dude you are brillant sir. I am honored. thank You for the kind words and respect. So kool you are a gentelmen and a Scholor ....

Bums me out that any kid can learn pressure flips in an afternoon. Been trying them for years and still can't land one.

I just don't get y people hate on tricks lol it's all for fun

I skated in '92. I can still pressure flip.

Almost 9 minutes into this video and I realized you are aronl ! Dude I learned most of what I know watching your old trick tips. You evolved with the times still making killer quality and putting your great explanation into it. You're an inspiration

I dont skate anymore as my knees have given out,I was in my teens when huge jeans,cut down shoes,tiny wheels and mad flip tricks and I know that time is hated but at the time I loved it,not everyone skated super slow and some of those tricks done fast and with style looked great,plus the board graphics at time were insane,I miss those days😢😢😢

dude you are a living breathing skateboarding encyclopedia. iv'e just started watching your channel recently. good shit.

erik ellington's pressure flip over that gap in longbeach was sweet

nate is my local skateshop owner and good buddy. very good man and amazing to know on a personal level. amazing human being

Im just gonna leave this here as a Bus Stop for my Acid Trip right now. Thank you so much Rad Rat!

just started skating. didnt realise skating world is so pretentious

p flips 4 life :)

Dude I thought you looked familiar, I used to watch your how to videos YEARS ago! It's awesome to see that you are still around in the skate community!

You're creating an amazing content, for real. Thanks. Love to know about all these topics

fantastic video man! I've been wondering about this topic for a while, perfect timing

Never had such a cerebral breakdown about a specific trick before. A well spent 15 minutes for sure. Have to go through all of your videos now. Very well done sir.

I'm new to skateboarding, but pressure flips were a set of tricks that I always found cool and fascinating since they seemed so different and unique to me (granted my limited knowledge). I think the fact they're so hated is what motivates me to learn them even more lol

holy shit lmao, when you showed your old skate tutorial I realized that I watched those way back in the day when you were uploading them. I actually tied to find the channel a while back to see if it was still up, I just got hella nostalgia.

Hey Aron, for me the returned interest in pressure flips came with Eric Koston doing them in Battle at the Berrics. I am unsure if this has had major impact, but in our little skatecommunity every trick from BatB was one worth trying. Anyway, keep up the work, this is great content!

So stoked to see you making new content again. Definitely resubscribed. Cool to see a different type of skater still shredding it.

No way...just the other day I was trying to find the 'how to' skate videos I used to watch years ago that had the wood box in the drive way..totally caught me off guard when I saw the familiar footage in this video then it totally blew me away when I realized it was you! This is the greatest thing ever. Found this channel about a month ago, much respect I'm learning all the things I never knew how to ask now lol

Love this channel. I'm not really a "skater", but I've always followed skating. I'm just not very athletic. I've got very good balance and coordination, but no jump and speed. Anyway, I hope to get back to skating soon, as soon as this quarantine crap is over. But I'd like to say keep up the excellent videos. I always learn something.

Yooo I've been watching your videos for a few days now. I learned how to skate using some of your videos way back in the day!! I used to watch them all the time. That was like 10 years ago man, that's insane, I can't believe that's you. Small world. Good to see you again on here!

your channel and content is so sick, skateboarding is so beautiful and so nuanced and weird and interesting and there's so much interesting things about the tricks and the culture and why it is the way it is and I love that you take advantage of it

glad to find your new channel, I was watching your trick tip videos 10 years ago and was wondering what happened to you.

do a video on varial kickfilps

Fantastic!!! Really REALLY enjoying these videos :) Keep this awesome content coming my brother!

Dude this is probably one of the best skate-related anythings on the Internet. PLEASE keep this up

Glad it was a longer video 😊 best video

You are pretty good at what you do. Got me hooked. Love your content keep it up.

