What really helped me get heelflips consistent after learning them was to lean a bit on the toe side of the flick foot. If you look closely, you can see him do the same with his heel a couple mm off the board.
I loved that you explained the detail about putting your center of gravity behind you to make the board flip below you. This is a detail that I found out waaaaay too late, but it would have helped me a lot before. Many tutorials just say "keep trying until you get it", but although it requires practice, these little details make the learning experience better.
I find it hilarious that for me 4 years ago I was learning kickflips and hadn’t landed one for days and then for some reason I thought “imma do a heel flip real quick” AND FUCKING LANDED MY CLEANIST HEELFLIP EVER but had never even attempted to heelflip nor learn how(via tutorials, practice, etc) ever in my life. Truly no better feeling since then.
yep some of us are natural to the kick tricks and others the heel tricks. well done I was exactly the same. If I am moving at any speed I will choose a heel flip over a kick flip any day. I just feel a lot safer with them knowing I am not about to face plant if I screw it up.
Same for me, randomly landed my first heelflip and I was so stoked. Been practicing them lately and I landed a couple Clean. Feels so much better than kick flip to me.
that basically happened to me (i didn’t land it) BUUUTTT, i did rotate it even without having any knowledge of technique and foot positioning. But now i cant even flip the board
I was getting frustrated learning heelflips and then I found this video. Watched about half the vid and landed a heelflip 5 minutes later. Thanks for the trick tip Jonny, you the man💯
36 years old here back in skate after more than 10 years off. I can land more tricks today and i realize this kind of video missed me a lot back in the days... So much easier/faster to learn new tricks now, maybe i'm also older and i'm being more "methodical"... anyway love your content, thanks for the motivation :-)
@@v1xionace965 this is true haha! In my experience flipping it is easy, but you want it to stay infront of you rather than behind, that's the secret to the trick. Easier said than done though.
Agreed. Most are either heel or kick flip. I’m pretty sure I learned kick flip first (back in late 80’s) but always felt more comfortable doing heels. Great tutorial. So much pop.
Heel flips are are a ton of fun and this is a great tutorial! Johnny always kills it! I’ve had a few requests on my channel for a similar video. What specific issues are you guys having with landing them? I keep hearing not enough rotation, of putting back foot down to early. Anything else?
I have watched neen's tutorial and aaron's, but this one is the one that did it for me! thanks so much, ur recommended foot position worked so well for me! i just went out and skated and landed like 7 regular heel flips and like 2 fakie! ur the man. also you're one of the few people that actually does an impossible correctly so shout out for that too
Yooo Jonny! I am from Russia, skate at 5 mnt and your videos is the best that I ever seen. after the third mnt I have a dream to skate on your spot! It’s such beautiful!! Please continue learn incredible and unique tricks! From Russia with love 🤙🏿
i actually just landed my first heelflip few days ago after 2 years of avoiding it, on that day i had it in lock. yesterday i just couldn’t do a single one lma try your tips, thank you jonny!
Johnny thank you soo much I’ve had healflip a on and off for about two months now and the tip you said about keeping your weight back alittle helps me sooo much thank you
These tutorials are great I’ve been struggling with heels for a while and this was super helpful. Your tre flip tutorial also made learning tres much easier
Dear Jonny, i love to see u skate in any tricks as it looks so perfect in ur own way. Can u make a video step by step how to Front Foot Impossible (Regular) Thks
Been waiting for this tutorial! I have been learning heelflips for 8 months and never landed one. I do everything perfect, the pop, the flick and jump. However I always land with only my front foot on the board. By back foot can't reach for the board. I hope with this I will land this shit eventually!
@@CALIFORNIAsGAMER hi there, me from 2 years later, i can now consistently kickflip and am now trying to learn heelflips again, wish me luck homie ima try not to credit card
if you have been trying for a long time, and still can't get it, try flicking straight forward, not at the angle, and have your toes a little over the board. This will help if you can't get the rotation. Once you start landing these small heel flips, start moving your foot closer and closer to normal riding position and flicking a little more at the angle like jonny said to get nice height.
