How to CHEAT your 360 flips! Effortless/lazy tre flip
How to CHEAT your 360 flips! Effortless/lazy tre flip by Ellis Frost is a skateboarding tutorial for the Tre Flip. Ellis Frost demonstrates a lazy back-foot-dominant style where the front foot barely moves, showing that toes hooked over the tail edge start the board scooping before it even hits the ground, and a relaxed front foot creates a cleaner, more effortless-looking tre flip.
What this video teaches
Ellis Frost demonstrates a lazy back-foot-dominant style where the front foot barely moves, showing that toes hooked over the tail edge start the board scooping before it even hits the ground, and a relaxed front foot creates a cleaner, more effortless-looking tre flip. He addresses viewer complaints that his style is a pressure tre by proving the flip still occurs fully with front foot nearly stationary.
Key tips
- Toes hooked over the tail edge so the board starts turning before the tail hits the ground: pre-scoop is the key
- The more toes hang over the edge, the more the board will flip: adjust toe overhang to control flip amount
- The board should already be in motion when the tail strikes the floor, not starting to move after contact
- Front foot barely needs to move if back foot scoop is strong: for a relaxed, effortless look, keep the front foot nearly still
- For higher tre flips, keep the front foot more extended and ready to catch; for lazy ones, let it stay put
- Foot position for front foot does not matter much: put it in a comfortable kickflip-like spot and ignore it
- Scoop toward the heel side of the nose so the board hooks around correctly
- This style proves that a powerful enough back-foot scoop can complete the full 360 flip rotation with minimal front foot input
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
Tre Flip