The reason your toes have to press the corner of the tail is the opposite pressure effect, its the same reason why pressures, Tres, Lasers, V Heels, are all stable to stand on and flip the ways they do.
Yoooo I finally got my first heelflip today, after trying to figure out kickflips and heelflips for literally months! The tip to visualize aiming for the front wheel is gold. Popping on the heel side of the tail really helps, too. Thanks!
Put your foot higher up on the board, and flick off the nose, I hang my foot way off the board because thats just my style, but I've heard people say you can do them higher if you keep your front foot more on the board because you'll have more control
@@PHeMoX I disagree. Maybe the potential for more pop but I’m 5’11” and don’t have any trouble getting pop. But you’re probably technically correct because I couldn’t hard flip till I went through puberty and grew
@@matanaltjeacovson4117 I grew up with a lot of kids 6 foot plus and that didn’t necessarily translate to how high they popped, at least that wasn’t already based off their skill level
You put your foot in the pocket that way as you pop it goes the opposite direction giving your front foot leverage to flip it, same thing with hardflip, tre flip, nollie heel to name a few
I always been good at heelflips, better at one point then my kickflips even, but primo has always been a probably with me too when doing them, it really sucks to primo on heelflips because you're leaning back so much, well atleast I do with like every trick, and when I land in primo I fall back, and one day I fell back off a primo on a heelflip at the skatepark and my pointer finger went underneath the board, and I smashed it really hard and it was purple for 2 weeks! Yup primo is the worst, happens to me all the time on flatground
