Why Your KICKFLIPS Actually SUCK in Full Detail

[@pablo.gasoline9277]

OH MY GOD THANK YOU I have been trying to learn kickflips this entire quarantine and this is the vid I needed. Thank you so much

[@daledecker]

You’re welcome

[@fartsickle]

Same

[@stoshbeast1]

Kickflips are easy...just go over to brailleskateboarding.com...lmao

[@idiot0622]

Josh Stotts Simp

[@fartsickle]

Josh Stotts Why go there when you have this video

[@azn6689]

My kickflips don’t suck because i can’t kickflip ...yet Update: landed my first kickflip today!

[@daledecker]

lol hope this will help you

[@skatexgarrett_soderstrom8362]

That’s the right mindset

[@fortune5903]

same

[@azn6689]

vScxr_3 i landed three the first day now i can’t land them but i get close often

[@skatexgarrett_soderstrom8362]

vScxr_3 I landed my first 2 days ago. It was my fifth week of skating and my fifth day of trying. I got 4 clean ones and one ok one for a total of five lol.

[@saithgonzalez1725]

I just learned how to kickflip and I'm the process on making them look nicer and this is just perfect! Bet I can kickflip better than dale

[@saithgonzalez1725]

Nah, I'm just kidding. I will some day tho.

[@daledecker]

sickk hope this helps

[@corbinluksza9779]

Same^

[@gambitwilson8623]

Your friend seems like he breaks tricks down like Rodney Mullen. It's like y'all study the physics of skating and shit.

[@daledecker]

yeah he really understand it

[@ImBlackIvy]

Sober minds man

[@brettyjaxx]

The skateboard definitely has some complex physics. Ride long enough and your brain starts to just naturally make changes.

[@kylespevak6781]

Skateboarding is literally 100% physics. If you think of it that way, it's just copy and pasting concepts

[@paulstekelenburg6799]

FYI: there are no skateboarding tutorials on skillshare.

[@linusolsson5595]

Nah, they aint got non lol.

[@extranosense9553]

Time to wait for years until I am a skateboard God and then use skill share to make *b a n k*

[@frostshock13]

Get dat money... Progression of most starters.. Various kickflips in a catchy upbeat montage. Dropping specifics about what he did wrong and what helped (Foot placement, backseat, kick forward, back foot catch, jump high, square shoulders.) The humble one understand the physics of skating. Outro Montage of kickflips. Personal, i struggled with kick flip for long time because opening my shoulders and putting too much pressure on my toes causing the board to go behind. Also, good to see you are back and safe. Remember Retro Oreo Zip up hoodie coming soon, so you can remember the good old days.

[@daledecker]

love you

[@GarfieldsNeighborNermal]

I've watched so many kickflip tutorials but this one was by far the best. He explains it way better than anyone else has, and it's easy to understand. Well done Dale.

[@kuloob2284]

Thank you dawg I was in the middle of learning kickflips

[@daledecker]

hell yeah hope it helps

[@JakeShunt]

Kickflips are my all time favorite trick. Not leaning forward and delaying my flick like you talked about were the biggest help for getting my kickflips better.

[@serupapeluvasega5725]

I was practicing kick flips and I looked back on the “kick flip hack” video you made with dan and it felt weird at first but over an hour of consciously telling my self to do it that’s way I started actually landing them. Like fr no bs so thank you for the tips and great content

[@kimpavfx]

i don't know how to kickflip yet, i'm so close, and if this helps me learn how to kickflip, imma share this to my friends this actually helped me know what steps to do. damn, now i'm gonna have to share it. oh well, i was gonna do that anyways. keep up the good content btw

[@daledecker]

hope it helps!

[@kimpavfx]

@@daledecker it did, thx

[@locoboto6183]

@@kimpavfx good job bro

[@giobeb]

What the hell? I was actually just practicing my kickflip and I open my phone just to see this... I'm so glad to be subscribed to this channel lmao

[@daledecker]

haha sick hope it helps

[@abbeyglencircle]

You are absolutely right on this. I did what you recommend and “ boom!!!” I landed my two kickflips in-a-roll without assistances.