Thank you sir! I didn't know about the foot dragging up the board. I always kicked forward but the board wouldn't stay under me. I can now practice properly! 😁
I gonna learn this, this week! Thanks, Jonny your Tutorials helped me a lot! Now just the weather needs to play with, the snow today came out of nowhere.
This video helped me land my first heel flip and a lot of clean high ones a couple weeks ago. Now I'm struggling to land a couple when i go to the park lol will get them back after re watching this I'm sure haha. Thanks johnny .
I thought I had already found the best tutorial videos, but I was wrong. THIS GUY MAKES THE BEST VIDEOS! Amazing explanations and sets expectations of the learning process. Will I succeed? nope, lol. But it'll be fun trying.
@Javier Cruz I used to skate 20 years ago. Back then I used my skateboard for 3 years as a way to move around the city with a backpack and punk rock in my ears. No skateparks where available, so I just learned these basic tricks on the sidewalk. During lockdown I started about 3 months ago to skate again, but this time, I am almost 39years old and have a different approach to skateboarding. In 3 months I have landed my first crappy nollie, my first 50-50 and 5-0 on a curb. Which doesn’t really count. I do am proud of dropping in a bowl for the first time, a month ago.
@@SabiaCDO That’s awesome! I’m 35 and just got back into skating after a 20ish year sabbatical. Lol. Sadly better now than I was as a kid. Keep it up! I’m also regular and a heel flipper!
I tried a few the other day with the advice of this video and was one foot landing them within 5 tries, I couldn't believe it lol def will be practicing this one thank you again dude
thanks for this video i am still struggling to commit and lean back but i have gotten way closer to landing it rather then before. kickflips are still way harder for me but i do want to be a competitive pro skater so thanks for keeping me rolling
I do this trick slightly different and have had great success with the variation. I lot of my friends when I was younger used to put the heal in the middle of the board and kick forwards as well as out as you are doing. they also had the foot in the toe ollie position for the back foot. for some reason I just got on the board and did it like this. the back foot is square in the middle of the kick no angle at all. my front foot is slightly past the middle of the deck and the ball of my foot is nice and firmly in the middle of the concave and also square like the back foot. I ollie and then just push outwards to the side so as the ball and of my foot kicks the inside of the concave while I hold my toes upwards to flip the board. never a rocket or a need to flatten the board by hitting the nose. now after 20 years off the board and getting back on the heel flip was first go still nice and high and straight as a die with no movement away from under my feet. as I have said in another reply in your channel some people are natural to kick tricks and others to heel tricks (you have me wanting to learn the 360 version now or laser). when I was younger as I had more push with the ball of the foot into the concave than my mates (yep im an ozzie) I could triple heel flip with a reasonable amount of consistency. not back at that stage yet as I am older and just getting back into it (also not as brave as I once was) but they are still nice and clean. still I would trade a nice heel flip for the grace you do late flips with, your understanding of late flips can be seen by not only how well you do them but by how well you explain how they are working.
Bro i don’t even skate anymore. It’s been a few years since I’ve really got into it. I can still heel flip but I just had to click because it brings back good ol memories. I miss watching these types of videos when skating was new and fun to me.
@@sontiyo7113 it’s hard to be motivated man, especially when you end up skating solo. I fell off it because I had nobody close enough to me to skate with.
Another great one Johnny! Heel flip is more natural for me, but I can’t do it with my toes off the board. Always need to have my heel off the back almost like an Ollie. Maybe I’m alone on this..
@@rudismall4133 Yeah I’ve noticed a lot of pros seem to do it that way. I can never fully flip the board when I try it though. Just feels awkward! Hats off to anyone that can!
I'm the heelflip first type, don't quite have it on lock so this video is very helpful. The real thing i learned though is how my new shoes will look after practice ( nice taste Jonny ;) )
how to beat people in a game of skate: 1. do a heelflip 2. do a varial heelflip 3. do a frontside heelflip 4. do a fakie varial heel 5. do a fakie front heel i think people hate me for that but i dont care. i just love heelflips lmao
the mountains make the background soothing and relaxing😅
true
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Brooo I am freaking tf out, that sjatepark is 20min away from me WTF
@@yamahasimp Bro, If I live in there I would Go to there diarily just to see these mountains while I land some hard tricks, like Ollie lmao
Johnny seems like he would be so fun to skate with.
