Skateboarding Tricks: Shove-It Body Varial Mistakes

Video Transcript

"Some of the common mistakes you will experience while learning how to pop shove-it body varial will be basically; what's difficult about the pop shove-it body varial is combining the shove-it and the body varial together; the fact that the shove-it wants to overturn and your body wants to keep going too far. It's a very slight motion trick, there's not a lot to it, not a lot of pop needed, so it's a very slight movement. So, the best way to do this is to almost under do it. So, test jumping in the air and getting more of a slow movement going. This is going to help you compensate for the board going over and you going to the other side. Shove-its sometimes are such an easy trick to push over that they may over do it. So, what you want to do is put lots of foot on the board, more foot on the board usually ends up making the board go a little bit slower and a little bit higher since it's closer to an ollie position. So, what you want to do is have lots of foot on the board to be able to shove it over, but at the same time remembering that you're body varialing; so, making sure that your shoulders are in a neutral position heading forward so that they are able to go left or right without too much movement in the air. These are some tips that will help you learn how to do a pop shove-it body varial."