How To: Heelflip 

i just watched this for the first time since i made it... wow, i sound terrible. i'm pretty sure i was just getting off being sick and i guess i was a bit more voice shy. sorry about that haha

To me, the best tip for landing the heelflip is to keep your shoulders straight. A very big problem that most beginner skaters have is jumping away from the board. Right before they pop they lean back so the board goes in front of them. So if you can stay straight up and down, you should get tricks way faster.

Bro, your tutorials are better than Braille. You’re a god. Thanks to you I learned a heelflip in 3hours

Landed 8 heelflips in a row yasss

It took me 7 years to do a kick flup and 2 days for heel flip

What helped me was I told myself “jump higher and straight up” and boom I have them now :D oh yeah and lean back and try your hardest

That would hurt heelfliping with only socks

I can't do either yet but I definitely find heelflips easier, I'm always afraid when I kickflip that I'm gonna get popsicled, heelflips feel nice and natural

Wow I didn’t even realise that putting the front foot further back increases the flip speed. I “over” flip on kickflips a lot and that may be the reason. Cool!

I love heelflips they feel easier to learn than frontside 180

I just landed 4 heelflips for the second time ever, made me happy made me smile nice :)

You deserve alot more subs 👌🏻

landed my first today...wasn't sure if I got the flicking motion right, this helped...thanks

u taught me my first Ollie so i came back for u to teach me my first heel flip lol

Just learned how to heel flip literally after only an hour and a half of practice and I’ve never practiced heel flips until now. This video was better than any other one I watched. Thanks so much.

I have bean struggling with healflips for a while, then I tried you foot placement and landed one in 5 tries, love you for that

I know this is an old video, but I have fallen in love with your challenge

I literally learned this in 6 and a half minutes, no joke. Ur tutorials are always great bro thanks

You deserve so many more subs than you have, I respect and learn so much from your vids and I pick them over any other. Keep doing these videos they're great and I'm sure, just as inspiring and helpful to skaters as they are to me.

That was honestly a great trick tip! I'm definitely a kickflip person, myself xD

I've been skating for 10 years and this spring when the snow melted I COULDN'T HEELFLIP ANYMORE!! I literally had no idea what was going wrong I've been skating long enough that I can usually self diagnose any issues, adjusting weight distribution, set-up, truck tightness, changing where/how I flick off and literally nothing made sense. Sometimes I could land them and other times I'd be totally hopeless. TODAY I FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT! WHEN LEANING BACK YOU MUST STICK YOUR REAR END OUT FURTHER TO GET MORE WEIGHT BEHIND THE BOARD! THIS ALSO HELPS YOU SEE THE BOARD ROTATE UNDER YOU! before I was literally bending straight down to pop and trying to lean my shoulders back which would put my head behind my knees so I could hardly see the board rotate as well and made you land with your weight way to far forward! Even if the board stayed under me and I jumped on it I'd fall forward when I landed. Pretty sure I'd occasionally do this with tre flips too but it wasn't such an issue because 360 flips rotate in front of you so my weight would more or less even out, but it felt like I was rotating them blindly which made it scarier to catch!

You know it's a good RU-vidr when even his six year old vids are great

Took me about a year to get a solid kickflip, took me about two days to get a solid heelfip. I wonder which one I'm naturally good at?

0:48 this mans needs new shoes

This dudes actually the best at making RU-vid how to's for skating

Honestly ur the MOST underrated skateboarding utuber u deserve 100 million subs

This man has singlehandedly taught me all my tricks I know

you mentioning the kick instead of flick helps so much

Super underrated channel taught me how to back side 180 Ollie pop shy it and of course heel flip

I landed my first heelflip today, and it was because of this video. Keep it up VL.

Thank you so much I landed this the day I watched this your my favorite RU-vidr ever

man ı really admire you you perform the tricks higher than any other youtube channel and you have helped me a lot

Love that you say like or sub if you want to. Thanks for giving way better tutorials than braille

Bro the ending, sick clip!!

You and skateboard bruh make most calming skate tutorial

I don’t understand how to not make the heelflip go into a dolphin heel, how to get the flicking motion, and how to get it to go in front of me instead of behind me. Thank you

I trust this man with my life because of the amount of tricks he explained to me

I always wear slip ons and I can do heel flips it's just my ankle scrapes against the grip and it starts to bleed

that was probably the best heelflip tut ive seen ever

Just landed my healflip

Learned heelflips in one day by watching this and also I learned tricks like the pop shuv, kickflip, Ollie, boardslides so I had good board control and confidence

I landed my first few heelflips today and it took 5 months but it was so worth it thank u vL

No matter how much I tell myself "lean back" I end up flicking it behind me and landing before my board does, jump higher, lean back further, my board flips into my heel every time, cant tell you how many sessions I'd go home with a bruised achilles from the damn heelflip biting me

In order to master your heel flips quicker, try mastering the basic tricks, such as ollie, backside pivot, frontside pivot, frontside 180, backside 180, pop shuvit, fake pop shuvit, and frontside pop shuvit.