Or hang out with in general ^^
But he would smoke us all in S.K.A.T.E. xd
I can hardly land a kickflip but he’d probably be able to teach me to do a gazelle flip in a day
I’d love to pick his brain for a day to see what I can learn! Great videos and seems like a really cool guy!
@@iaganfoss lol
I’m crying right now. Those heel flips are so beautiful
I was thinking the same thing. It's beauty
Almost 2 feet up from flat..I think the gravity is turned down lower in Switzerland.
Ya there ain't no way those some the best I've ever seen
The only person that could possibly teach me how to heelflip in half an hour.
I learn kickflip y 2hrs.
Facts
What really helped me get heelflips consistent after learning them was to lean a bit on the toe side of the flick foot. If you look closely, you can see him do the same with his heel a couple mm off the board.
Thanks for the tip, I'm struggling with heelflips and I think I'll try that next time when I'm out skating :)
@@pianotrainee9314 Did it work?
@@CLAMPED1 Yes, it did. But to be honest I haven't practiced them for a while, I can't skate in winter :")
@@pianotrainee9314 I feel that winters just ending for me
Still haven't landed one but the flip is looking nicer. Thanks! I've been focusing more on Tre's and FS flips.
I loved that you explained the detail about putting your center of gravity behind you to make the board flip below you. This is a detail that I found out waaaaay too late, but it would have helped me a lot before. Many tutorials just say "keep trying until you get it", but although it requires practice, these little details make the learning experience better.
Heelflip was gonna be my next trick to learn great timing!
4 me 2
My man ✊🏾
Did you made it?
Same
I find it hilarious that for me 4 years ago I was learning kickflips and hadn’t landed one for days and then for some reason I thought “imma do a heel flip real quick” AND FUCKING LANDED MY CLEANIST HEELFLIP EVER but had never even attempted to heelflip nor learn how(via tutorials, practice, etc) ever in my life. Truly no better feeling since then.
yep some of us are natural to the kick tricks and others the heel tricks.
well done
I was exactly the same.
If I am moving at any speed I will choose a heel flip over a kick flip any day.
I just feel a lot safer with them knowing I am not about to face plant if I screw it
up.
Iv never landed a heel flio or skated switch but i switch heeled a hip i just did it.
Still have yet to land a heelflip of any breed since
Same for me, randomly landed my first heelflip and I was so stoked. Been practicing them lately and I landed a couple
Clean. Feels so much better than kick flip to me.
that basically happened to me (i didn’t land it) BUUUTTT, i did rotate it even without having any knowledge of technique and foot positioning. But now i cant even flip the board
Can't stand heelflips, I either credit card or miss the landing. Kickflips I have all day.
I was getting frustrated learning heelflips and then I found this video. Watched about half the vid and landed a heelflip 5 minutes later. Thanks for the trick tip Jonny, you the man💯
Has the nicest heelflips
*Can't heelflip with his hands*
😂😂💯
Lol
But can he palm flip
those mountains are such a beautiful backdrop
i love how johnny teaches. hes so in depth and trys to add every little detail you need
Always love the majestic beauty of the swiss countryside in the back of mr Gs vids...
36 years old here back in skate after more than 10 years off. I can land more tricks today and i realize this kind of video missed me a lot back in the days... So much easier/faster to learn new tricks now, maybe i'm also older and i'm being more "methodical"... anyway love your content, thanks for the motivation :-)
make a in depth tutorial in how to laser flip there isn’t many out
yes!
yes!!!!
Yes please, I've only landed 2 or 3 lasers after countless attempts. Their incredibly hard, would love to see one
Not many people can do one so that’s why I think 🤔
@@v1xionace965 this is true haha! In my experience flipping it is easy, but you want it to stay infront of you rather than behind, that's the secret to the trick. Easier said than done though.
Agreed. Most are either heel or kick flip. I’m pretty sure I learned kick flip first (back in late 80’s) but always felt more comfortable doing heels. Great tutorial. So much pop.
