Frontside Flips Are Actually Super Easy. (Heres The Secret...)

[@Cuzinits]

this is why youre the man Dan; skating for 20 years and you are still so inspired you get tricks stuck in your head and go out to refine them after a session. your love of skateboarding is infectious. Edit: Just went out and had a grueling 3 hour session with these... I had landed a few in the past but they were mostly muska-esque hardflip 180s that felt more lucky than anything. I came close a couple times at the beginning, but felt like I was straying farther and farther the more I tried. Towards the end of the session I got so frustrated I pulled up Dan's video again in the skatepark haha. I realized almost immediately what I was doing wrong. I went from about 1/10 to 1/2 success rate almost instantly. Basically I was so wrapped up in the mechanics of this trick that I forgot to focus on getting a proper kickflip! I was almost pushing down through the side of the board instead of getting a good flick off the nose as you would with a solid kickflip. As a result I had a really hard time staying over the board and getting my front foot (flip foot) to wrap around fast enough. In hindsight I think that flicking more off the nose (and off to the side like Dan says) has the subtle effect of pushing the front your board down and slightly forward, which helps a lot with getting the front foot back on the board as it spins, and maintaining a good center of gravity over the board to get that proper switch landing. Hope that helps someone. This one felt SO fucking good to get...

[@mendaciousreality8459]

Dans the sorta guy that will be skating for 50 years n still be impressed by a pop shuv on flat. Small thing amuse small minds

[@galvanizedgnome]

Dan is infectious

[@akira4085]

im infected im almost 50 and go skating everyday its addicting. @@galvanizedgnome

[@andrewpine5352]

❤😂😢

[@brownleafpuddle7621]

dude... I am amazed. It works! I went to try it out mid sess, and it worked first try. The 90 degree kick and landing switch instead of fakie really are the hack. Thanks

[@phakoo23]

Hit forty this year, but still a life goal to stomp this trick - Thanks for sharing the knowledge!

[@Ericxnugz]

Such a fun trick! You got it bro I lost them for a min but finally got them back off a 6 recently!

[@Sxmsk8]

Upload your progress somewhere!

[@itnomads]

Hit 37 and still fs flips is my battle

[@alancrane3100]

Dude me too. 44 and I could do hard flips but not front side flips

[@jonjohnson4976]

41 and got these all day my friend you got this

[@stephenseibel452]

Man, THANK YOU for this! Just finally landed my first fs flip at the age of 41. This shit NEVER made any sense to me, I'm exactly who this vid is for. I tried the heelside pop for weeks and weeks after watching this and couldn't quite make it work. Yesterday I tried switching to the toeside pop like Victor and BAM! I got one after like 15 tries or so. I'm here to tell everyone that the Corrigan method WORKS...

[@LotkaVolterra]

Dude I hate watching these at night. This was the exact advice I needed for my fugly frontside flips, but I've already taken an Ambien. Gonna do this first thing in the morning.

[@samarmstrong2098]

Did ya get it 😂👌

[@ahappyimago]

How did it go??

[@schadenfreudex]

dont take ambien, will improve your life quality.

[@LOLATTEH]

Dan thank you so much. After almost 20 years skating this has been one of those tricks I wished I could do. This makes it SOOO much easier. I thought I just couldn't do it. Thank you Again. I swear almost all tricks on a skateboard are just trying to find the easiest way to do it!

[@jackietreehorn8643]

Muska FS flip and muska hardflips are an aesthetic you COULD NEVER understand Dan.

[@jackietreehorn8643]

Baggy windbreaker pants, Osiris d3/circa with the stash pocket, adding an extra shoe tongue to make your puffy shoes even puffier. Bruh.

[@Restinpeacetompenny]

True. For photos especially, they look higher than an ollie. Still do these every day

[@bakedbeings]

They pop high and slap your feet too, like a front shuv.

[@WhyBecause.]

My only fs flip land is a muska version. I think this vid will be the tip i was looking for to finally get em controlled.

[@JBlades88WV]

I like the way the muska flip looks. It's more like a fs hardflip and Dan's is more like a fs 180 kickflip. They both look cool and I can't do either one lol.

