How-To Skateboarding: Hardflip with Aldrin Garcia
How-To Skateboarding: Hardflip with Aldrin Garcia by RIDE Channel is a skateboarding tutorial for the 360 Hardflip. Short, casual breakdown from Aldrin Garcia (RIDE Channel) that uses a mental trick borrowed from the 180: wind up the shoulders and stance like starting a frontside 180, then open straight out instead, which naturally drives the flick off to the side rather than straight off the nose.
What this video teaches
Short, casual breakdown from Aldrin Garcia (RIDE Channel) that uses a mental trick borrowed from the 180: wind up the shoulders and stance like starting a frontside 180, then open straight out instead, which naturally drives the flick off to the side rather than straight off the nose.
Key tips
- Place the front foot right under the bolts, similar to a kickflip position but angled off to the side
- Set the back foot on top of the tail, close to centered
- Pop and flick off to the side rather than straight forward like a standard kickflip
- Use the 180 mental cue: wind the shoulders up like starting a frontside 180, then open straight out instead of completing the turn
- Flick hard, the strength of the flick is the part most people underestimate as the hard part
- Watch the board as it comes around rather than looking away mid-rotation
- Catch the board with the front foot first, then set the back foot down to land and roll away
- Treat this as a useful flat-ground trick to have even without rail or gap tricks in the bag
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
360 Hardflip