Learning How To Kickflip
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- 36 year old skater tries to learn how to kickflip.
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Man, when I see something like that, it helps me a lot because I'm 37 and this is my second summer of skating. I just can't do what others can do. I generally made progress, but in the winter I lost everything I knew.
You've been skating for many years and are learning kickflips. What do I count on when I want to learn how to do something new in a couple of weeks/month?
Looking at your attempts, I understand that everything will come with time, even much more than you have many times.
Great video! People love to watch other people suffer)))
I always try big toe center tip of tail(pop like life depends on it)and flick my front middle toe thru the bottom right bolt (like a small monster trying to bite your shoe)
2:14 the catch on that one really wasn't all that bad looking
Top effort Zack, thanks for sharing another painful, progressive but ultimately rewarding journey. 🍻 here’s to the next one 😅
@ZackDowdy Shout out to you buddy , super stoked for you! I’m 41 and used to skate all day everyday and could kickflip, varial kickflip etc but it’s been years and just recently got the itch to skate again and didn’t realize how much muscle memory is involved cause I’m almost feeling like I’m starting from scratch. All my kick flips were rocket back in the days and I didn’t know and now learning to do correctly goes against everything I’ve ever tried so it’s a process. But this video was great inspiration, thanks buddy and keep enjoying the process. “It’s not about perfection, it’s about progression”. 🤟🏼
Dude I sorta doubt this was your intention with this video but I super appreciate your transparency (and even vulnerability). In a world of "Do a kickflip" I imagine its tough to be honest about stuff like this, especially as a pretty well know internet skateboarder . I mean dude you shred on so much stuff it makes me feel good to be better at one thing than you. Dad Board recently said he couldn't no-comply 180 and I had the same feeling. It really reminds me about the nature of skateboarding and how we all have our comfort zones and niches. Skating is the best man and thank you for reminding me of this.
I’m still very much a beginner, but I have 2+ hrs of footage struggling with heelflips in my garage and debating about if the edit should just be a min and a half long showing the best attempts and 3 lands, or actually show all X hrs of it to show just how long it took me to get them somewhat consistently
Man this video is making my day. I am 39 today and have been working for 4 months on trying to land my first. Great video buddy.
I know how it feels bro ) 36 years young, 3-4 months to land my first. Another 3 month passed and still working on consistency) It's a journey )
Great inspiration im in my 40's and still trying to progress daily.
that conclusion was so good. It reminded me something about learning skateboarding I loved at the beginning, that you have to finish the trick yourself. You can watch all the tutorials in the world, but your body and your board will be unique to you and you need to bring in the last 50% or something like that yourself
100%
“…less than a day.” Yeah… took me a good year of solid of practice to get my kickflips to look decent 😂
Hey young buck! I'm 49 and am relearning kickflips again . I had em dialed in the 90's and early 2000's, the 2010's and then injuries etc sidelined them. Now in relearning, my biggest successes come when I stand stationary, back foot on the board and practice my flicking line up and off my nose/pocket to lock in the feel of the flick . I follow this by doing boned ollies to get my back foot up high and avoid rocketing. I go back and forth between these drills. It's just my warm up before I start rolling but find it but it really helps to lock in the muscle memory. Give er a try and see what happens. My biggest advice is to never stop skating. EVER. Another Great Video Pal! Keep on ripping!
At 13:56 I love how you replayed the kid falling on the scooter in the backround but just kept the audio going as if nothing happened.
Thank you!!!!!! Came looking for this one !!!!
"KEEP ROLLING ROLLING ROLLING, C'MON."
