Big Flip

Welcome back to my blog about skate tricks. This week I will be talking about the big flip. The big flip is a combination of a big spin and a kickflip. If you want to be more specific it is a pop shuv it, backside 180 and a kickflip all in one trick. This trick will take a lot of time to learn. It is a very advanced trick and I am surprised I even landed one. Last Weekend I skateboarded with Logan, Lucas, and Kalin and Logan filmed me doing a big flip. I was very proud of myself for pushing myself to do this trick.

For the big flip you have to have big spins and kick flips down. It helps to have Tre flips or 360 flips down too but in my case I cant do 360 flips and I landed this trick. Right now I am actually trying to learn tre flips. The big Flip is probably harder than the 360 flip though. Another thing that helps with the big flip is varial flips and backside flips because you will need to put both of those in one to land this trick. I think that the big flip is a lot easier to do while moving, just like the big spin. I would also make sure that you have your kickflips down as well because you need to do those in the big flip.

Last weekend when we went skating we skateboarded La colina jr high. This is a very fun skate spot except I am really bad at impact. Impact is when you skateboard off of something high like stairs or a ledge. I am really bad at this. I want to get better though and do well because impact skating makes really good clips. Big flips off of stuff is really hard. I wasn’t suprised when I couldn’t do it off of a high ledge. I really want to big spin a ledge. If I ever go back to La colina I plan to big spin that ledge. Thank you for reading my blog about Big flips.

Last Weekend

Last weekend was a fun on for skateboarding. On Friday I worked on my varial heelflips and 50-50s to nolie shuv out. A 50 50 grind is where you Ollie on to the side of a curb so that just your trucks are hanging off. Olling out of these is more difficult in my opinion than a 180 or a shuv. Frontside 50 50s are easier than backside 50 50s for me. It is easier when you are faced towards the curb, rather than being faced away from it. This week I have been doing really good backside flips, which are backside 180s and a kickflip all in one. It is a pretty difficult trick and I am glad I have been doing them so well recently.

On Saturday I went to Santa Barbara City College to skateboard. This was a bad choice because I fell really bad when I was there. I went with my friends Logan and Kalin. I nearly died. I scraped my elbow a bit and it was pretty bad without any first aid or anything like that. But the good news was that while I was there I almost landed my first 360 shuv. A 360 shuv or 3 shuv for short is a 360 pop shuv it. I have never landed one of these before, and I am very proud of myself for almost landing one. I also skateboarded a rail for the first time. I did frontside 50 50 on it and almost landed it. With a lot of practice I could get really good at rails, I just never find a place where I can skate them without being embarrassed of falling.

This week I landed a backside flip off of a curb. The 3 best things I can do right now are backside big spin off of a curb, backside flip off of a curb, and Backside 360 off of a curb. I really want to learn frontside flip and frontside big spins soon. I really just cant figure out how to do frontside flips. As for the frontside big spin I just don’t know how to finish them without flipping the board like a frontside big heel.

Mammoth Trip

This last weekend I went on a trip to Mammoth Mountain with some of my good friends. Because this blog is called board life, I am allowed to talk about snowboarding as well. The friends I went with were Camden Millington, Blake Siemens, Madeline Gunderson, Emi Thomas, Reina Williams, and Andreas Schuetz. They are all pretty cool and I would recommend you to check their blogs out. We all skied and snowboarded together and we had snow much fun. Snowboarding is way better than skiing and people who disagree are probably skiers and skiers are weird. We were all around the same skill level except for Andreas who was really good. I was definitely the slowest but i still had fun either way.

It snowed so much while we were there and there was so much powder. It was whiteout conditions though, which sucks because it is really hard to see. When you snowboard it is crucial to see where you are going so you don’t get lost or lose your friends. Snowboarding requires the ability to turn heel side and toe side which forms a s in the snow. When you are going faster, you make open turns and those help you maintain your speed. Open turns look like very compacted s’s in the snow. On a snowboard you can do tricks just like a skateboard, such as jumps, 180’s and Mannuals. The best thing about snowboarding is if you fall it doesn’t even hurt!

When we finished skiing and snowboarding we would head back to Blake and Emi’s cabin. Their cabin was very big so we had lots of fun and played games. We even took an adventure to the jacuzzi, which turned out to be a mistake for the people who didn’t bring extra clothes. (Me and Camden) I lost a pair of the socks I had been borrowing which sucked for Blake but I was just happy my feet didn’t freeze of running through the snow. All in all, my experience in Mammoth with all my friends was very good, and I will never forget it.