360 flip
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The 360 flip is a skateboarding trick that was invented by professional skateboarder Rodney Mullen. Sometimes called a "tré flip" or a "3 flip. It is also know as the "Ollie Flip" in Australia and New Zealand. The trick is a hybrid of a 360 pop shove-it and a kickflip. The 360 flip is a common professional/intermediate level trick that is often the feature of skate videos. It is not uncommon to see footage of a skater 360 flipping a stairset or gap.
A 360 flip's motion blends the flipping of an impossible with the full rotation of a 360 shove-it. This combination of motions often makes the 360 flip appear to be "off-axis." In order to do a 360 flip, the skater positions his/her foot on the tail of the skateboard so that the toes hang off. However some skaters prefer to have their back foot on the tail so that their toes are not quite hanging off but are on the edge of the board. The skater then performs a scooping motion towards their back side with his/her back foot to flick the board around 360 degrees, while at the same time using his/her front foot to flick the board into a kickflip spin.
Although credit can be given to Jason Lee for popularizing the 360 flip, particularly in his part for Blind: Video Days, several street skaters had learned them at around the same time. A young Chet Thomas can be seen doing a 360 flip off of a concrete block in the 1988 video "Public Domain". Both Steve Olson and Steve Ortega are also rumored to have initiated the trick in street skating. Gabrielle Rodriguez is seen doing it in the 1989 film Ban This!. Ed Templeton and Chris Hall are two skaters seen doing them in 1990's Useless Wooden Toys and Pat Brennen had it mastered for his part in Celebraty Tropical Fish (1991). Now, skaters like Erik Ellington and Andrew Reynolds have mastered this trick as well as the frontside flip (Frontside 180 with a simultaneous kickflip)[citation needed].
