Ain't this the truth. Spent all my teen and early 20s not even knowing how to properly Ollie. Would be proud to get half a foot off the ground. After trying these methods I can honestly say I've landed a 2.5 ft Ollie. ( Not the greatest accomplishment to some people but I am beyond happy with it!) Thanks @SkateIQ
@@grizzofthenorthur a poser if you can't Ollie at least 4 decks high by the time you been skating for a year. These ppl must suck so bad I'm happy I never skated wit you, type of guy to go to the skatepark and leave 30 minutes later cause ur bored 😂😂😂, I've know ppl like you I just can't be around you. I was doing 360 flips at 12 years old back in 2002 before youtube, you had to teach urself. That's skateboarding
It's a dance. Everyone can move but can they explain it? My guess is the more we analyze it and have people disecting it the more the new generation takes it to a whole new level. With knowledge comes greater and greater complexity. The art of skateboarding.
seriously man. I remember maybe like 1 older dude that tried to help us the rest just talked mad sh*t if not actually threatening us to gtfo the park. I thought the whole time it was because I was short that I couldnt skate because thats what everybody said hahaha.
I feel that. I must've spent weeks straight back in the day trying to drag my foot in the garage and essentially just kicking the board out from under me before I was given the advice of "just jump and you'll naturally 'slide' a bit." Even that was a bit reductive and took a ton of trial and error to eventually understand what this guy was able to put down in 15 seconds, lmao.
You have singlehandedly fixed my ollies. After watching this short and the one about not touching the ground when you pop, I felt decades of struggling with ollies melt away in ONE TRY. If you ever sell a masterclass on coaching I’ll buy two.
@@SKATEiQ I applied what you said in a short vid of you teaching someone to ollie in transition and you said to not bend down so much and That works when you are going fast in the streets and need to ollie. thanks
@@beatles42ohgg94 did you attack how others are learning instead of doing a “yes and” approach? If you’re starting out shooting down all the effort they’ve put in on a practice technique they aren’t going to listen when you give them tips. Someone told me I was practicing Ollie’s wrong awhile ago since I started by practicing dragging my foot across. But that method literally taught me how to Ollie. Some techniques are stepping stones and if you pretend like they are useless then people who have used that stepping stone successfully won’t trust you to take tips from.
I saw an Ollie in 88 when I was on tour with my Hardcore Punk band in Eastern Canada.. a kid was in Halifax, skating around the city park. We were there, doing acid drops off of everything .. that kid took us to the lawn. We started to learn to Ollie on the grass!! Once I could kick then land it. ? Then I took it to the street. By the time we were head to the next city I had it down.. one of the greatest BASE LINE moves..
You’re actually a proper coach, a lot of people make tutorials because they are good at skateboarding, but being a good skater does not translate to being a good teacher
You make me want to pick up a new board and get back into skating. Your knowledge of the sport is incredible. Thank you for blessing all of us with your teaching. I’ve told you once and I’ll say it again, I’ve NEVER seen a better coach. And that goes for all sports!
I am 59, engineer, restarting skate after a 35 year pause (...). I can tell that you are a really really good pedagogue (teacher). If at univesity, teacher could be so precise and clear, many students would really get the subjects. Thanks again.
Ya, dude... I was skating in the 90's. I got where I could ollie over a board on it's side... and that's about it. Probably because I was doing the "slide your foot forward" thing. If I had had this lesson about LIFTING your front foot up then using it to level the board out, I would have been getting much higher ollies. Too bad I don't really skate anymore LOL.
I skated for years and I swear i wasted alot of time trying to figure out why some of my tricks took so much longer to learn. If I had mitch near me It would of saved me so much aggrivation and time. You're the best! 🤟
THANK YOU IVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEARS. when I teach people Ollie's I just get them to focus on popping and jumping, the slide comes with time and comfortability.
My issue was not being able to commit to the jump when the board may come out from under me. So “dragging” my foot I believe helped me learn the fundamentals, and now I can let that go now that it no longer serves me.
