Types of Flips
How to Flip: Aerial! The "How To" Aerial Flip Tutorial . By Thomas Tapp. Difficulty level: Hard. The Aerial flip is just like a cartwheel or round off but twice as cool because your doing a cartwheel but with NO HANDS! You'll see this flip thrown a lot in kick@$$ martial arts films.
Like any rotating trick, the pop shove-it can be performed frontside or backside. Late shove-it Similar to a late flip, this trick combines an ollie with a pop shove-it, usually frontside, with the skater delaying the shove-it until the ollie is at its peak.
The 50-50 grind is where both trucks are on the edge. This move evolved from the horizontal-stance carve grind in pools and was taken up on top of the lip by such skaters as Jay Adams, Tony Alva and Stacy Peralta. Also called "Axelgrind". Combo: Manny Santiago kickflip to bs 50-50.
The kickflip is a maneuver in skateboarding in which a rider flips their skateboard 360° along the axis that extends from the nose to the tail of the deck. When the rider is regular footed the board spins clockwise if viewed from the front.
Pike - Single flip completed in the pike body form Double Pike - Two flips completed in the pike body form Triple Pike - Three flips completed in the pike body form
Heelflip Body Varial,(not to be confused with the disco flip, in which a riders performs a sex change 180 while executing a Kickflip), where the skater does a backside 180 turn, while the board does not spin, but still flips.
A flip trick in which the board flips in a similar fashion to a frontside kickflip, but the action of the front foot is absent—the flip of the board is reliant upon the pushing down action of the back foot.