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How to do a helipop. Well first off you need to know that a hellipop is a basically a nollie full cab. Here I'm teaching a backside helipop, but doing it is essentially the same for both ways. This trick is a fun trick to add to your arsenal and not too difficult to learn. These tricks are great to throw into the start of lines because you end up right where you started. You basically need to know 2 tricks before you start to learn this.
Basic Full cab
Nollie 180
Anyway, once you learn those tricks and have them on lock, it's time to learn helipops. The setup of this trick feels sort of odd at first but you get used to it. First of all i suggest you try setting up exactly like you do for a full cab, just in nollie stance, but the way I set up is I have my front foot hanging off the edge of the nose just a tiny bit, and oddly enough my back foot is set up like a nollieflip. If my setup doesn't work for you just experiment around, as I said before, the setup is odd at first but once you get used to it it's easy.
Now the execution of this trick is pretty simple if you think about it. There are few things you need to do before you pop the trick. First you need to wind your shoulders up the opposite direction of what your spinning. Now for the next step you need to do a few things at once, you need to pop and scoop extremely hard. I mean slam the nose down hard and scoop at the same time. You need to get as much height on this trick as possible. Also you need to whip around your shoulders extremely hard too. Doing these two things correctly is very important to the trick, so you need to learn how to do them right. While your in the air you need be scooping you board around as much as you can. You front foot needs to be applying constant pressure in the air on the board. Also while you're in the air your back foot will be dragging upwards to the tail of the board, basically following the board while it rotates. When I do my helipops, My back foot actually comes off the board, so I just approximate the location of the land and bring my foot there while my front foot spins the board.
After you get all of that out of the way the final part of executing the trick is the land. The land is actually very easy because your landing back where you started in your normal stance. When you're learning this trick at first you may want to just learn spins to 270 degrees and pivot. Doing it that way is very easy to learn because your landing in fakie and just pivoting. The land of this trick if you revert it is often smooth because the momentum of the turn just brings you back normal.
After you land this trick the only thing is to ride away clean and possibly throw it into a line.
One little trick you may want to learn before you try these is hop-on pivots. These are so easy, what you do is you just run and jump on your board fakie and do a pivot as quickly as you can. These just make the revert at the land of the trick easier.
Have fun learning these and I hoped I helped.
-Ghost
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