The Heelflip Masterclass ( how to heelflip and control them) 

my heel flips are all I have on lock in life

Perfect your Heelflips in these easy to follow steps: 1. Be Neen Williams

I was trying heelflips for months, my problem was always that I couldnt get my front foot on the board. I watched dozens of videos to try to learn and the only thing they really said was "just commit bro". After watching your video I realized tjaty problem was that I was 'donkey flipping' the board and flicking off to the side instead of straight forward, the part of where to put your backfoot was also useful. After putting this into practice, i landed with the board upside down with both feet on my board within 5 tries, which is something I could not do in all the months of trying. After 20-30 minutes of trying I landed my first heelflip today. Thank you dan!!!

Dan!! You read my mind dude!! Started back skating 2yrs ago at 48yrs old after a 30 year hiatus feeling like I would never get heel flips again. I've been landing like 1 out of 30 tries for like a year!! This couldn't have been a better time to make this video. Watching this really showed me that my back foot position has been a big part of the problem. Thanks so much!! Somehow your skateboarding algorithm has coincidencly answered my heel flip struggles at the exact time I need this. I landed more heel flips today then I've ever done in my life! Grandpa is getting his groove back!!

Watched this 2 weeks ago. Forgot to come back and say it truly is a masterclass…struggled w these for 3 years…the day I watched this I landed it. Thank you

The thing you said about jumping forward really made things click for me. My tricks are popping every time and flipping well and most importantly its helping me stay above the board.. Thanks Dan.

The jump forward tip for flip tricks is so key and dramatically changed my form, no more rockets. i learned in the dank oregon kickflip masterclass

This video was instrumental towards me landing heelflips. Thank you so much, Dan, for helping me make my dreams become reality

the last heelflip I landed was in 2002.....time to get another one.

I think if you're having a hard time aiming or rollling your ankle for your flick, start with the origin of the flick. Aim your knee, not your foot. Helps me every time and keeps the flick consistent.

Feeling of something get stuck in your knee = torn meniscus cartilage - Solution = Smooth out knee cartilage by riding a bike or flossing your knees.

Thank you for doing this for us,I know making tutorials probably isn't the most fun thing I world ,but damnit man it is so helpful and you're really good at explaining things Without having a condescending tone and at same time showing that there is a spectrum of ways to heel flip , any trick for that matter.you really broke it down for us.i really appreciate it,a series of full length trick tip videos would be the nips!

MY BRO. I've been battling a heelflip for the last 2 months. Next sesh.

Was mid session and saw this. Hadn’t done a heel flip since I was a kid. When I was a kid skater, kickflips just didn’t work so I learned heelflips first, but when I came back to skating at 30 I didn’t want that holding me back so I focused entirely on kickflips and have those now. This video inspired me to give heelflips a revisit and I got it in about 5 min, got 3 total in like 30 attempts before I ran out of gas. I’m not saying become trick tip Andy, but this video was refreshingly relatable in comparison to the usual content (I have no skatepark even similar to any of yours in LA, not even the curbs or flat ground is good here, so seeing transition and street(park) skating is cool and all but I just can’t get inspired by it without feeling let down by my local skateparks. Anyway, cheers to adding a trick to my quiver at 32.

Your comments on how “thinking” about the trick can effect execution of the trick is a game changer for me. I totally know what you mean and hearing you articulate this is gold. Going to finally get my heels on lock tomorrow. Thanks dude.

one of the most helpful tips for heelflips for me came from a norman woods video where he explains that you don't jump like you do for a kickflip -- as soon as you jump, you suck your legs up towards your body more than you do for a kickflip. dan c jumping forward tip + norman jump+tuck tip, plus realizing the foot position is not necessary symmetrical to a kickflip (a lot easier for me to flick from all sorts of places for a kickflip) has got them pretty solid for me..thanks again dan

Please do this for tre flips!

i totally needed this, im struggling with a heelflips. thanks so much

I got heelflips before kickflips (on the edge of the sidewalk into grass, memory unlocked!), and heelflip is a nice trick because they look better the more you practice them. But if you stop doing them they're easy to lose. Like right now I wish I had my old heelflips. Since I got back on a board, I've devoted a few entire days to getting heelflips and they are not that easy when you start popping them higher it takes specialized muscles in your leg to hold it there on flatground at least lol unless they're just floaty. I've practiced them on this brick floor going faster and my leg felt like it was gonna fall off after the first day. I think you covered most of it. I've had rain for 3 days. Sucks I know I talk about a heelflip 'looking' better lol, I know it sounds vain but nobody wants a trash heelflip. It's just flatground that you care about stuff like that. Anyway losing them seems to be not about forgetting how to do it, I'll never forget how to do the same heelflip in muscle memory, but getting them to come back without doing them every day. By now I should probably be going for a couple nollie or switch ones or something like that too. But also those tricks seriously confuse my brain some times lol Like if I look at a nollie fs 180 I have to think nollie fs toeside(bs180) and some people follow different names for those tricks and I'm not even doing that type of stuff yet. But it gets intense lol

