Common Mistakes with Skateboard Heel Flips

Video Transcript

"Some of the common mistakes you may experience while learning how to heel flip are sometimes when you first start doing heel flips they won't flip enough. They sometimes will land upside down or they'll land to the side. The way you want to fix this is by testing your foot placement. One thing that you could do is you could take your feet and you put a little more foot off the board. The desired heel flip is going to end up wanting to put as much foot on the board as possible. This will make the board go higher and heel flip more steady, but as you learn what you want to do is test it with more foot on there. What this will do is make your heel flip flip faster and quicker. That way when you first start you'll go fast and you can land them and roll away, and then eventually you'll want to put a little more foot on as you get more comfortable doing them and have it flip more slowly and more gracefully. Another common mistake with heel flips is that since your heel is more based on the front side of your board, the side that's facing you, it'll cause you to go 90 degrees and land at a side. Now what you want to do to fix this is actually heel flip a little bit to the left. It might seem a little bit weird, but what it does is it counteracts that backside 90 position that ends up happening. What happens is your shoulders turn a little bit and it causes you to land a little bit sideways. So what you want to do to fix that is you want to heel flip as straight, and maybe even a little to the left if you start having a problem landing 90, as you can to fix it and roll away clean from a straight heel flip."