Man now way i can ollie waist high while rolling but my backfoot always comes off so i have trouble doing it off high things bc im not rolling im gonna work on this for the next week and a half every day and go back to this stair set , thank you so much ! All the advice i needed no one could tell me what i was doing wrong , nos i know !!!!
If your back foot is coming off, you're probably rocketing too much and need to try not putting as much energy into the ollie until your form/technique is corrected or you're not leaning forward enough for the speed you're carrying. Or you just need to start working on ninja style ollies, where it basically looks like you're doing a flying sidekick through the air. That involves bringing the back foot in & up. I don't think of ollies as bringing the board up, but up AND forward, so I catch with front foot and thrust the deck forward like a flying kick, thus making the tail slap up against the back foot. I firmly believe most ollie issues are cleared up once people learn to really attack the nose. If you think of an ollie as moving up AND forward, your back foot will start to follow; the difficulty comes from people using their rear leg only in a straight down/up motion and going below the deck's horizontal plane that kills the energy transfer (pop down, foot then moves straight up). Your front front slides & moves forward, so you need to train your rear foot to move forward a little too. It's pop down, move rear foot up AND forwards. Your rear leg below the knee doesn't come straight up, it makes a very similar motion to when you pick up your foot to see what's on the bottom of your shoe.
Dude I bet Jimmy is killing it right now. I’m at his point in my skating. I can hit clean Nollie heels , switch heels but the Ollie still gets me , same problem as Jimmy. Can’t wait to try it out tomorrow. I’ll be cool to come back to this comment in 3 yrs and see how much I’ve progress.
Finally. I’ve been looking for videos to improve my ollies. Most videos don’t address the issue. It’s always generic generic ollie tips that all the videos say. This is the only one I’ve found that really aims at improving ollies rather than teaching. Idk why no other videos address keeping the back foot connected to the board when that has such a huge part in executing a controlled ollie. Thanks for this
Thanks so much for these videos! 41 year-old here learning to skate for the first time. I've been working on ollies for 3 or 4 months now and a few of your tips, specifically the launch and rolling out my front foot, just allowed me to do some ollies that finally felt good, like I was doing it right! I'll be scouring your video more insights!
So stoked that you're learning to skate there is no age limit! Let me know if I can help you with your process as you learn to ollie and skate the way you want to!
@@unitedstatesskateboardeduc5205 Thanks, I really appreciate that! You know one thing I discovered this last week is the reason I couldn't time myself to ollie over an object while rolling was because I couldn't ollie without looking at my feet. Had to practice looking away while doing stationary ollies for a while until I started getting comfortable. Now I'm managing to ollie while rolling and looking at the object I'm trying to ollie over.
Excellent analysis! I also had the same problem with my backfoot. Then when I was practicing kickflip my front foot would occasionaly catch the nose in the flicking motion and ended up giving me a super high ollie instead of flip. That made me suspect for a good ollie actually what we need is a flicking motion. Then I retrained ollie with this deliberate flick it massively changed my ollie. Your point of rolling the pinkie side sooner and sway the lower leg more firmly verifies my theory -- it is essentially what you have to do in a kickflip.
That is a powerful connection! Skaters are problem solvers and critical thinkers! Love that skateboarding gives us a space to challenge our brain and body to connect like that! Nice work you should consider sharing your ideas with more people!
I think your right on all u said but I found myself ollieing better with it sticking to my back foot by moving my back foot in on the tail the farther your back foot is on the tail the worse it'll be
Great point! by moving your back foot down on the tail you may loose some leverage but you will gain more contact. Sometimes its the smallest adjustments that make the difference for each of us! Thanks for pointing this out!
Hey man very helpful video!! I have the same issue with the back foot and I would like some feedback on my ollie... how could I get to send you a video of my ollie, so that maybe you could let me know what to adjust? Thanks, keep up with the great content, congrats!
I have been skating for a few months. I know ollies take a lot of time and commitment but no matter what I try ( carpet, cracks, skater trainer etc etc) I can’t pop as I should. Do you have any video on how to pop? Thank you! Love your videos! Please also do more on park. How to carve the bowls!
Bowl carving is on the list! Send me a video of you working on your pop and I'm sure I can help you out. I do have some vids that cover popping. What a challenging aspect of the ollie it is too! Check this vid and see if it helps... ruclips.net/video/zDIIdLproow/видео.html
been skating for 2 and a half years now. progressed crazy but still blackfoot comes off when popping tricks that aren’t flip tricks, this helped a lot time to practice!
Really focus on jumping before you flick the tail down. It's so important that you think of flick the tail down instead of trying push off the tail from the ground. Think get weightless then flick...
