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Interview and photos by Kevin Conners
A few months back, word got out that Kelly Bolton had learned fakie-front-flips, and a few videos popped up to provide confirmation. Well, Kelly was at the Incline Club last night on a Staff road trip, and Kevin Conners got a great sequence of the trick, plus an interview with Kelly about how it came about. Click either image to get to the sequence.
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Obviously you have done one or two of these before. What is the deal? Why would you even want to do a fakie-front-flip?
I had a dream about it—no lie. Since I had been playing around on a freecoaster for a little while, I figured that I would go for one since you are already halfway around at the top of the tranny.
But it is totally retarded. I mean, didn’t you take it a million times trying or did you just stick it and that was it?
The first time I did it was actually on concrete, so I just committed. It took me probably 20 actual times before getting it done.
You just went on a trip with Scotty Cranmer—you guys even discussed freecoasters. Obviously you heard the rumors that he just bought a freecoaster and had some stuff in mind to play with. Was that motivation to pull one at his park [Incline Club] before heading home?
I think Scotty and I get along really well. People kept mentioning that Scotty might get jealous, but I know Scotty's not really like that, and I would love to teach anyone how to do that trick. I would rather see progression, not de-gression. On a side-note, Scotty and I rode today and I’m pretty sure he’s ready.
So in the fakie-front-flip in this picture you are chainless—what’s up with that?
My freecoaster blew up before the trip. I’ve been practicing doing it with a chain but it’s just not there yet, so I had to settle for chainless.
What’s next? Are we going to see you blasting these out of quarters or are you done with it?
I would really like to boost them out of quarters, so that’s the next step for me. Hopefully I will get it to that point soon. I do have a few other fakie tricks in the works...