Yesss! Thanks! Been skating forever but never learned this basic. Gives me sth to look forward to later, thanks so much Dan. Cheers from Michigan.

it's called getting older.......... embrace it. drink more water than usual, stretch more before and after sessions. and be aware, listen to what your knees are telling you. i'm fifty, still skating after sooooo many years of use and abuse. it's the deal with the devil. eventually ya have to give back. hydration and stretching. love your daily posts and commitment, and love for skateboarding. i would give my left one for the knees i had 30 years ago. but aging happens.

I think you pretty much covered it, besides front foot placement, I really love heel flips and like to say I’m pretty good at them, popping is important but also the flick is key, I know alot of people have there foot straight on the board hanging off the toe side, but I keep my whole foot in the middle right at the front back bolts, and angle my foot just a little not to much, same way you described flicked through the nose so you can get that good tweaky heel flip, and I love how you said flick late, that’s been my secret for years, I think I watched Reynolds do one when I was a kid and just studied his foot placement, when you angle your front foot ever so slightly it will give you more of a flick and also more control over your flick, kind of the same technique I learned for high tweaked kickflip, just flicked on the other side of the nose, I put my back foot in the heel side pocket,not way on the edge, just enough to make the board pop faster, and start to turn the board the opposite way for leverage, also I keep pretty much my whole front foot on the board, just a little bit of my big toe hanging off so I can keep good control, don’t see how people heelflip with half there foot hanging off, I've found the technique I do works the best for me, and a few others I've told about it, we would all love to have Neen heelflip s but hes just different lol, Zach does the Neen version of kickflips, so sick

Your knee problems might be micro tears in your Meniscus. It's not as terrible as it sounds and is generally fixed with PT. I've have them a few times.

Video I've been waiting for, thank the gods/Dan 🎉 😅

Always appreciate Dan helping the insects, good man. This was also a very helpful video for me since I am passively working on heelflips right now.

zero BS, no intro, "this is what we're working with"

I been talking to homies about a heelflip masterclass from danny boy himself. This is awesome dude

More tips sprinkled into your usual format, please. Favorite skate channel.

hit a couple heelflips today thanks to you

After watching this I went outside and noted something. At 5:03 ish you start to explain having the board turn the opposite direction of where you’re going to flick. But the only way to do that is the tail (which you also go into right after). Interestingly people get the board to spin heelside to 360flip but if you do like a no comply pressure flip (inward heel) it’s sort of the same scoop and spot but the board flips the opposite way, of course you’re pushing down and scoop rather than back and scoop. But in this case we are not scooping. If you pop a kickflip with your foot on the heelside of the tail, it won’t work. You have to put it toe side on the tail I think. But to heel flip if you put the back foot only heelside to get that slight turn before the flick it won’t work. Neither will putting the foot all the way toeside. You can either place it a bit more heelside and pop it right down the middle or, you can find the kickflip spot and move it down slightly to create a different angle. imagine a middle line and a diagonal intersecting line creating an angle. So for that kickflip it’s lower than tre. And for heel flip it’s lower than kickflip. But never below that middle line for either. If a tre is a 90degree, a kickflip is like a 145 and heelflip is like 180 but can also be somewhere in between… hope that made sense? Have a good day. Take care. Ps. Also I explained the other day commenting on this same video how I recalled my first heelflips after watching this, that were off the edge of the sidewalk not rolling at first. But I later recalled something more. They were jumping forwards like a tre flip but the main point of focus when locking them in was learning to put that back foot in a position that gives me consistency. For me I think that was the middle. That line vertical on the board. And just pop it straight down the line sort of going back. I think that’s usually the starting point for a consistent heelflip. Then work from there. Starting again, I was getting those back seat flips and all kinds of weird variations. Thanks for talking about this one. I think I even remember the board! It was like some jim greco johnny thunders tribute board that was black and pink and fully dipped and it said “dead or alive” and had hammer grip! It was like a 7.75 also I think. That board came out 18 years ago...! My real problem with heelflips and kickflips is landing them always makes the board shoot out from under me. So I can’t force it to happen. It just has to come back naturally to me … my muscle memory is trying to go for the monster heelflips and floaty kickflips that spin fast and catch in the air, but it’s not gonna just happen without hard work. I don’t think I’ve ever been able to accept doing mobbed tricks, or my friend used to call them double dribbles. (Look at jonny giger vs jamie griffin game of skate, both are good skaters but johnny giger just pops his tricks a bit higher)