[@chrissadler4583]

Returning to this video weeks later to just say your advice actually worked great and thank you!

[@chaosoul-seanleeriggs369]

FS flips were a form of Kryptonite for me... got close several times but never landed a full clean one ever. To my delight you've ooened my eyes to all the three rhings i was doing wrong innall that time. Damn, this is a game changer!!! And since I'm goofy-footed i still completely and immediately understood the 9 o' clock flick reference, i just related to the 3 o' clock reference! I might just do a persistence on these FS Flips. Thanks so very much for this!!! Have a great day!

[@SkaterBudgy]

Dan I haven't said this to many people in my life - You sir, are a wise man! Some of the things you said in this video really impressed me and made me remember and realize things. For example you made me remember how import precommitting to where your board is going to end up. I forget to do that sometimes. You made me realize that you almost have to already have landed it in your head to do that, so its like making your vision a reality, which is where the future becomes the past in your subconscious mind, during which our rational brain gets overpowered and we leave the present for a fraction of a second. Some people might call this the flow. 22:15 might have been the best skate tip or advice I've ever heard: "In this case the destination is all that matters, and the journey should be like second nature." I salute you bro. Much respect. Regards from South Africa Stiaan

[@beau5316]

Seriously man. You have the best tutorial videos. I do frontside flips, but powerslide them every stupid try... not anymore 🙏 Dan, you're the man. Thank you doesn't quite touch it

[@frankiesunswept]

You rule homie. As a skater of 30+ years frontside flips have always dogged me. Only landed probably less than 50 my whole life. Backside flips were way more my thing. I can't wait to try this technique

[@ihavenoidea2616]

been skating for a 13 years & this helped save so much energy. always did them on the tip of the tail popping too high just to feel like its getting around right unlike any other flip spin tricks. Please do Nollie Inward heels next if you can.

[@egg3892]

coming back to this video after i’ve learnt more and feel like i have a better understand of what’s going on. and just more confident i’ll understand what you’re going to explain

[@bradycraig8437]

This video literally helped me relearn how to frontside flip. The things that helped me the most were flicking at 90° and acting like I was doing a fakie flip. Especially that second point.I started to “follow through” with my flick the way I would with a fakie flip and they started working!

[@vinnyplace1269]

From someone who can't Frontline flip yet this sounds like it would be really useful. I can't wait to get a chance in a couple days to try. Appreciate this upload.

[@sammazerik9750]

Hahaha! Bro listening to you jabber jabber as you conceptualize and breakdown every aspect of the physics and physical mechanics and troubleshoot is infectious and you really helped me far beyond most quick tutorial videos from dudes who probably truly clueless of what is they're doing or could shine a candle to what you are sharing. True enlightenment 🙏

[@Ty-ye8rd]

Do more or these! I’m old and don’t have the ambition to spend the time figuring tricks out. Every one of your trick tips have let me skip all the frustration and conceptualize them before trying

[@TknoVisuals]

Recently landed my first front180 and still struggling with having it rolling. But the body positioning you explained about landing in switch and not fakie makes a ton of sense! Thanks Dan!

[@MuttonChops24]

The vertical frontside flips are so clean. its like a hardflip with a body varial. i love them

[@corywilliams2356]

It has been so interesting to watch your mental stability increase with the improvement in oral hygiene/symmetry. I'm kind of interested in that kind of thing, because I've noticed it in myself. When I have better oral hygiene, it helps me to have a clearer mind, and increased focus/calm. Whatever else you're doing to stay healthy as well, keep it up. You have been looking so confident, and seem like you're finding your voice so well. Love and happiness to you. Well all know you work hard.

[@SLMPMVNE]

Could never land one but decided to really try it because of this vid. U made it make sense and now I got these too🙏 landed a pretty good one on flat so ima keep these going. Plz make more vids like these

[@jordanaldum5311]

Dan this video is awesome my g ! keep grinding

[@JeffSpalding]

This actually helped me. I been trying this for a couple years now. (20😂) went out and tried it and stomped it like a pro 10 minutes into trying it lol

[@jensenacklese3049]

Dan you've been on my mind lately, just wanted to say i hope you have a blessed day bud, respect from Oklahoma.

