This is the thread to post all of your kickflip problems. Simply post your problem including as many details as possible and someone will help out as soon as they can. Please do not make a seperate thread about help with your kicflips.

i can usually get kickflips high enough to spin and land but i just cant land on the board

so is the board flipping too high? what exactly is happening? are you landing in front of it, behind it, to the side of it? the important part to remember about almost all flip tricks is that the movement is all in the lower body. your upper body does not need to be twisting or really moving in any way, except vertically. a big problem is that people end up twisting their shoulders either one way or another. make sure to keep your shoulders square with the board. what helped me to learn was i held on to an overhead bar and took all my weight off the board. this way i could practice landing without the fear of falling. most of the time when someone isnt landing a trick, their body is afraid of falling so it doesnt want to land on the board. you have fight this natural reaction. also, its a bad habit to try landing with only one foot. you should always strive to put both feet on the board, even it if flips halfway. starting bad habits is really bad. i hope this helped...cheers

This is how I do it: - First put my back foot in the center of the tail and put my front foot near the bolts adding a little slant. -Then approximate where you want to land and flick with your back foot first then your front foot while jumping forward. For first timers you might want to start it off slow and quick before adding a nice big stylish one.

^slow and quick? dont you mean "going slowly and flicking quickly"?

yeah, but the key is to not throw your foot to the side. it only takes a subtle movement to get lots of rotation, plus trwing your foot hard makes you twist (at least for me). i find that sliding my foot up then a little flick of my ankle can get tons of rotation. but my problem is that the board lands in front of me and my front foot lands over the rear trucks. i already tried not sliding my foot up, but then i dont get much height on my ollie and when i flick my foot the board doesnt get its full rotation. help?

you are pushing your foot out too much and changing your balance. i used to do that too. its a hard habit to break. lean forward a bit more (by forward i mean towards your lead foot, not towards the side of the deck) it takes practice to get the right balance between flicking the board and getting ollie height. personally, i found that watching other skaters do kickflips allowed me to do way better...like anything, you improve when you hang out with people that are better than yourself.

Well I know that's a topic about doin' kickflip but I really want to know how to do heelflip so if anyone wants to help please write

yeah, i landed a couple of em yesterday, but i landed pretty far back on my board. im getting pretty used to getting the rotation, landing isnt quite so much of a problem, but im still trowing it a bit, i think ill just keep practicing em. ill figure it out sooner or later.

hey. i've been trying to learn how to kickflip or heelflip, i keep loosing balance when i heelflip so thats out of the question for now. i can't seem get my board to spin. i've watched my friends do it, watched trick tips online and tried different stances. i put my back near the tip of the tail and my front foot near the nose at an angle so i can give it a toe flip. i just can seem to get it to spin. is it my grip tape, shoes or should i try a new stance? help plz!

I don't get any height, but they flip fine.. But I have a big ollie.

Posted by littledude13

whenever i try, i land with my back foot but my front foot flicks down and hits the ground before my board does

hey

Posted by nickhallett

I can easily do both kickflips and heelflips no problem and I personally like the heelflip a lot better.  The thing about the heelflip thats so cool is that your foot doesn't have to be almost off the board so you can easily bring it back on top of board to land it.  This is why I do heelflip grind combos because you land on your board quicker to hit the rail.