most instructional videos i've watched talk about the dragging of the front foot towards the nose of the board and few of them talk about the lifting of the back leg as soon as it has popped the board. like, after popping immediately lift it. this was the first video i watched that pretty much does the exact opposite. no mention about the dragging of the front foot and underscoring the importance of lifting the back leg, since, the still stretched out leg will keep the board from lifting and therefor make it an ollie. Btw. from what i see, and this video opened my eyes to it, there is no dragging of the foot towards the front in the board. what seems to happening is that the front foot is coming up and the nose of the board is on its way to meet it, as it rotates backwards toward it. the moment they have contact, the upper movement is still happening and the board stops rotating coz of its contact with the foot. the front foot is now in contact with the board but it is still moving upward (coz of the jump). this is what looks like dragging the tip of the shoe forward while in reality the bend front foot is just moving upward on a backwards rotating nose of the board, which for the foot feels exactly the same. the feeling of something dragging up towards something is the same as the feeling of that something dragging down towards something. and it also looks similar. but here the front foot is just going up. just look at it, it never moves forwards it just goes up along with the body (coz of the jump) and down with it (coz of gravity). so, why practice dragging the foot upwards onto the board? it's like practicing a move that's not part of the trick. i can't ollie yet, but i'm much more confindent after having watched your video.
Thanks for this very clear explanation. Now I understand what is going on during an Ollie. Most Ollie tutorials are misleading and downright unhelpful to a beginner Ollier!
Yes, the general idea is that you’re picking your front foot up and the board is rotating the nose. The “foot drag” is a byproduct of the nose rotating into your foot as your foot is coming up. There’s no actual, purposeful dragging of the foot. But there’s technique to making sure your foot is coming up properly But essentially most tutorials are incorrect stating to “drag” your foot. Heck, I learned the foot “drag” when I was skating in the early 2000s. I’m now trying to “relearn” my ollie in a sense to not have a purposeful foot drag, but a foot rise while the board rotates
I'm so glad to hear that, and I know you're going to get it soon! It's hard to see your own progress, but just trust that you're getting closer and closer! 🙌
If you don’t make it under 8 minutes don’t overthink it, keep trying until you can’t raise your feet off the ground, practice is key. Don’t give up I believe in each one of you :) Edit- I performed my first ever ollie a while ago myself, that is enough proof for y’all to land one too, good luck once again
Thanks for putting up this video! I’m a skater from the 80’s and this was such a milestone for us when we finally learned. We didn’t have anyone to teach us (and this was before the internet) so all we could do was watch a Bones Brigade video or Gleaming the Cube, or watch an older skater from our town. And our town had less than 4000 people in it and hardly anyone skated. But when we did witness it it was like magic. It was the way I imagined people felt watching the first airplane fly. It seemed impossible. There was no ramp, no engine, no springs. But skaters could get more air than bmx’ers and they were on flat pavement. It was the holy grail for us - all other tricks were based on it. It was the price of admission for getting radical. We would watch each other to see if any of our ‘pops’ resulted in the tail leaving the ground. “You were airborne dude! Only a couple centimeters, but you were in the air!” The dream of being able to Ollie onto a curb seemed impossible. We spent long sessions working on it. I remember taking a break from watching MacGuyver to go out to my driveway for a weekday late night session. Eventually we all learned, one at a time. I was the first - I had my ‘89 Hawk ‘Claw’ mini and I nailed it one day. My friend Pete was next on his Cab with the ‘Dragon/Bat’ graphic, and then Jeremy. He rode a McGill Snake/Skull with the spoon nose. It was awesome. Seeing the comments on here of groms nailing it just like that - some one their first try - is awesome. And anybody who’s having trouble because they didn’t get it in the first 8 minutes, don’t worry! It took us MONTHS to get it and we practiced every day! Lol And even then, I didn’t have the awesome glue foot style of my skating bud Jeremy (RIP bro). I learned first but he had way better technique. So don’t worry about how fast you learn and skate at your own pace, you’ll get there!
Same. Started in '87, wore out Public Domain, a few of us skated in my town, tutorials like this + the amount of skateparks now makes me a bitter jealous 47 old lol 😂
@@davidcrawford8583 One of my two best friends (and fellow groms) had a brother who was 15 years older and a major organizer in the W Mass skate scene - he ran the annual Skate Camp, worked at the old ‘On Ramp’ skate shop in Hadley, etc. Eventually he got a job with Burton. He grew up in a town called Northampton, right next to where I grew up. It looked like New York by comparison lol. But while we skated every little spot where we lived, he told us about these “legendary” Northampton spots. There was a small concrete drainage ditch on the outskirts (which just got demolished), “the great pyramids” (which were really just some oversized speed bumps) in an alley, a nice little set of stairs, etc. Eventually we got our folks to leave us off in town and we hunted down and skated all these landmarks. This was our idea of a skatepark :) When I see the real skatepark built 10+ years ago in Northampton only minutes from where I live, I think back and just laugh to myself. It’s got one of the best outdoor concrete bowls in the state. I feel like the old WW1 era guys that used to tell us “back in my day, we played kick the can! What are these new skateboard contraptions you got here? How do they work?” Our first ever spot in my little town (Hatfield) was a couple of curbs at an old age home, and the old folks used to come out and watch and try to understand “this new generation” lol.
@@catsooey Totally understand. Not just in skating, but in life, as you get older you turn into those WW1 guys. With skating, in the UK, living in a small village we had very few places to skate. One place was a loading bay undercover which we could get into, that was like Heaven for us. I miss skating so much, I still have my Tony Hawk Birdhouse deck, Venture Trucks and Spitfire 97A's, My daughter is thinking about starting to skate who's 10.
Idk who you are or what kinda of sorcery you did... but thank you so much, thanks to this video I mange to land my 1st ever ollie. This is deffentifly 100% the best ollie video on RUclips.
This actually helped me a lot I had my phone in hand listening to the video while watching and just followed what you did and landed it mid video, thx so much bro.
Not even a minute ago I took a decent fall practicing and my board slid out under my feet and I just sat there for a second and was like “so this is what learning feels like” got back up and kept trying
Longboarder here. Snapped my cheap longboard doing a trick and decided I prefer doing tricks to cruising. Watching this video as I’m about to order a new skateboard. Got a feeling I’m gonna learn how to Ollie within a week thanks to this video.
