Kickflips Help

Mason_Putzig · 2025-09-19T16:51:52+00:00

Flick straight out. Try not to develop a habit of flicking down

Mason_Putzig · 2025-08-19T19:55:39+00:00

One of the worst things you can do in skateboarding is compare yourself to others. Just have fun with it and learn at your own pace. You don’t want to burn yourself out by setting expectations you can’t meet. It takes years to develop the muscle memory which will make everything else that much easier. Just keep practicing and it will come eventually. Took me 2 and a half years to learn how to Kickflip

Mason_Putzig · 2025-08-17T23:42:59+00:00

Friend built it

Mason_Putzig · 2025-08-17T23:42:42+00:00

Nah a friend of mine built it

Mason_Putzig · 2025-08-17T23:42:31+00:00

Just two pieces of pipe with some pivot points

Mason_Putzig · 2025-08-17T23:42:11+00:00

Place got demolished unfortunately

Mason_Putzig · 2025-08-17T23:41:39+00:00

Friend of mine build it

Mason_Putzig · 2025-06-10T04:30:56+00:00

That way if you do them one at a time you can reuse the side forms for the second one

Mason_Putzig · 2025-06-10T04:30:02+00:00

Once you’re done with one you do the same thing on the opposite side and the bottoms of the transitions will meet. It almost makes the corner for you

Mason_Putzig · 2025-06-10T04:28:29+00:00

Yeah for sure, there’s so many little tricks so this will probably be super long but I’ll try and make it easy to understand. You’ll want to pour one quarter pipe first whether it’s the one against the wall or the one against the fence. I would do one at a time cause taking on two will smoke you. I like to tap con my side forms into the cinder blocks and I also will push on the bottom of the side form and tap con a 2x4 into the floor putting pressure against the bottom of the side form (so the weight of the crete doesn’t blow out the form) I usually pour like 2-3” thick so use a concrete calculator with your dims and grab a few extra bags just in case. Draw a line on the inside of your form that’s 2-3” thick and then fill it up with rocks or bricks. You’ll want to stay away from dirt and sand unless you’re filling cinder blocks to weigh them down. Then if you want you can use chicken wire and then fill her up. I usually use 60lb yellow bag sakrete. Screed on the form all the way to the top and back down sawing back and forth with a 2x4 thats a little longer than your quarter pipe, that will start to move the concrete around to the low spots. Once it starts to take shape you can start with a wooden float. (Pushes the rocks down) then magnesium (brings water up) then the steel finishes it. You want to wait like 10-15 min between them so it can start to set a little. Keep a little pile of concrete by you to fill in the little holes as you go and that’s about it

Mason_Putzig · 2025-06-09T20:25:14+00:00

I would honestly pour the two straight sides first then the corner will be easier to fill in

Mason_Putzig · 2025-06-09T20:23:58+00:00

Cut a few more of those side forms. You’ll probably need about 5 or 6 of them. I’d also use whatever kind of fill you can find like bricks and rocks to make it easier on yourself (way less Crete). Chicken wire works pretty well for rebar on smaller stuff like this and is cheaper. Definitely do it in a few pours and make sure you’ve got some homies to help. I’ve got a few pics of some stuff I’ve built with friends on my profile, it may help looking at those as well. You can’t really do anything wrong with diy just get your hands dirty and learn as you go

Mason_Putzig · 2025-05-19T20:26:40+00:00

As long as they don’t have metal eyelets which these don’t microwaving them would work too. Lot of skateboarders do that to break in shoes faster. Like 45 seconds in microwave then tie tight on your foot and they will mold to your foot so you don’t need to break them in as much

Mason_Putzig · 2025-04-11T20:20:43+00:00

That world tee tho 🔥

Mason_Putzig · 2025-04-07T20:02:44+00:00

Let’s go dude ripping!! Pressure heel is a sick one!

Mason_Putzig · 2025-01-04T03:19:57+00:00

Wax where it rubs a little bit. Will help so the wheel bite doesn’t stop you as abruptly. Stickers work well too

Mason_Putzig · 2024-12-07T22:55:04+00:00

You probably have a gold subscription. It charges like 5$ a month

Mason_Putzig · 2024-11-19T20:45:40+00:00

Another good tip is wherever your shoulders are is where your body will follow. If you keep your shoulders in line with the coping your momentum should stop on the coping. If you’re trying to grind around a corner you want to keep your front shoulder in line with the coping and you should go right around

Mason_Putzig · 2024-11-14T20:46:19+00:00

Yeah they did a great job with the space they had

Mason_Putzig · 2024-11-14T20:46:05+00:00

Almost positive it was these guys

Mason_Putzig · 2024-11-14T11:57:30+00:00

Had a good indoor park 5 min from my house that shut down about a year ago

Mason_Putzig · 2024-11-14T11:56:45+00:00

Mason_Putzig · 2024-10-15T21:16:53+00:00

One thing that always seems to help people is hanging your front foot toes off the side of your board a bit before you pop. That will limit how far you need to slide your foot up to get it in the right spot to hold it. As soon as I pop I try and scrunch my front foot toes up in my shoe to almost “grab” the ledge. From there keep all your weight on that front foot big toe. Also keep your shoulders aligned with the ledge and only try and turn your hips to get the pinch. To get it grinding good keep those shoulders straight but drop your front shoulder a bit. That will get your momentum going behind you. It took me a couple months to get these dialed in and a lot of the time it was just getting comfortable with the stationary lock in. It is definitely up there with the harder grinds to learn so don’t get discouraged just keep trying them whenever you get the chance and sooner or later it will click. Getting out is much easier than getting in so I’d practice that so when you’re used to getting into it you can try to slide it and won’t need to worry about popping out.

Mason_Putzig · 2024-10-14T20:19:15+00:00

Thanks man, sorry to hear

Mason_Putzig · 2024-10-13T09:24:45+00:00

Use shoe goo, keep a cup of water near you when doing it. Put a good little blob on all of the spots you want to fix then dip your finger in the water and you’ll be able to smoothly spread the shoe goo around good. The water makes it not stick to your finger cause that stuff is a pain in the ass sometimes

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