Key word the “SLIDE comes”. To say it’s not necessary to do an Ollie is just incorrect. Like your foot slides it’s plain as day and you saying it’s a by product def means it’s a necessary component of the Ollie haha. I’ll give you it may be easier to teach by way of not having them focus on the slide, but you definitely need to slide your food to properly level it out and get a nice Ollie we all know this hahaha.
Mitchie you are great! Cant believe we were blessed to see you as a young kid just upping the bar in competitions to now I get these shorts all the time and your knowledge and ability to help others apply it is amazing.
Whenever someone asks me how to do a trick I always refer them to your channel. Your teaching alone has helped me land so many tricks I dreamed of landing as a kid. Thanks a lot man, great stuff.
Wow, you're the best skateboard coach i've seen on YT. I've really enjoyed every single on of your shorts / videos so far! As a beginner skater myself, i was wondering if you could ever do a video on easy or intermediate beginner skate tricks, whether it be flatground or ramp / park based. Much love and big ups! ❤
YES fuckin thank you I’ve been having to re-teach so many friends and family members that keep doing Ollie north’s on accident. Roll that ankle over!!!
This explains my frustration at following instructions that said to do this! Funny, I see a lot of ollies with no slide, especially really quick pops, so I thought maybe this could be wrong. But nobody seemed to offer an alternative. Now it makes sense! Thank you!
I love how you showed slo motion video of you sliding your foot, while explaining that youre convinced it isnt necessary to keep the board where you need it to stay.
I haven't tried to skate for 35 years, your simple and well spoken tutorials really are equipping. It's like the light bulb finally went off in my head, I'd probably injure myself if I tried now but the info still inspires confidence!
So funny watching you do the Ollie bad on purpose. But it was what I looked like ACTUALLY trying to do an Ollie haha. Because I was doing it slightly incorrect. The slide. I’m glad you said is optional. Later on.
Duuuuuuude... youre gonna make me start skating again. My cousin explained it to me the first way years ago, this new info changes things. Your videos are so articulate! Thanks for this
I've watched a lot of videos about how to ollie higher since i started skating again after like 8 years, and this video is the only one that i feel like ive PERFECTLY understood how to actually ollie high. I think its been a week since i first watched this, and now my ollies feel great and are actually pretty high. Hell even tho i havent started trying kickflips yet, I feel like I kinda understand the concept of those aswell. Hands down THE BEST skate coach out there.
I’ve only ever long boarded but now with your videos I can finally start with tricks, it never connected in my head for the ollie until this video, everyone says to slide your foot and it has never clicked to me. You are absolutely awesome man!!🎉
This is something I've been telling "teachers" for years everyone always forgets to mention the part where you gotta jump and lift your foot first! Well said G you really are the man Mitchie!! Sorry if I spelled your name wrong mine is Richie sooo lol 😂
Mitchie is right. Thanks for the feedback im happy it hits home. Skate tutorials frustrate me so were just trying to creat a huge database of actual instruction that will actually make a difference. I’m happy its working !
Man you are good brutha ..I learned the wrong way..I even showed my son the wrong way..n he had problems..he did it first time when I showed him this ..love it and keep up the gr8 work my brutha!! ..sk8ters 4 life!!..or ol school..SK8 OR DIE..LOL
Haven't skated properly in my life, but maybe one day I'll give it a shot because of these videos. Regardless, keep up the incredible work, you deserve so much!
@@sozoknight He’s openly a Scientologist. He’s in one of their magazines in a group photo if you want proof. While I see people in that position as victims they are also big influencers of others lives and I don’t like to think kids are being brought into Scientology because of them. But if their videos help you skate better that’s great. Their Ollie videos helped me learn to Ollie, however this video showed that their method is more of a stepping stone rather than the ideal Ollie.
This is seriously the best advice ever I spent forever just dragging my foot because everyone tells you to no one makes you realize it’s happens almost naturally when you are doing it right
Loving the simple beginners tricks breakdown and explanation! Please keep them coming! I see myself trying this trick out (maybe for the first time) and I am 29!
