How To ACTUALLY Commit To Kickflips (3 Ways)

What's up and welcome, my name is Dan Webbs, and I've heard you've got commitment issues. Well, I'm here to fix that for you. Let's get straight into it. So the most commonly asked for trick when it comes to commitment questions is the kickflip. So that's what we're going to cover today. And I've got three techniques that just might help you master it way sooner than you would have expected. Starting off with the old carpet board technique. Now we're outside, so no carpet required. If anything, a little bit easier off the concrete because you can pop it better. We're going to use this to help practice landing on the board without having to worry about the wheels shooting us off if we land misbalanced. Kickflip, still perfectly possible on something like this. This is something that you want to try if you've already got the technique down for the flip, but if you haven't got that yet, don't worry because I'm going to cover that in a moment. But if you've already got the technique down for the flip, you want to get practicing on your carpet board just so you can get used to landing and not having to worry about the board shooting out and killing you. Flips quite easily still. And when you land it, it's the most stable it can be, even if you don't land perfectly. Another great thing about the carpet board is this an all-terrain, all-weather vehicle. You can use this outside on the concrete for a bit of extra practice in the garden. You can take it into the garage if you're lucky enough to have one, and you can even take it into the house if you put a nice bit of carpet underneath. Hence the origin form carpet board. Practice, practice, practice, until you get the commitment down. Okay, now for number two, you're going to want to find yourself a climbing frame or something similar. Anything that has bars around waist height because that's going to help you massively with this next one. And this is actually how I learned to kickflip way back in the day before we had any videos like this. I figured this one out on these very bars myself. Now, what this one basically is, is what you're going to do is you're going to practice the flick, and then you're going to use these to hold yourself in the air to make sure the board can fully flip before you jump down. I realize this is an ideal situation, but as long as you have like some monkey bars or something, you can make this one work for yourself. So it really is as simple as it sounds. As long as you can pop the board and flick it. If you can't flick it, don't worry. I'm going to cover that with my third hack in just a moment. But what you're going to do once you can flick it is you're going to do exactly what you would do normally, but instead of just kicking the board out and not getting anywhere, we're going to practice our pop and flick. So this one's great for just holding yourself up there, avoiding any damage, and then waiting for the board to finish flipping, and then you could just literally wait this long and then chuck yourself back on the board. Ideally, you're going to want to try and land on it a bit faster than that, like this. But it will get you used to landing back on all four wheels at once. Not much more to say about this one, apart from if you can do the flip, you can land on it, even in primo sometimes. On to number three. So this final one is one of my very own creations, and I think it might just be the best technique for getting commitment down yet. It's also going to teach you how to flick the board properly. So if your kickflips are currently looking something like that, where you can't get the foot out and then back again, this is going to help you massively. It's going to turn your kickflips from this to this. And all you're going to need is some nice electrical tape, even some duct tape, just anything except sellotape will work perfectly for this. And you're also going to need yourself a little reoccurring character from part one, the carpet board. Now, what we're going to do here is get our electrical tape, put that down like this. And the first thing we're going to do is we're going to take off a little bit of the tape. We're going to go to where the bolt hole is. So we're going to grab this tape. We're going to get it about bolt hole to bolt hole, and then we're going to take the board away and just set it on the ground in that exact same position. And then what we're going to do is we're going to take another piece of tape, little X marks. The spot jobby, the better you stick it down to the ground, the easier it's going to be. We're going to put that front truck exactly back where that tape is, grab another piece and do the exact same on the other side. Fish, bash, bosh. And then one final piece to cross that out. That is your bolt holes right there. That's your landing zone, the LZ for this experiment. We'll be putting that board back on there on the X marks the spot on both sides. And then what we're going to do is we're going to teach ourselves the flick. This one is going to be slightly longer than the other one. So we're going to make it about this long, pull that piece off. And we're going to set this as our little runway for the flick. The best flick foot placement for me is about halfway up. And what you're going to do is you're going to roll the foot over like this. And then as you do that, you're going to put the weight onto that and flick it like a tick. Your foot goes onto its side. And as you do that, you push the weight onto the board and go, that's how you flick it. Like a karate kick. And then what we're going to do is we're going to grab that tape, put it on the little line that our flick would follow. So about here for me, about 45 degrees, you want that, right? So your foot's going to start here and it's going to flick that way. So this is your runway for the flick. Make sure that one's stuck down nice and securely as it needs to be. Finally, take the board away. We've got our two bolt holes and our flick line. There's only one more thing that we need for this experiment. And that is one final piece, just to remind us where the tail of this beast is. So we're chucking that at the back right there. That's our tail spot. So now we can remove the board. And yeah, it doesn't look like much right now, but trust me, this actually works amazingly. So basically you've got your landing zones, which is your crosses. You've got your starting point for your tail and your flick runway right here that you can follow for the flick. So start with your foot on the tail, front foot halfway up where we flick from, and then we're going to jump, flick, and land on the crosses. This is going to get us used to flicking the board out and then bringing the foot back to land on our landing zone. Because one of the biggest issues, as I showed you just a minute ago, is kicking this leg out and not bringing it back for the landing. So it looks like this. That's how you get these one foot lands all the time. So now you're going to put that foot on there, put that foot there, pop, jump, flick, land. All in one motion, just like this. And just practice that so many times. If you're still doing this, then you can see your issue. Land that foot on the zone, and you should have kickflips in no time.