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360 Barflips are no joke.  It's as simple as that.  In fact, typically this is NOT a good starting point, but more of a goal to strive for in a trick.  First you want to think about... oh say... a 180 barflip.  Often there are questions as to what the difference is between a barspin, a barflip, and a kickflip.  The barspin, as described on this site, is when you spin your handlebars 180 degrees or more while both wheels on the ground, or with the front wheel in the air, for example in the middle of a dork wheelie.  The barflip, in comparison is when you are in the middle of a front wheel trick, like a side-squeak, or a funky chicken and jump straight up and spin the bars and land back on the bike.  It is much more difficult.  In comparison, the kickflip, is about the same as a barflip in that you are on the front wheel of the bike... but - you do not flip the bars with your hands.  You MUST have your hands off the bars when you initiate the flipping of the bars.  So you must use your feet to kick the bars around 180 degrees or more.

Good prerequisites...  side-squeaks, funky chickens, and a lot of comfort in these tricks!  Typically you won't fall and hurt yourself, but you can land on an ankle sideways and roll your ankle - possibly spraining or even breaking it, so be ready.

• As described within this version, you will ride into a side-squeak as you normally would and begin squeaking, making sure that you are very comfortable with your position before you do the barflip.
• You will want to practice this for a while to get comfortable with it, but you will now want to flip your hand that is on the handlebars upside-down (if you have your left hand on the left grip rotate it counter-clockwise 180 degrees so your palm is up) and continue scuffing.
• Making sure that you are very comfortable with your position, you now want to grab the front brakes with your left hand and jump straight up.
• As soon as you are beginning to head upwards you will begin flipping the bars around counter-clockwise.  Because your hand begins upside-down when the bars reach the halfway point you hand will now be right-side up.
• Continue the barflip until you have reached the 360 degree point at which time you will probably have stepped on the ground...  try again.
• When you jump you want to make sure that you flip the bars VERY quickly and that you jump straight up, not letting the bike get to far away from your body.
• Aim your landing foot, which is the foot that was originally on the front peg, back at the front peg and land that foot on the peg at the exact same time that your squeaking foot (usually right foot) touches the top of the front tire and release the brakes and begin scuffing.
• As soon as you possibly can either ride out, or flip your hand right-side up and continue on with another trick.

Keep in mind that this is a expert level trick... at least.  If you are specializing in front wheel tricks then this trick will definitely be one for you to have completely dialed in because it opens the doors to incredible combinations.  As you get better and better you will find it possible to throw in barflips in the middle of complex routines, linking from one trick to another with a quick flip of the bars between tricks.  But don't expect this trick to be friendly to you... because it is one of the top ankle destroyers in the sport.

OTHER WAYS TO RIDE INTO ROLLBACKS-  The way described above is for your run of the mill 180 rollback.  It is possible to do 180 bunnyhops into rollbacks, as well as squeakers into rollbacks.  You can do rollbacks standing on the pegs.  You can even do endos to rollbacks on a hill if it can give you some speed.   The 180 into it is the guaranteed way to have some speed when the bike comes around and starts rolling backwards.