Freestyle Tricktip 4: The Kickflip

Believe it or not Kurt Lindgreen inventd a trick he called the Kickflip in the 1960s. Which was performed by putting one foot under the the board while riding and flipping it. Here’s a video of someone performing this trick in the 70s years before a flat ground Ollie: [VIDEO] By the the time Rodney had created the flat ground Ollie people were already doing this trick as a 180 and 360 variant. Here’s someone performi

It's actually the original "old-school" form of the kickflip, predates the Ollie version by a few years. I think it's fun to try out really old tricks to get a feel of what it was like back in the day. [VIDEO]

It looks like you're touching the ground with your left foot just before you flip. An old school freestyle kickflip (assuming thats what you're trying to do?) is much easier if you "hook" the sole of your shoe along the side edge of your deck so that part of the sole is below the deck and part of your sole is above. Both your heels should still be on the grip of your deck. Tony Gale has a really good youtube video wh

Sure a good way to go to get the fundamentals down first, as a sidenote though, you don't have to know how to Ollie for the old school kickflip. Here's a short vid: [VIDEO]

Indeed, it does flip the same direction as a kickflip [VIDEO], though it lacks any sort of kick motion.

You don’t need to land them to fakie. You can do them and and land to regular like this: [VIDEO] It’s just personal preference if you want to turn you body or not. It’s also personal preference which foot you want to flip with. Most people prefer to do them with what would normally be their back foot but not everyone.