are kickflip footplants possible? that'd be sweet
As far as I know, you can only do it with a grab, like a kickflip fastplant.
Also, you can hippy jump the picnic table with the right amount of speed. I've been dragging the picnic table up onto the top of the bank and doing tricks up and over it, then turn around and hippy jump back into the bank, just get some lines going. Also, dragging the flatbar in line with the double set ledge is a lot of fun.
Oh and if you hippy jump off your board and run on top of something and you're still over your board, press Y and you'll casually jump back on your board without doing the THPS-style "magic retrieval" thing.