been working on kickflips again and im really overthinking it probably-
when yall kickflip, is the flick a deliberate motion or just an extension of the ollie drag?
i can heel fairly consistently and when i do those its just an ollie with extra power and diff foot position (no ankle finesse at all)
what im asking is do you just drag your toe through the pocket or are you flicking the pocket with a 1-2 motion of your ankle?
I lost my kickflips after rolling my ankle last year and just got them back two weekends ago.
My kickflip is an extension of the ollie drag and not a deliberate 1-2 but there is timing for the extension which makes it a sort-of 1-2. I Gotta extend out diagonally right when I would normally level out/bone the ollie.
The thing that got my kickflips back and better than ever two weeks ago is this: I stopped looking at my feet before I popped.
I had this epiphany after watching people flip over gaps/down sets at speed. Those fuckers aren't studying their feet, they're looking at where they're going to pop and will only look down as they're popping or as they're flicking.
Now I set up for a kickflip like I would set up for an ollie at speed: a quick check that my feet are in position, then look at where I'm going to pop, pop, flick/extend and look down. Took me a second to get used to this but now when I get it right, the board flips straight as an arrow with a back foot catch and I don't have to jump slightly to the heelside like I used to. I was more stoked on the first one I landed than I had any right to be.