Double Heelflip trick tip
Double Heelflip trick tip by Sawyer Martin is a skateboarding tutorial for the Double Heelflip. Sawyer Martin gives a direct, no-frills double heelflip breakdown: take your regular heelflip stance and move the front foot back for extra rotation, then diagnoses the single most common failure (a "one-and-a-half" under-rotation) as coming from either a weak pop or a weak foot-throw, not some separate technical flaw.
What this video teaches
Sawyer Martin gives a direct, no-frills double heelflip breakdown: take your regular heelflip stance and move the front foot back for extra rotation, then diagnoses the single most common failure (a "one-and-a-half" under-rotation) as coming from either a weak pop or a weak foot-throw, not some separate technical flaw.
Key tips
- Start from your normal heelflip footing, then slide your front foot back to add the leverage needed for the extra rotation
- Keep your back (pop) foot just over half the tail, same as a regular heelflip
- Let your front foot hang off the board slightly, same as a regular heelflip, just shifted back
- Pop only slightly harder than a regular heelflip, the extra rotation comes mainly from the foot throw, not from the pop force
- Fling your front foot out extra hard through the flick to generate the second rotation
- If you keep landing one-and-a-half rotations short, the fix is either a harder pop or throwing your foot out harder, isolate which one is weak
- Jump straight up like a normal heelflip rather than adding forward travel, since the extra height is what buys time for the second flip
- Watch for the graphic coming back around the second time before stomping down to land
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
Double Heelflip