What is Gazelle flip?

Gazelle flip/ 360 Bigspin Kickflip

A flip trick in which a 540-degree board flip is combined with a 360-degree body rotation in the same direction. So basically a big flip (big spin with kickflip) then immediately after landing 180 pivot. The trick was invented by Mullen in 1981.

What is a gazelle kickflip?

This is my Skateology video for gazelle flips, AKA bigspin kickflip 360. A gazelle flip is a trick in which a skater's body spins 360 degrees and the board does a 540 flip. A 540 flip with a backside 180 is called a bigger flip.

What is a dragon flip?

Dragon Flip. Advanced. A 360 Forward Flip, which is a combination of a 360 Kickflip and Front Foot Impossible in one spin.

What's the hardest trick in skateboarding?

Laser Flip

The laser flip is probably the hardest flat ground trick to land. It combines a 360 shuv with a varial heelflip.

What is a Casper Flip?

In a Casper Flip, you turn the board onto your foot (grip-tape to shoe laces) with your "sliding" foot, and rotate the board back with a 180° turn with your back foot. Its similar to the more complicate hospital flip which only uses one foot.

GAZELLE FLIP IMPOSSIBLE TRICK OF RODNEY MULLEN

What is an impossible flip?

'Impossible' is where the board is scooped up by the back foot and wraps over the back foot in a 360° rotation. SkateboardFlips & Shove-its. Evgenii Moraru. 452. 19.

Can you get abs from skateboarding?

Skateboarding also helps develop key muscles like hamstrings, glutes, quads, lower back, and yes, even abs.

What is a Sigma flip?

A sigma flip is very much like a hospital flip however instead of just doing a kickflip and catching it,you do a varial kickflip a then catch it with your front foot.

What is a pressure flip?

The pressure flip is one of those skate tricks where your back foot does most of the job, i.e., more than 90 percent of the move. "In a pressure flip, the rear foot scoops the tail toward your backside so that the board does a 180 and half a heelflip," notes Per Welinder, author of "Mastering Skateboarding."

Who created the dragon flip?

360 Dolphin/Dragon flip/360 Forward flip/Reda flip

Two days after he landed the trick, Chris Chann also landed it. He was inspired by Hadada's video and changed the name to Dragon flip for his YouTube series "Trick Challenge" (episode 11) in April 2014.

What is a 360 Hardflip?

The 360 hardflip is a hybrid trick combining a frontside 360 Pop Shove it and a kickflip all in one motion.

What is a yo flip?

A Yo flip is a 360 flip with an exaggerated front foot catch. This is usually done by catching the board with your front foot while stretching your back foot out as far back as it can go. Apparently, “the more you get the back foot out, the more buttery it is, dawg.”

Are laser flips hard?

The laser flip requires a lot of strength and power to push out the board with the front foot in the right direction and pop hard with your back foot. Scooping in the opposite direction is one of the things that makes laser flips so difficult and tough.

Why is it called a laser flip?

So in the original music track, there are some laser sound effects, and that seems to be the reason it's called a laser flip. And, here's the thing. A lot of people think the trick is spelled with a Z, but it's named after an ACTUAL laser, which is an acronym with an S in it.

What is a primo slide?

To skateboarders, primo means a few different things, but the most commonly accepted definition of a true primo move is anything wherein the skater lands a move by standing on the edge of the board.