[@fakebot3509]

Dude your insane helping thanks for helping us out. It shows that you put so mush effort and energy. You care for your fans its insane that your replying to almost all the comments. Thanks for the help and awesome content in quarantine.

[@claudiusraphaelpaeth5689]

Squared up - Ollie North - Lower front - ... Style. Thanks for sharing.

[@circa409]

Its funny how you mention that concept "how to think about a trick" because recently I have been using that idea to improve alot of tricks I never learned to do properly in the past. It really does help with relearning to do tricks with more consistency and pop than before.

[@borisbadenov9863]

I'm using quarantine to learn a decent kickflip after giving up 15 years ago. This video makes a lot of sense to me. Knowing some of the physics/mechanics/reasoning is essential for me to feel safe committing (safe-ish). Thanks, dude.

[@daledecker]

sick i hope it helps!

[@PHeMoX]

Good point about leveling out the board. I think this is one of the most confusing things about the whole 'never flick down' thing you keep hearing. In my experience there's plenty of possibility to land a kickflip when you flick down 'the right way'. It obviously still holds true that you can't land the kickflip if your flick foot lands on the ground before the board does. But with the right timing, doing a flick when still going up in terms of the overall jump, you definitely can do a drag forward that slopes down at the end. It probably doesn't have to be much, as flick straight forward (not up, not down), also levels out the kickflip quite a bit. I haven't landed a kickflip yet though, but am so freaking close the trick is starting to make more and more sense to me now.

[@stuntmastermonkey]

ay bro u land it?

[@FredRaclette]

This video FINALLY made me figure out kickflips. The backseat tip was what did it for me. Could get them pretty consistently after that. Thanks Dale.

[@chrismartinovic496]

This is hands down the best kickflip video on KZbin right now. Perfect approach to thinking about tricks. I could say more but we all know the attention span of our internet selves is about 1-2 sentences anyway. Great video.

[@Logan-nu4ny]

I love this new format of trick tutorial, it feels way more in depth and applicable than other kick flip videos. Hopefully I’ll be able to land them by the end of quarantine now...

[@daledecker]

sick thanks man hope it helps

[@dmitrius3980]

I’m trying to learn kick flips right now and land one every once in a while. My biggest problem is that I kind of leave my board behind most of the time and you’re the first person out of hundreds of videos to explain flicking late and not immediately. You are CLUTCH!!!

[@chrisu-_-]

I'm more of a heelflip guy recently only started landing proper kickflips even though they're shitty. This is the first tutorial that's actually got me realising what i'm doing wrong, thanks Dale :) i'm always leaning way too much in the front

[@gabe438]

Thank you I learned my Ollie 3 weeks into quarantine now I’m trying to learn kickflip

[@windmillritual]

When I was younger, I did over 100 kickflips in a row. After multiple ankle injuries, I also only really did them switch/nollie. At my current age (32), I found this video helpful in getting my regular kickflips back. Thanks for the info man, keep shredding.

[@davidblass2660]

I was stuck with at the same stage of kickflips where I was able to land some but not good and consistent for 1 month now but ur video helped me get over that stage and now im able to kickflip almost every time. Now i just gotta get it down while riding. THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@tibbba]

there's so much information in this that's missed in so many kickflip tuts. thank you for this brother dale 🙏

[@matthewpastuszynski8341]

I went out skating around my town for 7 hours yesterday and learned so much in 1 day. Dales exactly right about the exponential growth. Now that I got my main tricks down everything else just started coming to me

[@timmejia8476]

Been skating since I could stand and never learned a kickflip. Literally just landed my first one days ago and this video is helping me clean them up so thanks a lot man

[@bertiemunn129]

this is actually quite reassuring to me as I cannot kickflip right now but when I try it my board is being thrown out in front of me which means I'm closer to the proper technique than people who learn them by flicking down

[@joshuaheindselman6919]

i just learned kickflips 5 days of nonstop hardwork and a bunch of shinners and i have kickflips now thank you so much dale!!!!

