Author Topic: How long did it take you to learn 360 flips? (Read 13790 times)

Mullet Man · « **Reply #30 on:** January 10, 2007, 02:42:22 PM »

Whenever I get it to flip right, I'm always too far in the back seat. Also, I have problems getting my back foot around to land it. Some dudes get it to flip so fast and perfect, it looks so easy. Just... flowing!

When y'all do it, do you ride straight or do you carve backside a tiny bit going into the flip? I find that it makes it rotate easier. I also noticed some people, like Herman, carve frontside a little. And his flip fast and good. So maybe it doesn't matter. But watch Baker 3 when he does a bunch in a row down those steps. He like tic-tacs frontside right before the flip.

biggums mcgee · « **Reply #31 on:** January 10, 2007, 03:18:49 PM »

ha those steps are fucking sweet dude. I was so psyched to see they made it in that video. When I was skating them, probably about 35 construction workers came out of no where to watch and cheer me on. the funny thing is that right around the corner of those sets, there's a big 10 stair with a perfect rail that I've never seen in any videos. quite odd

Lurker · « **Reply #32 on:** January 10, 2007, 04:20:41 PM »

Watch every single Stefan Janoski video part and take notes.

Blue Fescue · « **Reply #33 on:** January 10, 2007, 05:37:41 PM »

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im bummed, i kind of lost front foot impossibles and i was planing to take that one down at the double stack contest, ill be traveling by boat to get to melbourne. and if anyone is down to go that would be great! i need someone paddling on the left side during this extreme journey.

Well i am already in melbourne so we can skate when you get here but the world cup is in sydney this year and i think the double set is in queensland. i dont have a car so factor in the time it will take us to skate there.

SR Junky · « **Reply #34 on:** January 10, 2007, 05:43:28 PM »

i think i like to start straight over the board maybe leaning back a little and then jump forward a little bit onto the board. the most important part for me is to lift my legs because it seems to lift the board and get a nicer flip.

trent steel · « **Reply #35 on:** January 10, 2007, 06:02:34 PM »

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Forgot who mentioned it here, and yeah you can tre flip with pretty much any board, but set-up plays a small role. I'd imagine a deck with a more in-set wheelbase would be easier to rotate.
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Guy's board before they took it off the market the first time had a really pointy tail, perfect for 360 flips.

sheffeys boards had that too. i used to love those boards in the good ol' pre china days

kev · « **Reply #36 on:** January 10, 2007, 06:15:21 PM »

I've been skating 5 years and still can't do em, I never tried that hard to learn em though.

sheffledge · « **Reply #37 on:** January 10, 2007, 06:28:18 PM »

kevin taylors aethetics 'wanted dread or alive' board

had the best tre tail ever

supermoonunit · « **Reply #38 on:** January 10, 2007, 07:24:50 PM »

i used to try three sixty flips all the time and i could flip them most of the time nicely and land ith the back foot on it.....this went on for about four years and then a month or two i just decided to jump on it a different way and ive been able to do them every since. they feel nice. paul shier's are my favorite

grimcity · « **Reply #39 on:** January 10, 2007, 07:47:26 PM »

I can get them pretty consistently, but they're sort of mobbed.

tehmizzark · « **Reply #40 on:** January 10, 2007, 08:17:13 PM »

the forced split leg tre flip is real lame, even lamer with pop shuvits

golgo13 · « **Reply #41 on:** January 10, 2007, 08:30:07 PM »

i wanna say 1990 i was riding this zorlac aaron deeter, i remember landing 270 ones standing still, not sure exactly when i started trying them. around 92 i had em fairly good. id say now its one of the only tricks i know im going to land 90% of the time. everything sanch and jayme have said are right on point.
back foot,focus on flinging and popping it, front foot doesnt do much.keep your shoulders straight.

Rusto1 · « **Reply #42 on:** January 10, 2007, 08:31:31 PM »

when i land them, i land on the board so hard that i cant roll away, i just stop, or i pivit and roll away

red curb · « **Reply #43 on:** January 10, 2007, 08:35:44 PM »

Nobody said this, but it's the way I do them when I just want to putz around:

Turn your back leg sort of inwards, so your feet are close to parallel. I don't put my front foot completely facing forward, but a decent angle. When you scoop, try to kinda step off your back foot and just naturally jump towards where the board is supposed to land. It should be about a foot or so in front of where you pop them from.

If you slow-mo someone like Stefan doing them, you'll see when he scoops, his foot turns the direction it would be if you put your foot in the position I'm describing.

j....soy..... · « **Reply #44 on:** January 10, 2007, 10:19:30 PM »

i seriously have landed about 4 my whole life....i did a couple on that sal barbier raiders board....and a few more in the last couple years after i relearned kickflips....the whole trick is alot of work...i don't have the energy....to me it still feels like a trick that's only possible if I do it off of something.....and at this point..i don't do anything off of something....

