Master Frontside Flips | Quick and Easy Tutorial

What this video teaches

Covers the frontside flip (kickflip plus frontside 180), not a heelflip — useful here only for its back-foot placement and body-wind-up cues for generating frontside rotation, which the heelflip version also relies on. The key insight is counterintuitive back-foot placement on the toe side of the tail rather than the heel side to help the board spin frontside, plus facing the hips and chest toward the target before popping.

Key tips

• 1Different trick (kickflip-based frontside flip) — only the frontside-rotation setup transfers
• 2Place your back foot on the toe side of the tail rather than the heel side; toe-side pressure through the pop helps the board rotate frontside more easily
• 3Keep your front foot near the centerline of the board so it doesn't collide with the nose as the board rotates
• 4Face your hips and chest partly toward your direction of travel before you even pop, so you're already partway wound into the rotation
• 5Let the nose come up and over as the board flips rather than fighting it with your front foot
• 6If you land under-rotated and off the toe side, sit slightly behind the board and push your back foot forward to finish the rotation
• 7Keep your knees soft on landing and be ready to ride away in an awkward switch foot position while you finish the turn

Summarized from the video transcript.