HOW TO PRESSURE FLIP
HOW TO PRESSURE FLIP by Jonny Giger is a skateboarding tutorial for the Backside Pressure Flip. Frames the pressure flip as physics-first: because there is no ollie-style 50/50 weight distribution, nearly all your weight has to load onto the back foot in the toe pocket to generate the pop, and Giger demonstrates the mechanism by showing what happens when you pick the board up by that pocket versus the tail tip.
What this video teaches
Frames the pressure flip as physics-first: because there is no ollie-style 50/50 weight distribution, nearly all your weight has to load onto the back foot in the toe pocket to generate the pop, and Giger demonstrates the mechanism by showing what happens when you pick the board up by that pocket versus the tail tip. Also connects the pressure-scoop skill to a family of other tricks, impossibles, hardflips, backside bigspins, that share the same underlying technique.
Key tips
- Set the front foot roughly in kickflip position, its exact placement barely matters for this trick
- Load the ball or toes of your back foot into the toe-side pocket rather than the tail tip, weight distribution here is close to all-back-foot instead of the 50/50 you would use for an ollie
- Release tension from the front foot and let the back foot's scoop alone launch and flip the board, popping from the tip of the tail alone will not make it flip
- Throw the board out in front of you as you scoop, rather than popping straight down and jumping immediately like an ollie
- Pull your front foot back and out of the way without letting it influence the board's rotation at all, old ollie muscle memory tends to sneak a pop shove-it in here
- Once the flip is consistent on ten reps in a row, gradually shift your body weight further over the nose to start aiming toward landing
- Recognize that the same scoop technique carries directly over to impossibles, hardflips, backside bigspins and 360 pop shove-its
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
Backside Pressure Flip