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When I saw Natas do that I was like, ‘I wonder if you could do that on street,’” Mills told VICE. “People do backside flips, why doesn't anyone do frontside flips?”Mills’s trick was a sort of hybrid illusion. The technique for Nike Air Max 90 Femme illusion flips relies on smacking down the tail of the board and moving the front foot out of the way so the board can flip. Frontside flips, however, are more clear combinations of the two Adidas Prophere Femme tricks they’re named after (a frontside 180° ollie and a kickflip) because they actually involve kicking the front of the board. Mills definitely kicks his board, but the board pops almost Nike Air Max 90 Femme www.juicerulez.nl straight up and rotates between his legs. “Conceptually, I didn't even see the difference,” Mills said. Without intending, and before skateboarders were even talking about illusion versus frontside flips,Nike Air Max 97 Femme he www.marysiamilewski.fr presented both sides of the argument in a single motion.Ali Mills's frontside flip in Useless Wooden Toys

At that point, in 1990, frontside flips in general (both illusion and flick-and-catch styles) Nike Air Max Classic BW Dames were so new that even the biggest skateboarders in the world didn’t fully comprehend them. In a Transworld article from December 1990, Tony Hawk misidentified an illusion-style frontside flip by Jason Corbett as a “backside ollie shove-it while turning Nike Air Max 2017 Dames his body frontside.” Funnily enough, Corbett was on the cover of that same issue doing a flick-and-catch style frontside flip down a small stair set.Over the next three years skateboarders Nike Air Max Classic BW Dames continued to do both types of frontside flips without distinguishing between the two.