@@NeverStopImprovingSB update: got the board today and practiced ollies for around two hours straight after school. It’s absolutely insane but I can now do stationary ollies (still working on consistency). I’ll keep working at it everyday to increase my pop height and also learn to do it while moving. Your videos are a blessing man 👍✨
i’ve been practicing for 2 days using other tutorials and it was so hard (maybe landed 3 or 4) but when i found this video it just made so much sense and after 20-30 mins i can now ollie successfully nearly every time
@@Extradub32p man wdym insecure? i didn't even say anything about myself. anyways good jbo if you did it in 1 week and maybe i understood it wrong but it looked like yo uwere flexing.
@@W4KEUP_MATT nah I wasn't flexing I was just showing that it's actually possible for ppl to learn it in just a week and it can be a motivation for some to get it done as fast.
This is a great tutorial. I already knew how to ollie going into watching this so I can't attest to it's effectiveness, but it seems like a great way to teach someone. My method to teach people is; 1. Stand stationary on board. 2. Put all weight on tail, stand there (as in, only back wheels and tail (of the board) on ground.) 3. Go back and forth between those. 4. After a few, stand with all of your weight on the tail, and just practice sliding the side of your front foot along the griptape, towards the front of the board (just to get your body comfortable with that feeling). 5. Slowly combine those steps, and when you feel comfortable add "a jump, straight up in the air". With all of that said, the method in this video seems like it would be way more effective. My method was more so "Learn to ollie in a few hours", lol. The "sliding your foot" helps with learning kickflips (and I guess heelflips, although I've never taught someone how to heelflip like that), as well. Love the message of this channel, hate to see people in the community not supporting everyone, including newbies/aspiring skaters etc. So thanks for helping keep the metaphorical train chuggin.
I cannot thank you enough for this tutorial! Assumed learning it in 8 minutes was greatly exaggerating but with no prior practice I could do a decently high Ollie after 10 minutes
Thanks, it's well done and informative. As far as I can tell, your back foot should not be in contact with the board anymore when the board touches the ground. Your body should already be in the air. Otherwise, your foot just clamps the board to the ground, and prevents ollieing. The ollie also makes a very different sound depending on where your back foot is during the pop. It feels weird/magical, but it seems to be supported by slow-mo videos of ollies.
Rmb to learn to slide your foot up the board once you get comfortable with these steps as an advanced tip :D (this vid was really instructional especially that jumping part)
Yes sir! Very important! haha I definitely didn't have enough time left after 8 minutes to go over all of the finer details of getting it perfect, but I really appreciate you guys 'jumping' ;) in and helping out in the comments 🤜🤛
Father (aged 39) and Son (aged 11) both tried this method today. Managed to get the front wheels quite high. Back wheels came up about 1cm off the ground 😂😂😂 Were both beginners so hoping to make progress!
This guy is a possibly the best youtuber at breaking down tricks.. his methods actually work after you learn his way you obviously need refine it as only a short video but it works. amazing help thank you!
I cannot thank u anymore. Today I tried it for the first time on carpet (I was holding on to something a little bit) but I managed to land my first Ollie after 4 tries. THANK YOU!!
Just got back into skateboarding after a few years, I can drop in and ride okay but my ollies where never consistent, this has helped loads and I'm better than I was already! Thankyou so much dude
Dude, I'm not sure if you know how helpful this video has been but I'm going to let you know. I just recently picked skateboarding back up as a 26-year-old and I haven't skated since I was 15. I quit because I went through two skateboards ( broke the tail off both of them) and a Year's worth of time, I absolutely could not Ollie. I lived in the country so a skateboard as transportation wasn't a thing. So I gave up, and after watching your videos I was legit popping the board off the ground in a day and now 3 days later I'm doing full blown ollie's. You have revived skating for me. Thank you sir.
I've been tryna learn Ollie for 2 years . I've still haven't learnt it but I'm gonna try using ur video. I must say ur video looks amazing and it's the first time I've seen such a good video on the Ollie cuz everywhere I go they teach it conplicatidly. the best video so far. I will keep u updated on my progress buddy. thanks for sharing such good content!
@@NeverStopImprovingSB Hello, can you help me? So Im pretty sure i can already do an ollie but the thing is that im doing the ollie with my different foot and i cant do it whe driving. ( Im a begginer so idk)
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH i learned how to do a Ollie in 30 minutes witch makes me SOOOO happy I’ve been trying to do it for like a year now but u thought me how keep up the fantastic work
@@NeverStopImprovingSB i know this is late but i thought u should be sliding ur foot to the nose of the board after the pop? if not pls tell me where the slide is (after the jump/pop) as im trying to learn an ollie
I had to write a comment here even though I usually never write anything. Something about this video clicked for me, after about a week of trying to Ollie and getting no where I watched this tutorial twice and after about an hour of practice I did it. Now I can Ollie every time. Thank you so much. I’m 39 years old and I needed this.
Justin this is the BEST step by step instructions for learning how to do an Ollie. I really appreciate all your time and effort you put into this video. I haven’t skated in decades and have never done any tricks. So this is going to be awesome! Please keep making these kinds of videos. Thanks again man!
I'm 41 and I did an ollie once in my life. The I quit skating, and there's been like 10 years since... Thinking about starting over again with the hobby. This video really helped me not just as advice but also as encouragement, so thank you very much for uploading this.
This litterly the most helpful ollie tutorial I've seen Thank you so much, I landed my first ollie within 20 minutes thanks to your video Keep up the great tutorials man 🔥
thanks a lot! this is the best ollie tutorialever on RUclips! i landed the first ollie of my lifetime today. i had been praticing for 3 days, may seem more but I only practice for 30-45 mins each day. now I sm able to land 8 out of 10 ollies with both my foot on the board. i have a nickel board btw. I am able to land ollies stationery ollies in grass. Now the next step is stationery ollies on pavements.