[@romeoflores5620]

I landed my first kick flip after trying so hard for a month about a month ago. Then I did 3 more on the following days but they took hours and were so rocketed. I pretty much gave up on them but this video makes me want to get them again. I had the exact same problem as you w the leaning forward thing. Thanks dale

[@ASHstrictsb]

i learned how to kick flip 2 weeks ago but this video is super helpful thanks dale

[@heartshapedfilms]

Been skating for around 17 years and yesterday was one of my first proper days out skating. My kickflips sucked and didn't exist. This is a great video to help just some of the ideas in it are great for practise. Having your foot more square on the board and flicking forward I would say are very valuable tips. And is something I usually do when I think about it but I often land ahead as well and put my foot anywhere and don't think. So this was great. Thanks

[@beckettneilsen9449]

Dude, Dale this video is 100 times better than any braille kickflip video i’ve ever seen.

[@poak5742]

This video was very helpful and made me realise that I was leaning to far forward on everything I do, ollies and the heel flip im close to landing feels easier and a lot more comfortable in general cheers dude.

[@UndetermendSkaters]

Tried explaining to my friend exactly what you said before I saw this video, gonna share it with him because you explained it so much better.

[@jameonbush2320]

I committed to a kickflip today but landed primo Dale came in with the clutch tutorial so we gonna get it tomorrow ill update when i get it Edit: ive landed it to a stall and im gonna work on it more later but i didnt roll away so im not fully gonna count it.

[@daledecker]

hope it helps

[@wtf_Smok3y]

Jamonebuck good luck 😁👍🏼

[@skatexgarrett_soderstrom8362]

Jamonebuck I landed primo really hard but I fell properly so I was ok. My biggest fear rn is when I learn to go to primo because I want to do freestyle

[@PHeMoX]

@@skatexgarrett_soderstrom8362 If you keep your knees bend when landing, landing primo isn't going to be all that bad (at least, when stationary). I too have been trying some basic freestyle stuff and it helps a lot with dealing with this fear to try the basic primo stand stuff. Maybe even get flipping it a quarter flip way back to normal from primo and land it, is going to do a lot to dealing with fear. The other thing that could help in a massive way is getting a good insole (Footprint Kingfoam Elite), at that point it won't hurt nearly as much.

[@AlumarsX]

Get some insoles. I now land primo for fun and it doesn't hurt at all. I have the $20 remind insoles on all my shoes now.

[@hunterf.836]

There’s a lot of channels such as Braille that really don’t go super in depth about this stuff. I’ve found two channels that are the best at breaking this stuff down. Braille does not really do that. For instance I was trying to learn an Ollie and I kept getting rocketed ollies, I became frustrated that they were rocketed. Once I watched Dales channel. I instantly got the flick of your foot and everything. My ollies have become way better after the troubleshooting and now only watch Braille for their fun stuff and not their trick how to’s.

[@rdoubleu_gv]

Thankyou dale this video helps me a lot I have such a strugle with kickflips that I just didn’t do them anymore now i understand the concept of them much better keep safe ❤️

[@ryanchappelle6663]

I landed my first kickflip yesterday and I can definitely say that it was because of this video. The tip to lift my back leg was huge, best feeling ever to land that

[@olliestaniforth4901]

The bit where you say progression gets quicker after kickflip is so true, you progress actually goes through the roof

[@daledecker]

yeah so many things start to click after that curve

[@danielesparks2679]

The day before this I spent half an hour not landing a single one and getting frustrated, I watched this today and I landed three in ten minutes thank you for real

[@tristenprof9074]

the fact that dale made this video makes me proud cause in old videos he says his kick flips are trash good job dale

[@roelandgreidanus7628]

Awesome tips! I felt the rolled ankle thing man! Had my kickflips really down until my front foot slipped of the nose and tweaked badly.. relearning them right now.

