How to Heelflip

Heelflip: A heelflip is a trick similar to an ollie, but is somewhat more complicated. The skateboarder ollies off the ground, and once the board is in the air, flips the skateboard with their heel, so that the skateboard rotates around completely, and then the skateboarder lands on the board again, and continues on. (The heelflip is much like a kickflip, but the board is rotating in the opposite direction.) In the heelflip, your skateboard flips away from you as you jump. It spins in the opposite direction as a kickflip. Many feel that learning how to heelflip is much easier than learning how to kickflip, but learning how to heelflip also takes some time. You can learn how to do a heelflip while stationary at first and as you get more comfortable, you can try them while moving. After you learn how to heelflip and kickflip, you have mastered the two basic flip tricks and can now combine them with spins to get backside flips, varial flips, 360 flips and more!

How to Heelflip

1. Before you learn how to heelflip, you’ll want to know how to ollie at least a foot, since you need some height for the trick. Set up your feet with the ball of your back foot on the tail. You want to place your front foot just behind the front bolts with your toes hanging off the edge
2. As you prepare to pop, make sure your body is straight and you are balanced. Keep your head directly above the center point above between your two feet. Make sure you’re not leaning forward too much. Just give a slight squat. The positioning may seem awkward at first, but you have to practice this positioning to get a feel for the balance of the trick.

3. Pop the tail straight down with your back foot and start to jump up. Do not jump forward, just jump straight up.

4. As soon as the tail hits the ground, flick your front foot up and out, towards upper concave of the board. You also want to suck up your legs to get the board to flip higher.

4. Keep your front foot up so that the board has room to spin under you. Stay over your board through out the heelflip.

5. When you see the board come back around, stomp down with your feet to catch it. Aim to land on top of the two sets of bolts.

6. Ride away smoothly with a smile on your face!

How to Heelflip Tips

1. The hardest thing when learning how to heelflip is keeping your balance after you pop. As you flip the board, you’ll feel a tendency to jump forward, but be sure to just stay over the board.

2. If the board is hitting your legs, be sure to suck up your feet high to give the board some room to spin!

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How to Kickflip

The Kickflip is a very basic flip trick. Many people struggle with the Kickflip because they cannot get the simultaneous motion of the drop-slide kick and the hang time in the air while the board flips. In the kickflip, your skateboard spins under you as you jump. It was invented by Rodney Mullen and were called Magic Flips at first. Learning how to kickflip can be one of the most difficult tricks you will ever learn. You can learn how to do a kickflip while stationary at first and as you get more comfortable, you can try them while moving. Be patient! Learning how to kickflip takes time. The kickflip is also one of the most rewarding tricks because after you learn how to kickflip, you'll find that other flip trick will come to you much easier!

How to Kickflip

1. Before you learn how to kickflip, you’ll want to know how to ollie at least a foot, since you need some height for the trick.
2. You want to place your front foot at a 45 degree angle behind the front bolts. You should have the ball of you back foot in the center of the tail.

3. With your back foot, pop the board up as you would in an ollie. Instead of dragging straight up with your front foot, you want to give a nice ankle flick at where the concave starts.

4. Be sure to flick up and out, and not down. This will get the board flipping under you. Jump the same way as you would during an ollie and suck your feet up.

5. Stay over your skateboard. Wait for the griptape side to come round and be sure to suck up your legs to give it room to rotate.

6. When the board has flipped once, bring your front foot on it to catch it. Your back foot should naturally catch it as well.

7. Catch the board firmly, with both feet stomping on the bolts. Be careful not to land with one foot on the nose or tail, because your board might snap!

8. Ride away smoothly with a huge grin because you have just learned one of the hardest skateboarding tricks!

How to Kickflip Tips

1. Learning how to kickflip will take weeks and maybe even months of practice! Don’t get hung up if you can’t land them right away. Just keep trying kickflips and they will naturally come to you!

2. Don’t flick out too much with your ankle because this will cause the board to fly out.

3. Keep your shoulders square with the board so it stays straight and doesn’t rotate. This is a common problem of many beginners when they learn how to kickflip.

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How to Ollie

The Ollie is the first trick that most skateboarders learn. Learning to ollie makes sense – the ollie is the foundation of almost all flatland and park skateboarding tricks. Once you learn how to ollie, you’ll be able to move on to learning all kinds of other skateboarding tricks, or inventing your own skateboarding tricks.
Learn how to ollie with these trick tips. Before you start learning how to ollie, make sure you're comfortable riding around on your board. You need good balance before you start learning how to do an ollie.

How to Ollie

1. Get comfortable with standing on and riding your skateboard before you learn how to ollie. You might want to tighten your trucks so you’ll be able to balance better.

2. Put your back foot on the tail and your front foot in the middle of your board and the front bolts. Put the ball of your back foot in the middle of the board so when push the tail down, you feel pressure on the balls of your foot.

3. Next, bend your knees and crouch, as you prepare to jump. You must be able to balance your crouch! Do not bend out your back too much or stick your butt out too far out. Keep your shoulders square and level with your feet.

4. Pop down the tail of your board with your back foot. Immediately after your board makes contact with the ground, drag your front foot toward the nose. The friction and dragging motion from your front foot and the board will cause it to rise off the ground.

5. Be sure to jump forward. Immediately after you pop, drag your front foot up and “jump forwards.” This will be tough at first, and you’ll have to practice to get the timing down.

8. After you get of the ground, you want to level out. You can do this by sucking up both of your legs.

9. Land with both feet at the same time, preferably with front and back foot as close to the bolts trucks as possible.

10. Ride away with a smile on your face. Congratulations, you just learned how to ollie!

How to Ollie Tips

1. Learn how to ollie stationary at first to get comfortable with the basics of the trick. Once you feel comfortable with the motions, you can start trying the trick moving, and then start jumping off of or on to things.

2. The most difficult part is the trick is timing when to pop the tail, when to jump, and how to suck up your legs quickly. You’ll discover that it's actually all done at the same time! Learning how to ollie will become easier when you do everything faster.

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