Bro... I was lied to. When I was 15, my buddies were ollying and trying to explain like, "slam the tail to the ground, jump, and slide your front foot up the board," but I never got it, and gave up. This video, and the one where you said you should never hit the ground with the tail when you ollie, have literally changed how I think about it. Screw it. I might be fat, but Im buying a board. I'm gonna land a damned ollie.
When you will get a board? You gotta land it soon and you will land a shuvit couple days later!🙌🏽 Those 2 tricks did unlock the Passion , it's better than meditation 💯
@snareplug3872 ordered one yesterday bro. Should be here by Weds. Dude, if I could land a shuvit, I'll be beside myself. My dream just is to be able to land kickflip. That'd be so cool
I wish i had this when I was young. I always wanted to learn how to skateboard and didnt live in an area where it was easy to hangout with friends. I played all the Tony Hawk games and made believe I was good. I gave up with barely being able to ollie at low speeds. RUclips wasnt like it is now back then. Im glad people like you exist so if my kid has an aspiration to do something like skateboarding, they have someone to teach them
When i was a kid id always teach people to put their front foot just behind the bolts, pop and jump in one motion and try and land both feet on the bolts. It doesnt produce a high ollie but it does get people landing in the right spot, not slipping out and feeling like theyve accomplished something
He's definitely right, I skate in flip flops during the summer and I don't do anything crazy but I can definitely Ollie over little stuff without any marks on my toes😎
Man i always wondered what happened to you. The child prodigy became the sports best teacher. Showing the next generation how to do it correctly and with positivity. You are him. Thats a fact.
Coaches in skateboarding you love to see it, we didn’t have actual coaches 20/30 years ago we coached each other that’s why I fell in love with sport when I was a kid tbh if my knees weren’t so bad and I threw my back out when I was 24, now 34 I’d still be shredding the board rn.
Same with kick flips. I have been skating for over 20 years kick flipped over a lot of things over the years and I literally just learned this this year
Dude this helped me go from barely getting the board an inch or just jumping with no pop to clearing at least 6in or more and I can at least get them consistently now. It’s not perfect but your videos really really help, coming from longboarding but first time really getting into skateboarding. Played around with a board as a kid but it mostly collected dust, tried again 2 years ago but that lasted 2 weeks (I was sooo anxious at the park lol)
@@SKATEiQ true, I’ve been doing it so long now that I don’t even think about how I’m doing it anymore. Love your content btw! The level of detail you put into the skate tips is amazing. I really wish something like this existed back when I was coming up!
I used to skate a lot back in the day trying to get back into it. It's really rough rn lol but I do find myself Consistently relying on what my backfoot is doing before my front foot.
I just started and have watched tons of videos on doing Ollie’s and I just couldn’t understand the slide. I tried for days and didn’t get it at all and then i tried doing it without the forcible slide and it went much better, with my foot naturally sliding in the right place.
This Actually helped a lot I’ve been trying to learn how to skate for a long time but gave up because I never could do an Ollie and every thing I looked up said to slide your foot
Bruh everything in this video is what was always told and it seems to be the problem… thank you for this information it sounds like what I need to fix my kickflips
Thanks for the info. I've been working on ollies for a few months now and i think the whole "lift your front leg up instead of sliding" is a game changer for me.
I found this out naturally teaching people how to ollie, I tell to just pop and jump straight up, like a rocket ollie. It really works, people catch on fast
I’m 31, never skated, and I’ve always wanted to Ollie. I’ll give it a shot for Tony Hawk, Muska, Bucky Lasek, Burnquist, and the rest of the OGs from THPS.
That’s so sick. Take it slow, super slow. Learn how to get on and off the board safely, don’t do any tracks for a couple months, just cruise around, rolling around and let some things come naturally.
