Skateboarding Tricks: What is a 360 Flip?

Series Summary

The development of skateboarding coincides with the popularization of surfing in California around the 1950's. Since that time, skateboarding has seen many rises and falls in popularity, with several generations of young skaters developing the sport and their own skateboarding tricks and techniques. The current generation of skateboarders is more accepted and less rebellious than previous generations, and often skate on city built skate parks designed for a variety of skateboarding tricks.

The 360 flip is a combination of the kickflip and the 360 shove-it backside. In this free video series, a sponsored skateboarder will teach you how to perform a 360 kickflip varial skateboarding trick, as well as several variations. After learning what a 360 flip, or three flip, is and how it works, you'll learn how to place the feet for the trick and how to perform a 360 flip. Next, you'll learn how to do a 360 kickflip fakie, a 360 kickflip down, and common mistakes to avoid when doing these skateboarding tricks. With these tips, you'll soon find yourself doing all kinds of skateboarding tricks in the park, off of rails, and on the way to the X Games!

Video Transcript

"The 360 kick flip varial or the three flip or the 360 flip which are all the same thing its a really fun trick to do. The 360 flip started out as a free style trick and now it's a full fledge street trick and people are doing the trick down, down really big gaps on to hand rails and into ledges and off from manuals. The 360 flip is a combination of the kick flip in the 360 shove it backside. The 360 flip, first you'll have to learn how to do kick flips successfully and you'll have to learn how to do shove its or kick flip varials and combine all of this together. The 360 kick flip works by setting your feet up in a kick flip position with the front foot and ollie or a shove it position with your back foot and combining the flip and sending the board back side all the way around and flipping at the same time and landing back on the board and rolling away. The 360 kick flip is a great trick because you start with the board straight, you flip it and you shove it 360 and you land back on it straight and you roll away."