I was skating back in this time. I started skating in 1989. I wasn't sponsored, but I had a fairly decent bag of tricks and didn't suck at a local session. I was totally roped into the ultra tech trend as a 12-14 year old kid, but the older kids I skated with completely hated it. History repeats itself. It was such a strange time for skating, which is hard to imagine unless you were there. Literally everything changed in the span of 2-3 years. Boards went from transition-oriented fish shapes with small noses to a period of crazy iterations of "double kick" and extra long noses (some boards had 8" long noses) until the dust settled into what modern kids would recognize as a modern board. Skate videos went from polished movies to shaky mom-cam footage pretty much overnight. This happened in the span of a couple years. The change happened so fast that you needed to relearn all your tricks on a completely different shape, weight and geometry. If you relied on your parents to buy you a board 2-3 times a year, what you were skating was barely related to what you were buying aside from being made of wood. The reason I hate/love pressure flips is because I was really good at impossibles in 1990-1991 and the next year impossibles were kinda passe and pressure flips were red hot. Impossibles and pressure flips are somewhat related, and I worked so hard to unlearn a full impossible scoop that it fell out of my muscle memory. I have mom-filmed footage of impossibles down a three set across from my house and they were so proper for such a small kid. I was even doing a bigspin version that was 540-ish looking. Boards at the time were transitioning from a square or fish tail shape into the popsicle/football, and I never got my impossibles back. I never relearned how to bite the tail into the ground and get a full wrap. I can still do pressure flips now and easily get a letter on almost anyone in the park that wants to goof around with a game of SKATE, but my impossibles are gone. (I get caught on 360 flips 95% of the time. I just can't do that trick. The young kids make it look effortless) If I could go back I would never learn pressure flips, because a properly scooped impossible just felt so good and powerful.

always high quality videos! love these!

I completely agree with the point on the tony hawks games, I think the influence of the games on actual skateboarding is very underestimated. Good job as usual sir!

The pressure flip was one of the only flip tricks I could do back in the early nineties. I loved 'em. They did wear out your tail though.

Those were my thing back in the 90s. I was one of the first in my group of friends to learn them and the different variations along with underflips, late flips, late shoves, and half Casper tricks. Most folks back then were just into stair gaps and big ollie tricks, I liked the more technical stuff. Sucks they got a bad rep, they look hella cool if you can land them clean and consistently. The only flips I really didn’t care for were heel flips...specifically inward heels because those caused me to eat it more than any other due to the board either under rotating or not flipping all the way and landing in primo.

Nice work! Long or short, your content is always great!

ive done an amazing pressure flip before. its the only time I ever caught one and it was like a front foot catch on a hard flip. I'm about to learn these again tbh

9:50 this is so true! always on hindsight things look different. Back then it was pretty cool. Now a Haslam or Cole comes alone starts having fun with those and they are back in!

thanks for the great content man!

awesome videos! question idea for your next ask rad rat. Are rails for your board on a comeback? ive been seeing them more and more lately. thanks for making such great content!

Looking forward to going out and practicing my pressure flips when this storm goes away...

You're like a Skate Historian! Incredible content as always

I knew that youre gonna include Nate sherwood inside. That's the reason why I subscribed to him. Personally, i like pressure flips. They have its uniqueness and skills to it cause i was amazed on how much flip and rotation you can get from the back of your foot. I remembered one time, i was so inspired by one of nate's videos that i would try to do one but i didnt get it cause it was too hard.

I learned pressure flips perfectly in the early 90's. I was so excited, I did them constantly. I swear, they went out of style like two weeks later. I didn't care, I kept doing them.

Henry Sanchez also did a pressure flip in his sight unseen part. With Style! Respect for your quality content!

These vidoes are history lessons. Thank you.Important work.I had forgotten the small wheels.ha ha.

Thank you, very informative

I learned them in the 90's and still do them today. If you pop them they look similar to hardflips. I don't catch hate when I do them. I do pressure flip blunt to fakies on small transitions and people always wonder what hell hell I just rolled away from.