I usually use my cruise to just chill and feel the breeze, but if this guy existed 10 years ago i probably would wanna learn tricks cause anyone can see the passion this dude has and the patience to teach
Man! Kids these days don't know how good they got it. Wish we had internet and bonafide instruction like yours then. All we had was pieced together Transworld or Thrasher Magazine pics to try to figure the physics out or watching bones brigade on beta tape at a friends house back in the 80's 😎👍
worlds best skateboard coach! when you explain it actually makes sense 😂
Thank you!
Ain't this the truth. Spent all my teen and early 20s not even knowing how to properly Ollie. Would be proud to get half a foot off the ground. After trying these methods I can honestly say I've landed a 2.5 ft Ollie. ( Not the greatest accomplishment to some people but I am beyond happy with it!) Thanks @SkateIQ
undeniable
@@grizzofthenorthur a poser if you can't Ollie at least 4 decks high by the time you been skating for a year. These ppl must suck so bad I'm happy I never skated wit you, type of guy to go to the skatepark and leave 30 minutes later cause ur bored 😂😂😂, I've know ppl like you I just can't be around you. I was doing 360 flips at 12 years old back in 2002 before youtube, you had to teach urself. That's skateboarding
I wish i had this guy 20 years ago. So good at identifying and explaining what's going wrong.
Thank you!
It's a dance. Everyone can move but can they explain it? My guess is the more we analyze it and have people disecting it the more the new generation takes it to a whole new level. With knowledge comes greater and greater complexity. The art of skateboarding.
seriously man. I remember maybe like 1 older dude that tried to help us the rest just talked mad sh*t if not actually threatening us to gtfo the park. I thought the whole time it was because I was short that I couldnt skate because thats what everybody said hahaha.
I feel that. I must've spent weeks straight back in the day trying to drag my foot in the garage and essentially just kicking the board out from under me before I was given the advice of "just jump and you'll naturally 'slide' a bit."
Even that was a bit reductive and took a ton of trial and error to eventually understand what this guy was able to put down in 15 seconds, lmao.
Exactly what i came here to say....
You have singlehandedly fixed my ollies. After watching this short and the one about not touching the ground when you pop, I felt decades of struggling with ollies melt away in ONE TRY.
If you ever sell a masterclass on coaching I’ll buy two.
Amazing! So stoked to hear it. Check out our patreon, i have a feeling its just what you're lookin for
@@SKATEiQ I applied what you said in a short vid of you teaching someone to ollie in transition and you said to not bend down so much and That works when you are going fast in the streets and need to ollie. thanks
@@TRAVIESO_NA that’s great ! Happy it’s working
@@SKATEiQ iv ehad over 3000 downvotes on reddit for saying this XDDD
@@beatles42ohgg94 did you attack how others are learning instead of doing a “yes and” approach? If you’re starting out shooting down all the effort they’ve put in on a practice technique they aren’t going to listen when you give them tips.
Someone told me I was practicing Ollie’s wrong awhile ago since I started by practicing dragging my foot across. But that method literally taught me how to Ollie. Some techniques are stepping stones and if you pretend like they are useless then people who have used that stepping stone successfully won’t trust you to take tips from.
Man. I ALWAYS tell kids this when they ask how to ollie! Awesome to see you’re teaching this way as well!
Right on!
I don't skate but I keep liking your videos becaue you deserve to be paired with your audience and your students deserve to find you.
This is what im talkin about. Thanks for helping the channel grow. It really does make a difference
i dont skate either. i just find it satisfying when he teaches a student and they apply whatever was just taught.
I saw an Ollie in 88 when I was on tour with my Hardcore Punk band in Eastern Canada.. a kid was in Halifax, skating around the city park. We were there, doing acid drops off of everything .. that kid took us to the lawn. We started to learn to Ollie on the grass!! Once I could kick then land it. ? Then I took it to the street. By the time we were head to the next city I had it down.. one of the greatest BASE LINE moves..
You’re actually a proper coach, a lot of people make tutorials because they are good at skateboarding, but being a good skater does not translate to being a good teacher
Thank you i appreciate that
You make me want to pick up a new board and get back into skating. Your knowledge of the sport is incredible. Thank you for blessing all of us with your teaching. I’ve told you once and I’ll say it again, I’ve NEVER seen a better coach. And that goes for all sports!