This is honestly the best ollie tutorial I've ever seen. I did my first baby ollie today! Still needs some work but I'm just happy I was able to land one :)
It took me 30 mins to do it try to do the each step at least 3 times. Like 1 mins of first step take gap of 30 seconds and do it again do all the steps I never had done a ollie in my life this is the best video on RUclips you can find but keep practicing until you master it. Thank you so much for making this video
I have been praticing from another youtube channel for a week and i couldnt do it but when i came to you i could do it in 30 minutes thankyou very much
best ollie tutorial on youtube, this man is a great teacher. so many other videos have way too much emphasis on the ankle moving forwards and not the popping and landing (most important part)
Wow. Got my first skateboard yesterday tried to Ollie for 3 hours and never got it. Today I got it in 10 minutes. I like how you never once say to push down on the tail. You just take your front foot off first and let physics do the work.
Omg THANK YOU! Landed in grass and with a crack. This is so easy to follow along with and I got it! I’ve been skating like 3 times so it’s really good for beginners!
man, youre the 🐐, i dont know how to do an ollie for like 4 month since i bought my skate, after watch this video, just 2 DAYS LATER, i can do my ollie, huge thanks man✌️
I've been watching this video for some days now and I've finally learned how to do an Ollie because of you! I'm so happy that I can finally do it I have been trying for four months and I learned it in three days because of you. Keep up the good work:)
Bro, seriously. I've been trying to ollie for like 6 months. Could not get it. Then I found your video while researching for a sports movement class. And now, after 8 minutes......I have Ollied for the first time ever. Thank you!!!!!!!!
That is so fricken cool man! I realized that once you learn the ollie, the whole world opens up in front of you. Like regular curbs, sidewalks, stairsets start looking like massive urban playgrounds made just for us =D
Me, who has been learning how to ollie for 3 days on a slanted concrete road with little rocks , with no pads, 👁👄👁 Okay so I messed up step one, time to retreat to some grass 😂
Haha trying it on slanted concrete with rocks all over is definitely going to make things unnecessarily hard! Glad you're making some changes to your setup, it's going to pay off =)
I have watched a lot of tutorials on how to ollie and practiced a lot but I have still never been able to do one but after i watched this video i went out and practiced and i got a pretty good ollie after about 5 minutes.
Hey this helped me so much. I ollied my first day. Something I really need to emphasize and I feel like he should’ve gone more in depth in is the slide!!!! It’s probably like 70 percent of the Ollie and once I started sliding my foot to the nose I got perfect ollies. Next month I will update you on the tricks I can do
I'm glad your back to making videos man, your older ones helped me a lot when I first got my board. This one helped me get my first stationary ollies yesterday!
THIS TUTORIAL HELPED ME i was really having a trouble with ollie...but now I understand everything! Wish me luck, I'm going to learn ollie Edit : I DID IT! I DID MY FIRST OLLIE TODAY! tysm for the tutorial 🥺💖💞
It way better now this video has been the most helpful one as its not like the rest of the tutorials ive seen on yt its amazing and truly the best thanks so much mam
waw. really really helpful tutorial. I finally understand my biggest mistake. first I should have take my froont foot of. i was doing the opposite. Thank you so much
I am finally able to land an Ollie!! After sooooo many videos… I rly wish I woulda just found this video my first day trying haha so glad I did! I also just subscribed to your channel and I’m so excited to improve my skating 😄
I explained these exercices to my 8 year old and he was able to his first ollie ! Thanks a lot ! Now he just has to practice a bit more and refined the technics.
I really think the whole wrist guard recommendation should come with some important additional advice. Because _no_ pad will prevent arms or wrists or elbows from breaking when you assume it can take full impact in a slam and keep everything extended, because you're wearing pads. The reason why knee pads in vert ramps work is because you use them to slide down (and folds legs under you). You don't use them to take full impact either. This is very underrated commentary on using protective gear. Needless to say, wearing a helmet is _always_ a good idea. Keep those limb bend and roll out, don't extend and take the full impact. You'll break bones. Some of the worst slams where you could hit your head, will also come out of nowhere wiping out hard. I'd also recommend beginners to try to land on a board with knees bend very consciously. Maybe even show what happens when you land with one or two extended / stiff legs, because that's usually an instant wipe out. If you land on just the tail or middle of the board with one foot, but have that knee bend / crouched, the board will pretty much never shoot out from under. Last but not least, the key to falling is really trying to 'roll out', making sure the energy from impact isn't taken head on, but gets transferred in ways that don't hurt or damage. Why can experienced skaters take slams down an 8 or 10 stair set? Well, most likely because he or she knows how to 'go with the flow' and roll out of a slam.
@@NeverStopImprovingSB Thanks :D Also, thanks for the video. Even though I got ollies, I'm still improving them every time I skate. So this still helps.
There's a video somewhere of a large cat tumbling and leaping off a cliff, and just walking away. The trick is to turn the fall into a leap so it can be controlled. The Parkour discipline uses this philosophy as well, but that's not how it started out.
To any new skaters here there’s a couple things to remember: get comfortable riding your board before you mess with ollies. Once you’re comfortable riding regular, practice riding switch and try to learn how to manual and power slide. I’m not saying you have to completely master those things before trying to Ollie but I promise you will have a much easier time learning how to Ollie once you build confidence riding your board. And also… don’t give up you got this! And ignore the feedback from people in the beginning just think about it as the initiation into the community.
I just got a skateboard yesterday and have watched 5 to 6 videos on how to do an Ollie none of them have actually taught me. I started to think maybe the RUclips videos couldn’t actually teach me But this one actually did thank you so much I am now subscribed if I could rate this five stars I definently would! 🥳👏🏼👏🏼
I don’t think he dose it but if you want to go higher up in the jump then do it this vid is for beginners but slide your foot if you want a higher Ollie
@@chopizzzz5331 you cant ollie without sliding your foot up lol, its a critical step to doing an ollie. without sliding your foot you wont get a cm off the ground
Im working really hard on perfecting this, I'm new to skateboarding, I've been trying for about an hour but I'm getting closer each time! Edit: so I practiced for 2 hours or something and now my legs feel broken lol
bro this gusy jsut taught me how to ollie at midnight in my room after days of not getting it. and i got it not perfectly but rright away while watching this, best tutorial and it never hurts to start from scratch
First off, thanks for this incredible tutorial! I’ve been able to consistently get the ollie (thanks to you), but find that I always seem to rotate towards my heel side. If I start the ollie with my board facing 12 o’clock I land with it facing 11. Any idea what could be causing this?
