What is a Skateboard Heel Flip?

Series Summary

Skateboarding tricks are a fun and popular way to enhance your skate skills. Many skateboarders have had an impact on skateboarding throughout time. A recent study showed there were over eighteen million skateboarders worldwide. Over eighty percent of skateboarders polled had used a board under the age of 18, and over seventy percent were male.

In this free instructional video series let a skateboard professional teach you how to heel flip. He shows variations of this trick like fakie heel flips and a heel flip shove it. He'll also show you how key foot placement is on a skateboard when attempting these tricks. Impress yourself and your friends with a skateboard heel flip!

Video Transcript

"The heel flip. The heel flip gets it's name because what you do is you kick the heel off the board and cause it to flip over. It's almost the cousin to a kick flip because a kick flip turns one way and the heel flip turns the other way. So what you're going to want to do is hang your toe a little bit over the board and put your foot on the corner of the back of the tail and extend your foot past the nose and cause the board to go over in a heel flip way. This is a straight flipping trick. So you're going to roll forward, do an ollie, kick your heel off, cause the board to turn over, and then land back on it in a straight rolling position. The tricks you're going to have to learn how to do before doing this are having clean ollies for sure, and then having the kick flip cleanly is also a plus. Although some people sometimes have a knack for doing heel flips and learning heel flips before they do a kick flip. So don't rule out the heel flip if you can't do a kick flip. So basically the heel flip is a straight flipping trick that requires you to drag just your heel over the length of the board. So you'll want to hit the tail, drag your foot up the board and cause the board to do the heel flip, put your foot back on the board and land and roll away, and that's how you do a straight heel flip."