The Kickflip shows experience in your fingerboarding skills. Once you get this trick, you can do other varitions of the trick to improve your skills.
Ok First- Your finger placement. Put your middle finger on the tail and your pointer finger right below the bolts.
Second - Try to get the motion down by sliding both of your finger off, making the board flip.
Third - Watch the board flip and try to catch it as you see the grip come back.
Tips- If you are down double kickflip or maybe like quadruple slow your finger motion down then keep trying.
- If you do pop shuv's with your kickflip you need to keep your fingers straight,
Hope this helped.
---Anthony