How to Do a Girl Flip on a Skateboard

A Girl Flip is a combination flip of an ollie, kickflip and varial kickflip. Impress your friends and the ladies with this visually dynamic flip. Girl is a brand of skateboards, so when a trick is referred to as a girl trick, the lingo is talking about it being performed first or well on a Girl brand board, not that it is a “girlie” or meant for the female gender trick.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

1. Warm up first. Get your muscles loose and warm and begin by doing several easy flips.
2. Position your body properly on the board. Place your forward foot just in front of the front truck (wheels) at about an angle of 45 degrees. Since you are starting out with an ollie, position your rear foot on the tail. Keep your shoulders aligned parallel to the deck.
3. Begin the Girl flip by getting up to your normal speed. Pop the board up while your forward foot slides up to the nose, rotating your ankle to a 90 degree angle. At the nose, let your foot slide right off of the deck. That 90 degree angle will help you flick your ankle off of the deck. The strength of your ankle is what makes this trick work. The harder your ankle flicks the board decides how fast or slow your board will flip so you want to have a lot of control with the pressure of your ankle.
4. Hold your forward foot in the air. Your rear foot is also in the air. Hold it as long as you can while your board flips.
5. Catch the board and land, then go right into the varial kickflip. The varial is a combination of a kickflip with a backside shove-it.
6. Shove the board with the rear foot at the same time you pop it up. The harder you pop, the higher you’ll go. Flip the deck the same as you did for the kickflip, making sure that the board completes a 180 varial. Catch it before it over flips and land.