Warren · « **Reply #45 on:** January 10, 2007, 10:24:00 PM »

Such good catches for just on flat, really lofty.

plastic bench nerd · « **Reply #46 on:** January 10, 2007, 11:12:36 PM »

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im bummed, i kind of lost front foot impossibles and i was planing to take that one down at the double stack contest, ill be traveling by boat to get to melbourne. and if anyone is down to go that would be great! i need someone paddling on the left side during this extreme journey.
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Well i am already in melbourne so we can skate when you get here but the world cup is in sydney this year and i think the double set is in queensland. i dont have a car so factor in the time it will take us to skate there.

is it in febuary this year? i better get going if we are going to skate there. the plane ride from melbourne to sydney is only an hour and some change, i think, but isnt it somwere around an 18 hour drive? imagine, we leave sydney, skate all the way to the double set just in time for a first try front foot down that shiz, people will be thinking wow! with no warm up? nothing like a 5 day skate decathalon to get yourself pumped!

red curb · « **Reply #47 on:** January 11, 2007, 12:50:22 AM »

Quote from: Warren on January 10, 2007, 10:24:00 PM

Such good catches for just on flat, really lofty.

My Mike-Mo avatar shits all over the ones he did...

Hell, I can do them better than the ones he filmed for that video. Don't get me wrong, Stefan is the man and I know he has that trick better than me. I just don't get how those are that impressive is all.

neon blitz · « **Reply #48 on:** January 11, 2007, 01:12:48 AM »

2 years, maybe a bit more.....

i remember an old skater friend of mine doing them like varial flips, weird

monster network · « **Reply #49 on:** January 11, 2007, 01:22:35 AM »

one of my favourites, i learnt it in 89 after seeing the jason lee sequence/how to in transworld. still have that sequence, its by my desk now.

subroku · « **Reply #50 on:** January 11, 2007, 01:37:29 AM »

too long.8 years.fakie ones seem easier to stay over.definitely a back foot thing.If you can do 360 shuvits first it helps.having said all that i suck at tres.

red curb · « **Reply #51 on:** January 11, 2007, 01:40:55 AM »

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Such good catches for just on flat, really lofty.
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My Mike-Mo avatar shits all over the ones he did...

Hell, I can do them better than the ones he filmed for that video. Don't get me wrong, Stefan is the man and I know he has that trick better than me. I just don't get how those are that impressive is all.
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You're clearly out of your mind.

Because I don't think the 6 inch high ones he filmed for Show Me The Way are impressive means I'm out of my mind? Right.

He can do them far better than the ones he filmed. I don't see where this "lofty catch" is on there.

Matze · « **Reply #52 on:** January 11, 2007, 02:02:17 AM »

i can 360°flip like 1 of 3 tries, but it's far away from beeing my favourite trick ... too much effort for me

simon · « **Reply #53 on:** January 11, 2007, 03:22:23 AM »

still havent learned them after like 5-6 years of skating

loophole · « **Reply #54 on:** January 11, 2007, 04:00:44 AM »

ive got my fakie tres locked, my normal ones 1 of 6 tries... on a good day

Sleazy · « **Reply #55 on:** January 11, 2007, 06:37:37 AM »

When I was younger I was real close with them, I could flip them and land on them but I would either land with only one foot or my board would shoot out from under me. I spent some time recently trying them again and it was more of the same. I think I will work on them again, it's always bugged me that I never learned them.

tonycoxhox · « **Reply #56 on:** January 11, 2007, 06:41:57 AM »

One day I'll be able to do them 3 out of 4 times and other days I won't even be able to land one. I don't know if I'll ever get them premanent.

FFUR YLLIB · « **Reply #57 on:** January 11, 2007, 07:32:25 AM »

jeremy klein's checkout in TWS said it best..there's really no way to explain how to do em. just get off your ass and keep trying. i learned them in about three or four years on a gabriel 101 jesus deck. i pulled one then my friend pulled his first seconds after mine. dude got hyped. i can do em every now and then if i have something that'll chuck em like a hip or something. i'm too old to whip em on flat now.

peacepappies · « **Reply #58 on:** January 11, 2007, 07:41:32 AM »

it took me about 1 year to learn. i forgot how to do it after that and they're pretty crappy now. wormburners all the way and not really consistent. I never do em anyway.

Not having the fs flip/hardflip problems though. i love those.

biggums mcgee · « **Reply #59 on:** January 11, 2007, 07:56:51 AM »

is it weird that I can't do hardflips but frontside flips come easily? I remember someone saying that when they went to learn varial heels, they did them like frontside heels and gradually weened their body off of turning. you think this would work in the same case?

Author Topic: How long did it take you to learn 360 flips? (Read 13790 times)

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simon

loophole

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