Does anyone know how to land a kickflip?

Question

I can ollie high enough and spin the board, but only my flicking foot lands back on the board. My foot that was on the tail ends up on the ground. What am I doing wrong? What can I do to fix it?

Answer 1

i jump real high and my blubber butt flies up in the air then I do my kickflip

Answer 2

I did the exact same thing when learning how to kickflip. Honestly, you can land the kickflip but your mind is still hesitant about getting hurt.  Practice kickflipping on carpet and grass until you are comfortable. Then, slowly build up the speed until you can kickflip while slowly moving. Eventually you will become better at keeping the board under you.  If it lands in front of you, make sure to lean forward instead of back, when i first started out i always leaned back and the board landed in front of me.  Keep getting better at ollies and pop-shuvits until you are more comfortable with your board and are not afraid to fall.

Hope I helped

Answer 3

wrong section  :)?? i say do it on ur ps2 (tony hawks) its much easier!!! lol

Answer 4

http://skateboard.about.com/od/tricktips...

you have a good start. try to get your front foot on the board first before ur backfoot is down on the ground. I did this by slamming my foot on the board while it was still in the air. the trick is to be able to flick the board with your front foot so that it stays on top of the board. you shouldnt need to flick too far out to get a good and fast spin. the main thing you have to think about now is just keeping everything over the board. the hardest part in learning a kickflip is to be able to get the rotation and stay above the board. you should also still be practicing your flick. the faster you can spin your board around the better. And most importantly, practice, practice, pratice. No matter how much advise you hear or dont hear, you will have to practice majorly to get the trick. The kickflip is the hardest trick to learn and once you can get that, i can garentee you will be doing heelflips, pop shovits, varial kickflips, bigspins, treflips, frontside flips and tricks you probably dont know the name to so practice all you can and get that trick down. From what you said, i predict that you are about a month or two away from perfecting the kickflip.