Thank you 🙏🏼 that means so much. Go get em
Do it!!
I am 59, engineer, restarting skate after a 35 year pause (...). I can tell that you are a really really good pedagogue (teacher).
If at univesity, teacher could be so precise and clear, many students would really get the subjects.
Thanks again.
i’m gonna ollie something while skating this year! thank you for the tips! this is EXACTLY what i needed 10 years ago when i was skateboarding 😂
yes you are. Yes you are
Ya, dude... I was skating in the 90's. I got where I could ollie over a board on it's side... and that's about it. Probably because I was doing the "slide your foot forward" thing. If I had had this lesson about LIFTING your front foot up then using it to level the board out, I would have been getting much higher ollies. Too bad I don't really skate anymore LOL.
@@SKATEiQ what
@@treatzat what
@@SKATEiQ mb I misunderstood the context
I skated for years and I swear i wasted alot of time trying to figure out why some of my tricks took so much longer to learn. If I had mitch near me It would of saved me so much aggrivation and time. You're the best! 🤟
THANK YOU IVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEARS. when I teach people Ollie's I just get them to focus on popping and jumping, the slide comes with time and comfortability.
Yes exactly. Couldn’t have said it better myself
My issue was not being able to commit to the jump when the board may come out from under me. So “dragging” my foot I believe helped me learn the fundamentals, and now I can let that go now that it no longer serves me.
Key word the “SLIDE comes”. To say it’s not necessary to do an Ollie is just incorrect. Like your foot slides it’s plain as day and you saying it’s a by product def means it’s a necessary component of the Ollie haha. I’ll give you it may be easier to teach by way of not having them focus on the slide, but you definitely need to slide your food to properly level it out and get a nice Ollie we all know this hahaha.
Mitchie you are great! Cant believe we were blessed to see you as a young kid just upping the bar in competitions to now I get these shorts all the time and your knowledge and ability to help others apply it is amazing.
Thanks man, can’t believe how long the road has been already. I’m just happy it’s helping
Whenever someone asks me how to do a trick I always refer them to your channel. Your teaching alone has helped me land so many tricks I dreamed of landing as a kid. Thanks a lot man, great stuff.
He is so patient with kids too. Always on point with advice
Thank you!
The way you simplify.....anthing, ....is just spot on 🤓.
Wow, you're the best skateboard coach i've seen on YT. I've really enjoyed every single on of your shorts / videos so far! As a beginner skater myself, i was wondering if you could ever do a video on easy or intermediate beginner skate tricks, whether it be flatground or ramp / park based. Much love and big ups! ❤
Hey! Thank you so much. Stoked its helping you. If you check out our patreon we have over 200+ videos for all levels. The link is in the bio
@@SKATEiQ cool! I'll take a look, i'm sure it'll help me greatly👌🏻💯
Thanks a lot Michie. Your tips are great to teach the kids. Maestro !! 🙏
Thank you!
Mitchie your a skating guru. Dont stop teaching u got the best tips
YES fuckin thank you I’ve been having to re-teach so many friends and family members that keep doing Ollie north’s on accident. Roll that ankle over!!!
This explains my frustration at following instructions that said to do this! Funny, I see a lot of ollies with no slide, especially really quick pops, so I thought maybe this could be wrong. But nobody seemed to offer an alternative. Now it makes sense! Thank you!
It makes so much sense. Man I needed you back in 2015.
I cant believe thats almost 10 years ago
I love how you showed slo motion video of you sliding your foot, while explaining that youre convinced it isnt necessary to keep the board where you need it to stay.
Dude you’re such a great teacher.thank you.
It's basically a kick up
Thinking pop and lift the front foot first and letting the slide come, is SUCH good advice.
Finally someone explains it properly. I'm constantly seeing skateboarders of all levels struggling to understand this basic component of the pop.
Wow you seriously are an amazing coach
Thank you!
