Warning: Varial Kickflips Are Not Cool

Richie investigates the stigma surrounding the varial flip - a trick largely shunned by skateboarding's hypercritical elite. It's hard to say where ugliness truthfully resides. Is it in the varial flip, or in our condemnatory nature? You be the judged.

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[amp]

If you tell me you hate varial flips, I will do every varial variation on you in a game of skate just to spite you. There is no reason to hate on varial flips lol

[cstill]

"mongo pushing street helmet wearing longboarders"

this is art

[gnome]

Am I the only one who thinks that varial kickflips are pretty cool?

[ruiarruda]

The "The Mask" joke was friggin good tbh

[dankmeme]

This comments section is filled with people who don't get the joke and think Richie hates varial flips, while he's actually making a point about the "strange, fickle world of skateboarding" where some things are arbitrarily uncool just because. The fact that his sarcasm and satire flies over everyone's head is kinda funny to me tho...

[justinbuice]

varial flips are awesome cause nobody practices them. next time you play skate at your local park, I bet the best dude there cant land one first try

[LandoMercy]

I fucking died at the mask part its so random and funny as fuck

[jameschapman]

You should just wear a mask all the time if thats the way you dress.

[oatmeal]

I hope everyone complaining knows he'd fucking kidding smh

[candycigadddict]

Its apparent some people don't understand dry humor and satire.

[MacieJay]

But forward flips are cool, which is pretty much a varial flip.

[haaa]

How did we go from talking about varials to masks?

[Pece]

Everything that is uncool is essentially cool because it's not cool

[oldboy]

isn't a pop shove it just a varial ollie?

[NotLegitBroseph]

varial flips are the easiest trick to do that people seem to suck at when playing skate

[ZeroCool]

I think the fact that he's mixing up V for Vendetta and The Mask on purpose shows this video is satirical haha.

[incredelman]

"The mask I'm wearing is a nod to the movie [completely wrong movie with a different mask]" lmfao

[MrMarcusMarino]

This is obviously facetious, why must the internet be so sensitive?

[yamahaO]

I hate this generation of skaters.. Were anything unoriginal thats done over and over again in competitions are the only "cool" tricks. Those and little 6 inch crooked grinds.. WOW that must take some serious balance! Back in the early 2000s, us old timers called that kiss the rail. Man, its just been invaded with the $100 Nike wearing douches that complain when they get their clothes dirty. Now creativity and skill has been replaced with 'steez'.. That just show me that you do the exact same boring tricks over and over again.. Thank GOD for most of the almost skate team! With haslem, daewon, and prase the lord Rodney Mullen still skates.. That's creativity, THATS skateboarding!

[nathanheightz]

I think people hate on the varial kickflip because it's actually HARDER to do down stairs then a 360flip... And usually people focus on 360flips so when someone does a varial kickflip in a game of skate, they are illprepared and take a letter.... jajajaj theyre mad.