When you pop an ollie, the board orients itself with how your shoulders are rotated, so you need to focus on keeping your shoulders straight when during the whole trick
My target audience in this video would be someone who's been trying to ollie for a while and they're missing maybe just one or two key steps, haha but you're not wrong! Learning the ollie takes some time, and to learn it you have to earn it!
Taught my brother basics of doing ollies and he did an ollie on the spit first try and did it again over and over, a week later, still ollies real good and is even dropping in and doing shuvits, skateboard prodigy in the making in a couple months ima be outdated for him 😭
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I’ve been trying to get my ollies down but none of the other tutorials really worked, thank you so so much for breaking it down for me
most instructional videos i've watched talk about the dragging of the front foot towards the nose of the board and few of them talk about the lifting of the back leg as soon as it has popped the board. like, after popping immediately lift it.
this was the first video i watched that pretty much does the exact opposite. no mention about the dragging of the front foot and underscoring the importance of lifting the back leg, since, the still stretched out leg will keep the board from lifting and therefor make it an ollie.
Btw. from what i see, and this video opened my eyes to it, there is no dragging of the foot towards the front in the board. what seems to happening is that the front foot is coming up and the nose of the board is on its way to meet it, as it rotates backwards toward it. the moment they have contact, the upper movement is still happening and the board stops rotating coz of its contact with the foot. the front foot is now in contact with the board but it is still moving upward (coz of the jump). this is what looks like dragging the tip of the shoe forward while in reality the bend front foot is just moving upward on a backwards rotating nose of the board, which for the foot feels exactly the same. the feeling of something dragging up towards something is the same as the feeling of that something dragging down towards something. and it also looks similar. but here the front foot is just going up. just look at it, it never moves forwards it just goes up along with the body (coz of the jump) and down with it (coz of gravity). so, why practice dragging the foot upwards onto the board? it's like practicing a move that's not part of the trick.
i can't ollie yet, but i'm much more confindent after having watched your video.
Thanks for this very clear explanation. Now I understand what is going on during an Ollie. Most Ollie tutorials are misleading and downright unhelpful to a beginner Ollier!
With this kinda analysis, I have no doubt you'll be a street skater in no time
hows the progress bro?
@@batterup. I could lift all wheels, but it ain't proper yet.
Yes, the general idea is that you’re picking your front foot up and the board is rotating the nose. The “foot drag” is a byproduct of the nose rotating into your foot as your foot is coming up. There’s no actual, purposeful dragging of the foot. But there’s technique to making sure your foot is coming up properly
But essentially most tutorials are incorrect stating to “drag” your foot. Heck, I learned the foot “drag” when I was skating in the early 2000s. I’m now trying to “relearn” my ollie in a sense to not have a purposeful foot drag, but a foot rise while the board rotates
I literally tried for my FIRST TIME to ollie by watching this video, and nailed my first one within 10 minutes. Super stoked!!
That is insane man! Good job! 🤙
Yeah brother! Tag me up @justinlauria
HOW!?!!?? I’ve been trying for like a week and I’m not even close!
Moving?
@@Khushaal23 all learn at different paces takes practice I hit my first one my first day but ik people who took a month
I’m not quite there yet but this is the *MOST HELPFUL* Ollie tutorial I’ve ever seen. I’ve made 10x more progress in 8 minutes than I have in weeks.
I'm so glad to hear that, and I know you're going to get it soon! It's hard to see your own progress, but just trust that you're getting closer and closer! 🙌
@@NeverStopImprovingSB 😁
Have you gotten it yet😁
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being able to teach is a beautiful thing. i love this guy and i hope anyone who wants to learn to ollie sees this video.
If you don’t make it under 8 minutes don’t overthink it, keep trying until you can’t raise your feet off the ground, practice is key. Don’t give up I believe in each one of you :)
Edit- I performed my first ever ollie a while ago myself, that is enough proof for y’all to land one too, good luck once again
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Thanks man
You dont know how much i needed that. Iv been practicing for mor then 3 months mybe 4 and its been difficult but thank you for this
and you won first place in the cheering competition amigo
IT WORKED
IT ACTUALLY WORKED
It seemed impossible but then I watched this video and I did it!
You can do it too, I believe in you. Don't give up!
U JUST MOTIVATED ME!!!!!!!! I'M GONNA DO IT TOOO!!
I believe in you!
I am learning how to Ollie and it seems impossible for me but that comment made me have more hope thanks :)
@@oconnor5870 I BROKE MY SKATEBOARD T-T
Me neither bro😭
Thanks for putting up this video! I’m a skater from the 80’s and this was such a milestone for us when we finally learned. We didn’t have anyone to teach us (and this was before the internet) so all we could do was watch a Bones Brigade video or Gleaming the Cube, or watch an older skater from our town. And our town had less than 4000 people in it and hardly anyone skated. But when we did witness it it was like magic. It was the way I imagined people felt watching the first airplane fly. It seemed impossible. There was no ramp, no engine, no springs. But skaters could get more air than bmx’ers and they were on flat pavement. It was the holy grail for us - all other tricks were based on it. It was the price of admission for getting radical. We would watch each other to see if any of our ‘pops’ resulted in the tail leaving the ground. “You were airborne dude! Only a couple centimeters, but you were in the air!” The dream of being able to Ollie onto a curb seemed impossible. We spent long sessions working on it. I remember taking a break from watching MacGuyver to go out to my driveway for a weekday late night session. Eventually we all learned, one at a time. I was the first - I had my ‘89 Hawk ‘Claw’ mini and I nailed it one day. My friend Pete was next on his Cab with the ‘Dragon/Bat’ graphic, and then Jeremy. He rode a McGill Snake/Skull with the spoon nose. It was awesome.
Seeing the comments on here of groms nailing it just like that - some one their first try - is awesome. And anybody who’s having trouble because they didn’t get it in the first 8 minutes, don’t worry! It took us MONTHS to get it and we practiced every day! Lol And even then, I didn’t have the awesome glue foot style of my skating bud Jeremy (RIP bro). I learned first but he had way better technique. So don’t worry about how fast you learn and skate at your own pace, you’ll get there!
