The fakie hardflip is exactly what it sounds like - a hardflip while rolling fakie. It's the combination of a fakie frontside pop shove it and a fakie kickflip. Like hardflips, they can flip vertical between your legs or rotate in a flatter way.
If you can already do hardflips then fakie ones are a great variation, and if you can't hardflip yet, trying them fakie might just help.
What You Need to Know
You will have to be comfortable with some fakie tricks, especially fakie frontside shove its, so learn these really well first. Fakie flips help with getting your body weight in the right place when you pop.
Other Skills:
Being able to hardflip in normal stance is obviously a big plus, but I think frontside halfcab kickflips are even more useful. Those are exactly like a frontside flip but you happen to be rolling fakie at the time.
What You May Find Useful:
Practising your fakie frontside shove it's. Not many people really do, but catching these things straight and rolling is a bonus.
Doing The Trick
Positioning:
Your popping foot (what is normally your back foot) should be set up just like a frontside pop shove it. Somewhere centred on the tail, not too close to the tip of the tail. Your flicking foot should be at a 45 degree angle, pointing a bit toward the nose, positioned somewhere between the deckbolts and the centre. Depends where is most comfortable, it is important to be balanced and stable when you try these.
Motion:
Be stable! If you feel like your going to fall off with your feet in that position, find a more solid position.
Get rolling. Have your weight more over your flicking foot, more over the middle of the board.
Start popping the tail, pressing it away from you to start the frontside shove it. Pop huge, get the board up off the ground and rising.
And at the same time, start flicking. Your front foot should flick more perpendicular than a kickflip, much more underneath you. If you flick too much like a kickflip it will stop the spin. If you flick too much under you, you'll probably miss flicking the board at all. The point is to try and flick your toes through the 'pocket' as it spins under you, where the nose of the board starts to curve up.
In mid air, you're probably naturally doing some sort of splits with your popping foot out in front and your flicking foot underneath you. The board is probably point semi-upward underneath you, so don't land yet. Start sucking up and get your feet back in line for the catch. It happens sooner than you think.
Hopefully there is enough flick so that you don't land primo. THe board should still be right underneath you, so catch it with your feet and land.
Take the impact, land with each foot on the bolts if you can. If you landed but then tic-tacked so you are rolling forward again, do another one until you can land rolling fakie.
Roll away fakie, like Chet Thomas. Aw yeah.
Video Trick Tips:
Troubleshooting
Problem:The board stops when I pop and I keep going! Answer: This is common. Keep your weight over the middle of the board. This is all about weight placement. Also don't be afraid to let the board flip right underneath you, if you hesitate then it probably wont flip through enough.
Problem:The board flips enough but doesn't spin enough! Answer: Popping out more, giving it more of a frontside pop shove it will help, but at the same time you might need to adjust your flicking. Popping and jumping a bit higher helps in this case.
Problem:The board spins enough but doesn't flip all the way! Answer:You're close. Flick a bit faster and put a little more pressure in your flick. Not enough to stop it's spinning but just enough to fold under you. Making sire your weight is over the middle of your board when you start helps too.
Problem:When I pop the board just flips up vertical end-over-end! Answer:You can probably land it like that, but it wouldn't be a proper fakie hardflip if it doesn't have a little bit of flick. Scoop the tail out more, and maybe put your back foot a little less on the tip of the tail if it's already like that.
Where Do I Go From Here?
Try them off stuff. Try them onto stuff. If you haven't already got frontside halfcab kickflips, then try those. Fakie hardflip will also give the feeling of how nollie hardflips work. Also, trying to revert fast and deliberately on landing looks awesome if you can pull it off. Make sure it's not a tic-tac though!
good trick tip