HOW TO FRONTSIDE HEELFLIP THE EASIEST WAY TUTORIAL

What this video teaches

Guest presenter breaks the frontside heelflip down as fundamentally a shoulder-driven trick: back foot cocked outward on the tail's edge for pop and scoop, front foot in standard heelflip position, and the rotation coming almost entirely from winding the shoulders like a frontside 180 before popping and flicking off the board's pocket as it's already spinning about 20 degrees. Recommends learning frontside 180 and heelflip separately first, and offers a pivot-out technique plus a fakie variation as an alternate learning path.

Key tips

• 1Cock your back foot outward on the tip of the tail, about an inch back, to get proper pop and toe-side scoop for the frontside rotation
• 2Set your front foot the same way you would for a plain heelflip: about 2-3 inches past center, ball of foot on the edge, nearly perpendicular to the board
• 3Learn frontside 180s and heelflips separately and get both solid before combining them into this trick
• 4Wind your shoulders like a frontside 180 as you roll up, and pop the tail once your shoulders hit about 90 degrees to the direction of travel
• 5Scoop the tail rather than just popping straight down, so the board follows the same rotational path as your shoulders and legs
• 6Flick off the board's pocket, the indentation near the bolts, once it has already started spinning, roughly 20 degrees in, so the flick and rotation work together instead of fighting each other
• 7Keep practicing a nose pivot as a backup finish in case you don't complete the full 180 in the air, which also helps control and setups into manuals
• 8Put your weight fully onto your front foot before popping and keep your back foot elevated slightly longer on landing so the board is forced to finish rotating

Summarized from the video transcript.