Kickflip
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The kickflip (originally magic flip, ollie flip, or ollie kickflip), also known simply as a flip, is an aerial skateboarding trick where the skateboarder kicks his board in order to make it flip 360 degrees along the board's long axis. The modern kickflip was invented by Rodney Mullen in 1983.
A kickflip is executed similarly to the ollie, and like the Ollie has become a defining trick of "New School" skateboarding. The Kickflip has been ported over to other boardsports, notably surfing, wakeskating, and skimboarding.
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[edit] Execution
While the kickflip is similar to the ollie, it is not a direct variation of the ollie. In performing a standard kickflip, you must:
- Place the front foot safely behind the front bolts or onto and slightly towards the heel-side edge of the board.
- Place the ball of the back foot on the tail of the board slightly angled.
- Pop the tail by pushing down with the back foot while jumping into the air.
- Slide your front foot out diagonally in order to start the board rotating while you stay with your shoulders centered over the board. Put your front foot over the top bolts and kick.
- Lift both feet out of the way so that the board can spin properly.
- Catch the board and roll away. It is considered good style to stop the board's rotation with the feet in midair rather than to allow contact with the ground to stop the board.
[edit] Variations
As the Kickflip is one of the first flip tricks a skater may learn, once they have mastered it and got used to the pressures and positioning needed to land the trick, they will inevitably move onto other, more complex flip tricks. Variations and extensions of the standard Kickflip are very common - some of these are, but not limited to:
- The Heelflip is the same idea as a Kickflip but the board flips in the opposite direction. They look similar to the untrained eye, but the technique for doing a heelflip is different, with the skaters heel kicking off the board to produce the flip.
- Double Kickflip, where the board flips twice before being caught.
- Triple Kickflip, where the board flips three times before being caught.
- Quadflip, where the board flips four times before being caught.
- Varial Kickflip, where the board flips once and spins backside 180 degrees (pop shove-it) at the same time.
- 360 Kickflip (aka 360 flip, Tre flip), where the board spins 360 degrees while also flipping.
- 180 Kickflip frontside or backside, where the skater flips the board and turns both his or her body and board 180 degrees and lands backwards.
- The Kickflip Indy, a variation on the Indy Air where the rider flips the board and catches it with his hand rather than the feet. It was first done on a vertical ramp but now is very commonly seen done on launch ramps or other surfaces which can generate sufficient air time. It is also common to see the Kickflip combined with grabs other than the Indy.
- Kickflip sex-change or body varial is where the board spins a kickflip and the skater does a full 180 degree spin,lands on the board in switch stance.
- Hardflip, a combination of the frontside pop shove-it and the kick flip, the board does a flip while in the motion of a partial backflip,spinning halfway end over end , then flipping over.
- 540 flip, the board spins 540 clockwise (if skaters stance is regular, anti-clockwise if goofy) while spinning a kickflip.
- Big-spin flip, skaters body does a 180 while their board does a 360 flip.
[edit] 1970s Kickflip
There was a different skateboard trick also named 'kickflip' that was common in 1970s freestyle skateboarding. The skater would stand on a motionless or slow moving skateboard with two feet side by side, facing forward in the center of the board. One foot was then placed slightly under one side of the board, and the skater would jump up in the air, lifting the board with the toe of the foot. The board would spin and land back on its wheels, and the skater would land back on the board. Several variations were created by freestyle skateboarder Kurt 'Mr. Kickflip' Lindgren, a member of the California Free Former team.
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