Why Is It Called the Dolphin Flip? And who actually has a good one?

[Banned from the room]

If I’m on a bmx and I spin my frame 360 using my butt cheeks is it still a tail whip.

I’m frickin telling you right now there’s no such animal as a dolphin flip.

I been doing this shit since 1983 grade K.
SMA was still popping when I first learned shuv flips in like 1990. Was probably on a frickin SMA board it was so long ago.

Reality is this

It pops does a kickflip and a shuv. It’s a bogus ass shuv flip.

We all know that trick is only cool nollie and switch or up a curb.

Even fakie is tired af and imo fakie is the best stance.

Unless you do to it fakie manny. Then in that case in or out it becomes worth filming.

somewhere in time someone looked at someone’s film and was like we gotta go back rando pro.

Random pro goes “Nah boss man. I ain’t going back to that 8 stair across from my grandmas house in Rancho Cucamonga. Tell the mag it’s called a fucking forward flip.” NBD son! Where’s my 250+1.50pb this month dog”

When I hear dolphin flip I think about Rob Dyrdek and I don’t even think he filmed one. It’s just those two things are kinda weak sauce to me.

[tonitonne]

Forward flip and hardflip are ugly

[Clayton]

4 pages in and nobody has mentioned that Chandler Burton tried to do it down Wallenberg. It’s like none of you are even gay.


1:01:35

[KyleG]

Creager nollie version 1:23

That was a nollie pressure flip

[skippersoldballs]

Chadd Sinclair baby

[yeahisaidit]

2) no one

[Madam, I'm Adam]

It’s called a dolphin flip because dolphins are very intelligent, and the trick, being very difficult, requires a great amount of kinaesthetic intelligence to execute. You’re welcome. 

[Sativa Lung]

Garret Hill does a "front foot impossible" that's essentially a wrapped dolphin flip. It's pretty fucking wild looking and very unique, I've never seen anyone else do it. Dudes a kook but if I could steal one trick from a pro this might be it.

[JRF]

Garret Hill does a "front foot impossible" that's essentially a wrapped dolphin flip. It's pretty fucking wild looking and very unique, I've never seen anyone else do it. Dudes a kook but if I could steal one trick from a pro this might be it.

I wouldn’t want to start a new thread to mention this, but, in reference to that front foot impossible clip, I really want to see someone do a front foot impossible to backside tail slide, approaching the ledge in the same manner as a hard flip backside tail slide where the board dosent completely rotate all the way. I hope that was coherent enough to explain what I’m trying to illustrate..

Edit, not so much of how it was done in that clip but more the way where it wraps around your front foot to the side, not up and down like that one was.

[IpathCats]

It’s called a dolphin flip because dolphins are very intelligent, and the trick, being very difficult, requires a great amount of kinaesthetic intelligence to execute. You’re welcome.

Thank you Ben Shaprio

[Mean salto]

Sometimes people do off axis varial flips by accident but a real dolphin flip has to be done on porpoise

[TheLowerBack]

I tried learning it about ten years ago just for fun. I rolled my ankle trying to get the flip and never looked back.

[asbestos]

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Garret Hill does a "front foot impossible" that's essentially a wrapped dolphin flip. It's pretty fucking wild looking and very unique, I've never seen anyone else do it. Dudes a kook but if I could steal one trick from a pro this might be it.

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I wouldn’t want to start a new thread to mention this, but, in reference to that front foot impossible clip, I really want to see someone do a front foot impossible to backside tail slide, approaching the ledge in the same manner as a hard flip backside tail slide where the board dosent completely rotate all the way. I hope that was coherent enough to explain what I’m trying to illustrate..

Edit, not so much of how it was done in that clip but more the way where it wraps around your front foot to the side, not up and down like that one was.

ocean howell was probably doing them in the 80s! whole part is insane being from 1990, but check out 0:42

[Banned from the room]

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Garret Hill does a "front foot impossible" that's essentially a wrapped dolphin flip. It's pretty fucking wild looking and very unique, I've never seen anyone else do it. Dudes a kook but if I could steal one trick from a pro this might be it.

[close]

I wouldn’t want to start a new thread to mention this, but, in reference to that front foot impossible clip, I really want to see someone do a front foot impossible to backside tail slide, approaching the ledge in the same manner as a hard flip backside tail slide where the board dosent completely rotate all the way. I hope that was coherent enough to explain what I’m trying to illustrate..

Edit, not so much of how it was done in that clip but more the way where it wraps around your front foot to the side, not up and down like that one was.

[close]

ocean howell was probably doing them in the 80s! whole part is insane being from 1990, but check out 0:42

That’s who I was thinking about. I doubt anyone has ever filmed that.

I feel like to do a ff imp to back t would be crazy hard to stand up on.
Even that trick to back lip is kinda fucked. It works to back d on mini ramp because you can do it late and trap it on the lip.

