Showstopping skills: The Heel Flick

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Perfect the heel flick with this video tutorial from football freestyle world record holder Daniel Cutting

So, you’ve mastered the rainbow flick. What now? Well, even Neymar gets bored of the doing the same trick twice, so why not try this variation?

Instead of rolling the ball up your heel, you flick it and backheel it over your head and beyond your marker. It’s tough to do, which is why FFT have brought in professional football freestyler Daniel Cutting to show you how.

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Andrew Murray

Andrew Murray is an award-winning writer, columnist and editor, voted the Consumer Journalist of the Year at the 2015 PPA New Talent Awards. A fluent Spanish speaker and former semi-professional footballer, he was senior staff writer at FourFourTwo from 2012 to 2019, interviewing the biggest names in the game from Lionel Messi (twice), Neymar and Luis Suarez, to Sergio Aguero, Virgil van Dijk and Mo Salah for the cover, among others. He continues to write and edit for the brand on a regular basis, plus national newspapers, websites, the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and Premier League clubs. He is not a famous tennis player.