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How-To Skateboarding: The Hospital with Josh "Skreech" Sandoval

RIDE Channel3 skaters recommend it · 3 mentions, 2014 to 2016
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89K views · 13 years ago · Tutorial · Intermediate

RIDE Channel how-to from 2013 where Josh "Skreech" Sandoval teaches the hospital flip, a freestyle-style flip trick that mixes a kickflip with a board catch. Short step-by-step breakdown.

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Linked in trick naming threads as a reference for what a hospital or circus trick is, since names for these flip variations get argued a lot.

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“none of these kickflip/wrap variations really resemble the tricks originally called casper flips [VIDEO] or hospitals [VIDEO] so there's endless room to say "no it's not!".”

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u/golmember2014 · 4 points

Here's the video [VIDEO] by skreech showing an example of a circus trick.

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u/SilverSnurfer2014 · 2 points

Exactly, the reason this debate happens every time is that none of these kickflip/wrap variations really resemble the tricks originally called casper flips [VIDEO] or hospitals [VIDEO] so there's endless room to say "no it's not!". Yes everybody is wrong, and the way some guys do this is probably closer to a front foot impossible than a casper flip (they're supposed to go straight over not spin horizontally), but if

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u/thoughtzero2016 · 1 points

When I was kid (the 80s) a hospital was this [VIDEO], except we didn't do it into a mini ramp. This one might just be a coincidence, people at different times deciding to use the word "hospital" for something, but I don't think the "casper flip" one is a coincidence. Once a trick was named that name seems to live on forever, but often *only* the name. Knowledge of the trick itself seems to have a tougher time being p

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