Ι just started learning heels amd this video helped me a LOT
The video literally just came out
@Nils i was writing the commemt while watching
I just started practicing heels too
Heel flips are are a ton of fun and this is a great tutorial! Johnny always kills it! I’ve had a few requests on my channel for a similar video. What specific issues are you guys having with landing them? I keep hearing not enough rotation, of putting back foot down to early. Anything else?
@@SkatingwithAaron my board lands slightly behind me
Awesome! First try and landed it, feels amazing. I’m over the hill btw!!!
Hey Jonny! You inspired me to get back into skating and I created a skate business because of it!😁 Thank you for your inspirational videos!
What is it called? I’m a little late
@@oliverthecubesk8455 I’d like to know too
johny: foot positioning is important
also johny: *shows 5 different foot positioning*
How is he contradicting himself? 5 different foot positions doesn't mean it doesn't matter...
I have watched neen's tutorial and aaron's, but this one is the one that did it for me! thanks so much, ur recommended foot position worked so well for me! i just went out and skated and landed like 7 regular heel flips and like 2 fakie! ur the man. also you're one of the few people that actually does an impossible correctly so shout out for that too
That’s awesome congrats! Proof is in the pudding! Johnny always kills it!
Landed my first heelflip at age 22 today
Thanks jonny, never give up !
Yooo Jonny! I am from Russia, skate at 5 mnt and your videos is the best that I ever seen. after the third mnt I have a dream to skate on your spot! It’s such beautiful!! Please continue learn incredible and unique tricks! From Russia with love 🤙🏿
0:06 looks like he flicking the air
His heel flips are so strong he makes a air current that flips the board
@@captainggttv3243 haha
These are just fun to watch. Very thorough. And that skate spot and that background are so peaceful. Those mountains..
I can heelflip but i like to watch a lot of the tutorials for extra tips. Thanks Jonny for videos!
i actually just landed my first heelflip few days ago after 2 years of avoiding it, on that day i had it in lock.
yesterday i just couldn’t do a single one
lma try your tips, thank you jonny!
howd it go
skating is so annoying like that lol, it teaches u life lessons tho
@@nxbulae_ skating is not annying at all.
it teaches you patience and focus.
for anyone asking how its going,
i can heelflip pretty decent now
Johnny thank you soo much I’ve had healflip a on and off for about two months now and the tip you said about keeping your weight back alittle helps me sooo much thank you
Thank you Jonny! I just landed my first heel flip after about 30 minutes!
Jonny makes the best guides of all. I have watches so many guides and none of them are the same as his!
These tutorials are great I’ve been struggling with heels for a while and this was super helpful. Your tre flip tutorial also made learning tres much easier
I started trying heels yesterday, Jonny coming in clutch
Great tutorial! Let me know if you hit any sticking points!
your skate tutorials are the best!!!
So much useful information in a single video. How instructive that was is beyond words. You're awesome! Thanks so much for this video Jonny!
I watched it, gone out and did it. I’m so fucking happy, thank you Jhonny. I have the clip on my channel
Johnny I was trying for like 2 hours to heel then I watched your vid and got it no cap now they’re low key on lock thanks big dawg
Amazing tutorial! I'm a beginner and this will come in really handy at my next session.
Yup it worked! I nailed it because I kept thinking of this video, especially regarding the foot position. The Giger foot stance is amazing!
3 years of skating and i've had my foot positioning wrong this whole time🤦♀️ thanks dude
Your probably the first youtube skater I've seen to in a little depth with this trick I like it
I was just looking for heelflip tutorials today! Couldn't have come at a better time haha
Dear Jonny, i love to see u skate in any tricks as it looks so perfect in ur own way. Can u make a video step by step how to Front Foot Impossible (Regular) Thks
hey, i think i made a trick tip on that one too :)
Love these man, love all the videos to be honest. Great work as usual.
Using lockdown to retry heelflip and at night the notification came... Exactly what I needed !
Do nollie Heel! And this vid was really good! I just tried this and landed it! Thank u! This was super in-depth and great. 🌀🤙
Been waiting for this tutorial! I have been learning heelflips for 8 months and never landed one. I do everything perfect, the pop, the flick and jump. However I always land with only my front foot on the board. By back foot can't reach for the board. I hope with this I will land this shit eventually!
did you land it?