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Omg so long
Same. Started in '87, wore out Public Domain, a few of us skated in my town, tutorials like this + the amount of skateparks now makes me a bitter jealous 47 old lol 😂
@@davidcrawford8583 One of my two best friends (and fellow groms) had a brother who was 15 years older and a major organizer in the W Mass skate scene - he ran the annual Skate Camp, worked at the old ‘On Ramp’ skate shop in Hadley, etc. Eventually he got a job with Burton. He grew up in a town called Northampton, right next to where I grew up. It looked like New York by comparison lol. But while we skated every little spot where we lived, he told us about these “legendary” Northampton spots. There was a small concrete drainage ditch on the outskirts (which just got demolished), “the great pyramids” (which were really just some oversized speed bumps) in an alley, a nice little set of stairs, etc. Eventually we got our folks to leave us off in town and we hunted down and skated all these landmarks. This was our idea of a skatepark :) When I see the real skatepark built 10+ years ago in Northampton only minutes from where I live, I think back and just laugh to myself. It’s got one of the best outdoor concrete bowls in the state. I feel like the old WW1 era guys that used to tell us “back in my day, we played kick the can! What are these new skateboard contraptions you got here? How do they work?” Our first ever spot in my little town (Hatfield) was a couple of curbs at an old age home, and the old folks used to come out and watch and try to understand “this new generation” lol.
@@catsooey Totally understand. Not just in skating, but in life, as you get older you turn into those WW1 guys. With skating, in the UK, living in a small village we had very few places to skate. One place was a loading bay undercover which we could get into, that was like Heaven for us. I miss skating so much, I still have my Tony Hawk Birdhouse deck, Venture Trucks and Spitfire 97A's, My daughter is thinking about starting to skate who's 10.
My first ollie today!! Thank you!
35 yrs old and just started skating last week!!
Hey it’s been a while since you commented this, how’s skating going?
Glad to know I’m not the only late starter
Slow and steady!!! But the best part is having fun..
@@jessiefirassie9505 age doesnt matter
i'm 39 i just started , thats my first week
AAH SHIT I'M A BEGINNER, NERVOUS ABOUT FALLING, AND WANT TO NAIL MY FIRST OLLIE VERY SLOWLY
THIS RULES, THANK YOU SO MUCH AAAAH I'M STOKED
If ur afraid of falling u never progress, jusy get used to falling and be confident
Practice falling. Once u learn how to fall safely then it won’t be as scary when u fall while moving
how'd it go!!!???
mr black ¿¿?? theyre afraad of falling, that doesnt mean that they let their fear stop them.
Start from grass maybe?
Idk who you are or what kinda of sorcery you did... but thank you so much, thanks to this video I mange to land my 1st ever ollie. This is deffentifly 100% the best ollie video on RUclips.
Facts
Yup
Also make sure you’re comfortable on your board! It’s much harder to learn without having correct level/technique.
Love the name and pfp
Ur profile pic 🥰
Ye that's what I'm doing at the moment just getting comfortable
@Milla H good shit bro, hope you progress jus stick with it it's all about time and effort fr
@Milla H great! it's good to have someone to give you tips
This actually helped me a lot I had my phone in hand listening to the video while watching and just followed what you did and landed it mid video, thx so much bro.
This is CRAZY COOL to read man! I am over the moon that this video is helping ya'll so much =D
Not even a minute ago I took a decent fall practicing and my board slid out under my feet and I just sat there for a second and was like “so this is what learning feels like” got back up and kept trying
@@henry.sb0 Dude, when it happens it stings so bad, and then like 5 minutes later it's like "I don't even feel it any more!" haha
@@henry.sb0 Nice work sticking it out
I spent like 3 hours and got no progress maybe I just suck 🤣
Longboarder here. Snapped my cheap longboard doing a trick and decided I prefer doing tricks to cruising. Watching this video as I’m about to order a new skateboard. Got a feeling I’m gonna learn how to Ollie within a week thanks to this video.
It's going to work! It's all about having the right mindset 👍
@@NeverStopImprovingSB update: got the board today and practiced ollies for around two hours straight after school. It’s absolutely insane but I can now do stationary ollies (still working on consistency). I’ll keep working at it everyday to increase my pop height and also learn to do it while moving. Your videos are a blessing man 👍✨
@@equ1noxii599 That is unbelievably cool! I remember practicing my ollies for months before I got one. Definitely legend status 🤙
@@equ1noxii599 have you improved??
I’m latterly in the same position as you man we got this!!🥇🥇🥇
i’ve been practicing for 2 days using other tutorials and it was so hard (maybe landed 3 or 4) but when i found this video it just made so much sense and after 20-30 mins i can now ollie successfully nearly every time
Just got my first ollie on cement before this video:)
Nice dude!
Congrats I am working and I posted my first attempt on my channel. I suck at it
SAME BRO
awesome congrats
i just learnt how to do it, now i’m tryna do an ollie while moving 🧍🏽♀️
I have been attempting an ollie for 8 .5 months and now im so hppy i did it im literally crying
i did it in a week lol
@velix bro dont do that. Everyone learns in different times. Dont make other feel less good.
@@W4KEUP_MATT I didn't lmfao ur just insecure, I only said my pace the same way as he said his pace. It's a comment section.
@@Extradub32p man wdym insecure? i didn't even say anything about myself. anyways good jbo if you did it in 1 week and maybe i understood it wrong but it looked like yo uwere flexing.
@@W4KEUP_MATT nah I wasn't flexing I was just showing that it's actually possible for ppl to learn it in just a week and it can be a motivation for some to get it done as fast.
Wow! Thank you so much, I don’t know how the hell you did this magic but this really helped me.
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dude this video made me nail ollies down holy shit thank you man it feels so good to land it more now
Landed my first baby ollie because of this video! Thanks a lot! Just gotta keep practicing and I can finally do an ollie!
Update: first ollie landed!
I got to say after looking at a load of Ollie videos this is the best one and I am so proud of myself for doing my first Ollie thanks to you
Woohoo awesome work Arche!