I said last year was year for the kick flip and it was not. 2024 maybe? 44 this year and never have done one. Closest I have gotten was full rotation one foot on. Don't be embarrassed you are great at skating. It makes me think your human that you active have a trick you can't do. Respect
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Same buddy! 44 trying to kick flip for the first time. 2024 it is! 👊🏻
Another in the 44 club here 👊 I got stuck at the same stage of learning kickflips 23 years ago, i.e. pop fine, flick (I thought) fine, back foot catches, and I could never get my front foot on. I now think I know what I was doing wrong, but my knees may be too far gone to let me correct..! Basically I realised that my front foot was flicking in an anti clockwise direction (I'm regular footed), like the way heelflips are flicked. This makes sure your front foot hits the ground before everything else and you can't possibly land them! If I manage to course correct this year or ever, I will shout it from the rooftops..!
lotta respect for this project overall and the first try kickflip over the sideway cones was so hype
Zack you should scale down. I skate big boards also. And I can’t flip that stuff.
I started skating a 8.375 and some hollow forged Indy’s and small spitfire tablet wheels I can almost kickflip again now. I’m 35.
Big boards are not easy to flick fast at all. This tip is the one.
I'm not a mayor of kickflips by a long shot, but this came to my mind watching the video.
I've been recently trying to clean up my kickflips also and when going from a 8.75 shaped deck to a 8.5 the thing that helped immensely to level the board to a cleaner one was putting my back foot more in the pocket of the tail in the middle of my board when popping. It's definitely easier to pop smaller boards but I noticed that after a few sessions you build the muscles for flipping the wider board and it's not as bad and more about the technique after that.
And when you do go smaller after that the flicks feel suuuuper easy. 😌
im sure this comments section is overloaded with feedback but two main things every person I give advice to on kickflips: Flick out, not down, that usually requires doing regular stretching to open your hips so leg can extend out sideways. And line your shoulders parallel to your board, leading shoulder guides where your front foot is able to return to after the catch.
You flick down like Gonz, which gives unique style and thats good... but makes it harder to be consistent when shoulders are open.
I'm 36 too, battling new tricks all the time, its keys like this that always help me land what im going after.
I was trying to learn back 180 kickflips back in high school and my friend was yelling at me- "KICK STRAIGHT OUT". That kinda stuck with me. Kick straight out.
@@Nick-tj9cr haha there's always that one friend
This is making me feel a bit better. I got back into skating six months ago at 35. I skated when I was a little kid and could only ollie and nollie so I'm starting back with little experience. I for the life of me cant land a kickflip 6 months later. I'm doing great at not letting it deter me from skating but i'd like to be able to learn it already.
Yo homie, I quite skating for 15+ years and got back in at 39. That was a few years ago and I am far above where I was as kid now. Keep going my guy and you'll get it, but also remember that skating is unique to us all. We all have strong and weak areas. Focus on what makes you the most happy and your be sick af in no time. The standard progression path (Ollie - shove it - 180 - kickflip - heelflip...etc) is overrated in my opinion. Just my 2 cents.
@@cromag_jetlag9079 Thanks fellow homie. Confidence wise I can say im already better than when I was a kid only 6 months later. Yea I kinda am gravitating towards what I enjoy the most and trying to perfect that. Becoming "one with my board" from simply riding has been giving me the most satisfaction.
