This guy had not skating experience but he decided to learn how to kickflip on his own.
He tried numerous times. He used his mobile phone to check for the theory and he tried to do it based on the theory that he found.
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He did make a bit of progress after finding out the theory but the skateboard would flip away from him every he was trying to do it.
He managed to get his first kickflip after many times of trying and we can see how happy he was.
From that moment of success, he was able to do the same trick quite a number of times.
He did admit that he was really exhausted after trying to attempt skateboarding tricks.