How to Do a Solid Heelflip on a Skateboard

Video Transcript

"My name is Shawn Connolly. I'm from San Francisco, California, and I'm a sponsored skateboarder. I also run a program called The SF Skate Club, skateboarding program for youth. I'm here to explain how to do a Straight Heelflip. Now, when you're first learning any flip trick, it takes a lot of patience and a lot of testing out different foot placements, figuring out what is going to make your trick work. Now, with that in mind, what you're going to do, is start out with your foot on the tip of the corner, of the back of the tail. Now, your front foot is going to be in the front of the board, hanging your toe off just slightly, and that's where the term heelflip comes from, because most of your front foot, is the heel part of the board. Now, once you pop the tail, this is going to keep the board nice and even, by having your toe here, and your heel here. It's going to stop it from doing any shoveting. It's going to go directly over, and then you're going to catch it, and roll away. Now, this trick can be taken into lots of different variations. You could end up doing a Fakie Heelflip. You could learn how to do it rolling backwards. You could also do a Heelflip Shove-It, which is where the board does a heelflip, and travels around, and this is how you do heelflip on a skateboard. My name is Shawn Connolly. I'm from San Francisco, California, and I'm sponsored, and run a program called SF Skate Club, for youth. You can find out more about that, at SFSkateClub.com."