I am honestly not sure about this leaning back, it seems like it could give you a rocket kickflip, but I will give it a GO the next time I skate a session. It is definitely something that I have never tried. Thanks!
@@OwensSkateLife Most rocket kick flips probably come from flicking a little bit too much off the side of the nose and more importantly a little bit late in terms of timing. As with an ollie, the way to flatten anything out is to slide your front foot up the board anyway. Anyhow, just wanted to comment that shifting the weight also _massively_ helped me with staying connected with the board better to get any kind of flick going properly. Haven't landed a kickflip yet, but I saw someone claim weight should be mostly on the front foot, which results in me not getting the front foot over the board easily, even when flicking up (or straight forward). I can see why people think you have to lean forward a little to, but this probably shouldn't be the starting position at all. In my ollies I go from weight on the popping foot, sliding front foot, weight shifting towards the front foot and landing it with weight either on mostly the front foot or on both feet.
I know you still have problems with your kickflip so I am reminding you of this video. I don't know if you are doing what he is talking about or not.. I would have to watch again, See the comment below (or above?) from hahahaha about mobbed kickflips
@@OwensSkateLife Thanks! Nope, I haven't got it yet. But I did get close to both varial heel flip (landed it once, tail heavy) and kickflip body varial and heel flip body varial. Those last two I wasn't really trying the body varial, but I have to force my back foot to jump over the board and that seems to at least help with that. I can get a pretty consistent half heel flip body varial landing upside down. So I need to either change foot positions slightly or flick faster to land those. Same thing for the kickflip body varial. Anyway, another thing is my time to learn skateboarding is somewhat limited, but I also have a slight struggle committing to a landing. This definitely slows my progress down. It actually took a LOT of time before I landed my first moving pop shove its. And only landed my first moving frontside pop shove (at decent speed I mean) it a few days ago. I have also worked on my ollies a lot, which really seems to help with the whole confidence thing.
@@OwensSkateLife Thank you! Yeah, I feel I sometimes still don't understand the exact movements my legs have to do after the pop and flick. I _definitely_ think varial kickflips are easier for me than the regular kickflip. I have landed a few varial kickflips, but would not say I 'got' that trick now.
Excellent video, weight distribution is overlooked. My kickflips have gone worse, it takes me about 30mins to an hour to get a moving kickflip each session. I will try this next sesh. Cheers bud for this video.
I’ve been struggling to learn how to kickflip for the past 6 months, but after watching this video a couple time and after putting in a lot of effort for the past few days I landed my first couple kickflips today! Thanks so much man 😁
I have this horrible muscle memory of catching with my front foot. I've been working on my weight distribution a lot lately but not so much towards the back-as I'm trying to get off it more. However, I think that your advice will help me to keep that rotation under my back foot and hopefully more lands. Appreciate the insight, my man!
Thanks buddy, i am pretty thankful for my life and the things i have cultivated in it. Working on cultivating the income, that's the one missing aspect.
You spent 8 minutes to simply say lean with more of your weight on your backfoot. You could probably make a tighter video if you don't repeat yourself and keep your explanations more concise. You mentioned that you can't kickflip stationary but if you're giving a tutorial on how to kickflip, you really should be able to. Otherwise you're a student just like the rest of us who are also trying to improve at kickflips. Which is fine, but your manner in this video seems so didactic when in reality you're just sharing a thought you had about why people might struggle with kickflips. You also don't explain why doing stationary kickflips are a bad idea. You just say it's bad because it's harder. You make a good point that weight distribution is important when landing kickflips, but to make this point you say that it matters less for shuvit tricks. I don't think that's true. The way you distribute your weight is important for literally every skate trick, not just flip tricks. You try to land kickflips in this video by following your own tips and then fail. It's likely that there are different mistakes that you neglected to mention that's stopping you and other people from learning how to kickflip. Not just weight distribution but also foot placement, direction of flick, angle of shoulders, timing, confidence or lack there of. You don't mention any of these. Still giving the video a thumbs up though because I respect the time and effort you put into making this. Hope you make more of these. That was a clean af double flip!
