@@24kNick Straight up. I could land primo flips with 90%+ accuracy before I was even close to being able to land my first kickflip. Its just so much easier to control the flick from primo.
The bunched up one is what my feet do except not as bad. I get more consistent flips with the spread out foot position, but if I'm trying to do it comfortably my front foot will be below the bottom half of the board.
Its not important for doing kickflips in general, foot placement is more about fine tuning them to go high and stay balanced and leveled underneath you. Its good to experiment with different foot placements so that you understand the trick better and have better overall control
Not really, whether your foot is closer to the tail or the nose you can adjust the way you actually flick and how much shoe to board contact there is. Meaning you can level out the board literally however you want to put your front foot. All in practice!
has nothing to do with that.. it's when you flick that matters. if you flick at the peak of your pop you'll get higher kickflips that should level out automatically. sounds simple but most people flick too early from habit.
I'm 38 and remember rewinding 411 videos to see foot positioning Karen Campbell, all time favorite skater and AXION shoes where my jam before he took it over. Guy Mariano grey and yellows. The trick was a Fakie front side hardflip flip with a 180° 🤙🏻
It is depending on what you’re kick flipping, for gaps I like my feet more bunched up at the tail, for hitting a rail I take a more even stance more balanced.
I been skating for almost 25 years am I literally just learned how to kick flip yesterday. I been trying to kick out when I kick flip when the secret is lifting your front leg up like you are doing an olie and roll your ankle so it makes a flick. Would have been nice knowing this 20 years ago. I would have been kick flipping into grinds and down bigger stuff.
I’m about to blow out my Nike nyjah 2s some of the best skate bikes tbh I’m ordering the Lizzie’s tho I’ve always favored vans had a few Kyle walker pros wanna also try the second of those
bro never flick how these RU-vid tutorials show, if you are not being able to do it. I tried for months flicking out the nose and it NEVER worked, your body always goes a little further away from the skate so you can never catch it with both feet. If you're struggling, just try to kick it down, just pushing your foot to the back, and not flicking it from the nose, and try not thinking so much of the flick when you're doing it, free your mind. That's what did it for me, I can just do kickflips that way.
Foot position is not that important. Growing up skating, for the longest time playing skate with friends, i was ignorant and legit figured out tricks from watching other ppl skate. I had a lag phase, and when i woukd do kick flips, i knew how the trick worked, just not how and why it happened. Turned out my natural kickflip was actually a late flip. Kinda better. 🤷♂️
I agree, but also the timing of the flick matters too. If I’m way too forward in my stance then I’m definitely going to flick a little later because the board will get left behind me if I don’t wait for the pop and just the perfect angle or something like that, yk what I’m saying?
This might be a little misleading...or what im about to say only pertains to older skater who skate smaller boards and not the boat size kids skate today. But when your going off a ledge you want to move your foot more forward so you get a slower flip...well at least that's how I do it.
Don’t do kickflips unless you want to buy new shoes even tho only one shoe is fucked and the other one is perfect. Just do heel flips it’s more economical
I don't even flick off the nose for my kickflips. I put my flicking foot in the middle and flick off to the side at the end of the concave before the wheel well.
Most tricks are more about where you put your weight and transfer it as you pop and lift rather that your foot positioning I do all my tricks with the same foot position
When i aim for nose part i can flick for half rotation. If i go for more side i can actually get full rotation and to land with flick foot and left one on tail. Im weird lol
