Skateboarding Tricks: Kickflip Varial Foot Placement

Video Transcript

"The foot placement that you're going to need for the kick flip 180 varial is fairly specific. The reason that it's fairly specific is because it's one of those tricks that you don't want to overdo, and you don't want to under-do. With 360 flips, you can sling it and wait for it to go around. But the kick flip varial is a little more precise. So what you're going to want to do for your foot placement is put your back foot on the tail in almost the shove-it position, hanging your toe over the corner of the tail just slightly. Remember the back foot's going to be in charge of the shove-it and the ollie part. Your front foot is going to be placed with the toe similar to a kick flip position, and your front foot is in charge of the flipping. So, once you've set up your feet in the position, you're going to want to set up and cross the two together. The kick flip varial is a little bit harder to learn because it involves turning and flipping at the same time, so it's just going to take trial and error to try to figure out where exactly your feet will work best. Sometimes a little more foot on the board causes it to flip a little slower. Sometimes a little more toe on the board, with less foot on the total board, will cause it to flip faster. So that's a way that you can adjust. One tip I have for you setting up for the kick flip varial. It sometimes works better to start with your board backwards. As with any trick that you only go 180 varial with, then you can land on the board in the position that you're most comfortable rolling, which is the normal board rolling position. Another reason for this is because a lot of noses are sometimes steeper than tails, and sometimes they're wider too. So this will give you more to work within the shove-it way, and plus, like I said, you can land and roll away comfortably on your kick flip varial."