180 Flips look especially nice done off of an obstacle. The FS or BS Kickflip or Heelflip are things of beauty. Once you have your basic flip tricks and Shuvits down, the easiest next step is to add a 180-degree spin. I never get tired of seeing a skater in big puffy shoes throw an Inward Heelflip between their baggy pants, but hey… I’m old. Some skaters have very steezy Inward Heels that they catch with the front foot, and others flip them perfectly between their legs.Įither way, the Inward Heelflip is a thing of beauty. The result is a vertical spin and flip that comes up between the skater’s legs. The Inward Heel is a combination of a BS Pop Shuvit and a Heelflip. My personal favorite looking trick, and a staple of early 2000’s street skating. But I if you land a Hardflip, in my opinion, you have won the battle.

The biggest factor in each of these styles of Hardflips is jumping high enough that you are catching your Hardflip well before you land. Other skaters catch their Hardflips to the side like a big shifty. Some Hardflips spin right up between the skater’s legs. Some Hardflips spin very flat and horizontal. Watch a bunch of different skaters do Hardflips, and you will see that almost everyone does them differently. While these are one of the coolest looking tricks, they aren’t called HARDflip because they are easy to do. Instead of a BS PopShuv and a Kickflip you did in the Varial Flip, you now do a FS Shuv and a Kickflip. You probably need to jump forward to land a Varial Flip and jump backward to land a Varial Heel, but the goal is to keep the board under you so you don’t have to jump forward or backward. The real difficulty comes from staying over top of the board.

You don’t need to flick a really hard Kickflip nor scoop a really huge BS PopShuv to pull off a Varial Flip.

You position your feet in such a way that the board does most of the work. Either way, Varial Heelflips are a nice challenge and a great feeling trick to land.The secret to 2 these tricks is foot placement. Maybe because most people aren’t good with Heelfips and FS Shuvs, so it seems like a harder trick.īut I know a few skaters with perfect Varial Heels and very sketchy Varial Flips. While basically the opposite of a Varial Flip, the Varial Heel appears to get more cred than the Varial Flip. Once you have a solid Heelflip and a banging FS Shuv, you should be trying the Varial Heelflip. The Varial Heelflip is a combination of Heelflip and FS Pop Shuvit. While a bit of a weird looking trick, it’s definitely worth learning, and you can make it stylish (Front foot catch!!!!!). People call it “Ugly” or say that “Kooks do Varial Flips”, but pull one out in a game of skate and I bet your opponent gets a letter. The Varial Flip has been looked down upon for the past every years. If you prefer BS Pop Shuvs and Kickflips, this is the trick for you. The Varial Flip is a combination Kickflip and BS Pop Shuvit. Let’s look at the more common intermediate street/flat-ground tricks. Combining tricks together gives us a virtually endless list of tricks. What do you learn next after mastering these so-called “easy” tricks? A good place to start is by combining the “easy” tricks to learn new intermediate tricks.Īlmost all skateboard tricks build off a simpler trick: The kick flip is built off the ollie, the Pop Shuv is built of the simple Shuvit. You’ve got 180’s Pop Shuvs, FS Shuvs, Kickflips, and Heel Flips on lock. Intermediate Street Skateboarding Tricks.

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