I was 10 when I started to skate and got my first real board. I learned pressure flips and I still do them today. Every time the kids in the neighborhood come by with a board and see me skate they think they are cool. I've seen similar stuff happen in BMX. It all comes around and if you stick with what you like you will make yourself happy.

That small mention of Chris fissels. "Possibly first 360 inward heel" was that before or after the one in "the ACME skateboard video(1992)" some guy did? Also it almost looked like a back foot Tre how wild it was haha

I think pressure flip variations are awesome. I loved them because they were different and nobody does them around me. I learned nollie pressure hardlips and switch pressure flips a few years ago, but forgot how to do those. I'd get the most confused looks from people when I did them, so much so that if I did them in a game of S.K.A.T.E. people would have me repeat them two or three times to make sure they weren't a total accident.

I can hardly differentiate any pressure flip from other standard flips. Pressure 360 or pressure hardflip or pressure impossible all look the same as their non pressure counterparts

Mike Carroll does a pressure flip over a picnic table in 2007 fully flared. Check it out. I remember rewinding the tape several times surprised to see him do it.

Respect to you man 👊. Talking skate theory. Love your videos

This was a good video watched the whole thing pretty entertaining

I really love your videos you should get more attention keep it up🤙🏼

I had a monster pressure hardflip back in the day. that and v-flips were my only super consistent lands. I love watching people with nice pressure runs, but as a whole it really wasn't my jam.

I can buy that Fissel invented (or at least popularized) them. I remember Ed Templeton being the first I saw doing them in 91 in HB and we all had to learn them after that. Took me probably 6-9 months to get down. I almost knocked myself out doing a 360 pf down a 3 stair, but stuck to other variations like fakie pf body varial (which I have footage of me last doing. That's how influential the trick was). Only thing I hated about the trick is it would ruin your board shape from all the scooping, I always did them on my nose to avoid screwing up my tail. Nice vid!

Its like there's aronl the guy who explained trick tips pretty well and this is Aronl 2.0 with spot on analysis and interesting commentary! I like it.

Wow, it's here! Finally ^^ Thx for that and special thx for a 15-min-lenght! * popcorn *

Hey man. I just found your channel and have been binging. I'm a real old timer. 45 years old and my second deck was a Santa Monica Airlines Natas (oohh! How about a video on SMA?) Anyway just wanted to say thanks for doing what you do. I just can't believe that kids actually got into skating AFTER playing Pro Skater. That's mind boggling! But it makes sense when I'm thinking about how fast kids progress now compared to how we did (or didn't) back when I first started. A mobbed kickflip was a big deal and took years to learn! But we didn't have the benefit of thinking that the shit a video game avatar could do was possible. Amazing.

Still doing them, almost on every session. I somehow have always liked pressure flips and lately I've also felt them being great warm-up tricks (yeah, I'm not young anymore :) ). Same goes with fakie big spin, I somehow really like it and use it as a warm-up trick. But the one thing I hate about pressure flip is how, on especially a rougher terrain, it makes the side of your nose/tail a razor blade pretty fast.

Provided they're done smooth and with good height - a lot of pressure flip variations look dope, and I've always dug them.. Mullen Parts always had them in em, and I always thought Mullen was the s*** - I still do...

i was born when this trick gained popularity hahaha but i am learning the varial and varial heel variations. I used to be able to pop pressure varial really high, but i kinda lost it. I have to work on it.

Holy shit 360 inward heels in the early 90s! When i learned them back in 03-04 i didnt know or see anyone who did them but i would have had i consumed more videos and mags!! Very cool info!!!

Great video, I think any trick that blows up, and becomes common placed will end up being hated. Just look at no complies, they've been everywhere, but now people are beginning to mock the trick. It's just a natural cycle in skating.

