These days, beginners often start off by trying to learn this crowd-pleaser before they’ve got the ollie worked out. Although the desire to be tech may be tempting, you’re doing yourself a great disservice by rushing into this trick. Without a cleanly popped ollie under your belt, you have no hope of learning properly caught kickflips.
To do a Kickflip, you’ve got your feet pretty much the same as how you do an ollie, but it’s more on your toes on the front and the back.
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Your back foot; use your toes and center it in the middle of the tail. Your front foot, slightly angle it.
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When you go do to snap your tail on the floor, as soon as it touches, flick your front foot off towards the nose, wait for it to flip round.
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When you see grip tape again, catch it, try landing with your feet on the bolts. Land and ride away.