@@tomkehm2052 yes :D Been landing those for over a month, but they are sketchy as. :D
Yeah edit. I can land them. It will take another year tho to land those consistently.
Thank you so much for this lesson! Heelflips came way easier than kickflips do
I landed my heelflips and fakie heelflips today. Thanks a ton Johnny!
I was like ooo ima learn a heel flip before I learn a kickflip!!
(Gets credit carded)
Ooo I think I change my mind!!
Yup I can kick flip and i get scared of heels 😂😂😂 I can tre flip but not heel flip fuck that
@@CALIFORNIAsGAMER hi there, me from 2 years later, i can now consistently kickflip and am now trying to learn heelflips again, wish me luck homie ima try not to credit card
These feel easier than kickflips to me
Ok but how are you SUCH a good teacher?!
Bro i love how he explains it that actually helped me so much
you and kyro helping me learn to skate day by day thank you!
I learned this trick in one day without any tutorials it is one of my favorite tricks now for the last 4 months
if you have been trying for a long time, and still can't get it, try flicking straight forward, not at the angle, and have your toes a little over the board. This will help if you can't get the rotation. Once you start landing these small heel flips, start moving your foot closer and closer to normal riding position and flicking a little more at the angle like jonny said to get nice height.
Thank you sir!
I didn't know about the foot dragging up the board. I always kicked forward but the board wouldn't stay under me. I can now practice properly! 😁
I was trying to land this for a month landed first one right after watched this thanks so much!☺👍👏🖒
That’s awesome way to go! Such a fun trick!
Sometimes you just need that motivation
@@idontdeserveaname1152 Exactly!
Im so close!!! It's actually staying under me for a change. The back foot positioning advice really helped thank you so much!
THANK YOU for marking these vids just landed my first heel flip
I gonna learn this, this week!
Thanks, Jonny your Tutorials helped me a lot!
Now just the weather needs to play with, the snow today came out of nowhere.
Been trying to do heelflips for years. I gave up on them multiple times but now I'll try again.
Always my favorite flip trick
You should do more of these i like these. Always have been a fan but these are nice
thanks for your effort, greatly appreciate, can´t wait to start my next skate session later today and work on my heelflip...
This video helped me land my first heel flip and a lot of clean high ones a couple weeks ago. Now I'm struggling to land a couple when i go to the park lol will get them back after re watching this I'm sure haha. Thanks johnny .
Loving the recent tutorial series!
I thought I had already found the best tutorial videos, but I was wrong. THIS GUY MAKES THE BEST VIDEOS! Amazing explanations and sets expectations of the learning process. Will I succeed? nope, lol. But it'll be fun trying.
i love you giger you have help me soo many times
I actually landed a heel flips today I was having trouble with it 1 month ago thank you you helped alot
Regular AND a heelflip person, right here. Who else? 🤚🏻🤚🏼🤚🏽🤚🏾🤚🏿
Nah goofy but just learning switch heels
@@gmon8690 that makes you a waaaaaaay better skater than I am. I can only do Ollie, Heelflip and Pop shove it.
@Javier Cruz I used to skate 20 years ago. Back then I used my skateboard for 3 years as a way to move around the city with a backpack and punk rock in my ears. No skateparks where available, so I just learned these basic tricks on the sidewalk. During lockdown I started about 3 months ago to skate again, but this time, I am almost 39years old and have a different approach to skateboarding. In 3 months I have landed my first crappy nollie, my first 50-50 and 5-0 on a curb. Which doesn’t really count. I do am proud of dropping in a bowl for the first time, a month ago.
I am regular and 100% a kickflip person.
@@SabiaCDO That’s awesome! I’m 35 and just got back into skating after a 20ish year sabbatical. Lol. Sadly better now than I was as a kid. Keep it up! I’m also regular and a heel flipper!
I tried a few the other day with the advice of this video and was one foot landing them within 5 tries, I couldn't believe it lol def will be practicing this one thank you again dude
thanks for this video i am still struggling to commit and lean back but i have gotten way closer to landing it rather then before. kickflips are still way harder for me but i do want to be a competitive pro skater so thanks for keeping me rolling
Thanks Johnny after watching this video I landed my first heelflip stationary in a matter of hrs just starting learning today lmao
Thanks Jonny I'll pratice today
Just wanted to say Thank you! Landed my first two heelflips today!
