What is a Casper flip?

A modern casper is performed like a kickflip, but the skateboarder catches the board after it has flipped upside down and lands in the casper stance. A casper can be performed either when standing still or when moving. The balancing can also involve sliding on the tip of the tail.

What is a gazelle flip?

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. These clips were filmed at 1,000 frames per second with a Redlake N3 high speed camera at 1280x720 resolution.

What is the difference between hospital flip and Casper flip?

Hospital Flip/Casper Flip

To put it simply, with a hospital flip your front foot brings the board back around whereas with a casper flip, theres a casper mid air and you use your back foot to bring it back. Both tricks are equally impressive though!

What is a Merlin flip?

Merlin twists are actually switch front foot impossible fs 180. So, while the impossible wraps around the front foot, a 180 is done while or after the wrapping. Incredibly crazy trick and unbelievable Cory Kennedy has these on lock.

What is an alpha flip?

Alpha Flip - Aka Big Hospital Flip. A hospital flip with a backside body varial. Do a hospital flip while turning 180 backside.

HOW TO CASPER FLIP THE EASIEST WAY TUTORIAL

How do I get out of Casper?

There are obviously multiple ways of coming out of a casper, but the easiest way is just scissoring the board with your feet, so it goes end-over-end. Here I'm lifting the front foot while my weight is still on the back foot, ready to jump up and let the board come back to a rolling position.

What is the opposite of a laser flip?

The laser flip is a combination of a frontside 360 shove-it and a heelflip. Therefore, you need to be comfortable with these rotations and the varial heelflip. It's the opposite of a regular tre flip.

What is the difference between a laser flip and a 360 Hardflip?

A laser flip is a 360 front side shove it with a heelflip. A 360 flip is a back side 360 shove it with a kickflip.

What is a grape flip?

Grape flip

A hardflip with a frontside 360-degree body rotation.

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.

How does a Hardflip work?

A hardflip is a skateboarding trick consisting of a frontside pop shove-it (or pop shuvit) and a kickflip. This slightly more complex trick requires proper balance and good timing. In this trick, as the skateboarder goes airborne, they use both of their feet to flick and rotate the board.

Who invented the front foot impossible?

The first ollie impossible – an extremely difficult skateboarding trick in which a flat-ground ollie is combined with the 360-degree vertical rotation of the skateboard around the skater's front or rear foot – was performed by Rodney Mullen in 1982.

What is a semi flip?

A Semi Flip is a quarter kickflip. Then, using the toes of your backfoot, shuv it back in a varial heelflip motion. Some people would mistakingly call it a late/underflip backfoot varial heel.

Can you Ollie on grass?

Start on a soft surface like grass.

If there's no grass around you or you can't practice indoors, find a crack in the pavement that you can rest your back wheels in. This should help keep your board from moving as you practice.