[@ncriddle]

My regs are the muska flips ..my switch is proper..imma try this tomorrow cause you're describing all the symptoms I have with mine..im excited to try this haha

[@chrisbeeclean1579]

I wish more tutorials were like this. I already have a good idea how a lot of tricks work I want to know what someone is thinking about when doing it.

[@jazzg4570]

yo that fake flip approach is literally how I got one of my nicest fs flips. I'm surprised no one talks about it more. great vid

[@firtythive]

Fs flip/hardlfip are the tricks I was super consistent at, especially on flat. I used to stand facing the way I was riding, shoulders aready turned 90 (shoulders are very important), so when I pop, I'm only rotating 90. The pop is almost a pop/scoop in one motion. Pop/scoop the board like a frontside pop shuv but also scoop it a tiny bit the way you are riding, with your toes right in the pocket. As it scoops, my front foot flicks off at around 1 o'clock (11 if regular). You'd probably expect the Muska type flip with this but they weren't, they were fully rotated. Hardflips are exactly the same motion , except you don't turn your body, they can feel a little 'twisty' at first, but once you get them, they're the same. I think Reynolds had a trick tip on them YEARS ago, and I do they pretty much the same way. I learnt them before I saw the trick tip and was like "THIS IS EXACTLY IT" haha. Example (it's a shit old edit, but at 2:22 you can see me do one on flat) - kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5uch5KDrbaWl80

[@aidinlayne]

this is hella informative, thank you fam

[@rangelnedelchev8264]

Dude I love how thoroughly you explain the trick and it really helps!

[@whereisarthur]

thanks for the tips Dan!

[@meikil0860]

Im gonna try it!! Thank you Dan, your tutorials usually makes me understand more about the process on how to land a trick, usually the trick tutorials here o youtube are like "pop here, flick here" and don't help that much

[@kenrocker7427]

Thanks for making this video Dan. Last night I got the closest I’ve ever been to making this trick - because I watched this video the other day. 8-9 o’clock is the sweet spot!

[@dommcloughlin9447]

Nice insights, thanks! I'm curious to hear and see more about the backside flip you briefly mentioned

[@Scharfster]

5:45 I've been doing my frontside flips like this for years and I've never been able to put it into words for my friends

[@spvidz]

imma definitely try these tips thanks! I got close to landing them at one point but couldn't keep my front foot in the air long enough. Also the front flip at 22:45 is insane wtf🔥

[@sp1d3]

This was a very interesting video. I'm a kick flipper and a front 180 er and I've never laded a front side flip. I'm gonna try this tomorrow and see how it goes. I like the whole land switch idea cuz that's how I 180

[@Fyxth]

saw this video when it first came out but i wasn’t t really at the point in my skating to do fs flips, but fast foward to today and i landed my first one 9 minutes after watching this!!!!!

[@Garcias_Finest]

Thanks for teaching me FS flip!🎉

[@relentlessturnip9310]

This is the thing that made them click for me. I think about tilting the board with my front foot. I put pressure on that front side pocket as I flip and it feels like your front foot tips the board over and round.

[@LuhMork]

The love you have for skateboarding is amazing the fact you are always in the lab fixing your weaknesses to make them a strength is truly inspiring in all aspects of life Dan you are the goat💯❤️

[@ryanrowe1975]

Basic tricks of style and skating flatgrounds will constantly taking effort and rotating the flip of straight and riding down to the ground.

[@dustinsimonetti4461]

Thank you Dan! This worked and I actually landed a couple.

[@rhoad865]

Dan's tutorials are the best. Going to learn these next

[@roadsidebong6333]

Dude style is raw streets thats a compliment

[@readkauppinen1814]

Thank you Dan man, so fortunate to have ur content

[@geoffkeough9728]

victor's first one over the hip was popped so nice!

[@MattStorstad]

It’s funny because you’ve explained it using entirely different words and depicting but the concept is exactly how I learned them, just I described or thought of it to myself as the flick is leading the 180\ turning me, so if I didn’t flick 90 or even passed I wouldn’t be able to finish the roto, and when the flick leads you the 180 just happens haha. Also a middle of the tail fs flipper however 😂

[@whimzycloud]

Used to have frontside flips that would make Reynolds proud. Now I feel motivated to relearn them

[@diegomo123]

just how you showed me how to do better 50-50 on circle rails you just improved my front side flips

[@will-beck]

Dan is legit king of trick tutorials!

