‘Kickflips’ on snow have been around in snowboarding for yonks and are yet another way of showing the world that we secretly wish we were as cool as skaters.
Eiki Helgason landed a legit varial kickflip in last year’s Helgasons movie Pepping! but we just stumbled across the clip of what looks to be the world’s first biggest kickflip (off a decent sized kicker) on a snowboard.
Shot at Whistler Blackcomb, the clip will undoubtedly have you replaying it more than once. The question is, is the trick real or fake? As this impossible trick from a few years back proves, there’s a surprising amount you can do to footage in post production…
