Godzilla Rail Flip

also known as: Godzilla Railflip · Triple Varial Rail Flip

flip freestyle difficulty 7/10

roll 0° yaw 0° pitch 0° body 0°

Shown for a regular-footed rider. Teal ring + arrow = the rider's facing direction; teal band = the tail; a dot is where a hand holds the board - bright yellow for the front hand, amber for the back one, which is the whole difference between a mute and an indy. Board and rider rotate independently - each follows its own component. Drag to orbit.

How it works

A double rail flip with the rider turning the other way underneath it. The deck is sheared off the rail through two turns and three quarters of roll while it shoves 180 degrees frontside, and at the same time the rider's feet leave it entirely and they spin 180 degrees backside - against the board's yaw, so the two pass each other. That opposition is the trick: the same board rotation with the rider held square is a double rail flip, and the body varial is what makes it a Godzilla. All of it has to be launched by one explosive push, because once the feet are off there is nothing left to steer with.

Step by step

Set a strong rail stand with the front foot flick-ready and the back foot loaded on the tail end of the rail.
Compress and jump with nearly all your weight driving through the back foot.
Shove the rail down and forward - the downward shear feeds two and three quarter rolls, the forward drag away from your heels feeds the frontside 180 of yaw.
As the feet leave, turn your shoulders and hips 180 degrees backside, against the way the board is swinging.
Tuck the knees high and let the board pass under you the other way round.
Pick the grip up as your own turn finishes, stomp the bolts and compress deeply to kill both rotations.

Body mechanics

Front foot	Leaves the board at the push and takes no further part until the catch - a foot still on it would drag the body turn into the board.
Back foot	The engine: stomps the rail down-and-forward in one stroke for both the roll and the frontside shove, then leaves with the rest of the body.
Shoulders	Lead the rider's own 180 backside, deliberately opposite to the board's yaw.
Arms	Snap upward on takeoff, then wrap in to speed the body's counter-turn.
Gaze	Over the leading shoulder through the body turn, picking the deck back up as it comes level.

Movement components

stationary · no pop · starts 0.25 turn rolled onto the heel rail · 2.75× kickflip roll · board 180° frontside · body 180° backside · balance on heel-rail · body-varial

stationaryno popstarts on the heel rail (primo)2.75× kickflip rollboard 180° frbody 180° babalance: heel-railbody-varial

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Grammar reads these components as: 180 Frontside Shove-it 2.75x Kickflip Body Varial Heelside Rail Stand (irregular name - see history below)

History

Rodney Mullen, 1980

Listed among Mullen's earliest contest-era inventions. The exact canonical rotation count is debated; the common form is a multiple rail flip with a shove-it rotation folded in. Sources stress that this is not the Godzilla Flip, which is a hand-spun impossible around one foot from a tailstop and shares nothing with it but the name.