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HOW TO VARIAL KICKFLIP THE EASIEST WAY TUTORIAL 3.0

Braille Skateboarding10:46

HOW TO VARIAL KICKFLIP THE EASIEST WAY TUTORIAL 3.0 by Braille Skateboarding is a skateboarding tutorial for the Triple Kickflip. A varial kickflip tutorial (pop shove-it plus kickflip combined), not a triple kickflip — flagged as transferable technique.

What this video teaches

A varial kickflip tutorial (pop shove-it plus kickflip combined), not a triple kickflip — flagged as transferable technique. Aaron Kyro explains the trick as two known motions stacked together, and stresses that isolating the back-foot shove-down-and-back motion from the front-foot flick-up-and-drag is what makes combining multiple rotations possible without either motion interfering with the other.

Key tips

  • Confirm you already have a solid pop shove-it and kickflip before attempting to combine them into a varial-style trick
  • Push straight down through your back foot for a pop shove-it, then add a slight backward push to add the shove rotation
  • Keep your front foot dragging in contact with the grip tape through the pop; foot separation from the board removes control over the added rotation
  • Isolate the back foot's push-down-and-back motion from the front foot's drag-and-up motion so each contributes its rotation independently rather than fighting each other
  • Catch the combined-rotation trick with your front foot and bring the board down, leaving your back foot on through the whole trick
  • If you accidentally add rotation while trying to learn a plain kickflip, that's a sign you're already scooping with your back foot — stop scooping to isolate a clean kickflip
  • Step-off drill: pop, spin, and flick with your front foot only, catching it before committing your back foot, to build the added-rotation motion safely
  • Treat every added rotation on a flip trick as a separate motion to isolate and drill before stacking it onto the base flick

Summarized from the video transcript.

Teaches

Triple Kickflip

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