catching kickflips on the bolts

[Dookie416]

i am always catching my kickflips like on or close to the nose when i do kickflips down drops or stairs, and sometimes i catch them on the bolts, but usually not. on flat i can catch them on the ground, but idk why on stairs/drops. any tips?

[MattC]

I'm wondering the same thing. It's probably a mind game. Being afraid to go all at it in air. I'm so much more better at catching on ground for some reason.

-Matt

[Shadow2kx]

Nah seriously there is two ways to do kickflips, if you flip off the side of the board you wont get anywhere, it will be low to the ground and you won't catch it, if you kick off the nose, you will catch the kickflip beforehand and slam it down.

When I was learning kiclfips I put crayon on my griptape (i know its a little extreme) right on the spot on the nose I wanted to kick at and it really helped.

That is the way to learn kickflips though, I have videos of me doing kickflips off a set, and we slow mo'd it and the one I landed I had caught the kicflip with 4 steps to go (I was still 4 stairs high) and on the one's I didnt land the kickflip kind of fell the the ground at the same time.

[China Skate]

- Bring your front foot back.
- You're going foward.
- You have to keep over the bolts the whole time in air.

[Dookie416]

china, you cant control what is happening after you silde your front foot up. telling me to keep over the bolts the whole time doesn't help at all.

and thanks shadow, i'll give it a go.

[mcwattersm]

Jump higher and check your landing. Make sure you have your feet over the bolts. And well, practice.

[Dookie416]

i didn't say i didn't know how to kickflip. i said i was having trouble catching them on my bolts. how is "make sure you have your feet over the bolts" helping me catch my kickflips on the bolts?

[mcwattersm]

Look down, and make sure your feet are over the bolts for the landing idoit. You think you would be nice, your asking for trick tip help. But did you try what I said before you talked shit? Nope. So shut up and next time you want to be a dick, think of what your saying.

[Misterhamper]

He didn't really talk shit to you ^

[Element 4 life]

put ur feet over the bolts land n say "yey"

[mcwattersm]

Well I take offense when some one says oh what you said isn't going to help rather than saying thank you, I'll try that later. You shouldn't ask for help and be a little bitch about it.

[Element 4 life]

i kno what you mean it very cheecky

[Dookie416]

no, i mean i can't catch a kickflip on the nose and then reposition myself before i land

[China Skate]

china, you cant control what is happening after you silde your front foot up. telling me to keep over the bolts the whole time doesn't help at all.

and thanks shadow, i'll give it a go.
Why don't you just try it?

i didn't say i didn't know how to kickflip. i said i was having trouble catching them on my bolts. how is "make sure you have your feet over the bolts" helping me catch my kickflips on the bolts?
You think of it BEFORE YOU FLICK?

no, i mean i can't catch a kickflip on the nose and then reposition myself before i land
Well that's your problem, when you get to 360 flips you're gonna be one angry guy.

Practice and find how YOU do tricks.

[MattC]

I'm wondering the same thing. It's probably a mind game. Being afraid to go all at it in air. I'm so much more better at catching on ground for some reason.

-Matt

Never mind, fixed this problem.

-Matt

[Dookie416]

Well that's your problem, when you get to 360 flips you're gonna be one angry guy.

Practice and find how YOU do tricks.

I am at 360 flips. I'm trying to point out, how am I supposed to do a kickflip, say down a stair set, and then i happen to catch it on the nose, and then in mid-air reposition myself onto the bolts?

[China Skate]

I am at 360 flips. I'm trying to point out, how am I supposed to do a kickflip, say down a stair set, and then i happen to catch it on the nose, and then in mid-air reposition myself onto the bolts?
Well, find out how you can land not on your nose...?

[juggle]

ok look down think about landing on the bolts, pop your kickflip land and wal-ah your on the bolts. I cant kick or heelflip while moving for the life of me but when ever i think of that stationary it helps.

[Ramp]