The slip out factor is crazy high. Also Bags. Ff impossible to either baglady is the easy one.

To tail tho.
I feel like the board is going to wanna complete the 360 almost every time. It’s  going to hit suski if at all.

Not even that && kid would be able to do this. Unless he’s got ff imps to losi or back lip.

[JRF]

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Garret Hill does a "front foot impossible" that's essentially a wrapped dolphin flip. It's pretty fucking wild looking and very unique, I've never seen anyone else do it. Dudes a kook but if I could steal one trick from a pro this might be it.

[close]

I wouldn’t want to start a new thread to mention this, but, in reference to that front foot impossible clip, I really want to see someone do a front foot impossible to backside tail slide, approaching the ledge in the same manner as a hard flip backside tail slide where the board dosent completely rotate all the way. I hope that was coherent enough to explain what I’m trying to illustrate..

Edit, not so much of how it was done in that clip but more the way where it wraps around your front foot to the side, not up and down like that one was.

[close]

ocean howell was probably doing them in the 80s! whole part is insane being from 1990, but check out 0:42

Ocean had a mean front foot impossible but I can guarantee that he never did one to backside tailslide

[JRF]

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Garret Hill does a "front foot impossible" that's essentially a wrapped dolphin flip. It's pretty fucking wild looking and very unique, I've never seen anyone else do it. Dudes a kook but if I could steal one trick from a pro this might be it.

[close]

I wouldn’t want to start a new thread to mention this, but, in reference to that front foot impossible clip, I really want to see someone do a front foot impossible to backside tail slide, approaching the ledge in the same manner as a hard flip backside tail slide where the board dosent completely rotate all the way. I hope that was coherent enough to explain what I’m trying to illustrate..

Edit, not so much of how it was done in that clip but more the way where it wraps around your front foot to the side, not up and down like that one was.

[close]

ocean howell was probably doing them in the 80s! whole part is insane being from 1990, but check out 0:42

[close]

That’s who I was thinking about. I doubt anyone has ever filmed that.

I feel like to do a ff imp to back t would be crazy hard to stand up on.
Even that trick to back lip is kinda fucked. It works to back d on mini ramp because you can do it late and trap it on the lip.

The slip out factor is crazy high. Also Bags. Ff impossible to either baglady is the easy one.

To tail tho.
I feel like the board is going to wanna complete the 360 almost every time. It’s  going to hit suski if at all.

Not even that && kid would be able to do this. Unless he’s got ff imps to losi or back lip.

I gave it a try on a bench to bench gap where you don’t have to pop it up on to the ledge and it felt doable for sure but that was only 8 years ago that I tried it and I was already over the hill physically, so I didn’t have the determination to really go for it (along with not having the skill to do it either)
I could see kalis doing it though. Has anyone done a laser flip backside tail slide? If done right, by the right person, it could look pretty good.

I totally agree about the board rotating the full spin and not being able to control the spin, that would be the hardest aspect, controlling the rotation in order to stop it at the last 90 degrees to lock into a back tail

[silhouette]

If I’m on a bmx and I spin my frame 360 using my butt cheeks is it still a tail whip.

I’m frickin telling you right now there’s no such animal as a dolphin flip.

I been doing this shit since 1983 grade K.
SMA was still popping when I first learned shuv flips in like 1990. Was probably on a frickin SMA board it was so long ago.

Reality is this

It pops does a kickflip and a shuv. It’s a bogus ass shuv flip.

We all know that trick is only cool nollie and switch or up a curb.

Even fakie is tired af and imo fakie is the best stance.

Unless you do to it fakie manny. Then in that case in or out it becomes worth filming.

somewhere in time someone looked at someone’s film and was like we gotta go back rando pro.

Random pro goes “Nah boss man. I ain’t going back to that 8 stair across from my grandmas house in Rancho Cucamonga. Tell the mag it’s called a fucking forward flip.” NBD son! Where’s my 250+1.50pb this month dog”

When I hear dolphin flip I think about Rob Dyrdek and I don’t even think he filmed one. It’s just those two things are kinda weak sauce to me.

Thank you for this post. Been loving the poetry in your posting as of late, it's been especially shining.

Front foot impossible to back tail is an amazing idea, I've had front footers and variations on lock for 15+ years and never ever even thought about that one. I used to do front foot impossible backside body varials though and so I suspect maybe I could try flinging one towards a super low curb later today and report back. I suspect it's a shin basher though, and if I ever do make one by chance, please don't expect any feedback on the slide part of the backside tailslide as I'm horrible at that trick and so am not expecting any either on location.

[JRF]

4 pages in and nobody has mentioned that Chandler Burton tried to do it down Wallenberg. It’s like none of you are even gay.


1:01:35

Well… that was interesting to say the least.. looks like he could of landed it pretty easily too. He has a pretty decent Forward/dolphin flip I guess.