Common Mistakes with Skateboard Fakie Heel Flips

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"Some of the common mistakes that people make while they're learning how to fakie heel flip are usually just being comfortable rolling in the fakie position. You don't spend as much time rolling fakie as you do rolling forward so it requires a little more thought to be prepared to roll fakie. One of the other problems that people usually have is they don't put enough weight over the front of the board. What this does is it replaces the momentum that you feel when you're headed towards the tail. What you have to do is lean, while you do the fakie ollie, lean forward to compensate and balance out the trick. What people usually don't do is, while they're rolling backwards they tend to lean back this way once they've ollied and heel flip and keep going in this position. What you want to do to fix that is you want to set up in your heel flip position, hit the tail, and then replace the weight on the front side of it so that your weight is balanced evenly and it ends up flipping straight and you're able to roll away. Another problem that you may have learning fakie heel flips is that it just doesn't flip enough. What you need to do then is possibly adjust your foot placement by hanging your toe a little more off the board. This is a very common mistake. What you'll want to do is just test what's right for you at the speed that you're rolling. Have your back foot on the back corner, your foot over here, that's how you balance the heel flip and the ollie, and then remember to lean forward so that you don't lean too far back and kick, and don't have it land underneath you, and that'll help you learn how to heel flip fakie."