Switch 360 Flip

also known as: Switch Tre Flip · Switch Tre

flip flatgroundstreet difficulty 8/10

roll 0° yaw 0° pitch 0° body 0°

Shown for a regular-footed rider riding switch. 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 360 flip done in switch stance - the same scoop-and-flick compound rotation, but off the wrong foot entirely. Nothing about the mechanics changes and everything about the feel does: the scoop has to come from a back foot that has never learned the tail pocket, and the flick from a front foot with no muscle memory of the nose corner. Because the tre already asks for a precisely blended single stroke, doing it switch multiplies the difficulty rather than adding to it, which is why it is routinely called the royal flush of flatground tricks.

Step by step

Set up switch: back foot cupped in what is normally the nose, front foot behind the bolts at 45 degrees.
Crouch deep, weight biased over the switch back leg.
Snap the same J-shaped scoop down-around-and-through, accepting that it will feel weak at first.
Brush a light flick off the heel-side corner as it rotates past.
Suck the knees up and let the board flip and spin 360 underneath.
Spot grip-up, catch with the back foot, land over the bolts.

Body mechanics

Front foot	The untrained flicker: over-flicking is far more likely switch, and it kills the yaw.
Back foot	Must learn the scoop from scratch - the blend of pop, yaw and lift is the whole trick.
Shoulders	Square and quiet; any rotation in them turns it into a switch bigflip.
Arms	Back arm drops and rises with the scoop, front arm balances.
Gaze	On the board, reading flip and spin together to time a catch you have less feel for.

Movement components

switch · pop off the tail · 1× kickflip roll · board 360° backside

switchpop tailkickflip rollboard 360° ba

Open in the Movement Builder → load these components as controls, and change one

History

Rodney Mullen, 1990

Mullen landed the first one in a Ralphs parking lot one night in the winter of 1990, and lists it in his 1994 Plan B ad "The House That Rodney Built". He is flat about how it came about: nollie 360 flips came first, so he turned them around to get a better feel - "not really a creative act". Taking it to the street is a separate credit, and both Mullen and Guy Mariano say it belongs to Henry Sanchez, who was doing them for hours on a shaped street board in 1991 and probably landed the first street one on a bump outside Mariano's house. Mariano filmed the first one down stairs, at John Burroughs Elementary in Burbank, for Blind's Tim and Henry's Pack of Lies (1992) - though the public saw Jed Walters' two in Love Child first, that video having come out a few months earlier. Sanchez himself declines the credit and gives it to Mariano.