I've burned threw shoes and years wtf I always lose balance mid pop and my front foot overgrips the flat part of the board mid air and it flings it forward spinning the board in a impossible motion. Or if I finally get the spin fast enough to land one footed, I'll do it again and try to land with both feet it won't flip full rotation and land wheels up me everytime and I almost break my ankles land on the side or the trucks
Love the tutorial, but I have two problems here: 1) you said to never learn tricks stationary. I actually learned heelflips (which for me are waaay easier than kickflips) using skate trainers. And all the other tricks i know. 2) about leaning back, i actually think the key is to have your shoulders same direction as your board and jump a bit back. Then what happen is you distributing your weight to the back natural way. I dunno. I will try out your video tutorial tomorrow, if i land the moving kickflip (i can land stationary no problem) you will gain another subscriber xD many thanks for your video, take care. Tom from Staines, UK.
@Vin Lop Excellent if that works for sure. I'm thinking about getting some pads too. But I wouldn't say it is a good habit to fall on your knees and take any kind of impact that way. It's better to transfer the impact from arms to butt and slide or roll away. Don't take full impacts with the arms either, or you will break wrists or arms.
Okay so I listened to your advice on distributing the weight to the back foot. It works. I didn't land it yet but I am landing on the belly with both feet, at this point it's the flick. Combining both the weight distribution and keeping my head directly above the middle of the board with my shoulders locked in the nose and tail position. I just gotta get my flick/kick straight off the board so the board stops landing at an angle.
@@ph4ntomsoldier So glad to hear the advice worked for you!! I feel as though this video is a little outdated so I was planning on making an updated trick tip but I broke my leg so once I get back into it it's on my list to get rid of some of the fluff that was in here and correct some things I felt were not totally accurate
This is a very good video. I appricate the time you put in on it. Really you last 5 videos have been the best i think you have done. It is like watching a new channel. Keep it up. I will give this another go soon. And the song at the end is classic.
@@OwensSkateLife my biggest issue is i only try it about once a month or less. I go to all these parks and try amd skate them and not work on the basics i just ennky skating what ever the park offers. But i could and should put some time in after work.
I can get my front foot everytime but I can’t get my back foot on because I’m kinda scared and no matter how hard I try it just goes straight away down
@@OwensSkateLife I’ve landed so many times with my front foot and back foot leaning back helps a lot but idk my back foot can’t get on the board I think it’s just commitment
Tomorrow I will land this!
That's the attitude you got this :)
@@OwensSkateLife still can't land but close :')
I am honestly not sure about this leaning back, it seems like it could give you a rocket kickflip, but I will give it a GO the next time I skate a session. It is definitely something that I have never tried. Thanks!
@@OwensSkateLife I will try it. 😊👍
@@OwensSkateLife Most rocket kick flips probably come from flicking a little bit too much off the side of the nose and more importantly a little bit late in terms of timing. As with an ollie, the way to flatten anything out is to slide your front foot up the board anyway. Anyhow, just wanted to comment that shifting the weight also _massively_ helped me with staying connected with the board better to get any kind of flick going properly. Haven't landed a kickflip yet, but I saw someone claim weight should be mostly on the front foot, which results in me not getting the front foot over the board easily, even when flicking up (or straight forward). I can see why people think you have to lean forward a little to, but this probably shouldn't be the starting position at all. In my ollies I go from weight on the popping foot, sliding front foot, weight shifting towards the front foot and landing it with weight either on mostly the front foot or on both feet.
