Well, as you can tell from the name of this trick you need to learn the ollie first. The ollie flip is an ollie variation: you jump into the air with your board, but your board does a flip before you land on it.

Step one: Your back foot goes on the tail and your front foot goes in the middle of the board, but hangs a bit over the heel edge.

Step two: Do an ollie, but rather than only sliding your front foot upward and forward, you must also slide your foot (again, probably your shoe) to the heel side enough to start your board in a spin. This action requires you to actually kick your front foot off of your board. The spinning board hovers for a second between your sprawling, supple legs.

Step three: "Catch" your board in mid-air once it has spun completely around, and land.

Pop Shove-it

The pop shove-it involves an ollie and a slight of foot that turns the board, but not the rider, 180 degrees. It becomes useful in situations when the rider desires that the board be reversed (i.e. pointed in the opposite direction).

To perform the pop shove-it, roll at a moderate to fast speed and assume the ollie position. Ollie upwards, but instead of sliding your leading foot to the nose - as you would for a straight ollie - keep it near the center of the board. Push the tail slightly with your trailing foot to the heel side and guide the board around with your leading foot. As the leading end of the board swings around, "catch" it with your trailing foot, and land.

Heelflip

The heelflip is like the ollie flip, except that the board spins toward the toe edge rather than the heel edge. It would be wise to learn the ollie flip before attempting the heelflip. Once having mastered the ollie flip, the heelflip is but a variation.

The heelflip entails ollieing and kicking your leading foot towards the toe-side edge of the nose, rather than towards the heelside edge as you would for an ollie flip. Your leading foot should be placed just behind the front bolts, not in the center of the board as for an ollie. The combined motions of ollieing upwards by pushing down with your trailing foot and kicking forward and to the toe-side edge with your leading foot will make the board spin. As it spins around, "catch" it with your feet once the topside is up again. Land and rock on.

Backside Noseslide

Frontside Fifty-Fifty

Learn to ollie onto the curb or obstacle, or at least as high, and be able to land your axles on its edge. Approach almost parallel to, but slightly at it. Ollie and try to level the board as you guide your back truck toward the edge. When your back truck makes contact with the edge, set your front truck down in the fifty-fifty position. Try to land on top of the curb or obstacle with just the two heelside wheels hanging over the edge. Remain totally on top of the board. Grind along until you start slowing or until disengagement is desired. Lift your front truck and pivot away from the edge. Push against the edge with your back foot as the board pivots off of it. Level the board as you descend for a smooth landing.

The ollie manual is a good trick to help develop your balance and ollie control. The idea is to ollie and land on your back wheels, riding a "wheelie" for a distance before setting the front wheels down. It can be done on the flat ground or over an object, but is most commonly done up onto an element, like a curb or block. It requires a fair sense of balance, and you should be comfortable ollieing. It might be good to get accustomed to manualling on flat ground before ollieing onto something, but a curb is a good element on which to learn the ollie manual. Ride at the curb at a normal ollie speed - you'll want to go fast enough to get up onto the curb and still have momentum for the manual. Pop into an ollie and get up over the curb. Instead of levelling the board in the air beneath you, keep your leading foot up and your weight centered over the back wheels. Land on the back wheels and try to balance on them in this position for a distance. You'll notice your body arched forward over your board as you ride the manual. This is how you keep your weight balanced on the back wheels. It is useful to try and manual a set distance, like to a line on the sidewalk or off the curb again. This will give you something specific to strive for until you've got the ollie manual so wired that you can just ride it for days. Then you can try variations like the ollie manual to kickflip off of an element, or even the ollie flip to manual. The options are endless.

The nollie manual, though derived from the ollie manual, is quite a different trick and requires entirely different dynamics. Beginning with a nollie, it requires that you get enough clearance to tilt the board back into the manual position before the back wheels land. You go from one end to the other, kind of see-sawing from front to back. A curb is a good element on which to learn this trick, and once you're comfortable nollieing up onto it and you've got some clearance, then try landing in the manual position. Nollie up the curb and instead of levelling out the board beneath you, swing it a little further forward - sucking in your leading leg and extending your trailing leg - until you're balance is centered over the back wheels. From there on out it's like the ollie manual.

The frontside tailslide is a trick that, although difficult, can be learned in stages and worked up to. It is useful to be comfortable with the frontside 180 ollie, though you won't need to turn around all the way. Practice landing in the tailslide position by riding at the curb slowly and ollieing frontside and landing your tail flat on the top of the curb with the wheels hanging back over the curb. Once you're comfortable landing with your wheels up like that and your weight centered over the tail, try it with a little more speed and roll at the curb almost parallel to it. The faster you go and the more parallel you are to the curb, the longer you'll slide. Once you do get the hang of sliding, get a feel for how long you can push it before the tail slows down and locks in place. You'll want to begin shifting your weight back over the board as it slows down so that you can come off the curb with at least some speed, before it stops completely.

Once you have the frontside ollie tailslide wired on curbs, take it to a ledge or something a little taller. Also, try swinging your torso frontside as you ollie into the tailside position, and instead of shifting your weight back over the nose to come off the object, push the tail ahead of you while bringing the nose underneath and behind you to 180 off.

By Jamie Thomas

The 360 flip is what you might call a "compound trick" because it actually combines two tricks, the kickflip and the 360 shove-it. To do a 360 flip, you should position your front foot like you would for a kickflip, with your toe slid back toward the heel-edge of the board. Your rear foot should be positioned with your toe on the opposite corner of the board, namely the toe-edge of the tail.