This actually helped me land my first heelflip today thanks johnny😁
Would love to skate with you sometime!!!!
Others say you don't actually rotate it with a heel, but johnny clearly does so.
wow that scenery is amazing
I do this trick slightly different and have had great success with the variation.
I lot of my friends when I was younger used to put the heal in the middle of the board
and kick forwards as well as out as you are doing.
they also had the foot in the toe ollie position for the back foot.
for some reason I just got on the board and did it like this.
the back foot is square in the middle of the kick no angle at all.
my front foot is slightly past the middle of the deck and the ball of my foot is nice
and firmly in the middle of the concave and also square like the back foot.
I ollie and then just push outwards to the side so as the ball and of my foot kicks the
inside of the concave while I hold my toes upwards to flip the board.
never a rocket or a need to flatten the board by hitting the nose.
now after 20 years off the board and getting back on the heel flip was first go
still nice and high and straight as a die with no movement away from under my feet.
as I have said in another reply in your channel some people are natural to kick tricks
and others to heel tricks (you have me wanting to learn the 360 version now or laser).
when I was younger as I had more push with the ball of the foot into the concave than
my mates (yep im an ozzie) I could triple heel flip with a reasonable amount of
consistency.
not back at that stage yet as I am older and just getting back into it
(also not as brave as I once was)
but they are still nice and clean.
still I would trade a nice heel flip for the grace you do late flips with, your understanding
of late flips can be seen by not only how well you do them but by how well you explain
how they are working.
just watched your other video on this last night, awesome!!
Bro i don’t even skate anymore. It’s been a few years since I’ve really got into it. I can still heel flip but I just had to click because it brings back good ol memories. I miss watching these types of videos when skating was new and fun to me.
Start again! You can still learn thousand Tricks ! Try freestyle skateboarding, it might makes things More fun!
imagine quitting skating
@@sontiyo7113 it’s hard to be motivated man, especially when you end up skating solo. I fell off it because I had nobody close enough to me to skate with.
I just started and heel flips feel so nice
ur tutorials are so amazing man :) keep it up!
i think talking about how the backfoot behaves during the trick could be very helpful too
I love your videos man. Keep up the good work!
Varial Heelflip tutorial next please, loving These so far👍👍👍
yesterday i landed varial kf now i landed heelflip by watching ur vids thank you dude
I landed my first Heelflip in a long as time on my first session on my new Jonny Giger board!!!!!
Another great one Johnny! Heel flip is more natural for me, but I can’t do it with my toes off the board. Always need to have my heel off the back almost like an Ollie. Maybe I’m alone on this..
Neen Williams does em like that too tbf
@@rudismall4133 Yeah I’ve noticed a lot of pros seem to do it that way. I can never fully flip the board when I try it though. Just feels awkward! Hats off to anyone that can!
I'm the heelflip first type, don't quite have it on lock so this video is very helpful. The real thing i learned though is how my new shoes will look after practice ( nice taste Jonny ;) )
You inspire me to learn new tricks!!
Thx, dude! Landing my first one today 🖤🖤🖤
Videos like this make me want to go and buy a new skateboard... mind you, I'm 45 and haven't been on one in 30 years... lol! Thanks Jonny!
Nice heelflips. I concur! Time to throw down some bangers down or off stuff.
The best tutorial for heelflips
Such a nice backdrop
Landed my first heel after watching this video now I gotta get them consistently now
I was the 300th comment 0_0
I literally learned this trick in 10 minutes this tutorial is amazing
That's 🧢
@@zenavstheworld7207 yo what if it’s not cap and and he’s just a god at skating 😳
Thanks for making this video, your tutorial was explained very well
how to beat people in a game of skate:
1. do a heelflip
2. do a varial heelflip
3. do a frontside heelflip
4. do a fakie varial heel
5. do a fakie front heel
i think people hate me for that but i dont care.
i just love heelflips lmao
i'm the exact opposite. i love kickflips lmao
You forgot back heel and inward heel
@@kxrxkt6741yea wouldve mentioned those if i could back heel and inward heel as consistently.
Perfect timing Jonny !