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How to CHEAT your 360 flips! Effortless/lazy tre flip

Ellis Frost6:06

How to CHEAT your 360 flips! Effortless/lazy tre flip by Ellis Frost is a skateboarding tutorial for the Triple Kickflip. An alternate-technique tre flip video, still not a triple kickflip, from a smaller creator — flagged as transferable technique and a lower-authority source than the channel tutorials above.

What this video teaches

An alternate-technique tre flip video, still not a triple kickflip, from a smaller creator — flagged as transferable technique and a lower-authority source than the channel tutorials above. Included because its specific cue, hooking the side of the board with your back foot before the tail even hits the ground so the board is already rotating on contact, is a genuinely useful timing insight for any multi-rotation flip attempt.

Key tips

  • Hang your back toes well over the edge of the tail; the more toe you hang, the more rotation you generate
  • Hook the side of the board with the edge of your back foot before the tail contacts the ground, so the board is already starting to turn by the time it pops
  • Angle your back foot to catch the side of the board rather than pushing straight down, since a straight push produces less rotation
  • For a higher, more controlled version, keep your front foot ready and mobile to help catch; for a lower-effort version, keep the front foot still and relaxed
  • Recognize that different riders achieve the same rotation with different foot mechanics — there is no single correct method, only different tradeoffs
  • Use this timing cue, starting the rotation before ground contact, as a general principle for any trick where you need more rotation than a standard pop provides
  • Treat this as a variation to test only after the standard technique is consistent, not a replacement for foundational mechanics

Summarized from the video transcript.

Teaches

Triple Kickflip

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