I tried Kickflip for 2weeks, i tried heelflips 1 day and randomly got one on my third try i couldnt get another one for the rest of the day but now I can do them :D
i landed a kickflip before a shuv it. i had a bad habit of doing my ollies with my toe at an angle & a bit too narrow of a stance and one time i did it so wrong that i just stepped off back from the board landing only one foot on and noticed it just did a kickflip motion. & so i just went for it. its funny, thats a similar story to how rodney realized this trick was possible in the first place.
i tried to learn heelflips consistantly for a long time and thought i was a heelflip person, then i actually gave a few tries at the kickflip and now i can do them so much easier.
Neen gave some great advice. I feel like a lot of people try to skip the "learn to ride to the store" part and just jump straight into tricks. If you use your board as a form of transportation when you start skating it will seriously help your style and comfort. Plus it's low risk just cruising
What i love about skating is from the thumbnail you wouldn't think he's pulling off a heelflip if you're new, but Neen has the trick down so well that he's able to extend his leg, the flick of his heel you might say, with such precision and confidence that the board will do what it's done a million time before, it's a metaphor for life to trust yourself. It's meditation, confidence/attitude check, breath work, exercise, fun w the homies, I can go on and on
I’ve never understood why most people heelflip with their toes hanging off. I’ve been heelflipping with my toes on the board for years and it is much easier and i get more pop out of the flick. None of my friends understood how I can heelflip so well until I told them to keep their toes on, and it instantly became easier for them.
i tend to do heelflips with the tip of my shoe from a similar foot position like a kickflip. i developed this long before skateboard videos on youtube and it works fine for me, with a lot of consistency and pop. so i feel you
Flushdraw Do you also point your front foot towards your back foot for varial heels? I do this and flick to the corner, so the board just rotates and spins entirely around my front foot. This also helped me learn laser flips. I also point my foot slightly forward for heelflips and fs flips and hardflips.
NEEN IS THE MAN. Always been one of my favorites. I'm a heelflip guy as well, always have been. I think they're much easier to learn than kickflips although kickflips seem to land more consistently once you've got them.
I just got my very first skateboard today😁! Because of you guys, and I looove it. I’ve got a Santa Cruz board Bones Bearings Slime Ball Wheels Normal black tape And Black Smith Trucks Independent nuts and bolts And I’ve already gotten used to it, I never thought I would be interested in skateboards ‘till now and I’m glad I did
Dude I thought I was tripping out when I saw this notification. One of my favorite skaters and he's got the illest heels ever. I like to call em ninja flips, I'll definitely cop that shoe for sure!
I freaking love neen and andrew reynolds. Neen has a gnarly heelflip I like his deatwish video where he heelflip over a handrail with a tweak to it and caught it mid air. So gnar.
ive been skating for 13 years i can kickflip back tail and all this crazy stuff but i dont remember the last time i landed a heeflip lmaoooo. someone would get a letter on me in skate with one
I love the new way of skate tutorials you guys are making, where instead of saying the same basic steps we’ve all heard before, you break it down and talk about the theory behind that trick.
Didn’t even need a visual aid; Neen describes how to do this so perfectly it’s like I was watching a trick tip video keep the Neen collabs comin! Awesome stuff guys!
Honestly 1 of only 2 Braille tutorials I’ve ever watched! Had to tap in considering I’ve skated for 15 years and still don’t even bother trying to heel-flip lmao
I've seen this video so many times to try and fix my heelflip problems xD can't wait to land it perfectly - 1 month ago 10.10.20 landed my first heelflip on carpet :) ty aaron and neen :)
I feel like a lot of times, it's much more efficient to learn how to do something how your own body naturally does it. That's why skateboarding is so beautiful. Everyone does it differently and everyone has their own style. Theres a reason Neen has become the heel flip king. He had his OWN way of doing it and it clicked with him. You can watch every tutorial, how to, tips and tricks... but you'll always end up doing it how YOU do it. And if you take the time to develop YOUR way of doing it, you'll be able to consistently and naturally. The issue I have with watching tutorials is that you spend all this time doing a trick how someone else does it that you mess up your own body's rhythm. You end up MAYBE getting a trick down how somebody else does it, but you'll rarely have the natural ability to learn new tricks on your own in the way that your own body moves.
I literally thought today. Well braille had neen in the background the last video(s). Would be really cool to have him make a heelflip tutorial.... And here it is! :)
When i started i cruised around for maybe 3-4 months before i started doing tricks, grinds and transition. And it's all in muscle memory in skateboarding the more you do a trick the more natural it will become
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!
My whole childhood I did heelflips with the same foot positioning as him, basically ollie and flip foot positioning, and I remember being completely shocked that the "right" way was to put your toes completely off the board. So a few years ago when I first learned that neen also did heelflips with the same foot positioning as me, made me feel normal again.
I just landed my first sketchy heelflip while rolling thanks to this! Thinking of it like it's literally an ollie really helped, and putting more of my toes on the board so the flick is more like in a kickflip
I love watching these and getting that last little tip I need. The tip on centering your front foot helped me get a little more consistent in a couple of hours
I grew up with neen and marissa del Santo back in the day when he was first sponsored by RQ boardshop in Naperville IL, he would shred lagrange YMCA skatepark. ollieing into 12 ft tall halfpipe. soooooo sick
I'm riding the neen twin nose deck now..ive already lived creature decks but this board kills it. Twin nose is a great shape to me just because I can feel more comfortable when I go into fakie
