How to execute a kickflip

This guide will hopefully make your understanding of how to execute a kick flip on a skateboard​

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Things needed:

• Skateboard - Specialty shop - CCS online Catalog
• Flat bottomed shoes - Shoe store - CCS Online Skate Shoes
• Flat space of smooth surface, IE concrete, blacktop, etc
• Ability to overcome small fear of shredding your balls
• Able to ollie correctly - Olli tutorial on wikiHow

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List explained in more detail

• Skateboard - Of course, you need a skateboard to execute a skateboard maneuver.
• Flat bottomed shoes - Best for landing on the board without rolling your ankle.
• Flat surface - Things such as rocks or small inclines or rolls can easily throw you off balance and cause injury, sand, dirt, gravel, anything as such can jam your wheel and send you flying face first.
• Ability to overcome small fear of shredding your balls - This is a bit more complicated, the 5th time I attempted a kick flip, I missed kicking the board and the board went vertical in between my legs. It hurt to walk for a while. I've done it many times, it is not very fun for you. Maybe for others.
• Ability to ollie correctly - If you cannot ollie, kick flipping will be very difficult. It's best to learn this before trying a kick flip.

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First off, here's a guide on tying your skate shoes so you never have to tie or untie them again.
A WikiHow
A YouTube video on how to.

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Ok, now you have your requirements, you have your shoes tied nicely, let's get to the real skateboard part!

First off, place your feet like this:




Now, bend your knees down and do the first steps of performing an ollie.
Instead of sliding your foot forward, you slide it quickly off at an angle towards the nose of the board, this is the angle you slide quickly, and downwards.



-NOTE- DO NOT KICK LIKE THE NAME KICK FLIP SUGGESTS YOU DO-- If you kick instead of slide, you can mess up in a number of different ways, one such way is overpowering it, and landing wheels on your foot, and then your whole body wight minus a leg smashing wheels into your fragile toes.



Now, as your coming down, make sure your feet end up landing on the squares of bolts above the trucks, like you would in an ollie.
No picture is needed here, at least it shouldn't.


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If you've followed these steps correctly, you've done a kick flip, congratulations, BUT, you most likely wont magically be able to master it.

It is a pretty hard trick compared to other starter tricks, it takes a lot of determination and ability to not throw your board at a tree after you failed it over and over again.
I've seen it happen

Some outside source help!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0T8goB7wSQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubTl3iPPi2o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc5BOHtH9m8




I might add on to this later, I dunno, I just figured I'd write my first guide.



Credits:

Blank skateboard image - http://www.fotolia.com/id/7221067 - I edited it myself

Common knowledge about it - Friends/personnel experience.




Any questions post here.

 

Pretty sweet guide..I can do a kickflip..and that exactly how to do it.
8.5/10

 

Yeah, I can do kickflips on boards with pop like Enjoi, but not on my board xD

Just if you don't know how to do an ollie already or skip the part that says first steps of an ollie then your gonna be left confused so...I might change that part.

 

I like the ms paint pictures : )

 

I googled "Blank skateboard vector", found it, added under credits, edited some odd little feet in it LOL.

 

haha I can tell.

good guide though

simple and to the point.

if you could post some video links it would be even better.

 

Good Job. Very well written guide. Wish i had this guide when i wasn't able to kickflip.

 

I can do that to, I'll add in a new section called "Extra help from toehr sources"

Thank you.

 

Would of been easier if you could have put a video up but still pretty helpful

 

small. short. descreit.

Maybe next time make a guide that does more then just one trick. or a larger guide.

3/10.

 

Thankyou for this guide, but im still pretty much stuck near the middle bit :O

 

I put three videos up.

Thanks for opinion.
I'll take it to heart for my other guides.

Yeah, It is a pretty hard tricks, watch the three videos.
Might help.

 

your feet aren't positioned like that in a kickflip.

 

Hey Burden, you have the foot positioning for a kickflip wrong.

Your left foot should NOT be straight, it should be tilted to the left side almost diagonally. Plus, your right foot should be farther back on the tail of the board.

 

I suck at MSPaint.

I actually have my feet positioned different then that when I kickflip.

But yeah, the backfoot is messed up, I posted video's from youtube as another source for help.

 

Yeah, the video would be helpful for someone that doesn't know how to kickflip.

I was just saying that you should put the technically correct way to kickflip instead of the way that you kickflip. Everybody adjusts differently to different tricks.

 

True, but quite frankly I tried to edit it better, it just ended up worse.

If you really want it changed you can edit one yourself and I'll add it in with you given credits.

 

I'd be happy to help you later when I'm on my desktop computer and not my laptop.

(I can't draw on MS paint with a touchpad.)

 

I can't wait xD

 

nice guide,
but ur front foot should be angled at a 45 degree angle tilted.
other then that, well done