Worked so well and unexpectedly, I missed realizing I accomplished my first Ollie until my friend started shouting "u did it!". 😁 Thanks!!!
This is a great tutorial. I already knew how to ollie going into watching this so I can't attest to it's effectiveness, but it seems like a great way to teach someone.
My method to teach people is;
1. Stand stationary on board.
2. Put all weight on tail, stand there (as in, only back wheels and tail (of the board) on ground.)
3. Go back and forth between those.
4. After a few, stand with all of your weight on the tail, and just practice sliding the side of your front foot along the griptape, towards the front of the board (just to get your body comfortable with that feeling).
5. Slowly combine those steps, and when you feel comfortable add "a jump, straight up in the air".
With all of that said, the method in this video seems like it would be way more effective. My method was more so "Learn to ollie in a few hours", lol. The "sliding your foot" helps with learning kickflips (and I guess heelflips, although I've never taught someone how to heelflip like that), as well.
Love the message of this channel, hate to see people in the community not supporting everyone, including newbies/aspiring skaters etc.
So thanks for helping keep the metaphorical train chuggin.
I cannot thank you enough for this tutorial! Assumed learning it in 8 minutes was greatly exaggerating but with no prior practice I could do a decently high Ollie after 10 minutes
That is truly insanity 🤯
Thanks, it's well done and informative. As far as I can tell, your back foot should not be in contact with the board anymore when the board touches the ground.
Your body should already be in the air. Otherwise, your foot just clamps the board to the ground, and prevents ollieing. The ollie also makes a very different sound depending on where your back foot is during the pop.
It feels weird/magical, but it seems to be supported by slow-mo videos of ollies.
These observations are spot on sir!
Thank you bro these were my biggest issues
Rmb to learn to slide your foot up the board once you get comfortable with these steps as an advanced tip :D (this vid was really instructional especially that jumping part)
Yes sir! Very important! haha I definitely didn't have enough time left after 8 minutes to go over all of the finer details of getting it perfect, but I really appreciate you guys 'jumping' ;) in and helping out in the comments 🤜🤛
Father (aged 39) and Son (aged 11) both tried this method today. Managed to get the front wheels quite high. Back wheels came up about 1cm off the ground 😂😂😂 Were both beginners so hoping to make progress!
This guy is a possibly the best youtuber at breaking down tricks.. his methods actually work after you learn his way you obviously need refine it as only a short video but it works. amazing help thank you!
Thank you man I finally got my first Ollie down I feel amazing now
That is fricken awesome dude, stay frosty!
I cannot thank u anymore. Today I tried it for the first time on carpet (I was holding on to something a little bit) but I managed to land my first Ollie after 4 tries. THANK YOU!!
That's what's up! Nice job, keep going dude!! 🛹
Just got back into skateboarding after a few years, I can drop in and ride okay but my ollies where never consistent, this has helped loads and I'm better than I was already! Thankyou so much dude
Dude, I'm not sure if you know how helpful this video has been but I'm going to let you know. I just recently picked skateboarding back up as a 26-year-old and I haven't skated since I was 15. I quit because I went through two skateboards ( broke the tail off both of them) and a Year's worth of time, I absolutely could not Ollie. I lived in the country so a skateboard as transportation wasn't a thing. So I gave up, and after watching your videos I was legit popping the board off the ground in a day and now 3 days later I'm doing full blown ollie's. You have revived skating for me. Thank you sir.
That is so epic dude, rock on 💪
I've been tryna learn Ollie for 2 years . I've still haven't learnt it but I'm gonna try using ur video. I must say ur video looks amazing and it's the first time I've seen such a good video on the Ollie cuz everywhere I go they teach it conplicatidly. the best video so far. I will keep u updated on my progress buddy. thanks for sharing such good content!
Me getting 1mm in the air 😎
THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING!
@@NeverStopImprovingSB 3 feet for me :o
@@NeverStopImprovingSB Hello, can you help me? So Im pretty sure i can already do an ollie but the thing is that im doing the ollie with my different foot and i cant do it whe driving. ( Im a begginer so idk)
@@Ditemeart you drive your skateboard?
Can you stop posting these comments you just steal them from other people
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH i learned how to do a Ollie in 30 minutes witch makes me SOOOO happy I’ve been trying to do it for like a year now but u thought me how keep up the fantastic work
Awesome job! 🤘🤘
@@NeverStopImprovingSB i know this is late but i thought u should be sliding ur foot to the nose of the board after the pop? if not pls tell me where the slide is (after the jump/pop) as im trying to learn an ollie
I had to write a comment here even though I usually never write anything. Something about this video clicked for me, after about a week of trying to Ollie and getting no where I watched this tutorial twice and after about an hour of practice I did it. Now I can Ollie every time. Thank you so much. I’m 39 years old and I needed this.
That is fricken awesome man, way to stick with it and nice work getting your ollies down. What's next on your list if you don't mind me asking?
Landed my first Ollie from this vid 🥳! Thanks man, u don’t even know how much u helped out!
Nice job, I'm still trying but this video cleared up a lot of things
@@osuno4610 yes it really goes more in depth and helps
Oh my gosh thank u!! Im a 10 yr old girl practicing on rough concrete and tried loads of tutorials and you are the only one that helped!
All that matters is that you stuck with it and refused to give up. Good job and congratulations! 🎉
Justin this is the BEST step by step instructions for learning how to do an Ollie. I really appreciate all your time and effort you put into this video. I haven’t skated in decades and have never done any tricks. So this is going to be awesome! Please keep making these kinds of videos. Thanks again man!
I appreciate all the love and the fact that you re-typed all this out! Awesome work 👌
I'm 41 and I did an ollie once in my life. The I quit skating, and there's been like 10 years since... Thinking about starting over again with the hobby. This video really helped me not just as advice but also as encouragement, so thank you very much for uploading this.
Very cool, I'm glad to hear your story!
I finally landed my first ollie yesterday with this tutorial! Thank you so much for making this video 🙌
This is ONLY THE BEGINNING!! Haha yes let's GOO!!
This litterly the most helpful ollie tutorial I've seen
Thank you so much, I landed my first ollie within 20 minutes thanks to your video
Keep up the great tutorials man 🔥
I'm almost as old as tony hawk and just bought my first skateboard. I'll try this on grass and practice falling.
