HOW TO KICKFLIP - a guide to make learning easy for beginners

This is a video meant to make learning how to kickflip on a skateboard easy for beginners. I try my best to go as in depth as possible and easy to follow with slow mo slomo and arrows.
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[@adamjohnhurley]

It's actually scary how good this dude is at doing tricks incorrectly on purpose

[@skateboardtheory]

Hahaha thanks!

[@birdo18]

Bro your kickflips are beautiful !

[@skateboardtheory]

Thankya!

[@1nvd]

Oh my mission to relearn kickflips like this lol

[@LotkaVolterra]

You've got what I call athlete's kickflip. Lots of front foot action to get that board out in front of you. Looks super cool. A lot of beginners might struggle with this though. There's a second type of kickflip where you bring the board backward as you pop, so that your front foot moves into the flicking motion passively. It looks more basic but requires a much less powerful flick. I'll usually start session doing them that way before I start tweaking them out.

[@skateboardtheory]

What a great concept to notice!

[@mum1685]

Watched hundreads of kickflip tutorials but your video got me landing for the first time today

[@skateboardtheory]

That’s awesome, I’m glad it helped :)

[@michael_howling]

dude i been so confused with my kickflips, this was a great tutorial, i like how you replay clips a ton from dif angles, maybe if you got a go pro and did a few, just a few, for slow mo and included them, maybe even show some clips onto or off of things, then go out and do those in the streets then upload the part to thrasher magazine, then that would totally help me understand the tricks more.

[@anthonyskates9079]

Haven’t even watched the video yet but I liked it just for the thumbnail.

[@skateboardtheory]

🙌❤️

[@rosesix6005]

I agree

[@philip6252]

This clicked for me

[@mrWhite81]

So steezy kickflip. Wow

[@ShredTheRest]

Commenting cuz like others said already fam your Kickflip is 🤩👌🏽

[@skateboardtheory]

🙌❤️

[@RealAdrianReactions]

This is me with my Heel flips, I have my OWN form to doing them and I feel 100% comfortable. Kick flip is my next thing to learn I might try today

[@skateboardtheory]

Awesome. :)

[@xdrcx]

Perfect kickflip! Im trying to learn them like this

[@animalfinatic9366]

awesome

[@alyxveneta]

bro your kickflips are beautiful 🫣✨

[@skateboardtheory]

Thank you 🙌

[@fd_skate]

That kickflip looks soo good! 🔥 Great tutorial! 👏

[@skateboardtheory]

Thanks! Glad you liked it

[@georgekal9897]

Really nice quick tutorial man! Thank you

[@skateboardtheory]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@xdrcx]

Keep coming back to your videos man, genuinely mean this when I say you might have the best kickflip I've ever seen. So boned out. Just beautiful. I'm still have trouble bringing my back leg up and 'out', in such a way to allow shin and ankle to tweak inwards. When you do boned ollies/kickflips, how do you think about/visualise bringing back leg up? Or its probably just automatic now hey

[@skateboardtheory]

Hey thank you. :) I think maybe at first I would think about bringing my back foot up but now it’s sort of a natural movement

[@Skateboyprime]

nice bro !! Thanks for the tips Mate!!

[@skateboardtheory]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@arnymon9340]

Good tips bro!

[@skateboardtheory]

[@juancarlossosaa]

yeah muchas gracias puedes hacer uno de nollie backside flip y nollie frontside flip

[@skateboardtheory]

Sure :)

[@SeymourPhraims]

Just commenting as a new member of your Kickflip fanclub - 1:26 🔥

[@skateboardtheory]

:D ❤️

[@brandondan7436]

Hi. Thank you for this video especially the troubleshooting. For the front foot do you relax it or put pressure on it before flicking it out? And also do u like curl up ur front foot while flicking out?

[@skateboardtheory]

I would say I put pressure on it. And after the flick I’m not really worried about the position of my ankle as much as long as the path of travel is correct

[@viatyx]

i cant get my front foot back on the board. i always use it to catch myself after flicking. i can land on my back foot just fine. even if i fully commit, it is just impossible to keep my front foot in the air after flicking. i’ve had this problem for 2 months now and im trying so hard. any insight will help.

[@skateboardtheory]

Keep your shoulders straight and jump with both feet!

[@lalilalulu]

you just have too much weight on your front foot. basically too much jumping forward to your front foot usually that's what happens. jump straight up and straight down. try to balance weights on both feet. you can also try to land on your front foot and feel how weight usually transfer to your back leg or to your heel side. after that maybe you will have more idea with how you should distribute your weights on both feet

[@AverageSkater200]

You should go pro honestly, your style is so good

[@skateboardtheory]

❤️❤️❤️

[@letsgetit90]

What adjustments do I need to make if my board goes backward?

[@skateboardtheory]

Maybe lean back, but i would need a little better of a discription

[@VincentSandoval-fp6bh]

How do i land on the board

[@skateboardtheory]

Keep your feet over your board. hips over your feet. Shoulders over your hips.

[@knyghtryder3599]

Jump, a kickflip is essentially a jump , while technically possible to roll it on the ground like a pressure flip , none of the technique in this video or other guides will help with that , you need to jump over the board while it spins

[@HermanosTraviesos-gz1qh]

Alicia

[@km-fz6es]

What board are you riding?

[@skateboardtheory]

I think it was a girl deck. 8.0

[@km-fz6es]

@@skateboardtheory yeahh, I found it. It's Pacheco Vibration OG 8.125" x 31.625". Your setup looks great! High kicks and trucks turning nice - those are probably aces?