I know you still have problems with your kickflip so I am reminding you of this video. I don't know if you are doing what he is talking about or not.. I would have to watch again, See the comment below (or above?) from hahahaha about mobbed kickflips
@@OwensSkateLife Thanks! Nope, I haven't got it yet. But I did get close to both varial heel flip (landed it once, tail heavy) and kickflip body varial and heel flip body varial. Those last two I wasn't really trying the body varial, but I have to force my back foot to jump over the board and that seems to at least help with that. I can get a pretty consistent half heel flip body varial landing upside down. So I need to either change foot positions slightly or flick faster to land those. Same thing for the kickflip body varial. Anyway, another thing is my time to learn skateboarding is somewhat limited, but I also have a slight struggle committing to a landing. This definitely slows my progress down. It actually took a LOT of time before I landed my first moving pop shove its. And only landed my first moving frontside pop shove (at decent speed I mean) it a few days ago. I have also worked on my ollies a lot, which really seems to help with the whole confidence thing.
@@OwensSkateLife Thank you! Yeah, I feel I sometimes still don't understand the exact movements my legs have to do after the pop and flick. I _definitely_ think varial kickflips are easier for me than the regular kickflip. I have landed a few varial kickflips, but would not say I 'got' that trick now.
Great advice!! It helps also to stay as close to ollie form as possible - with a little flick at the top.
That’s what’s working best for me, I pretend it’s an Ollie but my Ankle extends and my foot flicks. I’m so close to landing but haven’t yet.
Excellent video, weight distribution is overlooked. My kickflips have gone worse, it takes me about 30mins to an hour to get a moving kickflip each session. I will try this next sesh. Cheers bud for this video.
I’ve been struggling to learn how to kickflip for the past 6 months, but after watching this video a couple time and after putting in a lot of effort for the past few days I landed my first couple kickflips today! Thanks so much man 😁
Now the trick is to force yourself to @kickflipeveryday
this actually helped me imagine it so much better
I have this horrible muscle memory of catching with my front foot. I've been working on my weight distribution a lot lately but not so much towards the back-as I'm trying to get off it more. However, I think that your advice will help me to keep that rotation under my back foot and hopefully more lands. Appreciate the insight, my man!
Thanks my man, appreciate the insight in this video. Headed into the city for a voice over class but excited to try this out next session.
Thanks buddy, i am pretty thankful for my life and the things i have cultivated in it. Working on cultivating the income, that's the one missing aspect.
You spent 8 minutes to simply say lean with more of your weight on your backfoot. You could probably make a tighter video if you don't repeat yourself and keep your explanations more concise.
You mentioned that you can't kickflip stationary but if you're giving a tutorial on how to kickflip, you really should be able to. Otherwise you're a student just like the rest of us who are also trying to improve at kickflips. Which is fine, but your manner in this video seems so didactic when in reality you're just sharing a thought you had about why people might struggle with kickflips. You also don't explain why doing stationary kickflips are a bad idea. You just say it's bad because it's harder.
You make a good point that weight distribution is important when landing kickflips, but to make this point you say that it matters less for shuvit tricks. I don't think that's true. The way you distribute your weight is important for literally every skate trick, not just flip tricks.
You try to land kickflips in this video by following your own tips and then fail. It's likely that there are different mistakes that you neglected to mention that's stopping you and other people from learning how to kickflip. Not just weight distribution but also foot placement, direction of flick, angle of shoulders, timing, confidence or lack there of. You don't mention any of these.
Still giving the video a thumbs up though because I respect the time and effort you put into making this. Hope you make more of these. That was a clean af double flip!
I'm definitely going to try this weight distribution tip next time I go to the skatepark. Thanks for the insight!
