Body varial

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A Body Varial is a freestyle skateboarding trick done on a skateboard where the skateboarder jumps up and rotates 180 degrees and lands on the skateboard riding in the opposite stance i.e. changing the front foot from left to right foot or vice versa. It is also known as a Hippy Twist when done over an object, as a Sex Change when on flat ground and a Body Follow when the board rotates the same direction and amount as the body.

It is nowadays almost always combined with some other trick, although it can be performed on its own with the skateboarder jumping over an obstacle and letting the board roll under it which would be a Body Varial High Jump.

Recently, the body varial has become a trick in Moto-X competitions, especially in Best Trick. Kyle Loza won a gold medal in the Best Trick competition at X Games 13 with a body varial variation he calls "The Volt".