Kickflip doesn't flip? DON'T flick harder. DO keep it compact. 

This might be the best skateboard tutorial I’ve ever watched

Man I don’t know of any other channel that goes in such detail for skateboarding, been following for a while now and finally ready for the kickflip. This helped like crazy and the program is such a good idea please go full force with it and license it so it won’t get taken, you deserve it🙌🏾🔥

Wow... 8 years of skateboarding and I'm still learning how to make my tricks better. This video improved my kickflip after only a single watch. Amazing.

Truck looseness/tightness can effect foot placement because you want the board flat at the beginning of the trick. Too much lead foot gets in the way of the board. The back foot to stabilize can get in the way too. Flicking with aggressive pressure early can provide a full flip w/the board meeting your foot flat.

I'm 43. I haven't skated in like 25 yrs. Started again 3 days ago. I ollied a couple times today, holding onto my car. Being able to visualize what I need to do helped so much! Thanks for these phenomenal videos!!!

I love that you included 3d models. As a 3d modeler and skater, I appreciate the work put into this video. Also good tips 🤘

Nice! I also feel that leading with your knee helps keep the board under you. When you lead with your foot the board tends to shoot forward away from you.

Yo! I love your videos and generally agree with everything you say, so I hope you’re open to hearing skater/peer feedback on a tip you covered about weight distribution (5:52). Putting your weight toward the front foot at the moment of flick may be specific to your kick flip technique where your shoulders are almost perpendicular to the board. After years of trial and error, I had the opposite experience. I get substantially more pop and control if, 1. Angle shoulders towards the direction your front foot’s pointing (usually 30°-45°) 2. At the moment of pop put your weight on the back foot, (make sure your standing on the ball of your foot) to the point where you’re basically using your front foot to just keep the board down. When you bend down, align your center of gravity with the horizontal center of the board (heel to toe side). You should be in squat position facing the same direction as your shoulders. Straighten your back a little bit and look forward rather than hunching down. For reference, your head should hopefully be over the middle of your board (long-ways). Now, with all your weight distributed on the back foot on over the center of the tale, the front foot can relax and placing more of your shoe’s surface area on the board won’t affect your crispy pop 💥 Plus your front foot/ankle’s relaxed so it’s more responsive. So now while extending your knee, foot, then entire leg through the nose (in that order, like a karate kick) your foot will act less stiff and more similarly to a rubber band. You’ll find that it takes half the effort to fully flip the board, allowing the board to remain in a controlled position. The next time you’re watching Pro skate videos, when they’re bent down about to flick, observe where their center of gravity is located rather than their weight. Again, love your videos man - your teaching method is SO refreshing! Looking forward to your next one.

Thank you for your support everyone! If you'd like to try the whythetrick system, please give it a try from here: whythetrick.io/

Very cool idea with the motion sensing 3D app! Can’t wait to try it out. I’m verrry slowly clawing my way towards kickflips. I’ve landed only two, stationary, in about 6 months of near-daily practice. I am getting much closer than I used to be, but right now I’m still having trouble with the board turning backside, or (when I get closest to landing) landing with my feet too close together, at the tail, and slipping out. I have found it really key to visualize flicking down slightly at the edge of the nose, with that rotational motion. What a shockingly hard trick to nail down!

Thank you for these videos, you are a blessing

Litteraly the best kickflip tutorial i saw, i saw so many since i have a hard time with this trick even though ive skated for years and im happy to see a proper tutorial with a more in depth vision

You explain things so well thank you!

brooo thank you so muchhhh i love your videos as they give me so much insight on the physics portion of skating, as a person who loves physics and loves skating the perspective u give makes it more interesting thank you

This is gonna definitely help me. I always tried learning kickflips head on without much practice because I thought I had a decent understanding of the flick and could consistently land them standing still. But moving made it really scary trying to get my front foot back on the board, back foot always made it though. So the back foot step off should give me a feel for keeping my front foot closer to the board for landing.

Thanks for the tips! I’ve been working on my flick and this helps.

Great content, very informative!!

Thank you for these videos. They are so interesting and give me lots to think about as I'm skating and trying tricks.

Great video. Thank you

This vid helped so much. My flips got even better when I went with a shorter wheelbase.

Great series. Thanks for making these

incredible. thank you for all your effort

Im old on skate , and i learn so many new things here ,every video !! Much respect !!

