How to CHEAT your 360 flips! Effortless/lazy tre flip
Ellis Frost·6:06
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
1Toes hooked over the tail edge so the board starts turning before the tail hits the ground: pre-scoop is the key
2The more toes hang over the edge, the more the board will flip: adjust toe overhang to control flip amount
3The board should already be in motion when the tail strikes the floor, not starting to move after contact
4Front foot barely needs to move if back foot scoop is strong: for a relaxed, effortless look, keep the front foot nearly still
5For higher tre flips, keep the front foot more extended and ready to catch; for lazy ones, let it stay put
6Foot position for front foot does not matter much: put it in a comfortable kickflip-like spot and ignore it
7Scoop toward the heel side of the nose so the board hooks around correctly
8This style proves that a powerful enough back-foot scoop can complete the full 360 flip rotation with minimal front foot input