See how it works

Kickflip

Flips
1.0
Board spin
0°
Airtime
0.37s
Stance
goofy

run up 0.00s

Land it sooner.

Film one attempt. Bolts reads every frame and tells you the one thing to change.

What goes in, what comes out

Seven tricks, one engine. You hand it the clip, the trick you were going for and where the phone was. It hands back what your board and your body actually did, and the one thing to change.

In

the clip
453 frames at 120 fps
what you were trying
ollie
where the phone was
side on

Out

how deep you crouched
0.12
whether you were still rising when the tail hit
yes
how steep the nose came up off the pop
39.3 °
how level the board was at the top
19.4 °
how far your front foot slid
0.5
in the air
0.33 s
whether the board peaked before you did
-25.0 ms
how much you tucked at the top
104 °
how far the board spun
0.0 °
whether you stayed over the board
0.2
how far the board travelled
1.4
whether you landed on the bolts
0.3
how you took the landing
4.4 °

and the one thing to change

You're landing with straight legs. Bend your knees as the wheels touch and let them soak it up.

You landed away from the bolts. Look down for them as the board comes back level and put your feet where you can see them.

Your front foot stopped halfway. Slide it right up to the nose and pull your back knee up after it.

14 of the 26 measurements come off a single phone, over 453 frames — the board was found in 453 of them. 7 of the rest want a second angle: nothing filmed from the side can see a board turning over about its own length.

Every measurement here is read off the clip. The lines that turn a measurement into a piece of coaching come from the published work rather than from fitting, and that is the half still being sharpened. Where the measurements come from. Footage: kaggle 120fps, CC-BY-4.0.

Two goes, one frame

Lined up on the tail hitting, at a third speed. Same moment, both clips, so the difference is the skating and not where the video started.

ollie
0.33s
ollie
0.40s

In the app it is your go against your best.

The top of a jump is between two frames

  1. The board part-way through a kickflip, frame by frame

8 frames · 67ms · every one of them

So is 40cm any good?

On its own a number tells you nothing. Yours goes next to the published ones.

  1. 41 cm Recreational
  2. ≈50 cm Committed amateur
  3. ≈80 cm Professional
  4. 115.6 cm World record
All six papers

What you get

The measuring is the engine. This is the app it drives — real screens, from the build that ships.

The Sessions screen in the Bolts app.