How to Hardflip EASY
How to Hardflip EASY by SKATE HACKS is a skateboarding tutorial for the 360 Hardflip. Channel's second attempt to properly explain the hardflip mechanics, framing it as the opposite of a tre flip: instead of being all in the back-foot scoop, the hardflip is almost entirely a front-foot trick since the back foot just pops without adding scoop.
What this video teaches
Channel's second attempt to properly explain the hardflip mechanics, framing it as the opposite of a tre flip: instead of being all in the back-foot scoop, the hardflip is almost entirely a front-foot trick since the back foot just pops without adding scoop. Diagnoses nearly every landing problem as a flick issue on the front foot.
Key tips
- Understand the hardflip is a kickflip plus a frontside pop shove-it where the board spins in the same direction it flips, the same core problem as an inward heelflip
- Keep the back foot popping only, it is not scooping or doing anything extra, all the rotation work comes from the front foot
- Extend the front foot out far enough after the kickflip motion to fully clear the board so it can rotate between the legs
- Practice the flip without committing: try it with the back foot left off the board, or try it sitting down, to get comfortable with the vertical rotation
- Expect the flick to go more off to the side than a kickflip's straight-off-the-nose motion, because the front foot is driving the shove-it too
- Watch for the feet switching positions mid-trick: the front foot goes back during the flick, then must come forward again to catch at roughly 90 degrees
- If landing primo, suspect the tail isn't rising enough on the catch; if under-rotating, suspect the kickflip flick itself isn't strong enough
- Get a good, solid pop on the back foot as the foundation, since every rotation problem traces back to the front-foot flick quality
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
360 Hardflip