How to Do a Heelflip Varial on a Skateboard

Video Transcript

"My name is Shawn Connolly. I live in San Francisco, California. I'm a sponsored skate boarder and I also run a program called the SF Skate Club. It's a skateboarding program for youth. I'm hear to explain how to do the heal flip varial. Now, what a heel flip varial is, is it's a heel flip and a front side shove it combined together. So, you're going to want to know how to do front side pop shove its, and you're also going to want to learn how to do straight heel flips. The heel flip isn't quite as important because this trick isn't exactly the same as a heel flip motion, but it will help if you know how to do them. Now, what you going to want to do is set up with the tip of your toe on the back corner of your tail, and your front foot is going to hang off a little bit more than you would for a normal heel flip, and the reason for this is that you're trying to send the board front side and heel flip at the same time. Now, like with any flip trick, it's going to require you to learn exactly the right foot positioning, and it's going to require a lot of patience. This is a pretty hard trick to do. Most of the flipping goes on behind you, and you can't really see it. So, it's going to take a lot of trial and error. So, once you hit the tail, you're going to want to take your toe, kick it off the length of the board and kick it behind you with your front foot and also kick it forward with your back foot. It's going to send the board all the way over. You're going to catch it, land and roll away. Now like with any flip trick, it's best to learn this trick stationary, and then slowly start to roll and get speed, and then you'll be able to pop them a lot better, and this is how you do a heel flip varial. My name is Shawn Connolly. I'm from San Francisco, California. I'm sponsored and I run a program called the SF Skate Club. You can learn more about it at SFSkateClub.com."