How to Laser Flip EXPLAINED EASY
How to Laser Flip EXPLAINED EASY by SKATE HACKS is a skateboarding tutorial for the Laser Flip. Skate Hacks frames the laser flip as the evil twin of the trey flip: a frontside 360 shove-it combined with a heelflip, using the same back-foot-first principle that makes trey flips work, but in the opposite direction.
What this video teaches
Skate Hacks frames the laser flip as the evil twin of the trey flip: a frontside 360 shove-it combined with a heelflip, using the same back-foot-first principle that makes trey flips work, but in the opposite direction. The main emphasis is that people are not used to scooping frontside and this unfamiliarity is the primary reason laser flips are so hard. Front toes hang off more than usual, back foot is angled with toes pointing backward for extra leverage on the frontside scoop, and smooth/slick ground is recommended.
Key tips
- Think of the laser flip as the frontside mirror of a trey flip: frontside 360 shove-it plus heelflip, so it is all about the back foot scoop, just in the opposite direction from a trey flip
- Back foot is angled with toes pointing backward; this reverse angle gives more leverage for the frontside scoop direction that most skaters never practice
- Front toes hang off further than a regular heelflip to produce enough flick, especially on flat ground
- Practice on slick/smooth ground (garage, warehouse, polished skate park); rough ground prevents the clean frontside scrape needed to initiate the scoop
- Learn on hips or stairs first for hang time; flat ground laser flips are significantly harder and best approached after the motion is consistent with help from inclines
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Teaches
Laser Flip