Backside flips

[logansurftosk8]

I’ve had so much trouble learning this trick. I’ve watched almost every trick tip about it and put lots of time into learning them, but it’s never really clicked for me. I can do them once in maybe 5 tries but it always looks ugly, rocketed, never leveled out. Half cab flips I have the same problem. There’s something physically wrong that my feet are doing to the board that’s not allowing it to flip properly. The flick feels so much different than a kickflip, it feels like my flicking foot gets stuck to the board and then the board flails away from me. Any advice would be much appreciated.

[silhouette]

Try focusing on getting a good kickflip you already know from being locked into the foot position for that you automatically will catch it (so it helps to have that kind of control over kickflips) and then delay the turn. Of course that means if your upper body isn't prepared you will likely underrotate by a fair amount (possibly slip out) so your shoulders and head need to anticipate that and throw themselves into the backside 180 as soon as you've popped the kickflip that itself should feel straight. Then if you are used to the non-scooped, late type of backside 180 ollie on flat you're good. I first learned that trick as a kid just spinning my body along with doing varial kickflip which works stupidly well for consistency but makes them harder up and over stuff and so you're probably better off disconnecting lower body doing good kickflip and upper body doing good backside 180 motion. That's also how you eventually can get the tweaked style ones by exaggerating just that correction.

[roba]

think of the trick as bs 180 with a kickflip instead of a kickflip with a bs 180 and try to learn it on a hip, that's how i learned them and now it's my most consistent flip trick to do up, down and over shit. do a bunch of bs 180s on said hip and then try doing a flip with it, but focus on 180-ing. since it's a hip you don't have to do the full 180 but you roll away just like you would on flat. once you can do them on hips it's way easier to do it anywhere else, or at least it was for me.