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The First Ever Documented Hardflip

Nine Club Clips4 skaters recommend it · 4 mentions, 2023 to 2026
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138K views · 3 years ago · Interview

Nine Club clip where Daewon Song talks through the first documented hardflip, shown in Love Child. Taken from a full Nine Club episode with Chris Roberts, Roger Bagley and Kelly Hart.

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Linked in threads that argue whether a trick is a hardflip or a pop shove-it. Skaters point to it as the origin of the trick and its front shove plus kickflip look.

“A hard flip has to combine both a kick flip and a front shuv. Daewon [VIDEO] showed us how, way back in Love Child.”

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What skaters said on Reddit

u/scormegatron2023 · 2 points

A hard flip has to combine both a kick flip and a front shuv. Daewon [VIDEO] showed us how, way back in Love Child. For OP’s clip, if you follow the rear wheel (facing the camera), you’ll see the board never actually flips (like a kick flip) entirely. Instead it goes vertical during the shuv motion, making the illusion of a flip. But it doesn’t actually flip. That’s what I’d count as an Illusion Flip. If he turned hi

u/NARtardd2023 · 2 points

One of, if not the first ever documented hardflips [VIDEO] looks nothing like OPs. Yeah, they got more vertical than that, but OPs is just a vertical pop shuv. It rotates backside and you can see the graphic because of the camera angle.

u/WolfGangSwizle2025 · 1 points

here’s Bryan Herman doing a hardflip [LINK] you can see a fs shuv, in this video it goes regular shuv. I hate Jeff and have been skating for 20 years dude, this is not a perfect hardflip. here’s the first filmed hardflip [VIDEO] while even in Daewons words it’s not his best, still you see the fs. I wasn’t trying to hate, OP literally asked the question and when I watched it slowly I noticed his nose spins in front of

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