Kickflip issue since ankle injury

[escapistfool]

I don't like asking people for shit like this, but ever since I had my ankle injury, I feel like my kickflip has gone out of whack. It seems like my flicking isn't as great anymore. So would you kindly please tell me if there's anything weird to how I do my kickflip? It's been running through my mind and it's killing me.

i genuinely hate my kickflips.

[MuchasGracias]

Its perfectly fine though?

[SUPERNAUT]

When I was younger and skated, I was really short, but then I didn't skate very much for like a year and hit a couple hundred growths,  so when I skated again, I was way taller and my tricks were fucked up, especially my kickflips. whenever I did kickflips they would turn to the right. I did this for a while but eventually got over it.

That being said, your kickflips look fine

[escapistfool]

Thanks guys. But I feel like the way I flick it is totally different from how my friends or anyone else I see on video do it. To me it just looks like a switch flip and I really don't like that at all. I'm not anal at all with my tricks, but this one truly bugs me.

[Keirabug]

you caught the kickflip with your backfoot and not with both legs.
it took me like 3 years before i landed a legit kickflip thats popped and catched. the secret to me was popping and jumping up and waiting for it to slap my feet and making sure my legs were level in the air while bent you get it?

[Mr.Hamfist]

It's not necessarily a bad thing but I think it looks switch because your feet are angled outwards. THey're not bad though and i totally feel you on fliptricks suffering due to injury

[busey]

currently going through the same issue. was in a cast in april and now it just hurts way too much to kickflip and when i do it almost feels like a lateflip...a painful one at that.

i'm just trying to do physio therapy and getting it back to normal. not going well though.

[Baron Samedi]

Honestly, I think your kickflip is just fine, but for my two cents:

Start flicking later into your ollie. The way I was able to start to do them higher and more comfortably was by putting my foot closer and closer towards the ollie position, which helps you max out your ollie before the flick actually happens and makes the kickflip act more like an ollie.

I'm not sure if that made any sense at all, but I guess what I'm saying is look at Reynolds or Westgate or Lizard King or any other dude with a real healthy-looking kickflip, and look at how long their foot stays on the board before it starts to flick and I think you'll see what I'm talking about.

Also, with an ankle injury just take it slow. It all comes back, frustrating though it can be.

EDIT: Upon watching again, I also like that you go fast while doing kickflips.

[landCow]

damn man you were flying for a flatground park kickflip. maybe i'm so used to seeing slow games of skate at the park haha

but yeah it looked pretty good.

[escapistfool]

Honestly, I think your kickflip is just fine, but for my two cents:

Start flicking later into your ollie. The way I was able to start to do them higher and more comfortably was by putting my foot closer and closer towards the ollie position, which helps you max out your ollie before the flick actually happens and makes the kickflip act more like an ollie.

I'm not sure if that made any sense at all, but I guess what I'm saying is look at Reynolds or Westgate or Lizard King or any other dude with a real healthy-looking kickflip, and look at how long their foot stays on the board before it starts to flick and I think you'll see what I'm talking about.

Also, with an ankle injury just take it slow. It all comes back, frustrating though it can be.

EDIT: Upon watching again, I also like that you go fast while doing kickflips.

damn man you were flying for a flatground park kickflip. maybe i'm so used to seeing slow games of skate at the park haha

but yeah it looked pretty good.

Thanks Baron. I actually had my kickflips how Durrant does 'em. But ever since the ankle injury, it's been real bad. I hope to get 'em back, but I doubt they'll come back to the way they were.. maybe they'll be different.

Thanks haha, I've always liked skating fast, it just feels better and (in my opinion) looks better on camera.

Thanks landCow, I really like skating fast haha.

[KennedyPowers]

actually a pretty nice kickflip but yeah i can understand if you used to have them better it would be disappointing, it does look switch and I think it is to do with the angle of your shoulders... If you twist your front shoulder to the left a bit it may lok more natural but you may lose some of that nice pop... Eventually when your ankle is 100% you will get hem back fine (but maybe different)

i would also say that you are flipping down rather then out and straight... but yeah dont think or worry about it too much it will all ome together...

[BlackDemonShreds]

I have this same problem with my switch foot. I found that its a range of motion problem. No matter how many different ways i try to flick my switch flips they seem solid.

[get some]

I have the same problem from years of skating on a bad ankle. The only thing that really helps me anymore after a session is an epsom ice bath, and I use a belt or a bike inner tube works better and just use the resistance to work it out and strengthen it. Hope that helps a little bit. Also, I though the kickflip looked good, nothing wrong with doing things differently than how you see people doing things.

[Snowman]

i would also say that you are flipping down rather then out and straight... but yeah dont think or worry about it too much it will all ome together...

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