Skateboarding Tricks: What is a Kickflip Body Varial?

Series Summary

The development of skateboarding coincides with the popularization of surfing in California around the 1950's. Since that time, skateboarding has seen many rises and falls in popularity, with several generations of young skaters developing the sport and their own skateboarding tricks and techniques. The current generation of skateboarders is more accepted and less rebellious than previous generations, and often skate on city built skate parks designed for a variety of skateboarding tricks.

A kickflip body varial is when a skateboarder ollies, does a kickflip, and in midair changes their stance to land rolling switch while the board flips and rolls straight. In this free video series, a sponsored skateboarder will teach you how to perform a kickflip body varial skateboarding trick, as well as several variations. After learning what a kickflip body varial is and how it works, you'll learn how to place the feet for the trick and how to perform a kickflip body varial. Next, you'll learn how to do a shove-it body varial, a fakie kickflip varial 180 and common mistakes to avoid when doing these skateboarding tricks. With these tips, you'll soon find yourself doing all kinds of skateboarding tricks in the park, off of rails, and on the way to the X Games!

Video Transcript

"The kick flip body varial. A kick flip body varial is when you ollie, do a kick flip, and in mid air change your stance and you land rolling switch, but the board flips and continues rolling straight. The kick flip body varial is a trick that will require you to have a basic knowledge of straight kick flips. This trick is sometimes learned before a straight kick flip and the reason is is that the timing that it takes to do a straight kick flip sometimes people have a tendency to shift their weight in mid-air into a ninety degree angle and then land back on the board. So, sometimes people learn kick flip body varials before they learn how to straight kick flip and this is ok. So, the kick flip body varial is going to require you to also be able to; be able to have strong ollies and be able to know how to spend a little bit of time in the air to catch the board and turn around. So, what you do is you set up with your feet in a pretty normal kick flip position and when you flip the board you travel your body ninety degrees in the air and then you come back down and you land switch, and you roll away. That is a kick flip body varial."