Trickipedia - Kickflip - Torey Pudwill

You use your back foot to stop the board from rotating too far. You do this in the air. This is called catching the board. It sounds like you're trying to make the board finish exactly one rotation at the exact moment it's wheels land on the ground and stop it from rotating further. That's not how kickflips work. Say you did get the timing for that perfectly dialed in, but now you want to do a kickflip off a curb or

You're not even flicking it. Your front foot never extends farther than the front trucks. Watch any slo mo video of a pro doing a kickflip and compare it to your video. You gotta flick the shit out of it and extend your leg out past the nose. [VIDEO]

Check out Torey Pudwill’s kickflip. He really drives his foot through that board: [VIDEO]