I'm a skateboarder from the San Francisco Bay Area

I've been skateboarding for a very long time

And today I'm going to teach you How to 360 Flip

So before you get started on your 360 flips

Make sure you're very comfortable riding your board

You've been pushing around a lot, you've learned some of the basic tricks

You know how to ollie, you pop shove-it, you've got your kickflips

You've got all those down to a point

Where you can do them pretty well every time

And then you're ready to move on to your 360 flips

The first step of this, I suggest finding a nice crack

Put your back wheels in the crack and put your feet in a position like this

Your back foot is really on the side

You're going to need that to be over there

To be able to scoop the board and flip it to the full 360

And your front foot is going to be in the kickflip position

I put my foot the exact same position as a kickflip

Maybe a little more on the board

But yeah it's cocked at that same 45 degree angle

Now here's the main part of the 360 flip is that scoop that you saw right there

Now that back foot I want you to have your toe

Off the edge of the board like this

And you really s-- It's called a scoop

Because how my toe literally goes under the board and flips it around

And you've got to flip that back foot across that board

Scraping it on the ground and flipping it really hard. The harder the better

Because the harder you flick it right there, the faster it's going to flip around

And the easier time you're going to have landing it

On the motion with your front foot isn't all that much

You really just kick the board just a little bit

Just to make it flick and then you mainly just keep it there to catch it

As is done right there and land on it with both feet

The board shouldn't be really moving underneath you that much

Don't get this idea that it flies out

You see how I almost take off and land in the exact same spot there

So the main point is just that back foot again

And that scoop that goes right there

If you get that scoop down to a point where you can push it really hard

And you're popping your board properly

The board's going to flip right underneath you

You just jump up a little bit

Catch it with your front foot and then you just land

The other thing that I want to let you guys know

Is you don't have to jump high to do these tricks

I get a lot of question about how high do I have to jump?

Do I have to jump really high? You don't

You have to flick your board properly so it goes underneath you

Now notice my front foot doesn't do anything

It just stays right there in the air waiting for that board to flip to catch it

After you give that first little flick with your toe

Which makes your board flip, all you do is leave it there in the air

And wait for the board to come around so you can catch it with your front foot

On 360 flips, you catch it with your front foot

On regular kickflips, you usually catch it with your back foot

And the main point as I made before is just that flick of the back foot

I wanted to show you guys many different 360 flips

So you could get the idea here

I guess they all kind of look the same, but I hope it makes sense

I want you to notice really how hard I push my back foot

The back foot does all the work, notice that right there

Also notice the position of my knees

So you can really see how that foot scoops

It doesn't slide across, it really cocks underneath and scoops over

If you're scooping your board correctly

You're back knee is going to be real bent

So watch my back foot right here as it scoops under, scrapes across

And look at how fast and how hard my back foot of --

The toe of my back foot right there scraped around and that lifts up

My front foot has just basically been staying in the same position

Now it's going to drop down, it's going to catch on top of that board

Right there and then land

I pretty much literally landed in the same spot that I started

Right back into that crack

So you can see how much control you can get on this

So you can do it kind of in lines or wherever you want

This is a good like 'into tricks' 'out of tricks' once you get it

I don't want to give you the idea that this is the easiest trick

It's not, it's going to take a lot of practice and a lot of dedication

Which most all of skateboarding tricks do

So don't give up, keep practicing

If you need help, come to me, message me, upload your videos

You know what to do

Check out the website brailleskateboarding.com

And check out some of these other videos

I'm always down for your guys' feedback

And looking for better ways to interact with you so let me know

Thanks a lot