Welcome back. This week I will be talking about the kickflip. The kickflip is a trick that everyone wants to learn. This trick is where you flip the board around and land on it. It looks a lot harder than it actuallly is. I kind of feel like the kickflip can become the advanced version of the Ollie eventually if you become good enough. The kickflip is pretty difficult to learn but once you get it down it becomes second nature. (I wouldn’t know) It’s a solid trick that almost always looks cool.
Kickflips are very satisfying to land. They are fun to do off of ledges and stair sets, and are so cool to watch. Flip tricks like the kick flip are fun but hard. It was the first of many modern flip tricks to be invented or modified by Rodney Mullen in the early 1980s. The original kickflip was invented by pioneer Curt Lindgren prior to 1978 and was later modified and popularized by Mullen.
The kick flip involves a certain flick that you need to prefect the trick. Once you get the flick down, the trick becomes a lot easier and becomes stylish. The kick flip is a sick trick and looks really nice and is pretty difficult. Learning kick flips makes you a good skater.
This is probably the best trick I can do consistently. I am working on big spins, varial flips and backside flips. Big spins I am trying to learn a lot better than backside flips because I am better at them. Fakie flips are just like kick flips but rolling fakie. Rolling fakie is basically rolling switch but with your foot on the nose. Fakie flips are super fun too but they are harder to do off of things because poping your nose up is harder than posing your tail up.
Flip tricks are harder than regular tricks in my opinion and are more dangerous. Flipping the board around can result in not landing on the board straight.
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