As a 43 yo skater that spent 2 years re-learning this trick from my childhood... Pay attention to the length of your wheelbase (every deck is different). Timing is everything with the kickflip and the shorter the wheelbase, the faster you pop. If you're having trouble, try a smaller board, borrow your friend's board... Experiment. You'll get it eventually
41, just learned heelfflip, and I'm kickflipping as soon as it warms up again. Gonna be a big year of progress for me after that
Hey Zack. 32 y/o skater from Chicago here. I started skating again when Covid hit. Kickflips were on my list of tricks to get down. I am a goofy skater and heelflips were the first trick I learned back in the day and they came very very natural to me. When it came to learning kickflips however . They felt completely foreign and impossible. It took me only a few days to land them. However when looking back at the footage I realized that I would never be able to use my fickflips in other terrains like flipping into slides or on transition because of the way I was doing them. This led me to really study the trick and learn them better so I could actually use them on other terrains and feel confident with the trick and make them feel satisfying overall. My early kickflips were very mob and chaotic. Watching you learn them and going through the process reminded me of my own process. You are doing really good man hell yes ! They are looking pretty damn nice for only couple months honestly impressive. I had all the same muscle soreness in my hip flexors I had all the set backs of learning and re learning and un learning certain aspects of the trick. Biggest thing I can tell you especially if you want to blast them over that cone. Is start to pay attention to the position of your hip and shin in relation to the board. If you notice all of the best kickflippers have an open hip position and their shin and foot stay above the board the entire time. “Flicking through the board” This prevents you from under rotating the board and landing primo . And remember dude it doesn’t and should t take that much force to get the board to rotate. It comes down to the correct trajectory of your leading leg specifically your leading hip and knee and then following through properly and using the ankle muscles. That’s what gets it to rotate. I went through the same thing with my hip flexor as well. Call it a “snake bite” flick. When you retract your foot back instead of following through. Basketball players call it the same thing when they dont fully extend their shooting arm during a shot. Think of Charles Barkleys golf swing. He gets the “yips” and doesn’t follow through. Remember also your flicking through the board and not kicking down to make it rotate. This doesn’t come naturally becuase your brain doesn’t initially believe you can make the board rotate with such little effort. Which is why most everyone initially learns kickflips a little mob and kicks down at first. Some thing that helped me was to journal after a session and write down mental ques that made the trick work and feel the way I wanted. Also slo motion camera which I’m sure you already do. Overall I’m not one of these people that say there is a correct way to kickflip an incorrect way. Gonz mob flipped the gonz gap and I think it looks sick as hell ! But if you want the trick to feel better and be able to take em to transition consistently cuz you’re already a great transition skater. Keep developing the trick. You’re already getting them over the small cone. It will continue to develop for you. Just wanted to give you my two cents so maybe you have couple mental ques to add in. Watch the best kickflips. Pay attention to the position of the body at the peak of the trick. Their posture hip position shin and foot position in relation to the board. You’ll notice you be able to see the bottom part of the skaters shoe as they follow through with their flick. And you’ll also notice their hip is open as they lead out. It doesn’t close into internal rotation it’s just externally rotated. The foot stays above the board waiting for the catch. All the best Zack . Great video 🙌
Wow, thank you for this! I’m nowhere near this sadly but still got a ton of insight. I’m stringing with getting my ollie. I’m pretty close and can feel my board understanding go up. Can you do that explanation for an ollie? That’d be dope, thanks man!
My issue with most skate tutorials is that they're done by depressingly coordinated people who haven't had to approach the thing from every possible direction. The guys who've struggled every which way and somehow managed to work the trick out - if they can actually articulate what they've done, they're probably golden.
Lack of kickflips was actually one of the reasons why I always like watching you skate. Smoothness, power and style >>> flippy stuff.
lol you too?
Stylish flippy stuff>>>>
I don't think you're truly a skater till you can Ollie, kick flip and pop shove
@@cwatson42785 what were skaters before the flat land ollie?
@@cwatson42785how to be a true skater
1 : genuinely enjoy skateboarding
makes sense, smaller trucks would make your flips flip better, saw a vid where you were praising wider trucks. I'm not surprised at all seeing this
The only thing I could say to try is change your front foot position more over the board like a ollie except take your toes back a little, pointing your toes towards the side of your board instead of slightly towards the nose. The footing you have in this looks more like a tre flip set up to me. But I think more front foot gives better control of getting the board to pop up to the catch. Anyone good job you're getting a lot of us back out there. Thanks brother🤙
Square shoulders is key for kickflips. I’m telling ya
I like how you started from a bank, where is the hardest to actually have a good kickflip. The technique for the banks is much different than flat I realized, it's slower and slide up and then flick front and down, instead of flatground where you pop and flick just front, but you dont go up. The reason is because the board gets more vertical with a bump and hence if you flick like flatground you mob them. I just recently got this clicking in my head.
gooooooooood insight at the end there for sure. what works for you, works for you
Wonder having the rail slides on, is making it harder to pop higher and flip the board
I caught a tip from Mitchie Brusco which got my flick to be consistent, and it was to aim the top of the shoe(toe area) to lay on the pocket before you flick. This gives you a little pressure against the nose which speeds up the flip so much, it makes up for the delay and I don't even have to flick hard.