There was a couple of pressure flips in the LIfe video "soldiers story" even a 360 pressure to fakie on a quarter

Freestyle skaters were doing a version of kickflips called the pressure flip back in the 70s. You need to look for old Russ Howell and Chris Strople footage if it is available

I love it. It gives my opponent a letter in every game of skate! it’s my staple flip trick and I do it more frequently than kickflips. it was also my key to landing my first impossible. it’s a key to a lot of tricks lmao

I learned my nollie pressure hardflips by accident trying to learn nollie kickflips when I popped the nose under itself once, and with a little tuning got them to land (jumping back blind like fs pop shuvits) and mine I was always able to get them up and get a snappy catch at fair height, I always had compliments for it and nobody hated on them where I live.

Feels like I spent ages practicing the Fakie Pressure Flip Sex Change. What I was not doing was collecting Beanie Babies, so I still stand proud.

Now I know how I do all flips when fingerskating. Now I understand.

Ppl hate tricks they can't do, can't do well, or it got them a letter in skate, any trick can be made to look awesome

Everyone hates on it until someone famous comes and makes new variations and innovates and becomes a trend again.

Hey rat I have a question. I skated in the 90s mainly girl and world boards. Imm 44 now and can still skate. I'm looking for a board mainly to ollie. Everything is much bigger now. Any tips on a board brand with decent pop for ollies?

Great commentary on pressure flips.

For us it was two things- A lack of influential examples of pressure flips looking good (at the time). No enders or ads, etc. Yours in this video are literally some of the best looking ones I've ever seen. Second thing is that guys who did pressure flips that we knew couldn't (or wouldn't) do any of the standard tricks that were around the same tier, like bs & fs flips, 360s, etc. They'd also be the guy trying and missing impossibles instead of tres. Contrarian tricks

I can’t even Ollie, but your videos are still fun to watch

Lmao If the your pressure flip tutorial was originally published around 06/07 then I'm pretty sure I learned them from you 😂 thanks for the nostalgia trip double whammy dude 👌🏻

Let me put it in context. 5 years late. I started in 87. From 90 to probably 93 Street skating evolved so quickly, tricks and their variations were invented, perfected and taken to ledges, stairs etc. In 93 skating kind of reached a point where pro skaters who had pop and kept it relatively simple were getting popular, such as j Wray, markovich, salman agah. Pro skaters and everyone else got choosy about what tricks they did. It wasn't just presure flips that got dropped by most people. Tricks such as impossibles, even front foot Impossibles, late shoves, late flips, late back foot flips. All came in from 91, but 2 years later were rarely seen. So the skaters in videos from mid to late 90s were doing classic, more aesthetically pleasing tricks. Speed, pop, and style were everything. Many of them could do the crazy early 90s tricks, but chose not too. I remember coz I was good at the tricks that became 'unfashionable', so was a bit sad that I wasn't doing a proper impossible, or Nollie back foot Impossibles. It probably sounds crazy by modern standards, but skating was getting to end of development, and finding its way, it was a more enclosed sport then, with info, development moving slower than today's Internet age. If I could do it all over again, I would do all the tricks, as skaters seem to do today.

i could never do frontside flips but i could do switch frontside 180 pressure flips and flip them so it looked like i did a switch hardflip and turned my body or like it was a switch frontside flip

I love your research skills, Mr. R. Ah, the infamous BB#3 editorial... although I still think Dae Won, Guy, Koston and Ternasky played their parts IMHO with their own take on the shape of skating to come back then. Especially Guy's POL montage... 25 years later and still gives me goosebumps - A comment about the quality - if more had performed theirs like Nate (I think Henry and Carroll came close), perhaps they wouldn't have collapsed like they did. Another possibility that comes to my mind though, is that a lot of more ollie-flip-based guys (like the above pros which I mentioned) in my community were somewhat blindsided by the popularity of the whole pressure thing: Unlike the late shove-its/flips (which collapsed just as hard), they couldn't seem to get it like the rest of us mere mortals (a lot of whom that couldn't even kickflip over a deck on its side). The big-kickflip era (or pop-shove-it revival) of the late 92-early 94 period was an attempt to not only bring skating back from the brink of disappearing up its own butt, it was a backlash against those of us who were focusing less on quality, more on quantity, and for at least a few months in 1992, were able to show up the big melon crowd.

the irony behind pressure flips is everybody hates them cause there. actually difficult as f

The guy sat in the background watching P J Ladd, wearing a burgundy t-shirt, during the toe flip stuff is my old neighbour when I lived in Sweden a few years back. A guy from Venezuela called Odla Arteaga.

