Editing Kickflip (section)

==Origin==
In the 1970s [[Freestyle skateboarding|freestyle]] skateboarders learned to flip the board over beneath them by lifting a rail edge of the board–and flipping it without any leverage of the tail. While the board flipped completely over, the technique employed no upward force, and the setup required the rider to stand with both feet facing the nose. Any connection to the contemporary kickflip is conceptual, since the two tricks employ radically different riding styles on boards that do not have comparable functional features.

In 1982<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2015/01/rodney-mullen/|title=Silicon Valley Has Lost Its Way. Can Skateboarding Legend Rodney Mullen Help It?|last=Koerner|first=Brendan I.|magazine=Wired |language=en-US|access-date=2016-09-07}}</ref> [[Rodney Mullen]] invented the modern form of the trick in Massachusetts,<ref>{{cite journal|title=Charles Kazhila - From the Ground Up|journal=ON Video Magazine|year=2002|issue=Winter, 2002}}</ref> initially naming it the "Ollie Flip"; the term "Magic Flip" was popularized by other skaters who could not figure out how Mullen was flipping his board.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=blH2--rIdoEC&q=rodney%2520mullen%2520magic%2520flip&pg=PT16|title=Skateboarding: How to Be an Awesome Skateboarder|last=Teller|first=Jackson|date=2011-01-01|publisher=Capstone|isbn=9781429668835|language=en}}</ref> The kickflip employs many of the same techniques that Alan Gelfand discovered when he created the technique for the [[Ollie (skateboarding)|ollie]], but Gelfand's ollie unifies the board and rider using both feet in a single reaction of force and counterforce wherein board and rider bounce into the air and come back down in unison. Mullen's kickflip separates the board and rider using both feet in opposing reactions of force and counterforce wherein the rider flicks, the board flips, and the rider catches it only returning to unison in the downward arc of the trick.

This technique of separating the board and rider became a tremendous amount of the vernacular of [[Street skateboarding|street skaters]]–and later vert skaters–introducing skateboarding to the era of [[flip tricks]], many of which Rodney Mullen also created. Many of the skaters credited with defining skate culture, and discovering how to use flip tricks in a contemporary manner–Daewon Song, Ronnie Creager, Kareem Campbell, Enrique Lorenzo, JB Gillet–were sponsored by Mullen's company World Industries.
[[File:Cooper_Qua_with_the_kickflip_transfer_at_Far_Rockaway_Skatepark.jpg|thumb|Cooper Qua with the kickflip transfer at Far Rockaway Skatepark]]