Disclaimer though, this obviously gives a ton more grip to work with, and if one flicks the same way they did while kickflipping the other way, you will shoot the board out in front. What I found was that people that flick this way have their foot travel UP and out. The knee would have to tuck up and stay up, while it's natural to have it kinda sag down as you flick out.
holly shit so excited to watch the vid. Just gotta get back home and not die lol
38 here. Watched your video and went outside to start kick flipping. Hadn’t tried one in about 10 years. Given I had them down from age 13 to like 28 then stopped flipping my board. Like you I just stuck to transition. Fun to see if I could get them back at all.
As a part of the collective conciousness, thank you. Because at 35, I cannot kickflip either. But I will this year. Thanks Bruv 💯
Ima need a 5050 kickflip out next dawg!!
Ive been skating for decades, and I still don't feel good about my kick flips. Its a "basic" flip trick but damn man, its not easy to master. Its certainly difficult.
3 pairs of socks would have made it even easier
Always Liked my brother, but Damn, I had no idea you didn't KickFlip.. Skateboarding so much and with Good Style.. DBC.. DAILY BLESSINGS Continue... Thank You ALL for Skateboarding and Everything Everyday!!
This is the grind of skateboarding and the most honest view. Anyone with an amazing kickflip or bs smith or whatever goes through this process.
Thanks homie
My absolute tip is to take your mobile phone and screenrecord any Luan de Oliveira kickflip (you can easily find berrics footage) and slowmotion skip through the recording and analyze his body work. (For more read this: For me the key elements in Luan’s flips helping me to finally understand kickflips are: the pop looks like a Fakie Ollie pop „sucking“ the board always close to your front foot when raising it. The front heel also moves slightly backwards nearly close to your crutch when you’re in the air. Jump high. In all it looks like the board moves backwards during these moves towards the body. Then comes the flick and simultaneously raising the back leg. You fly like an eagle. But an eagle who catches a kickflip.)
The best feeling landing your fist kickflip. Took me 10 hours I think. 2 hours a day for 5 days straight during lock down. Broke through my shoe nd my toe was bleeding. Literally shouted for joy when I landed it. I was 45 or 46 years old at the time. Now trying to learn trey flips, which is proving so hard.
im about 20 mins in and as of right now i see ALOT of over flicking your foot wont need to come back as fast if u reduce the distance its traveling initially
Learn how to do "Kader Kickflips" and it will be way easier dude. You're overthinking it.
my kickflips look similiar like yours. my problem is that I don't "ninja kick" enough through the front of the board. I always make a tiny flick to the right.
Looked awesome!
I really had the same struggle, but to be honest i did not even continue practicing it, because i don't want all the frustration for a trick that i don't even like seeing or doing. Nevertheless i spot the same awkward thing that i noted on my attempts. We both lack flexibility of the front ankle, so we don't really properly roll the front foot to flick, we only do that dragging motion, mostly to far sideways and in your case i can even spot that your foot kinda pushes down ward. Even though you managed to land a lot of flips with that weird technique which is impressive, but i think learning the basics is key, doing strechings and flicking practices should help a lot.
My kickflip progress notes: Even if I managed "consistently" to kickflip on flat rolling not fast or not rolling, i still wasn't very consistent like some were "rocket" or I land not bolt or even loose it and could hold the landing not being gravity centered.
I still need to work, it's not unlockable like the ollie, it's very deep. But with tips and tricks we can unlock a new path explore and improve one's kickflip :
Trying to kickflip up a pyramid and land on the top flat (fast roll in) my foot placement made riding the angles(pyramid and launch) very unstable. Riding very fast with my "previous kickflip stance" wasn't working and my kickflip weren't good.
So my foot placement for a kickflip super fast is like a ollie actually and front foot close to bolts, Super stable. Then your flick will launch the board up and rotate a bit, you need to catch it like 30°-70° frontside or backside.
