How to Heel Flip

The heel flip is supposedly much easier than the kick flip; however I did not find this to be true.  The difference between a heel flip and the kick flip is the rotation of the board.  For a heel flip the board spins out and away from you as opposed to a kick flip which kicks down and towards you.  For the heel flip you will want to have your back foot on the tip of the tail.  The placement of your front foot differs from skater to skater however; I like to put my front foot just to the left of the bolts.  Having your front foot just to the left of the bolts you will want to let your toes of your front foot just hang over the board.  The next few steps is to actually pop and flip the trick which is primarily controlled by your front foot.  Your back foot will pop the board in a Ollie motion just like it has done with so many other tricks, while your front foot kicks the board up and out.  To do this you will want to kick on a 45 degree angle across the top of the board while going up towards the nose.  Doing this flicking motion will allow you to flick the board for the flip, while at the same time leveling the board out in order to ride away cleanly.  Learning heel flips will enable you to learn such tricks as double heals, varial heals, and the laser flip.  A laser flip is like a tre flip except instead of a kick flip with a 360 degree shove it, you would perform a heel flip with a 360 degree shove it.  I found this trick to be harder to learn than kick flips so do not get frustrated if learning this trick seems to be taking much longer than when you learned kick flips.