[@robbmr9938]

Ĺegend bro, you done it again, you put so much thought into your advice it shows, I've learnt so much from ya and I really appreciate it man, thankyou. If you ever coming down to New Zealand let me kno and I will pick u up from airport and take ya where u need to go, I owe ya that at least, thankyou again, Geno

[@romeisfallingagain]

i have done a grand total of ZERO frontside flips. thanks dan, i will try this tomorrow

[@desmondpitre1771]

Such a great tutorial, landed my first fs flip today after watching

[@fluffcrunchmini4572]

Great video!! I learnt a lot not even related to fs flips

[@skatedad9794]

Just landed my first kickflip a few weeks ago but you are making me want to get out there now and frontside flip

[@reecemcnaughten4160]

Legit one of the most helpful videos, was literally thinking about this the other day and wondering why, the thinking of landing switch rather than fake it is a huge tip no one ever talks about in skateboarding. Especially with doing any nollie or anything switch I've realised after 20 years that sitting more in a fakie position helps a million times.

[@fademusic1980]

dan took the time to do this for other people at the park with other tricks when he was at my local

[@noelhynes8670]

Great tutorial 👌 but I love a good muska style flip any day when it's done well...sometimes they look shite. I'm defo going try your tips at the park tho

[@Magic_sk8board_media]

You have a way of verbalizing the thought process of breaking down a trick... You need to make a masterclass or something! Good shit! I might come to say hi next time I see you irl instead of feeling super awkward! LOL, I saw you at Poods once and at the Walts event in Newport Beach.

[@valentindb]

I can't fs flip for shit but, 22:10 "focus on where your shoudlers and body weight ends" is a true thing even for simpler tricks

[@quintongiersberg3095]

Time to go back to the stairs that made you fly Dan. You know the set.

[@SmithsFitness]

not that I'm an authority on FS flips, but thinking of flicking later in the turn is what helped me land my first few. Still gotta get them dialled though.

[@thefitgamerdad]

Got my first one ever on defense in skate. It wasn’t great, but I was so stoked.

[@jamesholloway1951]

Your frontside flips look sweet on transition 👌🏼

[@WaXmahcraX]

41 here... this helps SO!! Much to reduce the effort wow. Thanks!! Less effort means more on board time per sesh hah

[@JohnCruz-u7x]

🙌🏻 You’re King of FS-Flips man! Wow

[@marienkaefer1660]

And also i would like to see Dan break down fakie front side varial heels; its a trick i rarely ever seen done and love for its counter intuitiveness.

[@anthonydo2011]

I don’t think a fakie back v heel exists. More importantly you don’t need to say frontside. Fakie v heel is on majer crew.

[@JhebadiaSprunklefunk]

Damn the 9 o'clock flip works, also made my hardflips easier.

[@codygriffin8996]

I learned Frontline flips muska style first lost my fronside flip, and when I learned them again, they were kickflip style lol

[@fullmetaldovahkiin]

I have great switch fs flips but awful regular and the reason is because it was easier to flick in that "8 oclock" area and then pivot to regular and to anyone watching flicking toward the 7 oclock - 9 oclock area is KEY

[@dsrree]

My flatground fs flips are just like a mobbed 180 where I want the nose to be kind of rocketed up and then I just do a little flicky flick right off the middle board and somehow it just works out. It's even easier going fakie, that one feels like it just performs itself and I'm just there for the ride.

[@lukasboraski2729]

The fs flips in the mini area were really good. Im surprised no prod mention in this one. Id say he's got a real good one

[@nicholasdahl3606]

I'm pretty sure I never landed a front side flip. Obviously my skate career suffered either lack of talent or my mom's friends ratting on me when I was hitting some parking ramps in SW MPLS. Yea mom had a hold on my board from time to time. I slowly just gave it up. Anyway Dan... I love these videos, I'm about your age and you often reference things that you may only get if your are a somewhat specific age.

