Kickflip The Board Flies Toward The Nose

Flick your foot through without leaning your body backward

Mechanism / Why It Happens

If you try to kick the board out with the force of your whole body, your body will lean backward.

When you focus too much on making the board rotate, you tend to try to spin it using the force of your whole body while extending your leg. As a result, the reaction from trying to generate a large force makes your body extend in the opposite direction. At the same time, too much force is transferred to the board, causing it to shoot forward toward the nose side.

What to Do

Your front foot can make the board rotate enough just by swinging compactly from below the knee.

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