Frontside Half Cab Flip
April 25, 2007
I never knew I could do this trick until it came up in a flatland session. I always had trouble with Frontside Flips and figured the Fakie one must be harder. The regular Half Cab version seemed so much simpler, until I tried this. Once you get that foot positioning it seems to really simply stay directly under your feet allowing me to get away with all sorts.
1. The back foot. That's the key here. The back foot. Seriously. Whilst rolling fakie you need a solid pop to get enough time for the board to do all it needs to in the air. The ball of your foot and your toes should be spread across the centre of your tail as if you were to spank a big clean regular ollie.
2. Your shoulders should be over rotated slightly ready to uncoil like a spring. You¹re front foot in a toey kickflip (by this I mean a small amount of foot is on the actual board) position at first. Once you become more competent with this trick you can ease that foot over for a more powerful flick.
3. As your foot pops down, those wound up shoulders need to unwind. Spin them in the direction you need to turn.
4. Your front foot should be kicking out towards the heel edge of your nose just like a regular kickflip.
5. The board should now be following the motion of your shoulders and flipping nicely under both feet now that the flick foot has retracted, kickflip style, to await the uber-catch.
6. Sometimes this flip turns grip side up so late. You can usually tell when things are going wrong as, just like the pop, t's all in the back foot. Feel that board snap into position under that back foot and things are going to be good.
7. Let the front foot find its place.
8. Obviously James Hardy has been banging these out for some time so the full 180 isn't even an issue. This comes but is all in the practice. For now, you'll find yourself a few degrees off and tic-taccing to get yourself rolling in the correct direction. No problem. Go again.
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