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How To Kickflip - Beginner Skateboard Tricks Tutorial (Slow Motion)
Skiddy Skates10:22
How To Kickflip - Beginner Skateboard Tricks Tutorial (Slow Motion) by Skiddy Skates is a skateboarding tutorial for the Kickflip. A clean beginner-focused tutorial that stresses timing as the core skill, breaks the trick into the same three-phase structure, and calls out the ankle-not-knee flick and the importance of jumping high enough to hover.
What this video teaches
A clean beginner-focused tutorial that stresses timing as the core skill, breaks the trick into the same three-phase structure, and calls out the ankle-not-knee flick and the importance of jumping high enough to hover.
Key tips
- Front foot sits slightly behind the front bolts at an angle, back foot in the center of the tail with weight toward the toes
- Twist the ankle inward on the front foot as you pop to set up the flick direction
- Flick with the ankle, not the knee; kicking the whole leg forward kills control
- Find your personal sweet spot where the nose starts to curve, that is where the toe exits the board
- Jump high and hover; if you cannot stay airborne long enough for a full rotation you will never land
- Keep shoulders square with the board; rotating them causes the whole body to follow and ruins alignment
- If the board flies in front, lean upper body toward the nose before popping to center your weight
- Bend your knees on landing to absorb and maintain balance rather than straightening out
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Teaches
Kickflip