a lot of you suggested me to learn how
to kick flip so
i decided to try i have never skated in
my life so in the beginning i was pretty
scared and i found really hard just to
maintain balance
then i started to move for the first
time and i tried to learn how to jump on
the skate i was pretty bad
but after a few times in a matter of
minutes i got used to it and even
jumping on the skate it started to feel
more
natural so to achieve the kick flip the
first thing we need to learn
is the alley this is the most basic
skateboard trick and it basically
consists in jumping with the skate
at first i tried intuitively but after a
few attempts i couldn't really do much
so then i got the theory down we need to
put the front foot near the middle of
the board keeping it parallel to the tip
then we position the back foot to the
very back of the skate now we bend our
knees
trying to maintain balance we push down
with the back foot and we let the front
foot lift up with the board
in the beginning it was still pretty bad
the first problem was that i see
couldn't pushed down the back end of the
board
in order to make it jump and every
single time i got there right the skate
jumped far away from me no matter how
hard i tried the result was
always the same
so i decided to do the only thing you
can do in these cases keep
trying
at a certain point something bad
happened because of the continuous
rubbing against the board
my shoe decided to break but luckily my
friend helped me with that
i kept practicing for a while trying to
understand the right motion and the
timing of the slide
and i felt pretty bad every single time
then after more than one hour i started
to see the first
good results
i understood that the board kept jumping
away from me simply because i was
leaning back too much with my upper body
and once i start to fix that
i've been finally able to get my first
olly
and then after that i got pretty
confident
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now the kick flip is like the early but
much harder
basically we need to make the board
spinning in the air while jumping with
it
if during the alley we slide the front
foot keeping it parallel to the tip
during the kick flip we place the front
foot pointing slightly towards the front
at a 45 degree angle and when we are in
the air we slide the front foot towards
the front side edge of the board
flicking the edge of the deck with our
baby toe is what gives the spin to the
board
i started shining i was getting decent
results but i could never get
really close because once again i was
throwing the board far away from me
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to the kick flip so
i kept trying and i felt that i was
starting to understand the timing of the
motion the right movement of my front
foot
and i was getting more composed but
after failing over
and over again my muscles started to
hurt so i decided to take the evening to
check my footage
and by doing that i understood a lot of
things that i was doing wrong i was
keeping my front foot
too low on the board instead we need to
put the foot right below the balls
i was also leaning too far back while
jumping causing the board to bounce far
from me
so i started leaning forward keeping the
shoulders parallel to the board the
third day i felt
really good i had just a little bit of
pain in my muscles but i was confident i
was gonna get it
so i started practicing but for some
reason i haven't realized that all the
time i was trying to land a trick more
difficult than the kick flip it is the
very
kick flip in which the board normally
rotates on itself but also rotates 180
degrees horizontally
i didn't know it until i checked the
footage so i kept trying and i was
actually getting pretty close to handed
but maybe this was too much for my three
days skateboarding career
even if i was proud i was getting pretty
close to land the very kick flip
my goal was to land the kick flip so i
had to fix the horizontal spin that i
was accidentally causing
by stopped chewing backwards my back
foot after one hour of practice and
manifest
i was close to fix the problem but my
legs started to become really heavy and
i was having a hard time
even standing up but i kept practicing
and at every jump my legs were hurting
more
than the jump before after another hour
i was extremely tired
i was still far from landing a kickflip
and i couldn't almost walk because of
the pain in my legs
in machines and in my feet but i had a
weird feeling that told me that i should
have tried
one last time so i left my house and i
started practicing
at 8pm by trying to jump more vertically
i was achieving way better results
i had pain absolutely everywhere and no
energy left
but i was getting closer and closer at
every single attempt and even if this
time
it really seemed impossible at a certain
point this happened
[Music]
yes everyone told me that landing a kick
flip starting from
zero skating experience would have been
impossible in a week
i'm completely exhausted and my legs are
destroyed but once again we cannot say
that it's really
all about practice i'll see you next
week