Bruh I needed this at 14.almost 30 years later and I'm still amazed at skateboarders and the tricks they do. So cool
I hear this a lot! Hopefully the next gen has some more options. Also, it’s never too late :)
I haven't tried to skate for 35 years, your simple and well spoken tutorials really are equipping. It's like the light bulb finally went off in my head, I'd probably injure myself if I tried now but the info still inspires confidence!
That’s great to hear. If you do get back out there just take your time and dont be in a rush to do tricks
Thank you SO MUCH for further elaborating on this! ❤ seen the other video and commented. So I was hoping to see more about it.
So funny watching you do the Ollie bad on purpose. But it was what I looked like ACTUALLY trying to do an Ollie haha. Because I was doing it slightly incorrect. The slide. I’m glad you said is optional. Later on.
Key to an Ollie is correcting whatever you're doing wrong
Wait wait wait let him cook
@@SKATEiQ you're cooking a mean ass meal for those ready to eat that portion of the meal
Basically the key to learning anything ever lol
@@christopherpape4823 key to life lol
Duuuuuuude... youre gonna make me start skating again. My cousin explained it to me the first way years ago, this new info changes things. Your videos are so articulate! Thanks for this
That's so crazy. I had this exact conversation with a guy at the park yesterday because he had exactly that problem.
Helped him instantly :)
That’s great! Way to go
I love these instructional videos! I wish we had these back in the day when I was skating.... 💯
I've watched a lot of videos about how to ollie higher since i started skating again after like 8 years, and this video is the only one that i feel like ive PERFECTLY understood how to actually ollie high. I think its been a week since i first watched this, and now my ollies feel great and are actually pretty high. Hell even tho i havent started trying kickflips yet, I feel like I kinda understand the concept of those aswell. Hands down THE BEST skate coach out there.
I’ve only ever long boarded but now with your videos I can finally start with tricks, it never connected in my head for the ollie until this video, everyone says to slide your foot and it has never clicked to me. You are absolutely awesome man!!🎉
That’s great. I hope it makes the transition easier for you
This is something I've been telling "teachers" for years everyone always forgets to mention the part where you gotta jump and lift your foot first! Well said G you really are the man Mitchie!! Sorry if I spelled your name wrong mine is Richie sooo lol 😂
Mitchie is right. Thanks for the feedback im happy it hits home. Skate tutorials frustrate me so were just trying to creat a huge database of actual instruction that will actually make a difference. I’m happy its working !
Yeah for me, the sliding was always like the third step after pushing the tail through the ground then lifting knees.
yeah 100% . i wish that was taught more often
Thank you! I never liked the “flick forward”explanation. This is very well put
Mastering ollies is the single most satisfying thing in life.
Man you are good brutha ..I learned the wrong way..I even showed my son the wrong way..n he had problems..he did it first time when I showed him this ..love it and keep up the gr8 work my brutha!! ..sk8ters 4 life!!..or ol school..SK8 OR DIE..LOL
Thank you! Glad you’re enjoying!
Makes me wanna consider boarding again it’s been years but this makes so much sense.
Omg that makes so much more sense than just sliding forward and launching yourself off the board
OMG, can't wait to practice! thanks!
Go get em
Haven't skated properly in my life, but maybe one day I'll give it a shot because of these videos. Regardless, keep up the incredible work, you deserve so much!
I'm subscribed because your videos taught me how to Ollie after 10 years of barely getting.
Grateful for you Dawg! 💯
Back at you
Made me pick up my board after 7 years. First day back my ollie is already higher and more boned than it ever was before with less effort too.
I always felt like this was true, so this is so validating 😂
Aaron Kyro is in tears after this one… And the fact that he got caught for using the money from Braille for Scientology
Tough
whaaaaat... do you have source? that's crazy
@@sozoknight He’s openly a Scientologist. He’s in one of their magazines in a group photo if you want proof. While I see people in that position as victims they are also big influencers of others lives and I don’t like to think kids are being brought into Scientology because of them. But if their videos help you skate better that’s great. Their Ollie videos helped me learn to Ollie, however this video showed that their method is more of a stepping stone rather than the ideal Ollie.
