How to Heelflip - Beginner Skateboard Tricks Tutorial (Slow Motion)

What this video teaches

This video teaches the standalone heelflip, not the frontside 180 combination — useful here only for isolating the flick mechanics that heelflip frontside 180 also needs. Breaks the trick into pop-and-pre-flick, flick, and hangtime-and-landing phases, stressing that the pop must happen before the flick rather than simultaneously. Frames the heel as mostly uninvolved: the flick actually comes off the pinky-toe edge of the front foot, not a heel-driven kick.

Key tips

• 1Different trick (plain heelflip, no rotation) — kept only for flick mechanics that carry over
• 2Pop the board like an ollie first, then flick only once you're airborne; popping and flicking at the same time is the most common beginner mistake
• 3Flick outward off the nose with the pinky-toe area of your front foot, not your heel, despite the trick's name
• 4Set your back foot near the center of the tail to maximize pop, with your front foot angled slightly outward past center
• 5Extend your flicking leg fully out of the way immediately after the kick so it doesn't block the board mid-flip
• 6Keep your weight centered as the board flips so it stays under you instead of flying away
• 7Get your front foot back above the board first after the flick, then bring your back foot down to land on the bolts
• 8Land with bent knees to absorb impact and avoid landing primo on the rails

Summarized from the video transcript.