How to kickflip on a skateboard

This guide will hopefully make your understanding of how to execute a kick flip on a skateboard

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Things needed:

• Skateboard - Specialty shop - A good skateboard.
  
• Flat bottomed shoes - Shoe store - Any skate shoes AKA Vans, DC etc..
  
• Flat space of smooth surface, IE concrete, blacktop, etc
• Ability to overcome small fear of shredding your balls
• Able to ollie correctly - Ollie tut - Google
  

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List explained in more detail

• Skateboard - Of course, you need a skateboard to execute a skateboard maneuver.
• Flat bottomed shoes - Best for landing on the board without rolling your ankle.
• Flat surface - Things such as rocks or small inclines or rolls can easily throw you off balance and cause injury, sand, dirt, gravel, anything as such can jam your wheel and send you flying face first.
• Ability to overcome small fear of shredding your balls - This is a bit more complicated, the 5th time I attempted a kick flip, I missed kicking the board and the board went vertical in between my legs. It hurt to walk for a while. I've done it many times, it is not very fun for you. Maybe for others.
• Ability to ollie correctly - If you cannot ollie, kick flipping will be very difficult. It's best to learn this before trying a kick flip.

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Ok, now you have your requirements, you have your shoes tied nicely, let's get to the real skateboard part!

First off, place your feet like this:




Now, bend your knees down and do the first steps of performing an ollie.
Instead of sliding your foot forward, you slide it quickly off at an angle towards the nose of the board, this is the angle you slide quickly, and downwards.



-NOTE- DO NOT KICK LIKE THE NAME KICK FLIP SUGGESTS YOU DO-- If you kick instead of slide, you can mess up in a number of different ways, one such way is overpowering it, and landing wheels on your foot, and then your whole body wight minus a leg smashing wheels into your fragile toes.



Now, as your coming down, make sure your feet end up landing on the squares of bolts above the trucks, like you would in an ollie.
No picture is needed here, at least it shouldn't.


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If you've followed these steps correctly, you've done a kick flip, congratulations, BUT, you most likely wont magically be able to master it.

It is a pretty hard trick compared to other starter tricks, it takes a lot of determination and ability to not throw your board at a tree after you failed it over and over again.
I've seen it happen

Some outside source help!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0T8goB7wSQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubTl3iPPi2o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc5BOHtH9m8


Thanks all!