BluntSkate420]

A hardflip is when your board rotates 180 degrees like a frontside pop shove-it, but flips like a kickflip. It might help to think of it as a frontside kickflip shove-it.

1. Compress for some pop and set u your feet like Rodney's.

2. It seems like it helps to keep your shoulders square with the board and ollie higher for this trick.

3. You pop the board a bit like a frontside pop shove-it, but flip it like a frontside kickflip. This is tricky, but keep trying.

4. Now you have to get your feet out of the way so the board will flip freely.

5. Put your feet in the catch position. See how the extra pop helps?

6. Flatten out and straighten the board, then extend your legs.

7. Center yourself.

8. Roll away.

9. Rodney did this switch for bonus points


WTF??? Isnt this a varial flip? Someone please tell me what a hardflip is? I got this step by step thing on this site and a couple others have this same tutorial thing.

[skidmark]

im with him^^^^^ what is the best way to do them???

[Shalashaska]

That doesn't sound like a hardflip....If you know that vert trick "Rodeo" (Think Tony Hawk) It pretty much does that...The skateboard does a blackflip then while vertical does a 180..That make sense?..And that's why so many people land it with the board in their ramming into their crotch..Seriously because yeah..But I don't know how to do them

[Shalashaska]

http://www.skateland.dk/Billeder.htm this has a video of the hardflip..

[BluntSkate420]

So it does a backflip and then a half flip? Could you tell me how to position your feet and all that good stuff?

[aronsamma]

no, the tip on transworld's site is right. A hardflip is a fs shove it kickflip, and a varial flip is a bs shove it kickflip. the thing is, the more you pop it, the more vertical it looks. anyway, try to get your hands on tony hawks trick tips 2 with eric koston. eric has some nice switch ones.

Shalashaska- a rodeo is a off-axis 540

[BluntSkate420]

no way dude. i know FOR A FACT that a varial flip is a fs shove and kickflip

[Shalashaska]

You sure? And a f/s shove + kickflip is yeah a varial..And a rodeo off axis 540? I'm almost positive..You go up a vert and backflipish and spin while like upside down? Oh well....And The only hardlfips I've seen is where it pretty much gets vertical

[Zac--]

A fs shove it with a kickflip is a varial flip,it's not something to argue about with me,it's a fact. Save yourself the embarassment and agree.
A hardflip is a fs flip,without moving with the board. The board flips vertically through your legs,the exact same rotation as a fs flip,except you don't move with it. Face the facts people.

[Shalashaska]

Hmm..Ohh..And to the guy wanting to know foot position this might help.....

"For a hard flip, place your back foot on the tail and your front foot pointed somewhat forward near the heel edge. Hit the tail while sliding your front foot off of the board making it seem to come straight up at you. It will look like it is going to do a flip and land upside down, but with practice you will learn to make it perform a half-flip and land on its wheels. (You may want to try this without trying to land it the first couple of times.) At the same time, you will want to be rotating your body 90? in the frontside direction letting the board flip between your legs. When the board has finished rotating, rotate your body back to your normal stance and catch the board before it hits the ground. Land and ride away clean."

[Mrock]

Originally posted by BluntSkate420
no way dude. i know FOR A FACT that a varial flip is a fs shove and kickflip

..you obviously don't know half as much as you think you do. Aronsamma is right.

[Pariah]

OMG I have never seen so many arrogant people about hardflips. This is funny. People think a FS shovit with a k flip is a varial flip?? HAHAHA A BS shovit with a kickflip is the varial flip.

Hardflip = FS shovit + kickflip

Varial Kickflip = BS shovit + kickflip

Varial HEELflip = FS shovit + heelflip

Frontside flip = FS 180 + kickflip (well hardflip cus the board spins too)

Zac- and BluntSkate.... haha to you two. Blunt... "FOR A FACT" WRONG!!!!! wow... some people's kids

[Mrock]

Originally posted by Pariah

Hardflip = FS shovit + kickflip

Varial Kickflip = BS shovit + kickflip

Varial HEELflip = FS shovit + heelflip

Frontside flip = FS 180 + kickflip (well hardflip cus the board spins too)


Everyone got it? That's all there is to it. Study the above list, it's right.

[aronsamma]

yep. do a backside flip. now do one with out spinning your body (varial flip) it's frontside now?

[skidmark]

haha got it im just afraid of landing on the board with it pointing strait up........ OUCH that would hurt.

[BakerStencil]

I used to have that problem I'm to tall now though, I clear the deck but 4 or 5 inches.

[BluntSkate420]

wow.. sorry its just ive never ever been corrected when i say im gonna do a varial flip and do that... so ive been doin hardflips all the time... awesome. Im sorry its just theres so many websites contradicting eachother and i dunno. i didnt mean to make anyone mad.

[Pariah]

Ha, it's ok Blunt, I forgive you, lol. Nah, I've seen some pretty heated arguments before about tricks. This kid almost picked a fight with me cus he was calling railstand primo when he wasn't moving. I corrected him and he got all bent out of shape.

[BluntSkate420]

thx man. i just always thought a hardflip was when the board backflipped and did a half kickflip.. And when i do hardflips ive never even been close to nuttin myself.

[frontside]

Originally posted by Pariah
OMG I have never seen so many arrogant people about hardflips. This is funny. People think a FS shovit with a k flip is a varial flip?? HAHAHA A BS shovit with a kickflip is the varial flip.

Hardflip = FS shovit + kickflip

Varial Kickflip = BS shovit + kickflip

Varial HEELflip = FS shovit + heelflip

Frontside flip = FS 180 + kickflip (well hardflip cus the board spins too)

Zac- and BluntSkate.... haha to you two. Blunt... "FOR A FACT" WRONG!!!!! wow... some people's kids

just a minor correction -

Hardflip = FS shovit + kickflip but it spins up between ur legs

Varial Kickflip = BS shovit + kickflip

Varial HEELflip = FS shovit + heelflip

Frontside flip = FS 180 + kickflip

inward heelflip = bs shovit + heelflip

inward kickflip = fs shovit + kickflip not between ur legs

[BluntSkate420]

ok so ive been doin an inward kickflip. How do you get it to spin up between your legs?

[Pariah]

sweet jebus no!!! a hardflip is a FS shov + k flip.... no between legs or anything, it doesn't matter. No such thing as an "inward kickflip". Hardflips just have different styles, it depends on how high u pop the FS shovit.

[Skate or Try]

yeah pariah i believe your right

[sk8erboi]

How would it be an inward kickflip if it's going outwards? Damn, some people are just so stupid.

[frontside]

its not going outwards. frontside goes inwards

[BluntSkate420]

depends which side of the tail your referring too.

[sk8munky]

an "inward kickflip" is called a semi-flip its the exact same move as a hardflip exept it doesnt flip vertical, it just looks like a varial kickflip spinning the wrong way

[Pariah]

umm.. a semi flip is an ollie nollie varial flip

[aronsamma]

actually, a semi flip is a quarter flip late backfoot varial heelflip (which is kinda like what you said). i made a sequence of one in the gallery section

[Pariah]

alright aronsamma.... I just said mine, cus semi flips are a bit hard to explain

[Sum1Stupid&Ugly]

haha this is funny. I still dont know whats what. besides what i already knew(hardflips and varial flips). And whats the one where it goes between yer legs?

[canadian sk8er]

Originally posted by aronsamma
actually, a semi flip is a quarter flip late backfoot varial heelflip (which is kinda like what you said). i made a sequence of one in the gallery section
listen to this guy he seems to be the guy who understands things the best

[Ramp]