Kickflip Research Paper

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Landing My First Kickflip When I first started skateboarding my goal for skateboarding was to land a kickflip. After I had landed my ollie, fs 180, pop shuvit, shuvit, I started working on the kickflip. When I first started I could hardly rotate the board. I kept trying on and off for about a week. When we went to a party there was a guy there who used to skateboard, I asked him how to rotate the board and he said that you kick down to rotate the board. When I got home that was the first thing I did. I got my skateboard and went outside to try the new technique I learned. The first time I tried the board flew around and I caught the board with my back leg while my front leg was on the ground. From that point on I thought the kickflip would be easy. After flicking down with my front …show more content…

Every time I would flick my front foot would go straight to the ground and not able to bring it up above my board. When I figured that out I went on YouTube to search the correct way. A man named Aaron Kyro on the Braille skateboarding channel said that you need to flick up off the nose of the board to achieve the flick with your front foot still in the air. When I went to go try it my muscles we used to flicking down it was insanely difficult to flick up. I would try over and over until finally I was able to put my front foot on the board after the full 360 rotation. Now the issue was I could not my back foot on. After trying for at least two months I still had not landed it. I gave up for about a week in anger. One week later while skating I randomly tried one without thinking and got both feet on the board but slipped out. Even though I fell on the back and my right elbow was bleeding I knew I was extremely close. For the next hour or two I was trying to land it. After not being able to flick the board I quit

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