Just for the record: I haven't landed it yet Up the pyramid high catch, cause I launch so high and go fast XD it's scary but the board is up there!
I do kickflip up a ledge, up onto ramp flat. clearing aprox 1 foot / 20cm a least with this "ollie" foot placement. and slower lower on pyramid.
I’m 49 and got back skating at 47 and I’ll skate until my body allows me to. I’m learning kickflips and realized it is a jump backwards, that helped a lot.
trick your brain to land with your front foot every time so you don't land mongo(on flat)..flick that front foot forward (like ollie north)not to the side like fs flip position. Check out lord JIM GRECO mob flip videos/techniques. Cant wait to see your mini ramp kick flip backsmith stall/grind progression.😉or blunt stall kick flip out.
Dude, I’ve been skating for 9 years now and I still can’t kickflip consistently. I get like 1/10 and I can land them good, speed doesn’t really affect me, I don’t eat shit that hard. But I’ve just never been able to get consistent. It feels like the margin of error is incredibly small for kickflip compared to other tricks. I can land other tricks every try.
I still whiff them. It’s crazy. I’ll whiff like 5 then land a few like fully caught with the back foot,
And I get the same pain in my leg as you. And it makes me have to stop practicing for days because I actually start injuring my hip.
Honestly I think it has to do with height and learning as an adult. I’m pretty tall and it makes it so that my flicks are incredibly small compared to the length of my legs.
The two socks is kind of crazy. Kind of get it for when your board is landing on your foot. Pretty sure you would have been doing a lot more sooner and cleaner if you had a smaller board, because that thing is like a boat.
Great job though.
Come back skating after 10 years off. Stared in 98' till 2014. I'm so stiff rn, damn. But the muscle memory works. Your kickflip will improve only if you stop kicking your front leg down! Flick it front/up through concave/nose and keep it over the deck all the time. When you flick front, the physics will level the tail up to the nose and than you can catch it mid air. There's no other hidden wisdom than that. Great work tho, we are pretty the same age and I feel your sour 😄
Keep it up bro and take care 🤘
wow dude, appreciate that video. When i was younger i could never do that trick despite ripping off many shoes trying it. I never learnt them.. I had confusion with my stance too being goofy but also more comfortable with scooping and 180 on switch especially backside. I got back into skating after 9 years in 2023 and got them down . Now, everytime i go skate I have a rule to do 1 kickflip then I can peacefully end my session lol
struggling with the same problems and same trick foryears...37 y old
That was sick, smaller wheelbases are way easier flip if that’s any help. Anytime I ride something wider than an 8.5 or longer than 14.25 flipping gets surprisingly hard
If your reading this and are struggling with kickflips I feel your pain, I went from having a mid kickflip for like 12 years to finally understanding it. A BIG tip for anyone is to think of an ollie north . Do an ollie north while having your feet in a kickflip position and watch how much that helps your flick become a proper one.
I feel this on a personal level. I have been skating for about 15 years now. I have became rather good at bowl skating and I can do most standard flips - but the Kickflip has been bugging me ever since. When It comes to heelflips, I can do em first try, but when it comes to Kickflips I am happy to land one in a few hundred. Keep on trying, maybe you'll find the magic formula!
Yikes and yikes. The Eggboard(?) And high top Last Resorts are not going to help you learn a kick flip. That is like unlearning a kickflip, and rewiring your brain to do something different. You can do it, its just a good deal harder.
This video was huge for me, I'm learning kickflips right now, trying to get the catch right.
It's had ups and downs like you said. Progress is not linear. At the end of the day I think consistency trumps all.
Congrats on that sick kickflip at the end!
