I have never had very good 360 flips but have always just about been able to do them when I wanted. As you say it’s different for everyone, and I should have refined my technique when I had the chance because as I get older they’re totally escaping me!
I remember Gibbsy showing me how to do them one time and he said ‘Just put the ball of your foot in the pocket, then jump off it’. He then did three stationary tre flips one after another to demonstrate. Trying to copy that technique wasted me years, it just doesn’t work for me!
Yeah it’s all back foot for me , mainly through the ankle , ball of my foot and toe - never flat footed , this creating the spring like pressure to fling the board 360 with the front foot doing a gentle flick . The more my shoulders are in line with the board the better I find it to land back under me .
It’s a bitch of a do a trick and I even lost it for a couple of months last year , just didn’t do the right ankle flick
Put in some work tonight, got a handful off camera and a sketchy one on camera. I’ve landed more 360 kick flips in the last three hours than in the last 30 years. They finished off my AVEs too, sole beginning to come away from the upper.
Need to keep doing them to try and get some form of consistency now as I don’t feel like I’ve REALLY got them if I can only land them every now and again. Fucking stoked though.
