HS Front Flip
1. The key to the front flip is keeping your back shoulder closed toward the boat. If you let it open, the flip will turn into a tantrum or a frantrum. Leave the wake with your front shoulder high and your front knee up, then throw the front shoulder hard down toward the water as you close your back shoulder toward the boat...

As you progress toward the flips and past the wake jumps you will find you need a different edge for two families of moves: heelside tantrums and toeside front rolls. They need a special edge involving an edge change to make the move work properly...

Rider: Chris Bischoff

Level: Advanced



Some people can do this move from the trough, but to learn it, you want to start about 10 feet outside the wake. You want to edge into the wake and all the way through, but try to think about hitting the wake with your front leg soft and with a lot of pressure on your back foot...

For the front flip you want to have a strong progressive edge with more weight on your rear leg and stand tall as you come off the wake. As you near the wake, cut hard like you would for a Raley, then keep your rear leg straight as you come off the wake which will help kick you around...

Use the same progressive approach with this trick as your would with your normal front flip. Stand tall into the wake and keep the rope at your hips the entire time. During the second half of the rotation let go with your lead hand turning your rear wrist over as if putting your hand in your back pocket...

Come in with a mellow toeside edge standing tall, majority of your weight on your rear foot. Look at the opposite shore upon leaving the top of the wake. Pull with two hands to your lead hip while turning your shoulders away from the boat...

This trick is all about edge control and proper body position. You'll notice right away that Darin leads the rotation with his front shoulder and stays balled up tight. This is the only way you'll ever stick this trick so if your front flips aren't perfect don't even bother...