My name is Aaron Kyro
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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