The hospital flip is trick that contains a kickflip and a pop shove it. What it really is a trick in which you do half a kickflip, catch it with your front foot, then shove it back around so you land on the griptape again. Most people mix these up with casper flips, the difference between them is that in a casper flip you do the shove it with your back foot and if a hospital flip you do the shove it with your front foot.
What You Need to Know
There is a kickflip motion and a pop shove it motion involved in this trick, and ollies are need for pop shove its and kickflips.
Other Skills:
Being able to control your board when doing this trick, if you just learned to kickflip and pop shove it you probably shouldn't try to learn these yet.
What You May Find Useful:
Practicing stopping the board in the middle of the kickflip. Just popping and trying to stop the kickflip with your front foot, without focusing on the shove it.
Doing The Trick
Positioning:
Your front foot should be position like you would for a kickflip, or a little more off the board since it might help you during the trick. Your back foot isn't really important but I'd say that the best positioning is like you would for a pop shove it. If you're having trouble with doing the trick like this you should experiment since not everyone does tricks the same way.
Motion:
After you find out what your stance is, pop the board and start rolling your front foot.
Get your back foot out of the way, you don't want it to stop the board from spinning.
Flick your front foot off a little before the nose, this is important because you don't want your foot so far out you can't stop the board from flipping. You want your front foot in place.
Once the kickflip flips a little less than halfway stop it with your front foot.
Shove your front foot forward, this will get the board spinning and have it simultaneously flip back.
After it flips back all the way, catch it and roll away.
Video Trick Tips:
Troubleshooting
Q. Board not being stopped, just flips like a kickflip.
A. Like I said earlier, this can be really hard for some people, just focus on keeping your foot next to your board.
Q. It doesn't flip back, and I end up landing with the graphic facing upwards.
A. Try and get it so your shuving it more with your toes, when it flips unto your foot it doesn't go too far up your foot, don't go overboard with
this though, or else you'll be overflipping it. Which brings me too my next question.
Q. It overflips when I shuv my foot.
A. Dont have the board land on your foot so it's only on your toes, but like I said in the "it doesn't flip back" question, don't go overboard with
this.
Q. Landing in away from the board.
A. 1. In a way where your back foot makes it on the board but your front foot lands in front of it, lean further back. 2. Front foot lands but back
foot bands in back of it, lean further forward. For both of these, if neither of your feet land and your just landing in front of it or in back of it, it's the same solution. 3. Land in front of it as if you were jumping forward, lean the opposite direction. 4. Landing in back of it as if you were jumping backwards, lean the opposite direction.
But basically, for all of these just lean the opposite direction, or the simplest solution, if your not centered over the board then well, become centered over it.
Where Do I Go From Here?
Some tricks that would be easier to learn once you learn hospital flips are fakie hospital flips, casper flips, and fakie casper flips.
I know how to do this trick but sometimes something goes wrong and i dont really catch the board and it turns into a weird hardflip thing... why is this?
Many many more good trick tips are to follow!