Kickflip

The kickflip , or simply flip , is a figure of skateboard, invented by Rodney Mullen. Formerly, it was still called magic flip , ollie flip or ollie kickflip . It belongs to the category of the flips .

Principle

The goal of a kickflip is to jump and make bore the board around its longitudinal axis, making him carry out a rotation of 360°. When it carries out this trick, the skator rises in the airs as at the time of a Ollie then, instead of scraping the grip until the end in straight line, the front foot deviates towards the side of the heels and leaves the board, giving him his movement of gimlet. When the board carried out a full rotation, the skator recovers it with the feet and the whole falls down on the ground (it is said whereas the trick is replated ).

Difficulties

Even if this trick is one of the basic flips skateboard, it is not simple for all that. The young beginners generally spend time before having a perfect command of it. To carry out a good kickflip and to have a chance to replate it, it is necessary to think of well proportioning the impulse given by the back foot, so that rotation is not unverifiable. This impulse must also come rather early: if it occurs whereas the nose of the skate is already mending, it will accelerate only the movement of descent, crushing before board on the ground. A good council to succeed in replating is to think of raising the knees while the board carries out its rotation, in order to have an overall good sight and not to modify the movement by a parasitic impulse.

Alternatives

A figure close to the kickflip is the Heelflip, which simply consists in making turn the board in the other direction, i.e. while scraping with the heel towards the side of the toes.

There also exists like alternative the varial kickflip, figure resulting from the fusion of the pop shove-it and the kickflip.

The kickflip can also be doubled or triplet. One will then speak about double or triple kickflip .

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