Body Varial: Board Out Of Water?

Addicted · Faceplant Joined: 20 Jul 2008 Posts: 25 City: St. Louis

So I tried to land a body varial for the first time this weekend and I got really close, but never quite road one away. When I jumped off the board to so my rotation, it seemed like the board never left the water and that caused it to end up behind me when I landed. We tried slowing the boat down to combat this (which helped a little), but I know I shouldn't have to. When I watch videos online, the board is clearly out of the water, but I don't know how that happens. What's the trick to getting the board up without using your back foot?

skimboarder · Posted: Aug 19, 2009 6:50 pm Post subject:

just make sure you jump off your front foot

One_Wadey · Frontside 180 Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 492 City: Dallas

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Aug 19, 2009 9:37 pm Post subject:

cut out flatten off for a second, ollie nice and big, push off with your front foot like skimboarder said, then land on your toes if hs, and heels if ts.

PassedOutAwake · Faceplant Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 40 City: Panama City

ive been having the same problem. i keep landing on the front of the board and it submerges.

wakemitch · Posted: Aug 20, 2009 4:16 pm Post subject:

-=AlexXx=-, how do you ollie big and then push off your front foot? a body varial is just all of your front foot. there is no real ollie

Addicted · Faceplant Joined: 20 Jul 2008 Posts: 25 City: St. Louis

One_Wadey, what do you mean by pancake? I do flatten off (a few feet from the wake).

I'm def. pushing off with my front foot (I concentrate on almost no pressure from the back foot), but the board doesn't seem to come out of the water which I assume it needs to do. Does that mean I need to push harder with my front foot? I really only push hard enough to get my body off the floor, I'm not hitting it nearly as hard as I would for an ollie. Am I pushing in the wrong spot? I'm just shy of where the board starts to become the tail/head.

-=AlexXx=-, You seem to be one of the few that says to ollie in this trick. It would explain how to get the baord out of the water obviously, but I don't know how you get separation from the board then. Curious to hear more

Thanks for the tips guys

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Aug 20, 2009 10:38 pm Post subject:

Addicted, well, when i do them inside out, i usually ollie big, grab the heelslide of the board then push off with my front foot to initiate the body variel. There is no way i can grab the board if i push off with my front foot as if i dont ollie. doesnt make sense to me, at all. In the flats i do the same, minus the grab of course. I just kinda of ollie and just push off slightly with my front foot's toes and do the turn and lift myself off. All trial and error. Thats how i do it, doesnt mean its the best way, or that you have to do it the same way.

skimboarder · Posted: Aug 21, 2009 1:40 am Post subject:

i'm going to try your way alex of ollieing then pushing off i've never even thought of that. i always just cut out flatten off and jump off my front foot

bob. · Posted: Aug 21, 2009 7:51 am Post subject:

just ollie a few times and try kicking the board off your feet then landing on it, then do that plus a 180 haha

Addicted · Faceplant Joined: 20 Jul 2008 Posts: 25 City: St. Louis

When you push off, doesn't the board just move and not you? If you are in mid air and then push off with your front foot, doesn't the front of the board drop? I'll give it a shot, but I'm thinking it'll turn into a FS 180.

bob. · Posted: Aug 21, 2009 7:58 am Post subject:

if you push with just your front foot in mid air your gonna do an ollie north

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Aug 21, 2009 8:32 am Post subject:

Thats why i said what i said. Dont give the board a god damn karate kick like your going for a 3 flip or somthing, tap it with the your toes, just enough to get it off your foot then do the body 180.

parm · Posted: Sep 10, 2009 7:51 pm Post subject:

you're not really even pushing it down, just keeping it level like you would in an ollie.

Your front foot keeps the nose of the board from continuing to rise. You can do this trick by jumping off your front foot, or by doing an ollie first, it's the same concept.