A semi friend from high school is a professional skateboarder and I remember he would always get really annoyed when someone brought up Rodney mullen in his presence. I can distinctly remember him telling me "all he does are pressure flips." I didn't know what he was talking about or why he cared. Looking back on it I think he just didn't like a freestyle skater being more popular than a street skater.

I was there when that clip at 6:40 was filmed. Interskate 91 in Massachusetts.

I swear to god I watched some of your earlier trick tips. I was in 7th grade and I was like completely obsessed with skating. You looked so familiar lol

I've never met someone that could do pressure flips actually hate pressure flips. They're fun though because it's such a gnarly trick to be able to pop waist high on flat ground.

I absolutely love pressure flips, and I don't know why. I just think they look cool. EDIT: Just to add, Dario Juhasz has done some pressure flips, and he pops (pressures?) them super high. Did one down some stairs in one of Jonny Giger's videos, and it looked amazing.

Did you ever made a tutorial about how to pop shuvit? Great video btw!

Also little kids do a lot of pressure flips because their boards are relatively larger so they can get the flip easier, as well as pop and flick take more effort

fantastic video

I think a Soldier's Story was the first video where I saw them on big boards... but Sheffey kinda stole half the show with his confidence, and Donger took the other with his pop. 1281 was the next one I remember, and the first one where they were impossible to ignore, and Ron Knigge was probably my favorite section out of that whole bunch. For us up north, that was late 91/early 92. Of course, the cool kids caught on last, and were the first to ditch when Pack of Lies came out (Sanchez did one switch pf down some stairs and that was it). I also remember an interview where Mullen remembers seeing some German freestyler do a triple pf in 1983... I also remember a time when people would set-up for ollie impossibles by putting their front foot on the nose. At one point, they were derisively called "pressure impossibles" by at least my circle, but that's neither here-nor-there...

I wish someone would give you funding to do a planet earth style history of skateboarding.

I think seeing the pressure flip in the Plan B, Virtual Reality, video, is what made me want to skate even more. That and the split screen. But I never learned or tried a pressure flip. I’m glad you mentioned verial flips. 😆 They were considered super lame to do. So funny. I wish skating could go back to Full Cabs shoes, huge jean shorts, tiny wheels, wallet chains, and pressure flips. Ha-ha. The good old days.

*The trick name of “Full cab” is Caballerial. Maybe you can do another video on tricks that have multiple names or how kickflip was first called magic flip.

When i learned my pressure flips i did em like my pop shuvits with the same pop and the same stance ( no ground sweepers) :). Sometimes i did pressure flips when i was supposed to do my pop shuvits. What I love to do is in a game of skate to pull out a pressure flip and watch the opponents drop their jaws to the ground and if there are someone who knows how to do em just do it with a body varial :) :) :)

When i skated in the 90s and 00s i didnt know basicly any tricks real name before internet and instaclips blew up. I was playing our version of skate, and my friend did pop shove it late backfoot kickflip and called it a pressure flip. I dont even know if thats it real name. Ugh, time before internet fuckin sucked. Well i miss skating big stuff, all im able to do is kickflip in all stances and thats it, my legs got too bad

What's the difference between a pressure flip and a regular trick like a kick flip? I'm not a skater, but I seen popping and whatnot.

Hmm thinking about it what is the difference between 360 flips/pressure and hardflips/pressure? Is it all in the pop or scoop? Trey flips are pretty much all scoop