No back flips or front flips in this game. It isn't just street skating vertical skating is no better. I feel like they oversimplified the controls for "new" players. I have played skate for years, my specialty is vert skating. I hardly ever practice street. I noticed how in this game street skating is easy all of a sudden, but when I tried vertical skating I was struggling because they completely changed the mechanics. They need to keep the mechanics, we don't need watered down mechanics. The game is fun because of its realistic mechanics make it more challenging. Anyways, time to boot skate 3 back up....