[@Cisco-w8q]

My dude ... Good video... U made me want to go try them out tomorrow... / I've only landed three ff ... Never again ... But ... I think I might have a second coming with that trick . ( thank u )

[@ElPerritoNavideñoGAAA]

Bro i was just about to go out and practice these, Thanks bro !! F R🙏

[@lukasboraski2729]

Next front heels? That trick woulda been a dream

[@ogsxl]

thanks dan, i landed my first frontside flip at 36

[@lukasboraski2729]

Gotta get that shoulder out of the way before it happens. Took me ten years to learn and they still took effort but proper ones give that feeling of all the time spent worth it everytime

[@amamaetaon]

really good explanation

[@froggerfrank]

Skateboarding is weird, at least for me. Sometimes you learn 3 tricks within minutes and the next day you wake up you kinda forgot all about it just to be inspired years later in a game of skate or whatever and do them first try. For beginners learning the straigth 16 I suggest try them like Dan explained in this video:" flip 90 degree" also be quick, feel your body weight distribution before you pop (much more important than foot position imho) and maybe have certain spot to look at (probably your skateboard), this should also help you to align your shoulders even without you knowing it (i.E. I can't do switch bs 180 variations unless I look at my tail before i pop, I just make sure that my feet are roughly in the right position and focus the edge to flick at before that)

[@pressureflipin1992]

I've been skating since 1996, got frontside flips with in 9 months and I was pretty happy with them and idk wtf happened but I learned hardflips a few months later and completely lost the ability to frontside flip. Never could do them again but switch....I got em all day long....

[@olaemilmoss3575]

Backside turning kickflips. I’ve tried everything. Would really appreciate a video explaining how to fix this! Haven’t found any yet…

[@quarter_cab]

I'll be watching this video several more times, only fs flips I've ever landed broke my board. Even a Andy flight deck (which I had just stomped multiple times like a toddler)

[@JoshBurdenSmith]

My best session last month was at an old park near where I live. All the skaters were or sounded like they were Mexican. I could not believe how many fs kickflips one of those guys did.

[@rocketmode528]

hips and shoulders open to the front, front foot facing straight forward, hardflip as high as you can, keep the body rotating frontside until you're switch. i used to have stupid high frontside flips that flipped vertical. is it the right way to do it? probably not. worked for me. edit: 4:30 in the video is exactly how i learned it lmfao they were REALLY high though

[@Nitroxide]

Damn I was actually just thinking about how I want these consistent-- FS Flip is one of my favorite tricks to do but some days I just absolutely forget how to even flick it lol 💀

[@ameerking3133]

Thanks so much for this trick tip, i don't wanna muska flip forever 🤣

[@zachaddington5264]

Dan everybody likes the trick series I can’t wait till you get to the hardflips and laser , sigma , hospital flip and the good ole half cab impossible, I have my hardflips on lock

[@illagevidiot8254]

I learned frontside flips by learning hardflips. It's the exact same motion, just exaggerated for the spin. Now I can't do hardflips for shit because I learned how to do them.

[@marienkaefer1660]

Two of my favorite front side flips; Tom Penny, Europe 1995 switch front flip at Radlands; and number two is Chet Thomas on mini; the master of alley oop👏

[@VNECK401]

You should switch to an 8.12 or 8.25 your style looks way more springy, never noticed how weighted that big board looks until you switched at the end

[@GlennS95]

As someone who is a decent skater but has never fs flipped, this is some inspo... despite how stupid I'm going to look

[@jollywolly2571]

I do the flip-nose-manny-pivot fs flip. Next time I get to a park i'll give this doozy a try.

[@jayveethreefive5214]

Damn Victor is smooth!

[@greenfortytwo6414]

Dan teaches skateboarding like it’s Grand Unified Theory.

[@RTTRn]

Nice Dan! Upto 1080p now👍 1440 is even better but I guess uploading is slower?

[@Softlad92]

Amazing video thank you 🙏

[@biglazychameleon]

thanks for the tips

[@SanderVandeWiel]

And to do the Muska flip. Don't flick at 9 o'clock but at 7 o'clock and make sure you're other leg is out of the way.