How-To Skateboarding: Varial Kickflips with Tony Hawk & Eric Koston

What this video teaches

RIDE Channel's trick tip frames the varial kickflip as a kickflip and shove-it performed simultaneously while the body stays still, and spends real time on the most common landing mistake, primo (catching on the board's edge from under-rotation), plus a tip to flip the board and step away from it to check your motion before committing.

Key tips

• 1Set your back foot up like a pop shove-it (popsicle-stick position) and your front foot like a kickflip
• 2Ollie and kick your front foot forward toward the nose to flip the board while simultaneously kicking your back foot toward the heel side to start the spin
• 3Keep the board underneath you and watch it come around, catching it the same way you would catch a heel flip
• 4If the board over-rotates, reduce how hard you kick with your back foot
• 5Keep your weight forward as the board comes around to avoid landing in a manual position
• 6Landing on the board's edge (primo) usually means the board did not flip enough; work on flicking it fully
• 7Practice flipping the board and stepping away from it to watch the motion without committing to landing, to check whether your flick is correct
• 8If bailing on the trick, land with your feet flat to avoid rolling an ankle

Summarized from the video transcript.