Is the unflicked tre flip really a tre flip?

[Arto!Arto!WakeUp!]

Tre flips are literally all back foot.

i think it feels that way a lot more than it really is.

i remember defending a 3flip in a game of skate and sheepishly telling the guy 'you don't have to count that, i didn't really flick - it was like a pressure 3 flip'. he was asked me to do it again and was like, 'i don't know what you *think* you're doing, but you're definitely using your front foot.'

i don't know. that could be me. there's usually a healthy gap between what i think i'm doing and what i'm doing.

[OwlGreen]

The change from calling it a 360 flip or three/3 flip to tre flip must have happened while I deeked out of skateboarding entirely in the mid-2000s. I can't write or say that shit without internally cringing. I know I'm wrong or, at the very least in the minority and have said this all before but yeah... Treflip is the corniest shit ever to me I am sorry. I'm getting old I know. I still love you all though.

When did you start and when did you come back? "Tre/treflip" goes back to the mid '90s. To my mind, "switch tre" is a hell of a lot more elegant than "switch three sixty flip".

Front foot influence is tricky. If your trucks are tight enough, it can be zero. The backspring effect of tightened bushings allows them to flip with just the back foot, no-comply style. If your trucks are loose enough not to exert that spring, you gotta have some front foot pressure and/or flick. Loose trucks and a lot of flick usually looks pretty fucked. See Cyrus. Quality treflips on very loose trucks are rare as hen's teeth. Max P, Stain, Mike Arnold-ish, Daewon. Small club. Other-than-loose trucks tres barely count. They really are just a pressure flip. Still can be beautiful. Especially switch. See Al Davis.

[Mongo Lloyd]

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Tre flips are literally all back foot.

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i think it feels that way a lot more than it really is.

i remember defending a 3flip in a game of skate and sheepishly telling the guy 'you don't have to count that, i didn't really flick - it was like a pressure 3 flip'. he was asked me to do it again and was like, 'i don't know what you *think* you're doing, but you're definitely using your front foot.'

i don't know. that could be me. there's usually a healthy gap between what i think i'm doing and what i'm doing.

It could be, but I always just feel like I’m getting my front foot out of the way while my back foot does the heavy lifting.

Similarly to hardflips, and in the very same pocket.

[exlurker]

Guys, is an un-flipped kickflip really a kickflip?

[rawbertson.]

people who care about this type of shit need to spend way more time offline
i can see now how much it has destroyed my brain

[oldfart]

Guys, is an un-flipped kickflip really a kickflip?

you mean mobbed like The GONZ does?

[Fasttimes]

The change from calling it a 360 flip or three/3 flip to tre flip must have happened while I deeked out of skateboarding entirely in the mid-2000s. I can't write or say that shit without internally cringing. I know I'm wrong or, at the very least in the minority and have said this all before but yeah... Treflip is the corniest shit ever to me I am sorry. I'm getting old I know. I still love you all though.

My crew still calls them board flips. That's old. 360 flip is as modern as I will get in terminology. I think the footing is irrelevant if you don't wrap impossible. I personally do the scoop version on flat but if you are doing up or down you have to flick or it can hurt for late catch. . . .