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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INWARD HEELFLIPS AND PRESSURE FLIPS
Braille Skateboarding4:49
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INWARD HEELFLIPS AND PRESSURE FLIPS by Braille Skateboarding is a skateboarding tutorial for the Inward Heelflip. A side-by-side comparison video showing what separates a true inward heelflip from a pressure flip, demonstrating through slow-motion analysis that the front foot must visibly kick out and through the board for it to count.
What this video teaches
A side-by-side comparison video showing what separates a true inward heelflip from a pressure flip, demonstrating through slow-motion analysis that the front foot must visibly kick out and through the board for it to count.
Key tips
- A pressure flip is driven entirely by the back foot; the front foot just lifts. An inward heelflip requires the front foot to actively flick the board.
- Watch for the front foot kicking outward and the board passing between the legs. If the board never passes between the legs, it is a pressure flip.
- Flicking down with the front foot produces a pressure-flip-style rotation rather than a true heelflip spin.
- The front foot needs to go out far and wide, not straight down, to allow the board to travel between the legs and complete the 180.
- Slow-motion comparison: in a real inward heelflip the nose wraps around the front foot; in a pressure flip the front foot barely moves.
- The feel-good cue is when the board visibly travels in between your legs before coming back up to your feet.
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
Inward Heelflip