[@AMavridesR]

sup dude, ive been skating for 17 years now & you just helped me come full circle on these damn kickflips. Always had the flick, high ass ollie and would occasionally catch them high AF but would typically shoot out in front of me. Kicking down/flicking down was the F-ing KEY!!!!! Perfect kickflips everytime now, nice and even. Thanks for being a total psycho about figuring this out, because it payed off.

[@mostdefinitelyhenry]

I love how the further skateboarding progresses, the more in depth trick tips become. used to be just: foot positioning (with shoes on hands), pop ur board, land bolts, and roll away!

[@NextgenSkillz]

I’ve been having issues with my back foot not getting high enough I just recently realized through filming that my back foot never really goes up. That really helped with pop

[@lowiepallemaerts3946]

Thanks for this vid man, literally all the things you just said are what i do wrong about my kickflips and what makes them rocket and stuff so thanks for making me understand the kickflip more

[@drinkwater7632]

I have to understand the physics and why the board does that to be able to land it. Slow mo footage helps and so do these videos. thank you dale

[@Hambone1389]

Going to start putting this to use tomorrow. I’ve always favored heelflip tricks because my kick flips are ugly. I’m on of the ones that learned it the wrong way early on. Thanks for the video. 🤙

[@daledecker]

hope it helps

[@nicolasfreitas7329]

Idk why but your way of teaching tricks is just whole another level, best skating channel on yt for sure dude

[@daledecker]

I appreciate that!

[@Anrathis]

I like the mention of theory in the trick tips. it really helps to understand, thanks Dale!

[@andreveltman]

Nice Video, Dale !!! I´m going through this... When i started learning this trick back in the 90´s, it was known as "Ollie Flip", at least in Brazil... Now i´m 43 and 5 years ago came back into Skateboarding... Now the trick is even more developed and beautiful, and the name Kickflip is better than ollieflip... In this video you bring important information that really helps people like me... I do kickflip, but i can´t make it properly all the time, and i´m also afraid of landing primo... I´ll keep in mind what i learned on this video... Thanks !

[@ragekid7661]

this is the most helpful video on how to kickflip ever! thank you so much nobody has explained it this way before

[@marcmothersole8265]

I prefer when they flip on the way up and go straight up into my feet, then bringing my feet and the board down after. Something about catching as ur falling is very unsatisfying to me.

[@scu-dub]

3:17....my kick flips everytime!!!!! I honestly am starting to just give up lol I have to be in a open area or else what or whoever is in front of me will get a board to the throat lol its so bad that I am starting to just do toe kickflips....what am I doing wrong!!!!!😫

[@gusvogt-shields4689]

This is happening to me every time. It’s so infuriating. The board just launches no matter what I do.

[@scu-dub]

@@gusvogt-shields4689 man I feel your pain!!!! I just don't know what I'm doing wrong! Lol

[@gusvogt-shields4689]

@@scu-dub same lol

[@xcessive9566]

@@scu-dub It could be that your jumping back and not moving with the board Try staying over the board a bit more so that your Center of mass moves along with the board(assuming you’re doing them rolling)

[@longbeachiswhereimfrom]

I have a skate journal and learning kickflips is one of my goals so this is so helpful, all this info is going in the journal!! thank you once again dale, you're always killing it!

[@kingbaggyslim9227]

This man deserves more subscribers he's been in multiple videos with John hill and spencer barton, and made videos to teach other people how to skate, i hope this guy will get 1 million subscribers one day

[@stack.that.cheese]

I finally got my kickflips down- one main issue I noticed was I wasn't lifting my back leg high enough. After paying attention to lifting the back leg up, the board did a full rotation instead of landing upside down

[@nexced2585]

Song at 2:42 is "Flutter" - by Julie

[@deatheternal720]

You're absolutely right about the rapid progression after learning the kickflip- i learned mine by trying to flick the board away from me, and i applied it to every other flip trick and i can land pretty much anything i want if i just keep trying now lmao. I kickflip with my foot on the absolute edge of the tail- and my toes on the bolts- and i skate an 8.- lol

[@jmisrad4976]

I love this video, i feel like all these flip tricks im getting good at I have to figure out where to keep weight and put pressure and the timing and i feel like trick tips always suck and never really address these things.