Turned 31 recently. I used to skate all day every day all through elementary school and in middle school started focusing on music and in the last 10-15 years skate maybe a week a year. Every time I get back into i love it but feel so discouraged with how different my body is now that I'm not 10. Minor falls can end the session, and now I just don't want to take risks. I learned all my flip tricks on carpet and never got confident rolling. Seeing your video is reminding me of how rewarding skateboarding was and how much I want to get back into it. I tend to use Washington's rain as an excuse but then it clears up and I still don't go skate 😅
Me struggling with the heelflip. Kickflip was easier for me. My direction of the kick was wrong. The flick is everything on this. And a nice crisp pop off the ground.👍
Well I noticed that you are flicking your front foot down. I think what helped a lot to me was flipping front foot through the board. And basically for me the feeling is more popping into the flick in one motion not separately. It's paradox that I don't do much with my front foot to flick. Short flick through the board is enough. Most groundbreaking insight was that consistency of my kickflips really depends on my pop and lot of time not lifting up my back foot. That's lead to another thing I noticed. You were leaning back a lot into your kickflips. But if you imagine you are floating above your front foot and popping the board into the flick it will feel really smooth. Sorry for writing a long text and I hope these tips someone to get better flips. :) keep shredding! Hope to meet you someday, you seem like a genuine good fella and passionate skater. :D
ZACK I GOT BACK SKATING AFTER A LONG TIME, WATCHING THESE VIDEOS ARE SO INSPIRING! KEEP IT UP! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Somewhere around 17:00. HELL YES YOUR ALMOST THERE!!!
One concept that clicked with me now that I don't skate hardly ever, is separating the jumping motion, the footwork, and lifting the knees up out of the way. It happens so fast that I've always considered it to be all at the same time. But really I think we need to jump off the board as one complete action then when legs are straight and beginning to take weight of the board, thats when you push your back foot down with your ankle while lifting/sliding your front foot out of the way so the board can pop freely. Then as your body is traveling up, equalizing, and about to fall back down, you keep your feet up as high as you can out of the way. I don't know if that explanation makes sense but watching the skaters with the most board height, their head doesn't really move much. Its all removing weight from the board and bringing your legs up towards your head. I wish I could've thought about things like that when I skated regularly as a child. I never realized what timing actually meant.
Try nyjah’s kickflip tip vid, made a huge difference for my kickflips. Your flicking too far to the side, making it mob a little and harder to catch
I def feel like your popping to much on the edge of your back foot, try and get alittle more in the center of the tail as possible on your back foot where your popping, also kick up not to the side or down with your front. ❤
Videos like this are why I keep coming back. You keep things humble and educational! Thank you
I have got a kickflip when I was 45 and now I have 48 and still happy when I do a kickflip it's a Magic trick for me.
For anyone struggling with kickflips or having a good flick try this. Think about doing an ollie north with your feet in a kickflip position and watch the magic happen :)
Hi @Zack! If you accept advices from strangers on internet, you can see on 27:10, and also 27:57, that you are actually kicking down. You should focus on kicking to the front and side. the concave of the board will redirect the energy but the kick goes up and to the front, almost like a flying karate kick
If you are old like me, you learned the wrong way by flicking off the side while sort of muscling it with your leg. That’s how we did them back in the late half of the 80’s. Gonz still does them this way he flicks way off to the side but he’s Gonz and gets away with it. Anyways - relearning is much harder now because you have to get rid of the old habits. Dan C has a great tutorial and focuses on your foot going more forward and through the nose which helps level everything out
Honestly I've never noticed that you've never put a kickflip in a video... and i honestly dont mind that. Sticking to transition based videos has been a light at the end of the tunnel for the skateboarding youtube algorythim....
Talk about putting in the work. Congrats dude. That's hardcore.
Every year at the start of the year I try to post my first kickflip to Instagram. I'll put down my phone and try to record my first one. Some years it takes a few tries. One year I got to try #50 and I gave up. It's already February and I haven't tried one yet, so we'll see how that goes. Trick is sometimes harder than it looks.
Great video. Appreciate videos where people really show the good and bad about themselves. Awesome to see the battle, great advice.
Im practicing the same thing, flick "forward" will force the tail up to the back foot. .. not easy
I've had some luck by not looking at my front foot. Just keeping my eyes behind it on the board and trusting my front foot to flick. Stops my shoulders from opening up and keeps me above the board not behind it.