Welcome back, nice to see ya again!

great vid :) I would love to see a whythetrick on the physics of an impossible and how to scoop them

Another banger video and very helpful as I am currently dealing with pretty much all the issues you mention in this video. Definitely will apply these tips during my next session. The motion converter is such a cool idea! I had a similar programming idea where instead of tracking the human body it would track various pieces of the skateboard. That way you could kind of visualize your pop or flick or whatever but from the point of view of the skateboard. Just a little idea I had, not fleshed out or anything.

BY FAR THE BEST TUTORIAL THAT HAS HELPED ME! MY HERO!

Another great vid love the science behind skating

I love the fact that skating is just physics, having concrete mathematical reasons why things must go right or wrong gives me a much stronger foundation to work off of I can rn, but in a week or so I'll have my Pc up and running and I'd love nothing more than to give the AI a shot :)

Awesome video! I love skating, physics, and AI! And I'll try these tips, as I've had that exact issue with my kickflip attempts!

superb video

this dude is the best example of dedication

perfect timing on this video. i recently did the best kickflip i ever done, and it was because I put less effort into it. and i couldnt figure it out, but its definalty my leading knee. thanks for this

Love the explanations and also the 3d visualizations!

As Chris Cole said in his trick tip, just go for it!!

you are a freaking genius.

One of the key things you said was shift the weight to the front foot right as you pop. That had immediate results for my foot flicking along with pulling my front leg up and bending the leg like I am doing a high knee but keeping my shoulders in line with the deck so it doesn’t turn.

You are my savior, I’ve been scouring the internet for this exact trick tip thank you kind soul

you got yourself a new subscriber well done

Yo this dude is the 🐐 at teaching, followin u 4 life 😂❤️

Dude your are awesome Subbed

Love these videos! Great info Gave the motion converter a try, not sure if it the videos I used were optimal, but didn't have the best output. Maybe you could display a good example video on the site as reference?

I'd love to hear you talk about pumping on transitions

ありがとございますにはキックフリプ学習。I'm finally feeling comfortable enough with my ollies that I started practicing this trick too, great timing :)

I watched the way Aimu does kickflips and it’s like he counter balance’s his feet by the way his feet are positioned.I tried it and what it does it it forces the trucks to be straight as you snap the tail.Using counter balance the pop is explosive and it literally sucks up to your feet.If it wasn’t for a skater from Nippon I would have never have known that.I have been skating since 2001 and I changed the way I do kickflip’s because of a guy who wasn’t even born when I starting skateboarding.Shout out to the Nippon skate scene much respect from New Zealand.

Very informative and helpful, as usual. I also think the idea with the motion converter is really cool.

Don't know if you read these anymore, but if you are thinking about a new round of why the trick break downs, maybe curb/ledge tricks? The science behind the feeble grind on a curb? Thank you for all the work you put into these and I hope you are making progress with your converter.

My usual method for trying tricks(but kickflip in particular) was to bend down but before lifting my knees, CHARGE Up my front foot to flick soon as i lifted up into my pop, similar to what you would do in a pop shuv it with your back foot . I THEN REALISED while holding on to a gate trying kickflips that this method was actually making it impossible for my board to lift up because it pushes the nose down and the tail agains my foot making it catch and impossible to flip(Hence the sticking). So i figured out that lifting both knees straight up and your foot straight up then flickin "late" works better. This method made my tricks higher and also now im able to grab the board

i've been typing in "Skateboard physics" on youtube for YEARSSSS looking for something exactly like this....

thank you so much, cheers

This is like so extreme and cool

great work friend

That park you always skate at looks so perfect. I'm in Tokyo and I can't find too many flat ground spots that I like.

thats technical! wow

its the leverage between the knee and ankle. the knee leads and ankle lags. as you flick your ankle towards your knee is the leverage that creates the power and how fast it flips.

Nice animations! The shoulders in your example flips are way to open...A good advice is also to stay in line with the board

I just change my board from 8 popsicle to 9.34 shaped and wheel from 52mm to 54mm and hardness from 97d to 101d. So far my ollie super poppy and landed 95% of tries but my flick trick all were off. This video help me to land some. Thanks

Nice job

HOW HOW HOW ON EARTH this video is not getting millions of views 😓😓😓😓😓 Man! RU-vid should have already awarded you, dont tell me something else 😩 Ya! You rock!!!!!!

You perfectly described the problems with my kickflips. It seems when I don’t really think about it I do all the steps you say and land, but when you’re too focused you miss a step.😅

It's a TENDER ankle roll. Which is tough to do among so many other BIGGER motions going on at the same time. But once you get it, it's hard to lose it.