Instead of jumping forward, one thing I do for both heel flips and kickflips when they are mobbing is to pop it a little backwards, sort of like if I was riding fakie, makes it just level out. Also if I’m not trying to pop is as high and just want a reliable consistent flip, I find it helps to pop off the nose

You know how long I’ve been waiting on a masterclass for this? 😂

I'm going to attentively watch this one. I have landed 1 heel flip in my life lol

Oh f**k yeah Dan! I’m going skating tomorrow morning (Thanksgiving) and I’ve been always throwing my heel flips away from me, not know why. Boom! You just educated me it’s because I’m too far in the backseat and you’re exactly right! I’m going to try them tomorrow with the drag to nose and be over the front. Think this is going to make the difference I need!

Really focused on these a couple years ago. Feels so good to have them proper. Thanks to Ben degros for making me wanna lock them in

I can do the flick but the board keeps landing behind me how can I keep the board under me and not land behind me for heelflips?

Dude literally landed my first handful today before you dropped this video haha

So glad to see another master law I learn so much from these

Bro i had these on lock last week , went back to skate and now i can only land one stationary lol it's been a battle but damn it feels good riding away from a clean heel flip.

When you said doing flip tricks low I thought about it and now I think I should practice those low instead of how I have been with nice pop because it makes it harder to control

Now this is prime time Dan Corrigan content! Lol

I popsicled myself doing a heelflip off a stair set when was a kid lol they have scared me ever since

Thank you for saving one of my favorite animals 🐝

I learned heelflips at 12 13 years old , Dan people like your trick tutorials should do one once a week maybe trick tip Tuesday or something like that can’t come up with a catchy Wednesday theme

Heelflip master 👑

I have been practicing these things again since like the other day. I did a perfect one the other day with my foot almost touching the bolts but I had ishods on and they are like super rubbery on the sides, they have like a jordan outsole. But I actually got them back today with some accels, so basically a suede cupsole sole. I had to put my feet like an inch below the bolts but hanging my toe over the edge a bit. Then I have to put my foot on the tail, inside the tail like near the concave is possible, and I pop with the ball of my foot and big toe right on the middle, slap down the tail to get a good straight pop and then leap straight upwards, like a coil being released. If you jump forwards like a beginner (even the slightest) the board overflips, unless you get a really bad pop then you might get a mobbed one. These heelflips are working like, 8/10 times for me. It sounds basic but that’s all I got. Also you can sort of maybe tuck your back foot in, the back foot for me is stubborn and I have sciatica on that leg some days so it doesn’t help at all…ha. Also the front foot needs to flick with the outsole. I have (or had) a tendency to slide my top shoe eyelet instead. That can occur but it’s not enough to flip with the soft part of your shoe. You can do this one stationary too because the foot placement is really balanced.

Thanks Dan. I have the same 8.5 flight deck. Tried your technique. Took a few tries. Now my heal flips are on point.

Dan: "Focus on something that would happen if u did what u did, instead of doing what you're gonna do. Does that make any sense" Filmer: "Mhm. Naur"

Plz do more of these you’re a great teacher man!

I’ve never been able to do heelflips with my toes off the side of the board. I also probably use more of my toes to flip it.

I love doing Heelflips 🛹🛹🛹

Although I enjoy being insane and like watching insane things, thanks for the sanity.

its funny what you say about sitting in the backseat then transfering to front seat of the board because When I was younger I could sit in the backseat and pop a high heelflip and still get it to bone out because I just approached it like If I Just sit in the backseat my board will stay under me super well and I just had a really nice flick for heelflips back like 2-3 years ago but I really havent been skating like I used to or else I feel Like I could get them back to how I have my kickflips everytry on lock like I dont even have to think

I liked the Bug-rescue🥰

Need a hardflip masterclass since your hardflip guy :)

Gotta go heelflip now, thanks Dan!

