If you frequent any skate park at all from time to time, you have probably seen a shitload of kids (and sometimes even adults, as much as it pains me to say) spend all day trying to get their 360 flips to have the infamous “Yo flip” effect to it. But what is a Yo flip you ask?
A Yo flip is a 360 flip with an exaggerated front foot catch. This is usually done by catching the board with your front foot while stretching your back foot out as far back as it can go. Apparently, “the more you get the back foot out, the more buttery it is, dawg.”
I’ve seen skaters go as far as landing the trick with their front foot and riding away for a full one or two seconds before putting their dangling back foot on. Yo flips rarely, if ever, look good, as opposed to a naturally caught 360 flip (For example, please see Kalis footage). They look contrived and unnecessary, and if anything they should be banned from skateboarding. But despite this, the fad continues to thrive in skateboarding today for some odd reason….
1. Felipe Gustavo – One word: Atrocious.
2. Furby – Oh yeah, that looks totally natural.
3. Dylan Rieder – Just look at Dylan in all his handsome glory and wash the pain away.
4. Theotis Beasley – Theo has been called “the nicest kid in skating” by many.
Still, that doesn’t excuse him from this abomination of a Yo flip.
5. Cody Mcentire – So steezed out bro…
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April 25, 2014 9:53 am
Reiders was actually clean at the end.. I bet the person that wrote this article cant even tre flip a 3 stair
May 10, 2014 1:51 am
Mike York did it best and it wasn’t even a thing back then. I guess this trick is like the new “illusion flip” aka hardflips that may or may not flip
July 9, 2014 8:00 pm
This is what is ruining skateboarding….people hating on others for doing shit that has nothing to do with them. It’s one thing to dislike “yo flips” but it’s a totally different thing to bitch so much about it to the point where you’re writing an article about it. This is why I hate skateboard culture sometimes, you guys cry when people hate on us and become a pact when its skaters vs whoever, but the second someone does something you don’t like, you hate just as much. Grow some fucking balls and just skate. It’s all about having fun anyways, so why hate? Jenkem, you guys have some interesting articles and I like your website, but don’t write dumb articles promoting hating on a certain style.
July 25, 2014 3:33 pm
The people whose 3 flips are naturally like that are fine, but it kid of sucks how some people try to do them like that.