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Here's a trick from the early days of this site, which I re-filmed a couple of weeks ago. The new footage is better, I think, and should give you a better look at the move.
For a lot of skaters, this is the first moving casper trick they learn. On my own list of tricks, I usually call it the 180 Casper Hop, since rather than pivot 180 degrees, you actually flip the board over it's end as you hop over it.
This trick will allow you to get used to getting into the Casper position, from which there are many possible tricks. One thing to note -- and I will note it again later -- is that for a proper Casper, neither foot should touch the ground. Oh, sure, if you've got big feet your shoe may scrape the ground a tiny bit, but your foot shouldn't come to rest on the ground. By the way -- "Casper" is the nickname of Bobby "Casper" Boyden, the skater who originated a lot of these tricks back in the late 1970s. Yep -- there's a lot of skating history in this trick. Check out the video clip here. |
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Start by rolling fakie (backwards). Your front foot will be on the edge of the board, so that you can tip the board over. The back foot is almost perpendicular to the board, back on the tail.
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In frame 3, the trick is starting to come together. You can see the rear foot is positioned to land on the underside of the tail, and the front foot is scooping, ready to hold that end of the board up.
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OK, after hitting the Casper, it's time to get out before I lose may balance. In frame 5 I start to lift the nose straight up, and start jumping too. In frame 6, the board is flipping over and I'm in the air. |
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In frame 7, the board is moving toward a landing position. My front foot is still above the board, positioned across the board to keep it from flipping like a kickflip.
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Finally, in the last frames, I move the other foot back and land nice and solid, ready for more. |
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