Back to the ’90s!!! This was a very popular trick back in the 90s when Chad Muska banged all of the spots with it and everyone was trying it. For that reason it was called a Muska Flip back in the day but why Illusion Flip? Well, that’s because it is confusing.
It looks like Front side Flip but then again it looks more like Hard Flip and you ask yourself why landing in switch etc. We will try to kill that illusion today and explain some facts about it and the trick will hopefully become very doable in the end.
To start with solid ground we can easily say that the Illusion Flip is a mixture of a Hard Flip and a Shove-it + front side Body Varial and it has to be done very precisely otherwise it just won’t be an Illusion Flip.
Let`s start with the base which is a regular Hardflip. Set your feet into a comfortable position but because you want your hardflip to go up in almost 90 dont`t set your back foot right on the pocket but rather put the whole foot on the tail flat to let your board go up easier.
Just pop into the Hard Flip, but because you want the board to go more upwards you need to move your front foot kind of away. This will naturally start to turn your board into Shove-it, which you don’t want, so your flick needs to be very precise to do that “illusional” mixture of Hard Flip and Shove-it.
This is where the illusion part comes in if you lead the board it will do a Hard Flip but if you leave it free it will go for a Shove-it. It is really hard to explain this with words so some video tutorials should help you to get a clear picture.
Anyhow, this is just half of a trick because we still need to add a front-side Body Varial. Once you understand the rotation of the board, you can start to think about how to Body Varial. It can be tricky at the beginning because your board is moving upwards and you cant start to Body Varial right away. You need to find the right timing, just after you let your board with the front foot to a final spin and you need to do it pretty fast.
You land in switch just as you would do a Front Side Flip and that’s why the whole trick looks like an unusual Front Side Flip at the end. With such complex tricks, it is hard to go to the bone and explain every each moment so you need to figure out your perfect foot position and timing by yourself and make