In this weeks blog I will be covering the backside kickflip for you guys. Same as the last two weeks here’s a little Vlog showcasing the trick and me rambling on about it.

The BS kick flip was one of the first difficult tricks that I decided to learn when I was about 14, before I learnt it I had to separately practice two different flatground tricks. The first trick I had to practice was the kick flip which is where the board pops of the ground and rotates around its own axis, the second was a BS 180 which is just 180 spin on flat ground. I had to practice these tricks in order to prepare myself to combine them together.

This trick, like the impossible I covered last week, took me a good year to learn and land consistently and another year to be able to execute it over a gap like the one shown in the video which is about 1.5 meters in length. The hardest thing about doing this trick over a kicker to kicker gap is landing and not slipping out due to the angle of the landing ramp and the force and speed you are landing with.

I hope you have enjoyed reading this blog and seeing some of my favourite tricks to do on a skateboard.