At 42 years old I’m just getting back on the board and haven’t skated since I was 16. Finally just started landing kick flips again yesterday and dammit feels good!! What’s funny is that my brain still thinks that I can Alley over garbage cans but my body reminds me that that shit ain’t happening😂 Yet..

If the voice actor for gru dies Jonny could do it

Thanks for saying that kick flips are hard to learn, Johnny. It helps keep skaters from getting discouraged about them. I started learning kick flips four years ago and they are just starting to look good, but are an ongoing project.

I landed my first kick flip after watching this video

ollie north + lateflip = compass flip?

I've been skating since I was a young kid - I got my first board sometime around 1993-1995. I skated all through middle school and high school and never got good, but enjoyed it all the same. Now that I'm in my mid 30s, I still find time to get out and skate - even though I'm twice the age of the kids at the park. My kickflips have always sucked - always just rolling on the ground. I land them, but they look like crap and I've never been able to kickflip over anything save for a gap which goes lower than the starting point. I watched this video and tried the ninja flip action and, on my first try, landed my first beautiful kickflip easily. I just started laughing because it was so easy (again, after ~20+ years of skating). Thanks, Jonny, for teaching this old dog how to do old tricks better. Cheers!

Everytime i land a Kickflip, i instant want to do it cleaner. And when i think that the last one was perfect, i check out the footage and see 1000 mistakes. Like fliking to the side and not straight through the nose or jumping to much behind. I watched this tutorial over 10 times over the last two years and getting closer to this beautiful Kickflips every time. Best feeling ever... 😌 (still a super long way, but hey that is what it is all about)

The kicking down part is my biggest problem, I constantly have to remind myself to "create lift" and flick up and out

good trick tip man, I agree with everything. :) *Ninja Kickflip = best Kickflip* well, now that I think about it, every flip trick is best in ninja version. ;)

How to perfect big spins!

I'm here getting back into skating again. After not skating for almost 9 years. My kick flips were always those fast ones that had no pop. From this video I know exactly what I need to work on! thank you Jonny.

Kelly Wakasa needs this 😂

* likes video before watching it *

Cheers man, you're always helpful for us lesser skilled skaters trying to improve. Much respect.

I've been waiting for this trick tip!!!😍

he literally does like the best tutorials. Really I would pay for videos like these and he's generous enough to take the time to teach the public. Thank you again :).

Super helpful video thanks for making it. Never was quite happy with my Kickflip but finally landed some pretty nice ones today. Been skating 20 years and never had more fun.

Thanks, Jonny! This is really helpful. You've uploaded this video right on time.

jonny is legend, thnx for all you've done so far!!!!

You are a very good inspiration for young skaters. You explain, so every one can understand. Humble and nice guy.

I think this will help a lot I sometimes flick my foot out without even touching the board so I think poping it like an Ollie and then putting weight on it will help! Thanks a lot Jonny! :)

Anthony martin here already knew how to kickflip but it helped me out so much, you inspire me I'm homeless and I go to my friends house or to the library to watch you daily I love you Mr. Giger !!!

your kickflips are beautiful!

Kickflip was my third fliptrick that I learned. Heelflip was my first, followed by varial kickflip for some reason.

I'm French and I like your explain, easy to anderstand!

I loved the tip about the ninja kick! It's all ever learned... now I'm gonna see if that helps me land a better kick flip! Thanks, man! Awesome stuff!

It's really great to watch you explain tricks. Imo you explain it very well. Especially the last part with the back foot wich is something I never realised until now. Thanks!

this really helped me understand what the back foot is supposed to do, great video. thank you

These tricktip/tutorial videos are really nice keep it up!

This will help me a lot, nice video! Please more :)

Love your videos, Johnny! Just started skating about 7 months ago, have landed a few kickflips but they get away from me alot too :) Great to get your thoughts on the trick. Stay steezy!

Just snapped my board practicing kickflips today, same thing for the one before that. Thanks for this Jonny.

Thats beyond perfect , Jonny!

you put it together perfectly man thank you! love ur vids

Just did mine today. Needed this video

You make it so hard not to like you, man. Great attitudes and hard work makes badass skateboarders like yourself, thanks for all the help!

Dude, thanks a lot..... I've been struggling with my kickflips a lot, just cant land the front foot....... after your last two How-to videos, I was realllllyy hoping you'd cover kickflips,... thanks a lot dude,... Love your how-to vids, they the best

Master class Jonny!

wow your flips looks sooo perfect man

This helps a lot. Thanks man.

Love this vid, thx Jonny!

Great edit, Jonny.

Very detailed! A ton of help I land only 5% at the moment. I’m going to put the tips to action tomorrow. Thank you 🙏

awesome style on the ninja kickFlip

Came here frustrated with switch flips, you're the best Jonny!

Hi Jonny, I was having real trouble getting my kickflips higher until yesterday. I've watched lots of youtubes on making kickflips better, but none of them mention the problem I was having: basically, I couldn't get much pop and they were really low (because I have been leaning forward on my front foot too much), although they flipped fine. The solution was moving my body weight on my back foot slightly more in the initial stance. The result was a better pop of my tail on the ground, and a higher kickflip that actually sucked up in the air. Minor tweak but it's been the thing stopping me for getting higher. Just thought I'd share this with others who are probably watching your awesome videos!

