The Only Hospital Flip Trick Tip You Need
The Only Hospital Flip Trick Tip You Need by Parkmo is a skateboarding tutorial for the Hospital Flip. Parkmo treats the hospital flip as a Casper flip you pop into, using only the front foot, and says the two things you need are a workable kickflip and comfort with flat ground Casper flips.
What this video teaches
Parkmo treats the hospital flip as a Casper flip you pop into, using only the front foot, and says the two things you need are a workable kickflip and comfort with flat ground Casper flips. His key reframing is that it is not a flick and scoop but a point and scoop: if you actually flick, you overflip before the scoop comes back and you land primo. He recommends drilling the Casper flip and then doing the hospital flip one footed to feel what the front foot does, and warns that when you add the back foot you must get it up and out of the way or the board swings straight into your leg. Timing is the hardest part: scooping too early flips the board and lands you primo, scooping too late rotates the board vertically instead of horizontally, and the target is catching it about a quarter to a third of the way round.
Key tips
- Prerequisites are a workable kickflip and comfort with flat ground Casper flips; the hospital flip is essentially a Casper flip you pop into
- Think point and scoop, not flick and scoop; an actual flick overflips the board and lands you primo
- Set up basically the same as a kickflip and practice the trick one footed first to learn what the front foot is doing
- Catch and scoop the board back at about a quarter to a third of the way round
- Scooping too early flips it and lands you primo; scooping too late rotates the board vertically instead of horizontally
- When you start landing both feet, get your back foot up and out of the way or the board swings back into your leg
- Expect to unlearn kickflip muscle memory; the motion should feel like a Casper flip, not a kickflip
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
Hospital Flip