How I usually learn tricks is I watch his tutorials for the basics and to see how a trick works then I go listen the Johnny giger for his tips

You're so good at this dude! I am for sure gonna recommending you to my friends! Thanks keep up the good work bro !:)

You almost made me snap my board in rage But you are helping me so thanks, I like you’re vids

it took dedication to do those in socks. But thank you, it really helped with foot placement.

I will buy you new shoes if you transfer your skateboard knkwledge to me by brain transfer

Your skate videos are awesome brother thanks for the help.

Shoulda tried this years ago I finally got my kick flips down then I tried this it was the easiest thing ever

Your heel flips look so nice!

Guys i just landed this trick earlier feels so good to land, took me 3 days just to land it thanks vlskate

I gave up on kick flips. Lets see if I can heelflip 😀

I'm trying to relearn these and I finally got them! Thanks!

cant really do ollies while riding yet nd I literally almost landed a heelflip, thanks for the help dude

I’m weird I usually flip it with most of my foot hanging off the back and it work well for me

Dude this is insanely helpful. I’ll make sure to note this tips while trying.👍

Like your vids, positive vibes from southwest GA 💪

I love your vids been watching for awhile . Helped me w a lot , keep up good work

i watched one of your videos and then subscribed. these are SUPER good tips

Vlskate I just started learning heel flips today it's A lot easier than kick flips for me I will prob get in 1-2 weeks I'm really close thanks for the great content ur to to for learning trick 😃

I was tryna learn to kickflip with the proper foot position and everything and it did the heel flip rotation lol so I think I prefer heel flips and I’m going to try do them properly

I love how your legs come out in this trick. Rad. Looks better but I guess kick feels better

Damn VLSkate has some really nice heel flips

this trick took me so long to learn

whenever i try to go for a heelflip, it ends up doing an inward heelflip. I've actually almost landed them inward it's weird

I how love a skate help video bro!!

Great tips. Perhaps I'll try with my front foot further back. Struggling to get the full flip atm!!

I’ve almost neutered myself like 20 times doing heelflips and that’s the only thing that stops me from committing

Thanks man, been having trouble with this trick.

I havent even landed an ollie while moving and I'm trying these 🤣

I’ve spent the better part of a year learning kickflips. Earlier tonight I started finally feeling semi-consistent with them. Saw someone else trying heelflips and decided to try it for a bit even tho I’d spent literally half an hour on them my entire life and never come close. Landed two clean ones. Skating is weird.

Wauw good vid you deserve more subs

Thx, dude! Landing my first one today 🖤🖤🖤

U make good videos and give helpful tips, after I watched your video i improved a lot, good job

I’m a natural heel flip person because It took me a week of trying to land a kickflip to get it consistently, but it took 2 days to land heel flips consistently. Lol.

I was practicing a ollie north but randomly spun the board, after 5 for fun heelflip tries i landed it. Then i searched for a video like this!

I am deciding to do this before the kickflip because I changed my mind. I got the Ollie, Frontside 180, Backside 180, Pop Shuv-it, Frontside Pop Shuv-it, and a few other Fakie tricks. When I try this trick, my feet land before the board. I also land in front of it.

Yess I finally landed my heel flip!!!!

Ayyy I knew practicing the landing with a railing would help the only thing I need is to put my back foot back on the board

All my friends are learning kickflips and shuvits while I'm feeling left out because I can only ollie so I'm trying to heel flip to impress them and also to be a good skater

Awesome video, man.

My heelflips doesn't spin sometimes and when it do spin it stops halfway

Thx dude you the best

This works so well I m never gonna do a kickflip only heel flips :D

Awsome ! nice pop

really helpful video

You need 10mil subs you helped me Ollie and more.

Kickflip person here!

Vlskate is awsome

You deserve my sub bro; great content.

Im just starting on a Heelflip, and i watched brailes video and this one is better

I have tried for over 500 hours of attempting nothing but heelflips amd havent landed one help

Still can’t get heel but this was helpful

It took me a year to heelflip and I can do them pretty clean but I can also kickflip clean too so I guess you can both a heelflip and kickflip person

See this is how I do mine and a lot of people on RU-vid are showing to use the tip corner of your shoe to slide off the corner of the board just like kick flip

Great video

i donno how to heel at all, *watches this* *lands 2nd try*

Thank you I landed my first heel flip 30 minutes after watching this video