Heelflip

Now for the heelflip. This is another one of those important tricks to have. It’s a base trick to a lot of other tricks, just like the kickflip, but it’s a must have for your bag of tricks as just a plain heelflip.

Put your front foot across the board, with your toes hanging of the edge a bit. Your front foot should be a little behind the bolts. For your back foot, you’re going to be on your toes, right at the tip of your tail.

As you pop the board for this, slide your front foot straight up until you get to the beginning of the nose, where you will start flicking your foot away from you, towards the far edge of the board.

As the board starts rotating, pull your feet up towards your body as soon as you can, so that you can get them away from the board so that it can rotate smoothly.

As the board comes around and you see grip, catch the board with both feet, keep your weight centred so that you don’t fall, and stomp the heelflip.

It is going to take you quite awhile to learn this trick, because it is actually pretty hard. Just keep at it, keep having fun with it and you should get it eventually.

I hope this helped and you learn this trick, because it feels great when you land it.