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RE: My Heelflip Progress

Hello @ambermayormaynot, there is a lot great advice below but I would like something. The major thing I would say is that you need to learn to ollie higher. I teach skateboarding and I have lots of learners asking me about kickflps and heelflips and the response I give (after 15 years experience) is: can you ollie over two decks stacked up (interlocked). if the answer is no then you are going to find it hard to do any flip tricks because you simply are not used to being in the air that long. You have not rained your legs to both power you up and to stay up in the air. I can see it in your video, your technique for flipping the board is relatively fine, but your coming down with both feet so quickly so there is no chance for the board to finish what it doing. Go out and ride and ollie for the next 6 months without even thinking of flip trick. I know you are not going do that, but that would be my advice, it would develop your power and it would mean you have 6 months more experience of being comfortable on your board. Its great to see your determination and in my experience when i teach females they always have greater perseverance and way better natural balance. So I would suggest (and its only a suggestion) that you spend as much time as possible do ollies, ollie up curbs (sidewalks), ollie down them, ollie over things, even its just a crack in the pavement, that way you will get more and more comfortable with your board and will jumping up and keeping your legs tucked up in the air. Then when you add board manipulation (flips, shoves, shoves and flips together) you and your body will know what it feels likes to stay up in the air. There is nothing wrong with perfecting the basics, in fact mastery of the basics will give you a head start when approaching the advanced stuff. Keep up the great work, skateboarding is an incredible journey of self discovery and self development, thee is no need to rush it, you have a whole life time. Now go out and do some ollies and all the best to you.

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Ha ha, I've just seen another one of your videos, your British so no need for me to mention sidewalks ha ha. Also, if your from/go to Manchester then hunt down Ben Grove and tell him I sent you, he'll help you out, he's a total LEGEND and an amazing skateboarder and Eddie Belvedere and in-fact all of that Manchester crew including my man Lloyd McLeggon. That "Pump Cage" looks like a well tidy park with loads of opportunity to practice your ollies, lets see more footage from there. Keep it up

Thank youuuu, I'll hunt down these people for sure! Thank you so much for your advice. I've been working on my ollies. I think for my next video I'm going to do all ollies, just getting slightly higher with each, like an inverted limbo game! Start with a broom, then a curb, then a deck and so on :) Thank you for the support!