Learn How to Backside Flip: Using THIS SECRET
Learn How to Backside Flip: Using THIS SECRET by SKATE HACKS is a skateboarding tutorial for the Kickflip Backside 180. Focused technique-correction video that isolates the single biggest cause of under-rotated backside flips: flicking too far off the side instead of off the front of the nose.
What this video teaches
Focused technique-correction video that isolates the single biggest cause of under-rotated backside flips: flicking too far off the side instead of off the front of the nose. Frames the trick explicitly as a kickflip-plus-backside-180 combo and explains how a front-flicked, tweaked kickflip dips the nose and creates the rotation axis needed for the board to spin all the way around.
Key tips
- Have solid backside 180s and kickflips locked in first; a backside flip is exactly a combo of those two tricks
- Set up the feet as for a normal kickflip, then wind up the shoulders and body as for a backside 180 before popping
- Flick off the front of the nose, not out to the side, so the nose dips down and becomes the axis the board rotates around
- A flick that goes too far to the side rockets the board and stalls the rotation instead of completing it
- A flick that is too heavy off the front can catch the shins, so find the balance point between side and front
- Aim to catch the backside flip at roughly the halfway point (90 degrees) of the kickflip rotation, then finish turning backside
- A tweaked, leveled-out flip (nose dipped rather than pointed high) rotates easier and lands safer down stair sets
- Start turning backside as soon as you pop, with shoulders already committed to the rotation before the flick happens
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
Kickflip Backside 180