Nightmare flip
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The nightmare flip (also known as a nightmare kickflip hyperflip or nightmare varial flip), is an aerial skateboarding trick where the skateboarder kicks his board in order to make it flip 720 degrees along the board's long axis, while turning in a 180 degree motion toward the toe edge of the board, essentially combining a double kickflip, and a pop shove it. It was most likely invented by Rodney Mullen, an early skateboarder; however, it is also possible that it is simply a variation on one of his tricks, created by someone else.1
A nightmare flip is executed similarly to the varial kickflip: one uses both feet to flick the board over and scoops it around 180 degrees. When a skater performs a nightmare flip, the board must be flicked a lot harder to rotate it twice on its axis, so the skater usually requires more air. Nightmare flips are pretty hard and they look really good if u can land a clean one
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Some people also refer to the Nightmare flip as the Varial Double Flip, in which the board does a varial kickflip but instead the board flips twice.
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