(Don't Flick With Your Heel!) How To: HEELFLIP | Heelflip Tutorial

This may sound counterintuitive, but flick from the ball of your foot, just like a kickflip. Definitely not the heel. While the foot placement is a little different, it’s the same trick but kicking in the opposite direction. Everything else looks good though. Keeping your feet over the board is the hardest part. I hope this helps! [VIDEO]

Well, if you're landing them, and I'm not, you're probably doing them more correctly than me. :) That said, I only hang my toes over the board a little bit. I focus my pressure on my front foot toes, and I focus on trying to flick my pinky toe in the pocket. Basically, the same flick for a kickflip but mirrored. Just to throw example conflicting tutorials: [[VIDEO]](This one is all about flicking with the toes) while this one is all about the heel [VIDEO]. (You can take my word for it since you don't need tutorials). Both IMO pretty high level skaters, pretty different foot positions/cues for the trick. I do see what you're saying about how the heel is involved no matter what just because of the biomechanics of the foot movement. I'll definitely have to keep experimenting with that, and I hope it helps something click for me. Learning how to skate, in general, has been - uhhh - interesting exactly because of all the variation in how to do tricks. Outside of the handful of rules pertaining to very specific tricks, it feels like I have to use an amalgamation of a bunch of different techniques presented to get my tricks. It can be overwhelming trying to figure it all out because I'm e…

Check out this vid [VIDEO] from Tom’s Tutorials. I think it might be a big help.

Check out Toms Turorial [VIDEO] on this one

[VIDEO] The outside edge of my foot is in fact not where my Flick comes from, this homie explains it well.