How To: Shove It Underflip
How To: Shove It Underflip by VLSkate is a skateboarding tutorial for the Kickflip Underflip. This is a shove-it underflip rather than a kickflip underflip, but VLSkate's breakdown of the underflip catch (scooping the back foot under the board as it rotates and kicking it up to meet the feet) transfers directly to the underflip half of a kickflip underflip.
What this video teaches
This is a shove-it underflip rather than a kickflip underflip, but VLSkate's breakdown of the underflip catch (scooping the back foot under the board as it rotates and kicking it up to meet the feet) transfers directly to the underflip half of a kickflip underflip. Covers foot setup, a scoop-then-flip drill progression, and the primo-landing fixes that come from over- or under-flipping.
Key tips
- Set your front foot just below the front bolts on the heel side at roughly a 45 degree angle so it clears the board quickly
- Hang your back toes off the tail pocket edge so your foot can slide underneath the board as it rotates
- Scoop the board with your back foot like a shove-it first, without popping the tail straight down, before adding the underflip
- Drill the underflip in isolation by setting the board on the ground, sliding your back foot underneath, and lifting to flip it like a heel flip
- Once the scoop and the underflip lift feel separate and comfortable, blend them into one motion as the board finishes rotating
- Jump straight up rather than forward and keep your shoulders from opening frontside, or the board will fly away from you
- Landing primo means you flipped the board too much or too little, dial in the kick force through repetition rather than changing your setup
- Keep the board close to your body throughout so it has less distance to travel back up to your feet
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
Kickflip Underflip