Need Kickflip Help!!

[-Lucas2001-]

Right this is beggin to p1ss me off i still cant land my kickflips very well.
I basicilly know wot im doin but i keep twistin my body as well and i find catchin the board in mid air sooo hard.

Any help would be appreacated.
I feel i should be able to do these coz i can dop stuff like ollin 6 steps and indy grabs yet i still cant kickflip!!

Seriously annoyin me now, maybe coz i aint go enuff paitance(sp?) to keep tryin tech/flip tricks.
:(

[wetwilly1717]

Ah, the kickflip, a bitch to learn but an amazing trick if you get it right...


First off Start with your back foot CENTERED on the tail. Don’t put your foot to far back or the board will just flip over.
Your front foot has to be quite far up the board with your heel just slightly hanging of the edge. Make sure that your front foot is around 45 degrees upwards.

Slap your front foot down hard on the tail and JUMP. When the board starts to level out, slide your front foot outwards up the board (it is more like a kick than a slide.)This is the important bit… when you have finished sliding your front foot out and you are in the air with your board spinning below you, bring your foot back towards your body as QUICKLY as you can. When you start landing bend your knees and plant your feet firmly on the deck. Make sure you keep your balance when you land because it may just shoot out from underneath you if you don’t.

This trick looks pretty sick if you do it right (especially moving). It took me around 3 months to land this properly, so I guess you just gotta have patience and just keep at it!

If you land it with one foot all the time (farking annoying I know,) the way I got over that was to do it like normal and only land it with one foot (do this around 3 or 4 times.) then, do exactly the opposite and land it PURPOUSLY (sp?) with your other foot, do this 3 or 4 tmes as well. Then try and put them both together.


wow that took me a while... hope it helps mate...:P

[marinelv]

HMM...

Due to the lack of a week of no skating my ollies gone well to nothing. Anyway i know how to sorta do these

You put your front foot in the centre of the board and you make it at an angle and than hang it off the edge of the board. Back foot should be a little in-wards from the tail.

Than do an ollie scrape the front foot up the board until it starts flipping, now the tricky part make sure in mid-air you are above the board, than land it and stop it double flipping! Than absorb the impact by bending down and than roll away.

Plus you have to ollie quite high to do this trick.

I hope this helps in your skateboarding quest.

Got exam tommorow so skates out today.

Anyway cya for today...

[wetwilly1717]

My mates joining these forums today i think, his first post in here., look out for him.

He is having trouble kickflipping after a while as well, so maybe you can talk to him about stuff.

[marinelv]

cool another member to the community. Anyways whats his forum name and yeah i will talk to him bout stuff.

[wetwilly1717]

Hes having a bit of trouble with logging in (his net + comp really sucks :P)
But his name is either gonna be

shuvit_sean

or

who's_yo_daddy

look out for him :)