You should 1. License that app 2. Include the skateboard in the model, respectfully

I love when he says "liftin ya bodi" ❤

You gotta do one for heelflip

Never thought I'd hear the sentence "I need your help" without someone asking me to like or suscribe on yt! Nice. I was very eager after your first kickflip video and the flick was working, but I didn't realise I kicked down. Plus for some reason I am unable to jump properly, even though I can ollie up curbs. If anyone has an idea how to overcome this, I'd appreciate it.

Was waiting for a new one.. and the one that I am stil fighting with...

Invert/plant tricks next please

Thanks for the video, I think it could be much more educational with a skater explaining in real time his/her experience. The background explanation is really good, but I think the other way it could be much more entertaining and also it would be easy to get familiar with for viewers watching as if a friend would be teaching us .

you are crazy man. you can create by modeling with science analytical. thanks man. it worked

Any tips of how to land with both feet cause the foot that only lands is my back foot

How do I get to the 3d model examples of the kick flip, on ur website?

Million dollar idea mate

Hey, I found this video super helpful! After about 8 months of a lot of kickflip practice, I finally landed two rolling kickflips yesterday. Many videos and personal conversations were helpful, but this practice method and flick advice was particularly useful over the past 10 days! My most common problem is still that the board moves forward and turns backside. I think it is partly that I need to get the pop “backward” more consistent, and partly this flick advice, and partly that skaters are *actually* flicking and jumping to the heelside by a good bit. This heelside direction of the kick seems to counteract the Z axis backside spin that occurs if you simply flick forward on the heelside half of the board. Anyway, lots more work to do. But thank you for helping me think about this trick in new ways!

i give up i just keep cutting my legs up and i cant catch it with my front foot barely catch it with my back just not fit for skateboarding

I have the worst habit of flicking out and up which causes the deck to half flip but yes the kickflip is almost a angled down flick 👍

bro explained it so good i learned math

This make sense As soon as i done watchin your indepth explanations, i fixed the flicking direction and booom! Easily i executed my kickflip, hell i managed to flip it into nosemanual by accident too Thanks bro Can you do indepth on how to kickflip nosemanny?

Other than what you've mentioned here, the problem I always have with kickflips is my board spinning sideways and hitting me hard in the shin. That is what makes me want to not practice them the most.

Smthn that happens to me that i dont know how to fix and i haven't found any tutorials about is that i can't flick to the right,( i'm a goofy stance) so as mutch as i try to flick to the right i just push the left pocket down instead of the right pocker up does anyone know how to fix tht?

can you please make a science explanation on hardflip plss I want this trick so bad

awesome! it's all physics! 👍😎👍

My problem is I cant land with my back foot, ive got the motion down & everything just cant commit. any advice?

I think most of 'front foot sticks to the board' stuff comes from people explaining how to do kickflips kind of incorrectly. I'm talking about the whole 'flick through the nose' stuff we often hear recommended. While it is not completely wrong, people will think fairly heavy friction and force into the nose is required to make it flip, but actually you only need to guide it a little bit and it will rotate at least halfway pretty much automatically. The more friction and force you put into the flick forward, the less the board will be allowed to rotate freely. For this issue, the type of kickflip (levelled out properly, rocket kick flip or even mob kickflip) actually does not matter. The issue is not related to the flick direction or 'style', but rather the intensity of friction and how long your front foot stays in contact with the board. Skaters like Nyjah have a very high amount of contact and friction in their kickflip flick, however with his foot position it's all only there for less than a split second, resulting in fairly fast, consistent kickflip rotations.

Love your webapp. What do you use for pose estimation?

smply the best

Is this America? This area look so nice to practise skating man... Im jealous

I hope the server hosting the software can handle the flow of skaters uploading all their sessions.... you will get a massive database

モナークの板カッコいい！

lmaoi just realizing that fingerboard and skateboard literally had the same motion,, if too fast to flick the finger, it will overflip or even not flippin at all, learn to flip first rather than landing it first is on point!

Can you do one on heel flips and them going behind you? Your channel has helped with landing varials and kickflips. I understand the scientific approach alot more than some of the other tutorials. Thank you for all the help you throwin out.

Back in the day the only way I could figure out a kickflip was pausing my THUG games

So what axis direction do I flick my foot? Sorry I’m confused.

Is this closed source?? If not, wud be cool to see open source repo so I can contribute

👏👏

It’s so annoying because I can only flip it halfway

Which skatepark is this? Is it in Tokyo?

Heel Filos next and why they sometimes go behind me.

front knee leading in front of the nose is a huge part of the trick

Skateboarding is all subconscious physics equations. I normally am skating best when im ballanced nose to tail and heel to toe

Do bs and fs 360 please I'm trying to learn these I'm almost learning but I can't understand how my foot will scoop middle 180