I've come to terms with the fact that my ankle mobility is just not going to allow me to be consistent and flick soft enough. Maybe I can do some exercises to help but I'm realistic and don't expect that I will really do that. Not sure why else that heel flips would feel easier.
I’ll be having a fun sesh and then I decide today I’m going to relearn kickflips. one day I’ll learn…to stop trying.
I would've never even assumed that you weren't good at doing kickflips
about soreness, it doesn’t necessarily mean you need to change what you’re doing. I have taken a lot of long breaks from skating and I always get sore when I relearn kickflips, but that’s just because it’s an uncommon motion. if you’re clicking your heels after the flick, then yeah, that’s something to correct, but soreness itself isn’t a sign you’re doing something wrong. after the soreness passes, you’re stronger and less likely to get sore again. rinse and repeat.
I've been riding bikes for over 20 years and I can't even think about throwing a bar spin😂 took me forever to throw a tailwhip lol
I feel this way about tre flips lol till this day I haven't landed one to my satisfaction. But thinking back on the day I was so feed up with not knowing how to do any flip tricks, I was so over it I took my board went to the garage and let it all hang out. Finally landed it after it was bliss. Now to conquer tre flips haha.
as a 36 year old who just got into BMX as a previous skateboarder, I LOVE THIS! keep going I wish you tons of success! you may have just inspired me to bring my youtube channel back also haha
Thanks brotha, bring it back!
This helps me a lot. I've practiced ollies so much and they still suck compared to how much time I've invested. Started doing switch ollies and they coming along so much better than my regular ollies. It's good to know that very competent skaters can still struggle with some of the bread and butter tricks that I'm learning. Some tricks are just harder for some people an easier for others.
Thanks for sharing. Every skater can relate to that struggle…trick-demons 😈
2 layers of socks is wild
😂😂yeah it is
I've heard of pros mentioning to wear 2 pairs of socks to learn kickflips better. I actually tried it and it helped me get them down every try.
For me its a motion where the front leg makes a path where your body follows so you actually jump a bit towards the flick and commit + Also for me it was groundbreaking that pop/flick doesnt need to me really powerfull and its not really too much of a separate movements its about distribution of weight so the board spins more itself. i pop out of my front tip of tail and the other leg is ready to flick near bolts angled, ready. once i pop, board goes a bit anhled and that makes a leverage for the other leg so it can flick faster and easier.
When you pop try to pop down and away from your tail so you catch it with your back foot. Im 48 and just relearned to kick flip that way.
Looks like you’re flicking down and off to the side too much. Should be closer to a 45 degree angle
I hope to be learning new stuff still at 36! Hello from a fellow old skater 😅
Main problem i see is that you are flipping down, try flick your frontfoot more up. Like a ninja 😀
You got to lift your backfoot bit higher and flick your frontfoot more up, not kicking down so much...
You're flicking down. It took me years to correct this habit
Why don’t you try it with a narrower deck. Going to an 8” might make it easier and would be an interesting video.
Alright well that makes me feel better. I too, don’t practice flip tricks 😂
Look like it was a just commitment issue bc your flick was pretty good every time
35 here still struggling with that one, and no comply stuff but every try feels better
Wild how different people take different tricks for granted. Kick flips are the one trick I know I just have on lock for eternity.
For me… treat it like an Ollie with the only difference being a slight ankle flick through the toe right through the pocket. Faster flip move foot toward the edge. Slower flip move it to the middle.
Skating for 3 years & still struggle to get my front foot to commit time to time, any tips?
Wear a vans oldskool then practice kf's. Sometimes its just the shoe
Kickies are the only trick I have left. Once you get em hang onto em. 3 a day keeps em cozy.
Wait, you learned tre flips before learning kick flips?
"Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about"
Yeah obviously pushing the foot down in the early takes trying to stomp it - this is how I feel doing transition tho just getting started with it and it feels like learning a whole new thing
you need to pop harder and flick harder and bend your legs more if you want to do crazy catches.
Kickflips are a must for me along with heel flips jus simple flip trick yk cant not have em