The magical illusion flip. I just discovered the existence of this trick! I'm extremely exited to learn it. Online discourse both back in the day and in current times seem to have a lack of concrete understanding of this trick. The name alone communicates this. Despite this confusion and awe at the trick, its just a really tweaked pressure flip with a frontside 180 sex change.
The reason for the mysterious aura around the illusion flip is the fundamental misunderstanding of the pressure flip. People when describing the pressure flip always remark that its like a frontside shuv-it mixed with half a kickflip. While this in reality is correct, this makes many skaters focus on the "spin" of the pressure flip which makes the trick less vertical and more low to the ground.
Whenever I do a pressure flip people always instantly assume it to be a hardflip, due in part to me being goofy but also because hardflips are the inverse of a perfect pressure flip. The difference in how they are done is that on a hardflip the front foot creates the spinning rotation and the back foot gives it the vertical direction, while the pressure flip relies on the back foot for both. This is why people don't see the illusion flip as a sex changed pressure flip and see it as an entirely new trick, to many trying this, even those who have pressure flips down, it very well may be...
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