I'm from the San Francisco Bay Area

I've been skateboarding for a very long time

And today everybody watching this video is going to learn

How To Heelflip

Before you get into your heelflips, make sure you have your ollies down

Your 180s, your pop shove-its

And you should probably do you your kickflips too

Now this is the foot placement

My back foot is perched on the edge of the tail over there

I like to keep it to the side because it tends to balance things out

And my front foot is just hanging off, my big toe is just hanging off

And you can see it's a little slanted on the front of the board as well

This slant helps you to get the flick

The flick of your front foot that's going to cause the heelflip to actually spin

Now the first step of this is actually the pop

But you've been doing the pop for a while

Because you've got your 180s, pop shove-its, kickflips etc. down

So this is the part that I really want you to work on

I want you to stand on your board like this

And just practice moving your foot in this exact motion right here

As you can see my foot slides up almost like an ollie

But the edge of my heel just slides right off and flicks off the edge of the board

That's very important because that's what's going to flick your board

And make it spin

So just stand there and just practice that motion for a while

The more you practice, the more you'll get it down

And then once you go to put everything together it'll just be that much easier

I wanted to do some still frames here to show you exactly how the foot slides up

You see it's almost in an ollie position

Then right there, my heel just clicks right off the top edge of that nose

And it just slides up, my toe comes up

Notice just like the kickflip, it is an upward motion

It is not a downward motion

It is just like an ollie slides up, the kickflip slides up

The heelflip slides up the exact same way

And then your board spins, you catch it with your back foot and land

The heelflip is very similar to the kickflip

But it's just a different part of your foot

Sliding off and flicking the board causing it to flip

It goes in the opposite direction of course

You catch it with your back foot and then just put your legs down and land

This one is going to require some practice

And it does take a little while

Sometimes people have an easier time with this than kickflips

So they learn the heelflips first

I actually learned heelflips first believe it or not

But now I'm far better at kickflips, heelflip is not my best trick

So you can see again the heel flipping right off the front edge of the board

And then the back foot catches it

The better you get at that flip

The more you're going to have control of your board

And the easier it's going to be for you to do this off of things

Into manuals or whatever

But the main thing that's stressed is just that flick right there

So that's the thing you want to practice

And keep in mind again, both feet are always above the board

So if one of your feet is going below the board, you're doing something wrong

Your flick is wrong, you're not committing

And that's why I want you guys to send me your videos

So I can take a look and see exactly what you're doing and help you out

Please let me know if you guys have any questions

I'm always down to help you

Now the best way you guys can get help

Is to actually make a video of yourself attempting the trick and send it to me

It helps me because I can see exactly what you're doing

And then I can correct you from there

Or help you to change your foot position etc.

Whatever, whatever it is that you need to fix

Thank you guys for all your support

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