Here is the current champ, Christian Brekke with 1424 kickflips in a row!
What is a kicklip you ask? Its that thing that your kid does outside all day
just after he learns how to pop an ollie. A Kickflip is defined
as a variation on an ollie where the skateboarder flicks his front foot off
the heel edge of the board as he ollies, causing it to flip once, twice or even
three times before he ‘catches’ the board with his feet and lands the trick.
Here is the sign that Krux trucks has made that keeps getting updated.
Krux Trucks has issued a challenge and the rules are simple. Do as many kickflips
in a row as possible.
Each entrant tries as many consecutive, flat ground kickflips as they can. They
must be rolling and no toe drag. If they bail on the 1st kickflip then the 1st
Flip Rebate takes effect. The entrant can have one more chance on the consecutive
kickflip contestThe number of consecutive kickflips is recorded and the next
entrant goes. Entrant with the highest number of kickflips wins prize package
and is the Krux Kickflip Challenge Champion for that location.
The cool thing about this contest is that it keeps moving and
new records are being set. Zach Kral was the current record
holder with 1,200 straight kickflips which beat the previous record holder Diego
Najera, who landed nearly 600 consecutive kickflips. Now the new champ is Christian
Brekke and he won the Session Kickflip Challenge in his home town of
Bergen, Norway. Christian managed to do 1424 kickflips in a row and he is now
the current record holder. That is a big number to beat but the contest is still
on and its possible that somebody else can take Christian Brekke
down. We will keep you posted.
Lets give an honorable mention to Zach Kral for doing 1200 kickflips in a row
July 4th, 2008 at 7:33 am
Video or it never happened
July 4th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Defining a kickflip as a variation of an ollie isn’t quite right. Kickflips were being performed before boards had even one kicktail, let alone the double kicktail that makes an ollie easier. The term “ollie air”, meaning a no-hands aerial, didn’t appear until the mid-to-late 70’s, when Alan Gelfand invented the maneuver, doing it while flying out of swimming pools (that’s where we used to skate), not on flat ground. Kickflips had already been a common flat ground trick, probably for decades. Kids may learn ollies first now, but there was a time when that wasn’t really possible.
July 4th, 2008 at 10:10 am
omg that like soo pointless and time consuming
July 4th, 2008 at 11:06 am
a kickflip is a variation of an ollie by todays standards.
July 4th, 2008 at 11:28 am
kirkydan: How is your post not more of the same?
July 4th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
This kid must have CALVES OF STEEL!!!
July 4th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Anon.. you are living in the past.
Every time I or anyone else does a kickflip, you have to pop the board up and do a small ollie. Then you flick, how else can people flick such high kickflips now a days?
July 4th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
To kirkydan
Its much more pointless, time-consuming, and less exercise that playing Wii. Go back to kotaku and continue eating your McDonalds burger. Just so long as you don’t procreate.
July 4th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
kirkydan! hi
July 5th, 2008 at 11:55 am
first guy said it and the same with my conspiracy friend bob carr “no video – no proof” and how long does something like that take?
July 10th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
thats kinda pointless nd i wouldnt really waste my time doing that but still nice haha as long as u can throw it down sumthin
July 15th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
crazy BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA i can do a 140 oh ya
December 9th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
11-30-2008
Zach Kral regains the kickflip crown by throwing down 1546 consecutive flips at an official Guinness Records attempt at 4Seasons. For Guinness, the event was video taped from start to finish and they require that the rider stays on the board for the entire attempt, with no body part touching at all. It was also his 14th birthday.
December 13th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
The Record has been broken by the Zach kid again, Too bad :/