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A kickflip is executed similarly to the Ollie : hitting the tail of the deck and sliding the leading foot up to the top of the deck, bringing both board and rider off the ground. When the skater performs a kickflip, the front foot slides up and across the board to create a flip. Currently, the proper way to execute this is by flicking one's foot off the nose on the heel side. Early variations were pushed down on the heel side of the board without any form of ollie; these are now often referred to as "Mob" kickflips and are considered a taboo in modern skating. Because the force from the front foot is applied to the lateral edge of the board, it pushes the board spinning around its long axis. After the board has flipped 360 degrees the skateboarder stops the rotation with his feet and lands the trick. The basic kickflip variations are nollie flip, switch flip and fakie flip. They are kickflips that are performed to the three basic ollie variations. Usually the name of the trick is shortened to just flip when it is preceded by something else in the name of a trick, e.g. Varial Flip , backside flip (shorter name for backside 180 kickflip), and 360 Flip . Other kickflip variations include the double, triple, and even quadruple kickflip. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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