How to Kickflip on a Tech Deck

The kickflip was earlier known as magic flip. It is an old skateboarding trick, wherein the skateboarder moves his foot along the board up to its nose, to create an angle which will make the skateboard flip 360 degrees along its axis. This trick has also been adopted by other board sports like, snowboarding, surfing and sailboarding.

Tech deck is a brand, manufacturing miniature skateboards. These skateboards have everything what an actual skateboard has, like wheels, trucks and graphics, and are also known as fingerboards. As the name suggests, fingerboards need to be operated with fingers. All kateboarding tricks like flip, ollie and heelflip, which are performed on actual skateboards, can easily be performed on a fingerboard with the help of your fingers. Apart from these, you can do absolutely anything on a fingerboard using your fingers and keep inventing new tricks and stunts of your own.

Landing a Tech Deck Kickflip

Step 1
To start with, you will have to place your middle finger on the tail, along with our index finger on the logo. This position is considered to be a basic position to perform various other tricks on a tech deck, like, an ollie and a heelflip.

Step 2
To perform the kickflip on a tech deck, you will have to roll it back and then push it ahead with your fingers. Press the tail with your middle finger which is placed on it, and while you are popping the tail down, your index finger should glide up the tech deck towards you, to facilitate proper control. If you know how to perform an ollie on a tech deck, this will sound familiar. The only difference here is, while sliding the finger towards you, you will have to curve it a little bit.

Step 3
While flipping the tech deck in air, ensure that both your fingers are in contact with the tech deck all the while it is in air. Do not let any of the two fingers loose contact of the tech deck, or else you will loose control and also won't be able to land properly.

Step 4
The only part remaining in learning the tech deck kickflip, is the landing. It is crucial as you want to culminate your performance in a decent manner. While landing the tech deck, keep in mind to let it come down on all four wheels. This is the perfect landing. In case you falter, by landing on one of the sides, simply push forward till the tech deck regains it's balance, and move ahead nonchalantly, pretending that is exactly what you intended to do!

Tips and Tricks

• You will find the kick flip much easier if you already know how to do an ollie on the deck. Also, after learning this well, you can start using your thumb instead of the middle finger for even better control and movement.
• If you have any young children in the house, keep them away from the tech deck as they can put it in their mouth and swallow it easily.
• Be patient while you are still learning the kickflip on a tech deck, as it will take time before you master it.

After reading on this, I am sure you will want to try it yourself. Start on a flat surface, and gradually you can keep adding obstacles to give you a little more challenge while performing kickflip on a tech deck. Concentration and patience shall see you through.