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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July 27, 2014 5:55 pm
HEY JENKEM MAG, stop contradicting yourself.
A while ago, you posted THIS:
”Remember hardflips? People don’t hate on that trick unless you do it a certain way. I don’t know about everybody else, but I’m not really able to decide, “Oh, I want my tricks to look like…” whenever the skate punditry make their weird decisions about what’s cool. But that’s the point: skateboarding isn’t about looking like everybody else.”[…..] ”But skateboarding isn’t like football, where you do drills and follow a specific routine in order to out-drill and out-routine another, symmetrical group of players. It’s not like ice-skating, where certain moves executed in a certain way are worth more points than other moves performed other ways. It’s not a game you can be the best at, or win the most.”
Who cares about how others do their tricks. As long as we have fun it does not fucking matter
July 27, 2014 6:00 pm
nah, i fuck with yo flips. as long as they arent varial yo flips
July 28, 2014 11:19 am
Well thanks for using the tre flip i filmed of Theo.
August 6, 2014 10:43 pm
Pretty sure Jenkem is run by a bunch of crotchety 40 yr olds who hate how “kids these days” are ruining skateboarding. Don’t forget that it was your generation that gave us the Muska flip, so y’all definitely can’t hate. And let’s not forget about pressure flips. Ewwwww.