Need some support I can ollie but my board turns sideways to the right ( I ride goofy) I know how to Ollie and to keep my shoulders straight, but I’m 99% sure my board turns because I turn my dragging foot to the right, I can’t slide forward for the life of me and it sucks because I try to do a gap or stair set I land primo
You are not alone in rotating the board that way. Here's why, and you're on the right track... When you try to move your front knee forward it is natural for your knee to rotate open a bit. That leads to the lower leg and foot opening (rotating) as well. Try standing on your back foot and lift your front knee. Start to make the lead leg movement like you would when you ollie. Pay attention to what happens as you move your front knee forward. You will see at a certain point the lead leg starts to rotate open. This extra knee movement is likely contributing to you opening your front foot and rotating the board. Let me know if this makes sense and if it doesn't I will try to make a video breakdown about the lead leg action and why the board rotates open...
I'll add that you can compensate by disciplining your foot and ankle action with knee extension to keep the board in line. You can also help control it by easing up on the forward movement of the knee when you lift it up and slide the foot up the board.
A confident ollie is really something I want to have before going to the next level. That's hard. Thx for the advices!
So glad we can help! Send video if you want any analysis.
Man now way i can ollie waist high while rolling but my backfoot always comes off so i have trouble doing it off high things bc im not rolling im gonna work on this for the next week and a half every day and go back to this stair set , thank you so much ! All the advice i needed no one could tell me what i was doing wrong , nos i know !!!!
So stoked we could help you! Send video I want to see you slay that stair set!
If your back foot is coming off, you're probably rocketing too much and need to try not putting as much energy into the ollie until your form/technique is corrected or you're not leaning forward enough for the speed you're carrying. Or you just need to start working on ninja style ollies, where it basically looks like you're doing a flying sidekick through the air. That involves bringing the back foot in & up. I don't think of ollies as bringing the board up, but up AND forward, so I catch with front foot and thrust the deck forward like a flying kick, thus making the tail slap up against the back foot. I firmly believe most ollie issues are cleared up once people learn to really attack the nose. If you think of an ollie as moving up AND forward, your back foot will start to follow; the difficulty comes from people using their rear leg only in a straight down/up motion and going below the deck's horizontal plane that kills the energy transfer (pop down, foot then moves straight up). Your front front slides & moves forward, so you need to train your rear foot to move forward a little too. It's pop down, move rear foot up AND forwards. Your rear leg below the knee doesn't come straight up, it makes a very similar motion to when you pick up your foot to see what's on the bottom of your shoe.
20 years old and learning to Ollie with these tips tysm
So sick that you're learning the ollie! Timing is everything! If you need more help hit me up and send video!
Dude I bet Jimmy is killing it right now. I’m at his point in my skating. I can hit clean Nollie heels , switch heels but the Ollie still gets me , same problem as Jimmy. Can’t wait to try it out tomorrow. I’ll be cool to come back to this comment in 3 yrs and see how much I’ve progress.
Exactly the advice I was looking for
Stoked you found this in the sea of you tube knowledge!
If you get desperate enough you do some digging, haha.
Finally. I’ve been looking for videos to improve my ollies. Most videos don’t address the issue. It’s always generic generic ollie tips that all the videos say. This is the only one I’ve found that really aims at improving ollies rather than teaching. Idk why no other videos address keeping the back foot connected to the board when that has such a huge part in executing a controlled ollie. Thanks for this
So stoked you found us. Just a nerd, nerding out on how to ollie! Thanks for watching!
Thanks so much for these videos! 41 year-old here learning to skate for the first time. I've been working on ollies for 3 or 4 months now and a few of your tips, specifically the launch and rolling out my front foot, just allowed me to do some ollies that finally felt good, like I was doing it right! I'll be scouring your video more insights!
So stoked that you're learning to skate there is no age limit! Let me know if I can help you with your process as you learn to ollie and skate the way you want to!
@@unitedstatesskateboardeduc5205 Thanks, I really appreciate that! You know one thing I discovered this last week is the reason I couldn't time myself to ollie over an object while rolling was because I couldn't ollie without looking at my feet. Had to practice looking away while doing stationary ollies for a while until I started getting comfortable. Now I'm managing to ollie while rolling and looking at the object I'm trying to ollie over.
Just found this channel and wow these might be the most insightful skate tips I've ever seen
Thank you for the support! A bit nerdy but having fun breaking it down:)!
Awesome explanation as always. 🙏🏻 thank you
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Great analysis! Can I sent in my Ollie video as well? Thanks ahead
Honestly man, your videos on ollies ar BY FAR the best and most helpfull on all of youtube, wow, thanks a lot
Just thankful people who need them can find them. We love to see people understand how it all works and learn!
Excellent analysis! I also had the same problem with my backfoot. Then when I was practicing kickflip my front foot would occasionaly catch the nose in the flicking motion and ended up giving me a super high ollie instead of flip. That made me suspect for a good ollie actually what we need is a flicking motion. Then I retrained ollie with this deliberate flick it massively changed my ollie. Your point of rolling the pinkie side sooner and sway the lower leg more firmly verifies my theory -- it is essentially what you have to do in a kickflip.
That is a powerful connection! Skaters are problem solvers and critical thinkers! Love that skateboarding gives us a space to challenge our brain and body to connect like that! Nice work you should consider sharing your ideas with more people!
