Spark notes: Backflip easier, but scarier and should prob have spot for first few times trying. Front flip is harder to land but less intimidating and safer to a certain extent in the beginning.

Standing backflips are easier because of the way your stomach muscles work. If you learn frontflips first then backflips will be just as hard. Front flips are a lot less scary but you’ll be blind on the landing. Back flips are easier, more fun, and look cooler, but scary as all hell to start trying.

Keonte Jones allegedly offered 55 year old Larry Coner, a homeless and mentally ill man in Las Vegas, six dollars to attempt a back flip. Coner landed on his neck and died ten days later in hospital.

Here, we present you 5 of the hardest skate tricks that can be pulled right now.

• Hardflip. If it’s hard to master a simple kickflip, imagine combining it with a frontside pop-shove it.
• Laser Flips. A laser flip is a frontside 360 pop-shove it combined with a varial heelflip.
• Gazelle Flip.
• Fakie Beta Flip.
• Heelflip 720.

Position your feet properly. Pressure flips are impossible without proper foot position. Place your back foot just behind the back trucks. The position of your front foot doesn’t matter much, but most people find it comfortable to have it a few inches behind the front bolts slightly angled towards the nose.

Varial Kickflip Definition Varial Kickflips are acheived by combining the Pop Shove-it and Kickflip together as one trick. It’s also known as a Varial Kickflip. Because you’re combining two tricks, it’s important you have those and a few others down.

Place your back foot on the topside of the tail, just as you would during a pop shove it. Before you attempt the varial kickflip, make sure you’re comfortable enough on the board to do a pop shove it and a kickflip. This is not a trick for absolute beginners.

It took me 3 months to land my first kickflip and still getting the consistent now. I learned varials a week after I learned kickflips and had my pop shove its nice and high and it only took me about 2 hours to land my first one.

Frontside and backside “Backside” – opposite of frontside, backside flip tricks are executed with the rider’s back facing the direction of travel or the obstacle that is the subject of the trick. This is clockwise for regular-footed riders and counterclockwise for goofy-footed riders.

For me, the three easiest are:

• Fakie shove-it. Doesn’t require an ollie, if you’re comfortable riding fakie this is a very natural way to spin the board.
• Pop shove-it. A little tougher, since it requires coordination with an ollie, but still a pretty easy flip trick.
• Kickflip. Much more natural than a heelflip, IMO.

Learning the flick of hte heelflip is easier, but landing it is much harder cause heelflips do wierd stuff. also kickflips have a harder flick to learn in my opinion.

Impossible. In an Impossible, the board wraps vertically over the back foot in a 360-degree rotation. Darryl Grogan was the first to land Impossibles Crossfooted, Halfcab, and to make a one-foot landing, while Mullen has done many variations off the nose, known as Nollie Impossibles.

Impossible** The impossible is a trick that was created by Rodney Mullen that won him championships countless times. It consists on wrapping the board around your back foot.