How To: FRONTSIDE 180 HEELFLIP | Frontside 180 Heelflip Tutorial

What this video teaches

Dedicated tutorial for the exact trick, breaking it into foot position, weight distribution and lean, shoulder rotation, and flick timing. Tom Rohrer sets the back foot near the center of the tail, like a light varial-heel setup, and puts heavy weight on the front foot's toe edge, then stresses twisting the shoulders through nearly a full 180 rather than the usual turn-90 cue, while pushing the board out in front to keep it level and avoid diving forward.

Key tips

• 1Set your back foot near the center of the tail, similar to a varial heel setup but less deep in the pocket, to balance pop against over-scooping
• 2Put most of your weight on the front foot's toe edge with the ball of your foot on that edge, flicking with the toe rather than the heel
• 3Push the board out in front of you as you pop so you stay above it instead of leaning too far forward and getting ahead of it
• 4Twist your shoulders through nearly the full 180 rotation rather than just 90 degrees — this trick needs more shoulder commitment than most 180 tricks
• 5Let your back foot scoop the board only slightly; the shoulder twist is what drives most of the rotation
• 6Flick right off the front pinky-toe edge as you pop, tilting the board to trigger the flip
• 7Look down at your front toes just before you pop to help time the flick correctly
• 8Adjust your lean toward the toe side if you're getting ahead of the board, or toward the heel side if it isn't pushing out far enough in front of you

Summarized from the video transcript.