four step plan

[expressionthruskating]

i don't know about you, but i can't remember the last time i gave a detailed trick tip for a trick that i like to do that i want to share with the world, through sheer laziness mostly but partly due to thinking that most people won't even give it a go, but this is a four stage plan to learning 360semiflips including the run down for regular semiflips late varial heels and late heels in reverse order, as they are the most helpful tricks to have when learning this particular trick, the first 3 explainations are for a general guide to the tricks the only real detailed trick tip is for the 360 semi flip

'sitting comfortably? well i'll begin'

ollie late heeflips

1. set up for an ollie with your back foot sprung on its toes for an easy escape.

2. pop your ollie kicking you front foot off the board ollie-north style.

3. suck your back foot up just above your front foot height.

4. using the back foot, kick across the board aiming for just next to the middle of the truck on the grip tape side.

5. the board should start flipping, if you find you can only flip it half way, try creating a more defined piston like motion with the back foot, not kicking down at the board, but kicking across and lifting the flipping foot, this also prevents the board from shooting down to the floor automatically, a hand thing when learning more advanced late flip variants.

6. its all over very quickly.....land the bugger

ollie late varial heelflip

well there is not much difference between this trick and the ollie late heelflip so i'll just detail positioning amendments etc:

1. your back foot upon seeint gup should be nesteled inside the tail instead of being sprung like the late heelflip

2. upon popping pop as though doing a f/s shifty ollie, this creates the shuvit motion when the late heel is released, enabling it to spin freely beneath you,

thats about all there is to add to that

semiflip

1. position the front foot to be pointed towards the nose, like a kickflip or hardflip, experience with hardflips is helpful when doing this trick

2.the back foot is positioned with the toes in the centre of the tail

3. pop the board and kickflip as per usual

4. immediatly after flicking, kick your back foot forwards as with the shifty-pop of the late varial heel and lift your foot up in that familiar piston like motion

5. the rest of the trick is plane sailing the difcult part is the timing between the kickflip and the late flip bit, the board should flip 1 1/4 on the second part of the trick

6. ride away clean?

360semiflip[/u]

well in the above tricks you have almost everything you need to do this, logic would dictate that to make it spin 360 you kick it harder right? wrong this wil just cause the board to only flip 1/4 and doa late shuvit type thing, not nice at all

1. set up as per usual for the standard semiflip. but a little more like you would for a very falt hardflip (i do this just like a 360 flip set up incidently, but with my back foot a little more flat against the tail)

2. instead of popping a kickflip, aim to start a hardflip, without it actually getting through the f/s shuvit. this provides the board with the extra push required to flip it f/s 360.

3. instead of kicking out and then lifting up, scoop in a diagonal line so you can get your foot right out of the way (its worth adding that being able to jump high is an asset here)

4. let the board flip beneath you and hopfully ride away

well in essence all this should lead you to a 360 semiflip i would advise getting comfortable doing each trick in the order given as it makes everything alot easier and that 360 semiflip all the more clean and enjoyable

glad to be of service

[headcheese]

i've been working on these for a bit now, but its weird i'm closer to the late varial heel that to the late heel flip.

[Demon of the Fall]

Shit, all late tricks have me beat. Well, except underflips, but that doesn't count. But... being the positive person that I am, I'll give the tips a chance, next time I skate.

[boredskater]

if only my late flips would flip the whole way around

[viceversaman]

i'll do nollie varial heel manuals. i did one once then gave up on them cause they are gronkamafied.

learn nollie varial heels. figure it out for yaself ya bum. leanr em switch to just so you can pop em highered. cause im goofy im gonna use left and right instead of back foot or front foot, cause its nollie and it gets confusing. just reverse shit.

roll up to the curb and a a nice speed, dont go slow, cause tis nollie and that slows ya down a bit.

at about a foot away from pad begin ya nollie varial heel and make sure ya left foot goes backwards instead of foward, or how ever you do it, so as if you were sliding ya foot down the board mid air and keeping it there.

watch it spin and cacth it strongly. no pussy footing, i want some clean catch with a bit of force applied to the landing. main problems you'll experience with the landing are catching the board with only a little bit of ya back foot and on the toe and just sliding off, work on a clean catch with ya feet in a comfortable manny position.

now i know you maybe saying "i ....do....not...understand, slam a manny landing?" well the way this works out as the board goes forward, theoretically or atleast how it works for me, your body weight should be place pretty much perfectly to land in manny and with your arms already up meaning the manny will come under control alot more quickly to.

ride it out, try to shake off any wobles from the shuvingness and pop off the end of the curb in true style. now nollie laser in ala forelander.