This is seriously the best advice ever I spent forever just dragging my foot because everyone tells you to no one makes you realize it’s happens almost naturally when you are doing it right
The best advice I ever got for poping Ollie’s was to hike my knees up as high as possible. I went form 4 decks stacked to 6 decks stacked that summer.
I could Ollie clean over a garbage can after I. Got that advice
Yep thats legit
You can’t teach magic to Muggles, Harry.
HAAA
Jesus christ what simple yet helpful information. Youve gotten so much better as a coach over the years bro.
Loving the simple beginners tricks breakdown and explanation! Please keep them coming! I see myself trying this trick out (maybe for the first time) and I am 29!
You got this .
@@SKATEiQ Much love man
I've been struggling for about a year now on my ollies but this made it click in my head. Time to go out and test it!
Sick !
Bro... I was lied to. When I was 15, my buddies were ollying and trying to explain like, "slam the tail to the ground, jump, and slide your front foot up the board," but I never got it, and gave up. This video, and the one where you said you should never hit the ground with the tail when you ollie, have literally changed how I think about it.
Screw it. I might be fat, but Im buying a board. I'm gonna land a damned ollie.
I love it. Take your time, go through the ollie course. You got this
When you will get a board? You gotta land it soon and you will land a shuvit couple days later!🙌🏽 Those 2 tricks did unlock the Passion , it's better than meditation 💯
@snareplug3872 ordered one yesterday bro. Should be here by Weds. Dude, if I could land a shuvit, I'll be beside myself. My dream just is to be able to land kickflip. That'd be so cool
Man just fixed my ollie after 20 years.
Great Vid Coach !!
Thanks !
This changes how I even look at the Ollie. Amazing explanation here...
I wish i had this when I was young. I always wanted to learn how to skateboard and didnt live in an area where it was easy to hangout with friends. I played all the Tony Hawk games and made believe I was good. I gave up with barely being able to ollie at low speeds. RUclips wasnt like it is now back then.
Im glad people like you exist so if my kid has an aspiration to do something like skateboarding, they have someone to teach them
Took me so long to figure this out. Thank you!
No problem! hope it helps
I take my advice from the guy that did a perfect 1260 on a Mega Ramp in competition, not some other “coach.”
Let’s goooooo
When i was a kid id always teach people to put their front foot just behind the bolts, pop and jump in one motion and try and land both feet on the bolts. It doesnt produce a high ollie but it does get people landing in the right spot, not slipping out and feeling like theyve accomplished something
Yeah thats super legit. I couldn’t put it any better myself
This changed my whole perspective and I can't wait to try this out! Thank you 🙇🏾♂️
He's definitely right, I skate in flip flops during the summer and I don't do anything crazy but I can definitely Ollie over little stuff without any marks on my toes😎
Man i always wondered what happened to you. The child prodigy became the sports best teacher. Showing the next generation how to do it correctly and with positivity. You are him. Thats a fact.
Thanks man!
30 years in and this is the first time I’ve ever heard someone explain it this way.
Hopefully it makes sense
Coaches in skateboarding you love to see it, we didn’t have actual coaches 20/30 years ago we coached each other that’s why I fell in love with sport when I was a kid tbh if my knees weren’t so bad and I threw my back out when I was 24, now 34 I’d still be shredding the board rn.
Hopefully coaching picks up and the sport can keep growing! Sorry about your back… back pain is the worst ..
Miss you big dawg, love the vids ❤
I haven’t been on a board in years but I gotta try this now, thanks!
