Q&A for How to Do Beginner Kick Scooter Tricks

It's basically how you work your bars. The bars are important. Do a bunny hop and use one of your feet to kick the side of the deck in a direction you want it to go in, then make your wrists move in a twisting motion. Not your hand, but your wrists. Then you land on the deck.

For a tailwhip flat, you really do not need much of a bunny hop at all. So not having enough time is most likely not the problem. If you can't get the deck around fast enough, kick more with your feet. In a tailwhip, you mainly spin the deck using your wrists. Tailwhips do take a while to learn, keep practicing!

As you kick the deck, push the left side of the handlebars down a little, and then to the right. That will help the deck start spinning around. If you practice this for a while your tailwhip will get faster.

In the tailwhip, you hop (ollie, b-hop etc.) and kick out the deck a full 360° rotation. While it's spinning around you, you must remain in the air and then land on it. It sounds simple, but it is deceivingly difficult.

Well you don't actually need much air at all surprisingly for flat tail whips, but if you feel like you don't have time to get the deck around, try learning it off a bank. If you are learning it flat, and you don't have time to get the deck around, kick with your feet a bit more, or if you already do that, use your wrists to spin the deck around (because about 1 third of the whip is your feet and 2 thirds is your wrists).

It depends on how fast a learner you are. Maybe from 2 to 10 days?

It doesn't really matter, just wear closed-toe shoes so you don't hurt your feet.

No, but it is difficult to do on scooters with large wheels and low decks. If you have one of these, go to your local Kmart/Walmart and get a cheap scooter. You will need to upgrade eventually, but these are good to start off with.

About USD$150 and up are the best scooters to buy.

If the handle is rusted but will still spin, try to take it out and use WD-40 and sandpaper to smooth the handle enough to spin cleanly. If that doesn't work, you will probably have to buy a new handle.

If you are right handed, you reverse the left hand, so the back is facing down, then you do a bunny hop, a trick called the 180' in and out, a little wheelie, then land with your hands backwards. Do another little wheelie, then do the 180' in the opposite direction.

Place both feet on either side of the foot stand, hold on to bars, and don't let go when u jump.

If you have one, you could try practicing on a trampoline. If not, you could just practice on the grass so you don't get hurt if you fall.

Good scooters are made of metals like steel.

Try to imagine your deck going out and coming back in. It helps to do the starting motion of a tailwhip, flicking your deck to the side but keeping your feet on the scooter. Straighten out and land.

Bend your knees more and pull up on your bars with your hands.

First, you want to get your b-hop sussed out, then just stand there for about 20 mins spinning your deck around by twisting your wrists going with the scooter. Then, focus on kicking the deck around with your back foot and catching it with both feet. Once you do all that, you should be good to go!

First, you bunny hop, then spin your handle bars all the way around.

Start with a bunny hop. Then with your left foot, kick your deck hard and make sure it spins 360 degrees. Quickly slam down your left foot. Your right foot should land a second after that.

No not really.

Extra practice, especially with the timing for when to bend your knees and when to kick up, will help you do the highest bunny hops you can. Practicing jumping higher on the ground will help you get it just right to try on your scooter.

I like to angle my toes off the deck when I kick; it helps a lot. You only need to jump about one inch off the ground -- the kick is the more important part. To help with the whip, most people use their wrists in an oval motion to help the deck spin. If you get the kick perfect, you don't need your wrists, but it makes it easier, especially for double and triple whips.

That is a "briflip," or a "briwhip" if you whip while doing it. This will require you to get a lot more air.

You bunny hop--it has to be pretty high--then you push the bars forward while one of your hands grabs the back of the scooter and then lets go.

You will have to recover, like with any injury. To avoid that happening in the first place, try to practice what ever trick you are learning in the grass before doing it on concrete.

Try to bend your knees more and pull the bars up higher. You don’t get much air if you don’t bend your knees.

Jump, cross your arms, then uncross them before landing. (You may need to jump higher than normal.)

No, it is fine. Just work your way up! Watching others do it should help.

When you are riding, make sure to pull up on your bars and make sure you are not pushing your feet down, as that will cause you to not be able to get off the ground. If you are more advanced, then try a J-hop; this is where you pull your bars up as if you're going for a manual, then level your bars so they are not facing up. This will cause the back wheel to come up.

You can make the day a week or two when you go to the park so then you can practice.