[@jaydenrain]

i have been skating for over a year, i can full cab, fakie/ regular big spin variations, have my 180s , front shuvs etc, but i just cannot figure out flip tricks dude it almost feels like my front foot is incapable of landing back on heelflips, have never been much of a kickflip kind of guy but i’m going to primarily focus on learning kickflips, gonna update when i land one hopefully.

[@codentia___4369]

This came out just in time. I’ve been recovering from an ACL tear for the past few months, and I just got back on the board. This was just what I needed to get kickflips back

[@daledecker]

hell yeah man hope this helps

[@chriskunce3331]

This is awesome. I kept throwing the board out in front of me and thought I was screwing up my flick. To compensate I started flicking down more. Gotta go back to throwing it out again and work on getting that . 😎👍👍

[@christiancharles3780]

@ please like and sub

[@skakid4195]

Hi dale I’m from Toledo and met people who you used to skate with it’s nuts.

[@daledecker]

yo thats sickkkkk!

[@fergusdenoon1255]

Don't stress over it, because Tom Penny exists, everyone else's kick flips suck.

[@neighborhood_k]

Some of his kickflips are so well caught they don't even look real on footage

[@tonyskates6026]

Good tips man. You should teach more. You get in details and stuff and that helps to understand

[@jeremylane3139]

I've been practicing my kickflips for about a year or two since whenever I watched your previous kickflip video with dan. Now I can finally catch kickflips up/down things and land with control. They feel so good now that I know how to do them proper. It only took your videos and an entire year of practicing them every time i skated.

[@tyef.rosario]

Just what I needed while waiting for my new deck. Thanks Dale from Argentina! 🤘🏻🇦🇷🖤

[@BrendanBFree]

The last part about theory, people always talk about how a bigspin should look sorta like a impossible with the scoop. When i do it, its just a pop shuvit and a backside 180, same with halfcab flips, i do throw my shoulders like a halfcab and do a kickflip. No matter where i am in the rotation i perform the kickflip and catch it wherever I am, and continue the rest of the way. So if you can do them tricks you can easily do the harder bigspin and halfcab flip. But most people dont think about the minor details. Or how the board reacts when popped from different spots. If you know how the board reacts you can manipulate it to do what you want and can expect it.

[@daledecker]

its so true man, think about how to think about the trick actually helps

[@eonprimicus]

got kickflips recently. trying to stick them more and perfect them. thanks Dale

[@DAROLDful]

this video might be the ultimate guide to what ive been doing wrong. ive never thought of raising my back foot higher during the pop and flick

[@mc_barnicleboi]

Am definitely going to try this I have been trying to get my kickflips better since I started learning backside flips

[@ΜαριοςΠαρρας]

Really nice video, i was trying it yesterday for 2,5 hours and couldn't land it ,but you helped me understand what i was doing wrong!!Thank you for everything and your video is really helpful

[@Davidowalls19]

This was a good reminder. I learned them one day like pro status and then lost it after that day lol. (I can heelflip amazingly..) But kickflips have always been the most difficult. In hindsight, the soccer ball thing is subconsciously what I found out was the key to unlocking them that one day. So this video is a perfect explanation!

[@LocalDallasMan]

Really awesome video, I think this is a really well thought out process of the kickflip! I’ve had issues with my kickflip since day one and I think this is going to clean mine up really nicely!

[@Nico-jc7zr]

Thanks I started skating again after 12 years because of covid and everything came back and then some, but im having trouble with my kickflips and varials I could do before. Will try next time I hit the park. Peace!