bro you for real described my problem, everytime i try to kickflip it turns into some weird heelflip and i can't stop doing it
You got it yet? Thinking of making a revised version of this vid as i have learned a few more tricks to the trick
I always try to put my weight on my front foot to counter the board shooting out in front of me
@@jjg-k3w There's a difference between weight distribution and leaning back, keep your shoulders straight 😁
Ill try this next time i skate 👍
Also if you see this comment and kind of old ask me if i landed it
@@Twigs929 I will come back to this in a while and ask you 😁
I've burned threw shoes and years wtf I always lose balance mid pop and my front foot overgrips the flat part of the board mid air and it flings it forward spinning the board in a impossible motion. Or if I finally get the spin fast enough to land one footed, I'll do it again and try to land with both feet it won't flip full rotation and land wheels up me everytime and I almost break my ankles land on the side or the trucks
Sounds like you might have too much weight on your front foot
I will learn this ❤
Sending you Kickflip energy
Love the tutorial, but I have two problems here: 1) you said to never learn tricks stationary. I actually learned heelflips (which for me are waaay easier than kickflips) using skate trainers. And all the other tricks i know. 2) about leaning back, i actually think the key is to have your shoulders same direction as your board and jump a bit back. Then what happen is you distributing your weight to the back natural way. I dunno. I will try out your video tutorial tomorrow, if i land the moving kickflip (i can land stationary no problem) you will gain another subscriber xD many thanks for your video, take care. Tom from Staines, UK.
@Vin Lop Excellent if that works for sure. I'm thinking about getting some pads too. But I wouldn't say it is a good habit to fall on your knees and take any kind of impact that way. It's better to transfer the impact from arms to butt and slide or roll away. Don't take full impacts with the arms either, or you will break wrists or arms.
Okay so I listened to your advice on distributing the weight to the back foot. It works. I didn't land it yet but I am landing on the belly with both feet, at this point it's the flick. Combining both the weight distribution and keeping my head directly above the middle of the board with my shoulders locked in the nose and tail position. I just gotta get my flick/kick straight off the board so the board stops landing at an angle.
GET IT
@@OwensSkateLife I landed both kickflip and heel flip last night. Thanks for the weight distribution advice, total game changer.
@@ph4ntomsoldier So glad to hear the advice worked for you!! I feel as though this video is a little outdated so I was planning on making an updated trick tip but I broke my leg so once I get back into it it's on my list to get rid of some of the fluff that was in here and correct some things I felt were not totally accurate
this was my problem! thank you
This was great dude! Im gonna try it and if I land my kickflip Im gonna be forever greatful.
Great advice. Tried today and already felt the difference! Many thanks👍👍👍
This video explains it so well bro,this has been my problem. Cheers g
I tried this and I landed a few stationary much easier
I can only get my back foot hoping to try this soon
Great tutorial, I definitely feel like center of gravity is overlooked in these types of videos.
This actually helps so much I would kick flip and it would flip but I could never land my front foot on the board
Everything you just said makes me happy the tips I have are working :)
this helped me land my first kickflip ever thanks guy
THE SYSTEM WORKS!!!
This is a very good video. I appricate the time you put in on it. Really you last 5 videos have been the best i think you have done. It is like watching a new channel. Keep it up. I will give this another go soon. And the song at the end is classic.
@@OwensSkateLife my biggest issue is i only try it about once a month or less. I go to all these parks and try amd skate them and not work on the basics i just ennky skating what ever the park offers. But i could and should put some time in after work.
I can get my front foot everytime but I can’t get my back foot on because I’m kinda scared and no matter how hard I try it just goes straight away down
@@OwensSkateLife do u close both ur legs in to the middle of ur board
@@OwensSkateLife I’ve landed so many times with my front foot and back foot leaning back helps a lot but idk my back foot can’t get on the board I think it’s just commitment
So ur meant to lean back but the jump forward towards the nose
@@OwensSkateLife wait so im meant to lean back and jump forward towards the nose even while practicing it stationary
I LOVE U THIS TIP MADE ME LAND THIS TRICK MULTIPLE TIMES AFTER MONTHS OF TRYING AND TRYING
@@OwensSkateLife
@@filospinat000 did u have the problem of landing only with ur back foot because that’s what happening to me does this actually work
@@lirxzy4561 yeah that was my problem
@@filospinat000 do u jump back or do u just lean back
@@lirxzy4561 i lean back like when you manual but i dont lift the skate up