Thats a good looking kickflip!

Thanks man you just explained it so well

Thanks Johnny!

Thank u for this 🙏🏼

Jonny, I absolutely fucking love your channel. Keep it up!

Really cool tutorial, i'm going to try what i learned with this

15 sec into the clip already a Trick love it, other Vlog Skateboarder should learn from you. Keep the work love it :3

Thanks Jonny! U da man!!

thanks good timing i was trying to clean up and get my consistencey better thanks,interesting video

The steeeez bro, nice video needed it.

best kickflip tutorial I've seen

Landed my first kick-flip today do to the help with this video i feel so complete havent felt this happy in awhile

I learned good kickflips and consistent about 2 months ago, now I’m getting backside flips and I’m working on tre flips, something’s I never thought I could do

Thanks johnny!

Great vid and info! thanks

that trick tip was the best it really helped you should do a trick tip for big spin or frontside flips good video jonny .

thanks for the tip on tweaking your back foot

This is such a great idea for a series Jonny! Interesting and helpfull tips for every skater from rookie to pro! (Well maybe not the pro's, but you get my point 😉 )

I landed my first kickflips and they were super rocket and I wasn’t extending my leg and this helped so much thank you!

Thank you so much for this video I've been skating off and on for about 10 years, getting more into than I have in a long time. I watched this video and then went outside and did some of the best kick flips I've ever done in my life! Karate kick FTW!

Wirklich klasse erklärt. Macht echt Spass deine Videos zu schauen. LG

Damn the weight tip is the greatest tip ever thanks so much!!! I’m going to subscribe !

Thank you Jonny

So good nice Video i love Kickflip it looks so nice

Please do a trick tip for varial heel this one was great

greetings from mexico. you got the best videos on youtube

nice vid bro

Landed some kick flips after this video 👍🏽

you teach very good jony giger

So good these tips. Pls do treflip an dhardflips!

Holy fuck can I see more tut like this. Like he didn't even give a detail version and it just so perfect of a video. Making it as simple as it can be but actually gives tips and an explanation on the science behind the trick.

I just landed my first kickflip today I'm hyped, when I didn't know how to do'em and I only knew the 180's(just barely being able to land bs 180's) pop shove it's Ollie and front shoves and some others.. I felt like I wasn't good or couldn't be considered a skater because I didn't know any flip tricks so that thought in my head made me wanna learn at least some type of flip so bad yet I nvr focused on practicing I've been skating for a year now and I've only put in alot of time on kickflips these past two months and now I've finally got them I feel so ecstatic just to say yeah I can land a kickflip 😆😆😂

Well that is one good looking kickflip. I just bought new skateboard after 16 years of hiatus 😅 (im 32 now) and funny thing is that I could do a kickflip on a first day but I cant do really any other tricks. Now I need to start practicing my ninja moves, that just looks so good. I have been skating 3 times now in first week and my body is saying to me that I need to rest (all those unused skateboarding muscles) but my mind want to go out and skate all the time. Its unbelievable good exercise too! Thanks for your teaching vids, subbed for sure!

the kickflip is the epitome of easier said than done

Please do a how to properly and steezy varial flip. I feel varial flips are easier and more natural to me than kickflips, somehow they feel easier to pull of but i can`t get them very clean..

Complex trip tips like this are way better to know when learning i watched one complex video and figured out how to ollie in like two hours

Best Kickflips I’ve ever seen

you should definatelly do one for varial heels or Lazer flips

"i hardly recommend you to learn to ollie first". the classic german translation mistake.

jonny have you planed to come to vienna one time? That would be awesome to skate with you🤘😉

Another thing that helped me was changing the way I conceptualize a "kickflip". Gonz invented the kickflip, but he wasn't doing them over anything. His were very MOB style (kicking down), when people started learning to do them over things, for a while, they were being called "ollie kickflips", because you ollie first, then kickflip. If you think about the trick this way it makes all the difference.

Hey dude, I'm still working on my kickflips, but I think what you've said about placing the back-foot on the edge of the board has helped me a lot...another thing it's about waiting more to flick, it was a good tip... now my problem is to maintainmyself on the board right afther the flip, cuz when I step on the board it goes away and I go barckward... Btw... you're awesome!!!

thank giger god i needed this video so bad

that park looks very chill

I Would like to know how do you manual. Awesome Vid!

Now this is call Jonny kickflip

Hey Jonny G do varial flips next your a great skater

Landed my first kickflip in the grass tho but still put a smile on my face!!

I got heel flips first because they felt less scary a short while after I got kickflips, heel flips really helped me with getting kickflips

You are awesome I can see in your eyes and hear it in your voice you want to say how simple something is but you remember they are beginners Braille has the same look and sound , I feel like sometimes you have said something so much your about to kickflip the camera😵 y’all are awesome

Those are some sexy kickflips

I need those shades to kickflip Dario!

Wow! Good video, can you do a vid like this on pop shuv it late front foot flips? I can get the full rotation but only my backfoot lands.

thats so cute and awesome! i wish i had dad like u r