[@sixheartsmusic]

what shoes are u wearing in the flip tutorial bro? shits sick the green and black ones

[@Catalog3005]

Yo like I legit have a similar ankle problem and I’ll do nollie and sw more consistent than my regular bc my ankle haven’t been the same. This was spectacular and is the type of advice you try to ask for from your homies. Been skating 10+ years and I still benefited from your video, seriously thank you🙏🤙🏻

[@lolitsmatt29]

This is genuinely the best tutorial I have every seen 10/10

[@marinopena6003]

I had the exact same injury story I used to be able to really good then I rolled my ankle rly bad and I can't kickflip anymore because I'm scared. I'm not done watching this video but I know it's gonna help

[@bluearrows1906]

this is a great kickflip vid because he really explains what happens when you put the right foot positioning. Great video

[@joslinnick]

The thing I always struggled with was getting my kickflips up in the air and actually catching them before the board hit the ground. I still can't really kickflip over stuff because my board lands back on the ground at about the same time my feet catch the grip tape.

[@kmgk2724]

I’ve landed my kickflip 4 times but this is def helped quite a bit

[@Tokidumdum]

Wooooo!! So glad you have a sponsored vid. I’m happy every time you post, but even happier when you make money doing it. Lol. Thanks man.

[@prodpana]

thanks dale, i've learned how to kickflip after watching your vid. took me a month and a half to land one my dude thanks

[@yama4ever]

I gave up on kickflips and learned heelflips.. After watching this vid i succesfully landed my first kickflip! And i've been skating for years! Thanks so much!

[@lemononpills8215]

Loved hearing "Cottonwood firing squad" behind the skillshare ad in the beginning, guys got some great music

[@georgeegan8682]

Cheers dale, I needed this one. I’m determined to get kick flips down by the end of the summer.

[@PandemoniumPirateRadio]

What is the second song you used here at 2:44 ? I can't find it on the linked Band pages 😮 Please reply! Thank you 🙏

[@StuckOnThisGame]

Great video man, I'm just getting back into skateboarding after stopping for like 12 years, and I'm trying to regain my kickflips. You go over a lot of things that I've never seen in other kickflip tutorial videos. I'm getting really close but for some reason I always land with my back foot on the board and can't get my front foot on. I think it probably has to do with not aiming for the nose. But anyway great video thank you and keep it up!

[@armannafisi8731]

I’m so glad we had or in my case have the same struggles man. I gotta dissect the crap outta this video. I appreciate how real and raw your breakdowns are. So many fake and glittery yet useless videos on hacks that seem careless and apathetic. I love at lest most of your videos and I only say most cause I haven’t seen all of them for sure but I e seen enough to know what and who I am viewing. I have struggled with kick-flips since I started skating 2 years ago and I love heelflips but you’re breakdowns of kickflips actually are so sick cause the physics of and corrections are spot on. Man this reminds me of when I was a kid and learned and absorbed everything. Anyway I wanted to make this long message cause I am still working on kickflips and am inconsistent for the most part but I know this will help tremendously cause it reminds me of how I finessed these details when I was a kid and so I must today at age 30. Thanks you so very much. 1❤️ and 🤙💯

[@Kaleb-yo6bl]

I just came across this video, thank you cause i’ve learned kickflip the first 2 months in to skating then after a couple of months i rolled my ankle and could barely skate for a month and then recently before quartile i rolled my ankle again and my kickflips aren’t the same i’m 10 months into skating

[@migatron1]

Enjoying your tutorials ! What shoes are you wearing ? They look like just the type of thin shoe I'm looking for atm

[@sarthdiskalkar7353]

this vids amazing. your comment about losing a trick was so true cuz after I broke my ankle its like I forgot how to heel flip the same

[@martingracchus1687]

what kind of shoes are those? Also when I flick on the nose most of the time my foot just grabs the board and launches it out in front of me like how it does at 4:25 albeit I have not spent much time on kickflips yet because I'm still solidifying my basic tricks like pop shuvs and 180s

[@adrianwolf1265]

Try putting less of your flicking foot on the board. I know he says "put the most of your front foot on the voard", but just outting is like half way on the board or 3/4 helped me

[@izzyphilliips]

i’m having so much trouble with these

[@izzyphilliips]

hey me from 5 mobths later, ur going better

[@zvnabalisong4935]

Yesterday I finally landed my first kickflip and your tips were actually really helpful