So what is a casper flip? For the sake of the video, it’s a half flip late vertical shove it, regardless of how exactly you do it. Some people will call the back footed versions casper flips and the front footed versions hospital flips. If you want to be really technical, you can use those […]
So what exactly is ‘cheating’ in skateboarding? It’s all art, right? You can do whatever you want, even weird footplant stuff where you end up with both feet on the ground. You might not get a ton of respect, but it’s not ‘cheating’. The gray area where it starts to get a little sketchy is […]
So to understand the gazelle underflip, we have to take a look at the original gazelle. It’s a trick Rodney Mullen invented back in the early 80s, and it’s what we would call a nollie backside 540 shove it with a 360 body varial. So a nollie bigspin with a full extra 180. But nobody […]
If you look up who invented hardflips, you’ll get a lot of results that basically say that nobody knows. Some people will say Daewon, and some will say Mullen, but they’re all wrong. Let’s take a look. Back in the 1992 video “Love Child”, Daewon Song landed the first ever RECORDED hardflip. Eric Koston followed […]
The impossible is one of the coolest tricks in skateboarding. It’s unique, stylish and a lot of fun to do. This is the story of the impossible, from rise to sudden fall in the 90s. Just like most classic flip tricks, the impossible can be traced back to Rodney Mullen in the early 80s… but […]
Crooked grinds, or K-grinds, are one of my favorite skateboard tricks. And everyone knows,even Wikipedia, that Eric Koston created them, right? Well Eric Koston actually wasn’t the first person to land the trick. So who was? And how did they get to be so linked to Koston? Let’s take a look. So, real quick, a […]
If you do any research on the Ollie, you’ll find two names for who invented it. First is Alan Gelfand, who landed it on vert, and second is Rodney Mullen who did it on flat. Right? Well there’s a guy who claims to have done both variations first. And it actually seems pretty credible. Let’s […]
In the world of confusing skateboard trick names, nothing is more vague than ‘ghetto bird’. It doesn’t mean anything, and not a lot of people seem to know what it actually is. So what is the trick? Where did it come from? Let’s take a look. Unlike a lot of mysterious flip tricks that are […]
In July 2010, a brand new trick exploded onto the internet called the Merlin Twist. Corey Kennedy did a switch frontside 180 front foot impossible, which is a remarkable trick, and had never before been done… or had it? Actually, this trick was actually relatively common 25 years ago. Let’s take a look at the […]