Yes! Good attitudes will always succeed in skateboarding 🛹
thanks a lot! this is the best ollie tutorialever on RUclips! i landed the first ollie of my lifetime today. i had been praticing for 3 days, may seem more but I only practice for 30-45 mins each day. now I sm able to land 8 out of 10 ollies with both my foot on the board. i have a nickel board btw. I am able to land ollies stationery ollies in grass. Now the next step is stationery ollies on pavements.
This is honestly the best ollie tutorial I've ever seen. I did my first baby ollie today! Still needs some work but I'm just happy I was able to land one :)
the emphasis on the jump seriously helped, I've finally been able to do it, I'm 23 and I've been skating for like 3 years now 😭😭😭
This is nothing but incredibly UNDERRATED
Keep up !
Haha you ROCK! Thank you so much XD
It took me 30 mins to do it try to do the each step at least 3 times. Like 1 mins of first step take gap of 30 seconds and do it again do all the steps I never had done a ollie in my life this is the best video on RUclips you can find but keep practicing until you master it. Thank you so much for making this video
A couple of trys In I accidentally landed a kickflip
bro how😧 nah congrats man
No way dude that's awesome
This layaways happens to me when I’m trying a specific trick lol
I have been praticing from another youtube channel for a week and i couldnt do it but when i came to you i could do it in 30 minutes thankyou very much
That is incredible!
Justin is back! The most insightful skateboard teaching videos in Internet! Once again great explanation!
best ollie tutorial on youtube, this man is a great teacher. so many other videos have way too much emphasis on the ankle moving forwards and not the popping and landing (most important part)
You are so nice to say these things, thank you!!
Wow. Got my first skateboard yesterday tried to Ollie for 3 hours and never got it. Today I got it in 10 minutes. I like how you never once say to push down on the tail. You just take your front foot off first and let physics do the work.
I’ve spent 3 months trying and this is the only video that actually helped me improve.
Omg THANK YOU! Landed in grass and with a crack. This is so easy to follow along with and I got it! I’ve been skating like 3 times so it’s really good for beginners!
man, youre the 🐐, i dont know how to do an ollie for like 4 month since i bought my skate, after watch this video, just 2 DAYS LATER, i can do my ollie, huge thanks man✌️
I've been watching this video for some days now and I've finally learned how to do an Ollie because of you! I'm so happy that I can finally do it I have been trying for four months and I learned it in three days because of you. Keep up the good work:)
You CRAZY. I’m on 6:01 watching you how to Ollie and I try jumping with my front foot and the board just naturally leveled out under me.
Omg thank you so much you gave me more progress in a few minutes than i’ve had in months
Bro, seriously. I've been trying to ollie for like 6 months. Could not get it. Then I found your video while researching for a sports movement class. And now, after 8 minutes......I have Ollied for the first time ever. Thank you!!!!!!!!
No freakin way man! That's beautiful 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I remember watching your older video on how to Ollie 8 months ago and now Im able to jump onto stuff!
That is so fricken cool man! I realized that once you learn the ollie, the whole world opens up in front of you. Like regular curbs, sidewalks, stairsets start looking like massive urban playgrounds made just for us =D
@@NeverStopImprovingSB Totally! I got going on curbs pretty easy and I now use skating as a way of transportation.
this video is legit. No other video explains it as good as this. if you follow along and take some time to practice you'll get it down easily.
Me, who has been learning how to ollie for 3 days on a slanted concrete road with little rocks , with no pads, 👁👄👁
Okay so I messed up step one, time to retreat to some grass 😂
Haha trying it on slanted concrete with rocks all over is definitely going to make things unnecessarily hard! Glad you're making some changes to your setup, it's going to pay off =)
My dad disapproved this video saying it’s easier on grass. Jokes on him, I’m learning better on grass.
This is low key my favorite ollie tutorial
Im having troubles doing a shuv it, i would really like a shuv it tutorial
You know it's coming ;)
A lot of other tutorials didn’t show to jump with your front foot first, this helped a bunch.
The part about jumping on the board was very helpful! It definitely helped me get closer to doing my first ollie!
I have watched a lot of tutorials on how to ollie and practiced a lot but I have still never been able to do one but after i watched this video i went out and practiced and i got a pretty good ollie after about 5 minutes.
Hey this helped me so much. I ollied my first day. Something I really need to emphasize and I feel like he should’ve gone more in depth in is the slide!!!! It’s probably like 70 percent of the Ollie and once I started sliding my foot to the nose I got perfect ollies. Next month I will update you on the tricks I can do
Since no one asked it’s a month later any update?
@@airanimations8425 yea bro I can Ollie, fs 180, shuv it, and pop shuv it. Keep practicing!!
@@fnito9844 damn mad that’s awesome, you’ve made awesome progress
Ye
THE BEAST ollie tutorial vid I’ve ever seen, so helpful to do a Ollie
I landed my first Ollie watching this video
Landed my first real ollie today in part thanks to this video. Just keep practicing, it'll click eventually and then you'll be able to do it
I'm glad your back to making videos man, your older ones helped me a lot when I first got my board. This one helped me get my first stationary ollies yesterday!
YES!!! Now this is the key step video.This is the one,right here! learn it in 20 minutes.Thanks.
How?? I just landet my first Ollie!
Thank you so much :)
No way dude, that is amazing!
Thats the best ollie Tutorial i habe ever seen i tryd and made an half ollie every
other tutorial forgot this whit the jumping.
When falling all you gotta do is roll to avoid serious injury that's all that I been doing, works fine
The tip of literally just jumping higher helped me more than anything else anyone has told me about ollieing
THIS TUTORIAL HELPED ME
i was really having a trouble with ollie...but now I understand everything! Wish me luck, I'm going to learn ollie
Edit : I DID IT! I DID MY FIRST OLLIE TODAY! tysm for the tutorial 🥺💖💞
Nice still tryin for mine
No way Neeko, nice job!!
