what is a crank flip and how to do it?

Basically where you jump up and spin the pedals, then remove your feet
from the pedals, let them spin a complete 360 degrees, then land back
on them as the wheel hits the ground again and then ride off.

Like this:

http://tinyurl.com/at5a5

video courtesy of skate4flip; i can't do those. :p

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dan de man said:

i have heard that term crankflip many times and im starting to wonder
wtf it is and how to do it any help would be apreceiated

a crankflip is when you kick the pedals forward or backward and they
spin 1 or more revolutions without your feet on them.

I do one of them in this video over the rail (im not the greatest at
them).

'Crankflip' (http://tinyurl.com/clh27)

Theres another video called Crankflip Video in my gallery too.

To do one (this is how to do a forward one), just ride forward slowly
and then as you jump into the air kick the front pedal so it spins and
take both feet off. When the pedals are horiztonal again bring your
feet down and land back on the pedals. It takes a while to figure out
the timing, and how hard to flip the cranks.

EDIT: dude that has a sock posted the crankflip video of me. Some of
the flips in that video arent quite full. the link i posted has a good
one.

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Skate made a good point that I forgot - the cranks have to make a
minimum of 360 degrees in their turn. It is possible to do 720 degrees,
though to my knowledge (which is really a lot of ignorance too), only
Shaun Johanneson has ever pulled one off.

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Here are some of my early flips. There is a 180 flip in there somewhere
too. 'link' (http://tinyurl.com/cxjsw)

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Sometimes I wish i could do crankflips. It would be a cool trick to
learn. KH.

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haha. Right...

1st in Oklahoma 2 land a crankflip.

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Whenever i try to do a crankflip my flipping foot just stays on and i
end up doing a 1 footed half rev, any help?

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president_luke said:

Whenever i try to do a crankflip my flipping foot just stays on and i
end up doing a 1 footed half rev, any help?

Think of the push as a quick tap. Push down a little and suck your foot
back up as high as you can. If you just push down normally and don't
try to pull your foot back in the air then it will stay on the whole
time. Watch some crankflips in slow motion and you will probably see
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Thanks spencer. I'm gonna go practice.

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dudewithasock said:

Skate made a good point that I forgot - the cranks have to make a
minimum of 360 degrees in their turn. It is possible to do 720 degrees,
though to my knowledge (which is really a lot of ignorance too), only
Shaun Johanneson has ever pulled one off.

Shaun's also landed a 1080... Tomsey and maybe others have landed 720s.

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Nice thread title.

A crankflip is something John Childs has for breakfast.

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GILD said:

Nice thread title.

A crankflip is something John Childs has for breakfast.

Hahahahaha, oh that's a good call 😄

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