advanced // flatground
Backside 360
Also known as BS 360
An ollie with a full backside 360 body and board rotation.
The Backside 360 is an advanced Flatground trick.
Spec
- Difficulty
- advanced
- Complexity
- Category
- Flatground
- Stance
- regular
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What the tutorials teach
Every tutorial agrees the backside 360 lives or dies on the back foot scoop: set up like a tre flip with the back foot in the tail pocket, toes hanging off the edge, and scrape the tail up and around rather than trying to flat-pivot the board, while a hard shoulder wind-up before the pop supplies most of the rotational power. The single most common failure is under-rotating and landing on the nose, and the fix every source converges on is the same, drill a fast, fully rotated back 180 with no pivot first, then extend that exact landing into a full pivot on the tail before adding speed, since the 360 is really just that back 180 pop carried through a second turn. The trick should happen roughly in place rather than traveling forward, the back foot must stay glued to the board through the whole spin even if the front foot lifts, and when flat ground resists, moving to a knee-high ledge, drop, or gap gives the extra hang time needed to complete the rotation.
- Set your feet like a tre flip: back foot in the tail pocket with toes hanging off the edge, front foot in a kickflip-style position
- Wind your shoulders up hard before you pop, the shoulder turn is what drives the rotation
- Scoop the tail fast with your back foot rather than trying to pivot the board flat around
- Nail a fast, fully rotated back 180 with no pivot first, the 360 is that same pop continued through a second turn
- Land and hold your weight on your tail, not your nose; landing on the nose is the single most common mistake and the tell that you under-rotated
- Keep your back foot glued to the board through the whole spin; only the front foot is allowed to come off
- Stay in roughly the same spot in the air instead of jumping several feet forward, the trick should happen in place
- If flat ground isn't clicking, move to a knee-high ledge, drop, or gap; the extra hang time makes full rotation easier
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Frequently asked
- What should I learn before the Backside 360?
- The backside 360 builds on Backside 180. Get that consistent first, since the backside 360 reuses the same pop, balance, or flick.
- Is the Backside 360 hard to learn?
- The backside 360 is an advanced trick. It gets much easier once you can already backside 180.
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