HOW TO VARIAL KICKFLIP
HOW TO VARIAL KICKFLIP by Jonny Giger is a skateboarding tutorial for the Double Varial Kickflip. Jonny Giger gives a longer, prerequisite-focused breakdown of the varial kickflip as a backside shove-it combined with a kickflip, walking through several valid front foot placement options and stressing that solid pop shove-its and kickflips should already be second nature before attempting the combination.
What this video teaches
Jonny Giger gives a longer, prerequisite-focused breakdown of the varial kickflip as a backside shove-it combined with a kickflip, walking through several valid front foot placement options and stressing that solid pop shove-its and kickflips should already be second nature before attempting the combination.
Key tips
- Have your pop shove-its and kickflips landing reliably, hundreds of reps deep, before starting this trick
- Set your front foot angled and placed right behind the bolts as a starting reference position
- Experiment with front foot placement further back toward the bolts or more centered if the default position doesn't click
- Set your back foot in a shove-it position, further back toward the center of the tail if that feels more natural
- Recognize the back foot is doing essentially the same scooping job it does in a plain pop shove-it
- Treat foot positioning as trial and error, your ideal setup may differ from any single demonstrated stance
- Build comfort cruising and turning on your board generally, frontside and backside 180s help develop the same balance
- Expect the trick to take real time, don't be discouraged if pop quality lags behind rotation consistency at first
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
Double Varial Kickflip