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Welcome to the menu for my trick-tips in (bad) english:
last update: 2008-02-23

-1/2 heelflip late 1/2 backfoot kickflip NEW
-360 double flip
-360 double underflip
-360 flip
-360 shuvit
-360 thunder flip (or 360 toe flip)
-540 flip
-backside 360 ollie
-beta flip
-bigspin feather flip
-bubble
-bubble flip
-fakie/nollie bigspin heelflip
-feather flip
-frontside feather flip
-frontside impossible
-helipop
-impossible (or ollie impossible)
-laser flip (or lazer flip)
-nollie 360 kiwi flip
-nollie backside bigspin late flip
-nollie backside gazelle
-nollie varial heelflip
-ollie late flip (or back foot kickflip)
-ollie late hardflip
-plasma spin
-pop shuvit late flip
-pressure flip basics
-semi flip
-shuvit to nose pivot
-sigma flip
-varial heelflip
-zombie flip
-zombie spin

Here is a link to my photobucket album with animated gifs for many tricks, they can be useful if your are searching for tricks ideas or for tips to land some of them.
You can also check my youtube account.

Bienvenu dans le menu pour les trucs en français:
(pour le moment je n'ai pas écrit d'articles en français pour ce blog.)

Pour ceux qui souhaitent des trick-tips en français je recommande le célèbre blog Welcome to Hell, MRCK y a ecrit un nombre impressionnant d'explications et d'idées de tricks, et aussi des tas d'autres choses interessantes.

My method for bs 360 is not the easiest, but with practice it allows to get full rotation, I hope it will help.

Slowmotion animated gif

Feet placement:
-place the front foot like you would for a bs 180, maybe more on the heelside of the deck.
-the back foot have to be on the toe side edge of the tail, toes are hanging from the deck.

How to do the trick:
-while hitting/scraping the tail on the ground, do a fast 180 with your shoulders turning first
-during the first 180 try to apply pressure on the board witn both feet to keep the board in contact with those (feet).
-do the last 180 by dragging the board with your feet, at this point the feet turn first and most of the time the front foot will leave the board (you don't have to mind that).
-bring back the front foot on the board, finish the upper body rotation and land.

Tips:
-Try them on a bank or a slope first, then off a bank, they are easier this way, you can also use a small gap.
-You may sometimes have to finish the rotation with a small pivot (or slide) on the back truck, so it's good idea to put the weight above the back foot and to land in a way that let you cheat a little at the landing.
-It requires practice to get them on flatland without losing too much speed, at the beginning they tend to stop at the landing, to avoid that you have to spin fast and to stay as much as possible in the rolling axis.

A "bubble" is a pressure flip and kickback variation, it is a 3/8 heelside pressure flip late back foot fs varial with a 3/8 underflip, it can also be described as a pressure back foot hospital flip, or a varial kickback. It's quite an easy trick.

To do them you can try this:
-the back foot can be between the middle and the back truck, ready to do a 3/8 heelside pressure flip by pressing the heelside edge of the board, the front foot can be anywhere, for example on the front bolts.
-jump and release the pressure by removing the front foot, it will make the board do the 3/8 heelside pressure flip, let your back foot toes in contact with the griptape.
-lift your backfoot to do a kind of back foot hospital flip motion (hospital flip: casper flip done with only the foot which was under the board)
-land.

Animated gif 1
Animated gif 2

Tip:
-I do them by applying pressure with the external edge of my back foot, it works fine for me but it's not necessary, it's just a tip which may increase the consistency.

Variations:
-You can do them on the front foot, if you do it backside it's a nollie bubble, if you do it frontside it's a front foot bubble.
-It is possible to add an extra flip (and even two) to transform the bubble in a bubble flip
-if you are good with bubbles you can probably learn nollie hospital flips and switch hospital flips easily.
-there is also a ollie version of the bubble, called "ollie bubble" which is a kind of 1/2 frontside impossible, do it with a bigspin and you get a plasma spin.
-Bubble can also be done backside by pressing on the toe side, done with a frontside body varial you get a zombie spin.

This trick is a fakie/nollie 360 varial heelflip with a 180 body follow.

I know two ways to land this trick:
A "lazy way" and a "with pop way", I use the first to do them fakie and the other one to do them nollie.

First method:
-this method is based on the regular/switch varial heelflips technique.
1/ roll fakie in a varial heelflip stance, backfoot on the corner of the tail and perpendicular to the board.
2/ do a flatland-style fakie varial heelflip by scraping the heelside corner of the tail, while doing this, turn your body 90° and jump backward
3/ land with the back foot first on the tail, then catch it with the front foot to land in a manual, and finish the spin with a pivot.

Animated gif for the first method

Second method:
-this method is based on the fakie/nollie varial heelflip technique.
1/ roll fakie with your back foot close to the heelside edge of the tail, pointing to the direction you are rolling to, front foot quite close to the other foot, slightly pointing to the direction you are rolling to, this foot apply pressure with the ball of the foot on the edge of the board.
2/ pop the tail (hard but not too much) and flick the board with the front foot while turning the body 180° (you should allready be at nearly 90° body spin when you flick).
3/ usually with this method it does full rotation in the air so you don't need to pivot at all.

Animated gif for the second method (this one is done nollie)

Tips and ideas:
-this trick can be scary at first because sometimes the board spins/flips out of sight, you have to commit to land it.
-the first method also works pretty well to do fs bigspin heelflip on banks or slopes, if you use this one it may be a good idea to learn both tricks at the same time.