Same with kick flips. I have been skating for over 20 years kick flipped over a lot of things over the years and I literally just learned this this year
Dude this helped me go from barely getting the board an inch or just jumping with no pop to clearing at least 6in or more and I can at least get them consistently now. It’s not perfect but your videos really really help, coming from longboarding but first time really getting into skateboarding. Played around with a board as a kid but it mostly collected dust, tried again 2 years ago but that lasted 2 weeks (I was sooo anxious at the park lol)
I’ve been skating for 25 years and you are literally making me rethink the very first trick I learned all those years ago 😅
Haha if it works I wouldn’t worry about it
@@SKATEiQ true, I’ve been doing it so long now that I don’t even think about how I’m doing it anymore. Love your content btw! The level of detail you put into the skate tips is amazing. I really wish something like this existed back when I was coming up!
Always thought I was going crazy when I’d get more pop and lift without sliding my foot up like they all tell you to do. Thanks for the killer tip!
Yeah its a frustrating one. Skateboard teaching couldn’t get much worse to be honest. Happy to help
You literally just fixed 15 years of bad ollieing in one RUclips short... 😅 Gird frickin darn it 😂😂
That’s what im talkin abouttttttt
Bro, you keep blowing my fucking mind. JFC, where were you when I was in high school?!
Haha thank you 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 if I could time travel I would!
Only video I’ve ever seen to explain it this way ,best advice
I used to skate a lot back in the day trying to get back into it. It's really rough rn lol but I do find myself Consistently relying on what my backfoot is doing before my front foot.
Been telling people this for years , glad to see somelne sharing the pop gospel
I just started and have watched tons of videos on doing Ollie’s and I just couldn’t understand the slide. I tried for days and didn’t get it at all and then i tried doing it without the forcible slide and it went much better, with my foot naturally sliding in the right place.
This Actually helped a lot I’ve been trying to learn how to skate for a long time but gave up because I never could do an Ollie and every thing I looked up said to slide your foot
Let me know how it goes! I hope you give it some more tries. It’s normal for it to take a long time to learn how to skate.
Great break down
Thank you!
For me right now I think lifting the back foot is what helped me bone my Ollie’s more and get more height as well. Great advice though as always
Bruh everything in this video is what was always told and it seems to be the problem… thank you for this information it sounds like what I need to fix my kickflips
Yeah man i hope it gets you moving in the right direction
Mitchie! Love your vids homie
thank you!
that's such a better explanation
Thanks!
Bro thank you so much, i keep doing weird ollies where i dont even pop and it was getting annoying😭
Wish I had this guy as an instructor when I was a kid and maybe I'd ever have learned how to ollie.
lets start now my man!
Yay more flat ground tricks plz
I love people that take the effort to explain things in a clear simple way. Things are only complicated when you don’t understand it. Thanks 🙏🏻
20 years too late
thank you! happy it helps
Thanks for the info. I've been working on ollies for a few months now and i think the whole "lift your front leg up instead of sliding" is a game changer for me.
That’s sick , happy to hear that !!
Sir, you have just helped so many people
Hope so
I found this out naturally teaching people how to ollie, I tell to just pop and jump straight up, like a rocket ollie. It really works, people catch on fast
it gets them through the hardest part. then you can work it out from there with some practice and curiosity
I’m 31, never skated, and I’ve always wanted to Ollie. I’ll give it a shot for Tony Hawk, Muska, Bucky Lasek, Burnquist, and the rest of the OGs from THPS.
That’s so sick. Take it slow, super slow. Learn how to get on and off the board safely, don’t do any tracks for a couple months, just cruise around, rolling around and let some things come naturally.
I usually use my cruise to just chill and feel the breeze, but if this guy existed 10 years ago i probably would wanna learn tricks cause anyone can see the passion this dude has and the patience to teach
That’s great to hear. Nothin wrong with just cruising around though
@@SKATEiQ it awesome to cruise around and carve but would be cool to do some kick flip when I'm cruising near a kerb
thx for the imformation it helped me ❤
That’s great ! Thanks for letting me know !
Man! Kids these days don't know how good they got it. Wish we had internet and bonafide instruction like yours then. All we had was pieced together Transworld or Thrasher Magazine pics to try to figure the physics out or watching bones brigade on beta tape at a friends house back in the 80's 😎👍
This is so true this is how i learned ollie not to slide front foot forward . Its so natural this way😅