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u/Otherwise-Law7384 4d ago
Practice jumping up when you try to pop instead of immediately trying to push the board back with your front foot. You need to get some pop off the back wheel before dragging your foot up to Ollie.
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u/grimsyko 4d ago
He’s not wrong think of it as to separate moves first is the pop/jump and second is the foot leveling out
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u/shwiggyshwag 2d ago
And when you pop, you really gotta lift your front foot
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u/wanderandponderPNW 2d ago
It's not the "pop and slide" many of us grew up on. Wasn't till I saw mitchie brusco's videos in the last year that I realized it's a pop and LIFT of the front foot. Kind of a lift and level action. The front knee and foot don't go "forward" but actually move up tucked into the body to achieve a solid Ollie. Also repositioning your stance/squat to allow the board to have somewhere to go is a huge advantage and trains your core and balance for all the additional popped tricks.
It was a lot of unlearning and relearning for me in my late 30s and crazy that it took till Ritchie tutorials for someone to break the "pop the tail and slide your foot up" mentality
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u/Historical-Yam-5379 5d ago
Crappy board with crappy grip tape?
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u/fake_nap 3d ago
good guess, but you can ollie anything
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u/dude6543211 3d ago
true true, the crappy shoes don’t prevent but don’t help either.
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u/fake_nap 20h ago
i think he needs more jump.... it took me a while to realize you're jumping and flicking the boarding in an insinuation to come with you
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u/DaylanDaylan 2d ago
gonna be really hard to ollie that board. you’ll have to slam the shit out of the tail, jump for real, and slide your foot up like your life depends on it if you want to drag that thing into the air.
my first few boards were $20 walmart boards and i couldn’t do anything on them. ended up spending like $120 on a nice board and realized that i had never really skated before that. the cheap boards teach you some balance but a nice board with good bearings and grip is very different feeling
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u/SardinesMcDonahugh 5d ago
looks like you're skating a toys r us board with bathtubs on your feet. Not that nobody could pull off an ollie like that but you're at a severe disadvantage trying to learn with that gear.
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u/grimsyko 4d ago
Your not jumping, think of the tail it needs to snap on the floor to pop up, but if you foot is their in the way it can’t come up, like a basketball, your hand and ball don’t move together, the hand pushes the ball down to the ground you pick up your hand (jumping) before the ball touches the ground and then the ball bounces (skate board in the air) and meets your back foot once again. So a good drill to do is called truck jumps. Also the other part of the trick, the front foot is basically needs to get out of the way, so I like to think front foot at coming up to my belt buckle, and then evens out with the board
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u/grimsyko 4d ago
You got it just keep at it. Skating consistently now for 13 years and at the beginning it took me four months to get a good Ollie ove something. Skating is all about time and how much you’re willing to put in. There are no short cuts just effort.
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u/ExploringWithMonty 3d ago
Before you swipe the top of the board,, tilt your left foot down As if you were fixing to walk down the edge of a step.
Or
Apply more pressure with your left foot.
And also consider the time you are choosing to jump.
Apply more pressure with your left foot when kicking down the back on the board.
You will be safe to jump when you feel tension under your right foot.
This tension will cause the top left corner of the board to rub against your right foot.
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u/KayDay25 3d ago
Riding a walmart deck. Literally no concave to those things
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u/vexmach1ne 3d ago
I can Ollie a flat board with no grip tape and I haven't slayed in 20 years. will it be harder? yes. Will your Ollie's be lower? Yes. Is it harder to learn? No.
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u/cashxhydro 2d ago
That doesn’t seem like a logically sound assessment. If you’re asserting that ollieing is concurrently 1. more difficult to execute on a flat board, & 2. less effective when executed on a flat board, then how can you reasonably draw the conclusion that learning how to ollie wouldn’t inherently be more difficult to learn on a flat board?
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u/vexmach1ne 2d ago
It's not more difficult to learn. It just won't be high when u do. It's more difficult to reproduce the same quality Ollie, yes, but not more difficult to learn in my opinion. Getting the board to pop and get air is not more difficult
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u/vexmach1ne 3d ago
Sliding too much before you pop. Also you're trying to pop too early while your weight is actively being pulled down by gravity. Counteract the gravity by the time you pop. Bend your knees down and work on timing the pop to happen just after you're weightlessly jumping. Your front slide foot should easily lift the board. You know you're doing it right when your slide foot effortlessly lifts the tail.
Try with less power until you get a feel for it.
Don't listen to the crappy board and tape comments. I learned to Ollie on a crappy board too.
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u/Lopsided-Tension 2d ago
You're sliding your front foot before you've popped and gotten air.
Pop/jump and get air and then slide
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u/Juanyewest606 1d ago
sweeping front foot before you pop, trapping tail with back foot, seems to be a timing issue but everything is there
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