That Trick You've Dreamed Of By Brendin Holt

photo by milksss CC

The dolphin flip is a fun trick to learn, but you need to have one basic trick down; the ollie. When you ollie, you want to put your right foot on the back of the tail (left foot if your goofy) then you want to have your front foot right behind the bolts on the front of the board. When you go to put this trick in action, you’ll want to pop the back of the board up and roll your ankle off the edge of the board. That way you’re leveling it out and land smoothly.

Now that you have the ollie down, it’s time that we move on to the dolphin-flip! When you do a dolphin flip, you want to position your feet just like your setting up for an ollie the only difference is you would want to slide your front foot back a little bit more than usual that way you have room to follow through with the trick. The second step is to do it half way like an ollie, but when you go to slide your front foot up you want to kick it right off the nose of the board that way the board will do a forward like flip and spin back into flat position. When it comes back around you will then want to catch it with your front foot, and that is how you dolphin-flip.