@Sonoferatik2 Don't get discouraged, it's coming! As long as you refuse to give up 👊
@@albedo5959 Don't give up! You are going to do it! I believe in you, just try a little bit harder and don't be scared 💕 it's not that hard
@@moonshihxs I actually got one yesterday :)
It way better now this video has been the most helpful one as its not like the rest of the tutorials ive seen on yt its amazing and truly the best thanks so much mam
waw. really really helpful tutorial. I finally understand my biggest mistake. first I should have take my froont foot of. i was doing the opposite. Thank you so much
Awesome! Keep up the good work Bek 👊
Me too 😂
omgg, thank u sm, i was struggling on movin my foot up and poppin the tail but after a few mins i managed to do it,, did my first ollie:)
I am finally able to land an Ollie!! After sooooo many videos… I rly wish I woulda just found this video my first day trying haha so glad I did!
I also just subscribed to your channel and I’m so excited to improve my skating 😄
Woo hoo! Heck yes! Way to stick with it 🤘🤘🤘
I explained these exercices to my 8 year old and he was able to his first ollie ! Thanks a lot ! Now he just has to practice a bit more and refined the technics.
I will try this method, i usually lose my balance when i pop the board or maybe because i’m afraid to fall
I’m Very inconsistent with my Ollie’s and out of all the videos I’ve seen on Ollie tutorials, this is by far my favorite!
I really think the whole wrist guard recommendation should come with some important additional advice. Because _no_ pad will prevent arms or wrists or elbows from breaking when you assume it can take full impact in a slam and keep everything extended, because you're wearing pads. The reason why knee pads in vert ramps work is because you use them to slide down (and folds legs under you). You don't use them to take full impact either. This is very underrated commentary on using protective gear. Needless to say, wearing a helmet is _always_ a good idea. Keep those limb bend and roll out, don't extend and take the full impact. You'll break bones. Some of the worst slams where you could hit your head, will also come out of nowhere wiping out hard. I'd also recommend beginners to try to land on a board with knees bend very consciously. Maybe even show what happens when you land with one or two extended / stiff legs, because that's usually an instant wipe out. If you land on just the tail or middle of the board with one foot, but have that knee bend / crouched, the board will pretty much never shoot out from under. Last but not least, the key to falling is really trying to 'roll out', making sure the energy from impact isn't taken head on, but gets transferred in ways that don't hurt or damage. Why can experienced skaters take slams down an 8 or 10 stair set? Well, most likely because he or she knows how to 'go with the flow' and roll out of a slam.
This is brilliantly stated!
@@NeverStopImprovingSB Thanks :D Also, thanks for the video. Even though I got ollies, I'm still improving them every time I skate. So this still helps.
@@NeverStopImprovingSB 🤣
There's a video somewhere of a large cat tumbling and leaping off a cliff, and just walking away. The trick is to turn the fall into a leap so it can be controlled.
The Parkour discipline uses this philosophy as well, but that's not how it started out.
This is definitely the best Ollie tutorial on RUclips
This is the most underrated tutorial ever
Landed my first ollie today after watching this. It wasn't pretty, and it wasn't sky high, but it was legit. Thanks, Dude!
To any new skaters here there’s a couple things to remember: get comfortable riding your board before you mess with ollies. Once you’re comfortable riding regular, practice riding switch and try to learn how to manual and power slide. I’m not saying you have to completely master those things before trying to Ollie but I promise you will have a much easier time learning how to Ollie once you build confidence riding your board. And also… don’t give up you got this! And ignore the feedback from people in the beginning just think about it as the initiation into the community.
What’s manual and power slide 😅
I just got a skateboard yesterday and have watched 5 to 6 videos on how to do an Ollie none of them have actually taught me. I started to think maybe the RUclips videos couldn’t actually teach me But this one actually did thank you so much I am now subscribed if I could rate this five stars I definently would! 🥳👏🏼👏🏼
Aww thank you so much I really hope it works and you achieve your goals!
Congrats on 100k subs by the way!
@@k8thegr8_1 Thanks a TON! =D
can u do a part 2 where u explain the foot sliding up the board
I don’t think he dose it but if you want to go higher up in the jump then do it this vid is for beginners but slide your foot if you want a higher Ollie
@@chopizzzz5331 you cant ollie without sliding your foot up lol, its a critical step to doing an ollie. without sliding your foot you wont get a cm off the ground
I did my first one in 10mins thanks to you!! I really appreciate this video. It helps SO MUCH!
dang my backwheels just wont leave the ground because idk how to pop at the right time
Like 10 mins after trying for the first time?
Im working really hard on perfecting this, I'm new to skateboarding, I've been trying for about an hour but I'm getting closer each time!
Edit: so I practiced for 2 hours or something and now my legs feel broken lol
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH I saw so many Ollie tutorials but I couldn’t do it ONLY YOURS HELPED ME A LOT! I NOW KNOW HOW TO DO OLLIE! THANK YOU!
I wish I had watched this video before I rolled my ankle 💀
bro this gusy jsut taught me how to ollie at midnight in my room after days of not getting it. and i got it not perfectly but rright away while watching this, best tutorial and it never hurts to start from scratch
First off, thanks for this incredible tutorial! I’ve been able to consistently get the ollie (thanks to you), but find that I always seem to rotate towards my heel side. If I start the ollie with my board facing 12 o’clock I land with it facing 11. Any idea what could be causing this?
When you pop an ollie, the board orients itself with how your shoulders are rotated, so you need to focus on keeping your shoulders straight when during the whole trick
@@NeverStopImprovingSB thank you!
Thank you so much this helped a lot especially with getting by back wheels off the ground.
That's the hardest part! Excited to hear about your progress 🛹🤙
Nice, but no human being ollies after 8 minutes :D
My target audience in this video would be someone who's been trying to ollie for a while and they're missing maybe just one or two key steps, haha but you're not wrong! Learning the ollie takes some time, and to learn it you have to earn it!
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@@jadensimmons6646 Haha wow! He got his ollie in like 9 minutes :)
Taught my brother basics of doing ollies and he did an ollie on the spit first try and did it again over and over, a week later, still ollies real good and is even dropping in and doing shuvits, skateboard prodigy in the making in a couple months ima be outdated for him 😭
@@alexmartinez9645 Wow. Can't wait to see where he is in 5 to 10 years.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I’ve been trying to get my ollies down but none of the other tutorials really worked, thank you so so much for breaking it down for me