I know at SB-C they actually have a whole forum on kickflips, but you dont really need that. I'm going to give it to ya straight, detailed and everything.

1. Set up with your back foot in the ollie position. Anywhere on the tail is pretty much good, I put my foot on the tip for some pop. Some put it way on the side. Now for the front foot, there are a couple places. I like to put it right in the middle and a little slanted, but some tend to put it just below the front bolts and angled. Just experiment to find what is right for you. Make sure to have your front foot on the board a ways, you want to have everything on except your heel, and then you can angle your foot.

2. Pop the tail and slide your front foot up like an ollie, but instead flick it off the dip where the nose starts. Remember, its a flick with more of your toe than anything. While your flicking it off the top you wanna lift up your back leg so the board can flip. If you don't the result is the board wont flip right.

3. This part gets some people stumped. "I land before the board does!!" well this is where you gotta JUMP! Make sure to jump!!!!!!!

4. Now lets go freeze frame. Your in the air and your board is flipping under you. A half second more and your gonna land and complain about only landing one foot. No more of this. Back to the freeze frame, after you flicked your foot out and you have your back foot up, you wanna bring back your front foot and bring down your back foot. Simple, but for many that is a problem. If your foot hits the board while your bringing it back, bring it back faster and jump a little higher.

Possible problem: I only land with my back foot.
Remedy: Remember to bring it back, but sometimes you're just scared to land it. So grow some balls and just stomp it down.

Possible problem: I only land with my front foot.
Remedy: You have to make a clean level flip so that when you bring down your back foot, it goes right onto the bolts. Sometimes its just because you dont bring up your back foot straight, and it goes out and all over the place, and you don't land anywhere near with your back foot. Just remember that it has to go straight up.

Possible problem: I fall when I land.
Remedy: If the board is shooting out, then you're probably not leaning forward enough. And remember, you want to try and land clean, so don't stick your feet together to land, have them spaced and straight over the board.

Varial Kickflip- a trick where a skateboard spins 180 degrees, like a pop shove it, and flips, like a kickflip, at the same time.

Need to know - You need to know how to do pop shove its, and you don't necessarily have to know how to land a kickflip with both feet, but you should know how to flip the board well.

Foot Positioning:

Place your front foot just how you would for a kickflip, and angled to be ready to flick off the side quick when scooping.

Place your back foot flat on the tail like a pop shove it. You can also put it way on the tip, for added pop.

1. Pop the tail slightly angled, not straight, to start the spin. You don't need a monster scoop to get the spin, just enough to get 180 degrees.

2. Wait until the board is slightly angled backside, then flick your front foot off the side of the board causing it to flip and spin at the same time.

-Remember to lift your back foot up, so that the board may spin and flip freely.
-Also remember to jump very high, as to allow the board to complete the varial kickflip process before you land.

3. In midair keep your back foot in the same place, don't kick it out or anything.

-After you have flicked your front foot out, just bring it back at a bit to the board. Don't freak out over these, because they are way easier to land than kickflips, they're just like landing pop shove its.
-You may have to jump to the board slighlty for your first couple varial kickflips, but you can remedy this by scooping and popping angled more in the beginning, as to keep the board flipping and spinning under your feet.

4. Ride away very satisfied.

Problem: I always land on the board upside down.
Solution: This might mean you are focusing more on the pop shove it than the kickflip. 1.Just keep doing what you're doing but this time put all your might into your flick next time
2.Angle your foot more towards the side to get a faster flip
3. Jump higher to allow the board to flip all the way.

Problem: I only land with one foot.
Solution: You're probably not commited enough.
1. Its just like landing a pop shove it, so just gather up strength and commit to it!
2. Balance your self so that you can maneuver both feet to the board, i.e. leaning back too far may cause trouble for bringing your front foot back.

What it is: a 360 kickflip is also called a tre flip, 3 flip, and 360 flip. This skateboard trick is a combination of a 360 pop shove it and a kickflip.

Foot placement: Try hanging the toes of your back foot off the tail, for added scoop, and put your front foot right at about the middle of the board at a little more of a 45 degree angle.

1) Set your feet up (see above for placement)

2) Bend down, and make sure to be balanced.

3) Pop and bring your back foot back a lot, causing in a huge scoop, then immediatly lift it up so the board can spin. When the board is at about 45 degrees, flick your foot off the board causing the flip. Don't worry about timing it so you flick off at 45 degrees, it'll usually comes naturally.

5) Bring your front foot back after you have flicked it.

4) Jump real high up, to allow the flip, and jump a bit forward, because your flip might carry off a bit.

5) Watch the board and stomp it when it has rotated.

6)Ride away extemely satisfied.

NOTE: Don't worry if you don't get it first try, or even 50th try. This is an advanced trick.

NOTE: It's incredibly easier to do while moving.

Possible Problem: I land on the nose!
Solution: If stationary: try leaning back when doing the trick. Moving: Inertia makes you go forward while your board flips, so try resisting going forward, maybe try jumping a bit back, or leaning back.

Possible Problem: I can only get 270!
Solution: Remember to really scoop, really kick your back foot back when scooping.

Remember: Don't get mad if you're landing on the nose, because that counts as a 360 flip too, it just doesn't look as good, and you dont ride away.

First find yourself a half pipe or a quarter pipe and a skateboard.

Set your board on the coping with the nose and trucks out over the coping and the tail resting flat on top of it. Now u got to drop in with your foot on the tail and your other foot over the back to bolts on front trucks. Crouch over the coping and you will start to fall forward, now you keep your weight somewhat forward and your shoulders square. Don't bail. When you hit the bottom (at the bend) put your weight evenly. Once you get past that part you should be on level ground and you can relax.

Learning Frontside And Backside

This issue is mostly for beginners.

For 180s, 360s,...: say your skateboarding in a straight line. When you fly in the air back first, with your back facing the way your headed, you're going backside. Say your flying in the air with your face facing the way you're headed. That's frontside.

Now, put that same thought in your flips. Just imagine yourself on your skateboard when its turning. Example: If your skateboard was turning 360 degrees. Now imagine yourself on the skateboard. If the skateboard turns so that you would be flying backward, that would be backside. Thus being a backside shove it. Vice versa for a frontside shove it.

Most beginners think that frontside and backside is the way you would throw yourself or flip your board. Its not, its pretty much the opposite.

Grinds: For grinds and slides, its pretty easy to get. It matters where your toes are facing. Say you come up to an obstacle with your toes facing it, and you grind a 50-50. That would be a frontside 50-50. Since your toes are facing it. If your toes where against the obstacle, then it would be a backside 50-50. Toes facing TOWARD the obstacle = frontside. Toes facing AGAINST the obstacle = backside.

The same applies to slides. Its matters where your toes are facing. So if you would want to do a backside lipslide, than you would go up to the object with your toes against the object.

Also, the rule applies for fakie, nollie, and switch stances.

1. You're headed straight

2. You do a 180, flying with your back facing the way your flying.

3. You land

That's a backside 180 :)