Excellent! Keep these videos coming!
Working on a new one now!
Very concise ollie tips and breakdowns. Nice!
Thank you I'm glad we could help!
Damn I'd be happy with being able to Ollie like that regardless of the disconnect 😂
I think your right on all u said but I found myself ollieing better with it sticking to my back foot by moving my back foot in on the tail the farther your back foot is on the tail the worse it'll be
Great point! by moving your back foot down on the tail you may loose some leverage but you will gain more contact. Sometimes its the smallest adjustments that make the difference for each of us! Thanks for pointing this out!
@@unitedstatesskateboardeduc5205 no problem at all
I started trying stairs but the board always flies away from me. I don’t understand how it stays glued to people’s feet so thank you for this video!!
You're welcome. I'm working on another video for one of our other subscribers that might have a few pointers for you on bigger drops.
@@unitedstatesskateboardeduc5205 thank you!!! that would be amazing
Just gotta slide more
Yep. Great video. Really, really, really good video... Thank you soo much!!
You're very welcome!
Thanks man your video actually helped out a lot!
Glad it helped!
If i understand good, “kick” bit forward with ur foot after sliding upwards but do it in a quick motion?
Smooth motion you don't want to kick the board away...
Hey man very helpful video!! I have the same issue with the back foot and I would like some feedback on my ollie... how could I get to send you a video of my ollie, so that maybe you could let me know what to adjust? Thanks, keep up with the great content, congrats!
Just email at chris@ussea.us
I have been skating for a few months. I know ollies take a lot of time and commitment but no matter what I try ( carpet, cracks, skater trainer etc etc) I can’t pop as I should. Do you have any video on how to pop? Thank you! Love your videos! Please also do more on park. How to carve the bowls!
Bowl carving is on the list! Send me a video of you working on your pop and I'm sure I can help you out. I do have some vids that cover popping. What a challenging aspect of the ollie it is too! Check this vid and see if it helps... ruclips.net/video/zDIIdLproow/видео.html
been skating for 2 and a half years now. progressed crazy but still blackfoot comes off when popping tricks that aren’t flip tricks, this helped a lot time to practice!
So glad that we could help! Keep me updated on your progress!
So sick!!!
I checked out some of your vids man nice work!! Glad you liked this one and thank you for the support!
@@unitedstatesskateboardeduc5205 Thank you!
Thank you, Can we get a video on how to lead into a grind?
We talkin 50/50? Frontside, backside? In a bowl or ramp? Hand rail? Would be stoked to work on that edit. Just need to narrow the focus.
@@unitedstatesskateboardeduc5205 I'd say 50-50 onto a Hand rail.
Do you mind telling me what shoes you're wearing in this video when you're demonstrating in your office?
No? Lol
I have the same problem and i cant ollie over stuff
For me my Blackfoot always hits the floor and the board just stays glued to my right foot
Really focus on jumping before you flick the tail down. It's so important that you think of flick the tail down instead of trying push off the tail from the ground. Think get weightless then flick...
WE need mo r likes on this vid
He might need to square his hips with his board more. That way he can engage is leg faster and keep that front foot on the right path
Can I send you a video of my Ollie for a critique?
Heck yes just submit to chris@ussea.us Happy to evaluate and if you're cool with it I'll use it for a future video edit on the channel.
@@unitedstatesskateboardeduc5205 Awesome thank you! Submitted. Can't wait to hear your feedback
Is the skater in red Tommie Bennett?
Yes Tommie helped me out with some video content to build off of. He is a long time friend, an incredible athlete, and one heck of a snowboard coach!
Pliz give training of every single trick of skateboard like u make six video series make the series of every trick of 🛹
Alright I like the sound of this. How about we start with the tricks that are most important to you... You name some and I'll do my best!
@@unitedstatesskateboardeduc5205 like front side 180 back side 180 pop shove it front shove heel flip 369 flip
Now that's a good start to a trick list!
Need some support I can ollie but my board turns sideways to the right ( I ride goofy) I know how to Ollie and to keep my shoulders straight, but I’m 99% sure my board turns because I turn my dragging foot to the right, I can’t slide forward for the life of me and it sucks because I try to do a gap or stair set I land primo
You are not alone in rotating the board that way. Here's why, and you're on the right track... When you try to move your front knee forward it is natural for your knee to rotate open a bit. That leads to the lower leg and foot opening (rotating) as well. Try standing on your back foot and lift your front knee. Start to make the lead leg movement like you would when you ollie. Pay attention to what happens as you move your front knee forward. You will see at a certain point the lead leg starts to rotate open. This extra knee movement is likely contributing to you opening your front foot and rotating the board. Let me know if this makes sense and if it doesn't I will try to make a video breakdown about the lead leg action and why the board rotates open...
I'll add that you can compensate by disciplining your foot and ankle action with knee extension to keep the board in line. You can also help control it by easing up on the forward movement of the knee when you lift it up and slide the foot up the board.