I'm definitely a bottom of foot heelflipper. Even though I know it, I can't stop myself from doing it. Guess knowing is half the battle.

I was never a regular heelflip guy, hard to stay straight and they would always drift, so bs heels and half cab we're so much easier. But switch heels on the other hand felt so much lighter and easier to stay straight.

Dans version of “not being on his board lately” is only skating like 40 hours a week instead of 60

how tight are your hamstrings? tight hams can make it feel like your knees are going bad, but usually the bursa are getting irritated from the pressure caused by tight hamstrings

I used to have heelflips on lock when i was 14 years old . Now i have no flippen clue. 😂

Hey random question: Why is one side of my board kinda flat and the other is taller & more poppy? Which side is the tail? Life required me to take a 20 year break from skating and now I’m back into it but am having trouble figuring out these new deck shapes. Just landed my first healflip thanks to your tutorial. I stopped flicking with the flat part of my shoe and aimed more for the tip than the side. Those tips were key. Thanks Dan (& cameraman) Sorry for the essay. Cheers (again) from Michigan.

Yeah Marty

Believe in yourselves. 🍀♾️💜💯❤️‍🔥

Thanks, Dan. 👍

i love your masterclass videos

Respect for saving the critter ❤

Those black Joslins are so fucking comfy

The pop them high but not land them observation about dragging the bottom of the foot is 100% my problem. I never land mine but every miss looks like I should have good heel flips. Gotta work on doing a good drag.

So the proportion between the height you pop to and the time you flick the flip is related. Pop higher, flick later. Pop smaller, flick sooner. Hella noted

Learned heel flips by accident trying Ollie north😂

thanks dan, watched this vid yesterday and i landed my first clean heelflip today 🎉🫶

Dan the handsome man

Thanks man

Great tutorial Dan. Did you not see the trash can you put the bug into to heel flip over?? That was perfect for showing a poppy one 😂I am bummed you skipped on the slim accels again damn it! Just let me send you a pair! I hope your knee gets better, and it’s nothing serious. Good luck brother.

The number one mistake I see people make is bad weight distribution, particularly leaning their head way too far forward, so their board ends up behind them instead of underneath them. Most of the time, when I make kids aware of their head, they land their heelflips really quickly afterward.

I would kill to have a Neen Heelflip 😂

I learned heelflips on accident and have them down since

I hope that everyone has a great and memorable day today. ♾️🍀💜

lets gooo you did it!!!

if ur knee feels like it’s getting stuck, more than likely it’s one of your menisci. i’m sure you’ve been told 1000 times tho.

Love your videos ❤

3:32 Heelflip primo. You may have just given Andy Anderson a new trick.

one thing I noticed about Dan and his skating is that he's way more analytical than I am at my skating. He's pointing out that a flipping spot and a NOT flipping spot at only 1/2 inch difference. I had trouble wording that one. Hopefully I did ok. You know what I'm saying. I feel like to get to his level, you would HAVE to be that analytical. Or maybe not. Maybe people can get good being really feely with their shit. I donno. I'm a little franks and beans, cuz.

My butt itches!

How are the Joslins treating you? On a side note. I keep the front of my shoe lined with the edge of my board.(No toes off) and flick with a rolled ankle to the side. Very much like a kickflip but I basically push my pinky toe and drag my heel. Works everytime. Unless I did like nonstop kickflips then my foot just get confused .😂

I'm gonna maybe get shit for this but back when I used to skate in HS I only had heelfips down and I did it my treating it like an Ollie then kick out. Mine looked clean and I had hip pop.

Dang, video quality upgrade. New camera gear?

damn you have a great mustache

Aw damn, now I'm going to have to try your heelflip masterclass too. I'm still soooo far from graduating from your kickflip masterclass. I've got the proof 🤣 Well, shit. Thanks for the vid! I'll have to study it.

I learned heelflips before kickflips and was really good at heelflips. Now 8 years later it’s opposite lol

1:22 whats a dragon flick????

Over the front you reckon?

Hello im a new skater and i been trying to learn heelflip for a month the i can flick the board and land my front foot but my back foot doesn't jump so I cant land it any tips?!

All I got is a rolled ankle

Honestly dude, if you’re watching to learn to heelflip you probably just need to do more ollies, everything comes naturally after you really learn proper board handling off a pop

I was that varial heelflip kid

What is mob?

I wanted to ask if I shouldn’t donate on old vids? I’m going through all your videos basically. I donated on an old one and I’m sure you still receive the money right? I was hyped to see your video part!

nice hat man