Skateology: Ollie (1000 fps slow motion)

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Nice. It takes some guts to try it at first. Hanging your arms down by your thighs more or less relaxed before you ollie will help you in many ways like lowering your center of mass, higher jump due to more arm travel, more steeze, etc. Bending down more and waiting til your body including your back knee is almost extended fully before you pop with your ankle will help you jump higher, too. This vid will explain what

You're not bringing your back foot up after you pop. Popping the board is about **snapping your foot down from the ankle**, not jumping on the board until the tail hits the ground. For practice, take more weight off your back foot and just try jumping and popping the board up. Snap, snap, snap your foot down. Watch this [VIDEO] and this [VIDEO] and notice how their back toes stay off the ground.

Hey mate, your popping foot should never touch the ground. You need to jump off your popping foot and let the tail slap into the ground if that makes sense. If your tail hits the ground with your foot still touching it your pop is killed immediately. [VIDEO] The first clip shows the skater slapping the tail into the ground without their foot touching the tail. Compare that clip to yours and it should click from there

there was one thing that really changed my technique and made it better: don't try to make the board jump, make yourself jump. Everyone always expects the board to do the lifting but it doesn't. You physically need to put as much force into it as you would if you wanted to jump the same height without a board. The extra lift comes with forward speed but until you can do it moving you really need to put the extra effo

>So complex timing in this Yes. Super complex and fast. It's not a beginner trick, even if people always try to learn it first. >...too early which makes the tail touch the ground with the foot still on it which is a no-no He's not pinching the tail - so not too much to worry about there. That's usually more of a weight transfer problem, IMHO, where people shift their weight backwards instead of jumping. It looks to

The angle of the board popping against the ground & going vertical makes it so you don't have to over bend your ankle. And like /u/Sharkytrs said, the foot isn't completely sideways 100% of the time. It's more of a tweak sideways than a full 90 degree bend, see these [VIDEO] slow motion examples, notice how the board is at a 45 degree angle to the ground roughly. You can practice by planting the tail against the grou

Definitely not a stupid question, and this takes a while to learn for everyone. Your foot is definitely touching the board as it hits the ground, but the trick is that "popping" and jumping with your back foot kind of happen almost simultaneously. You basically jump up together with the bounce of the board. That's really most of what ollies are, and it's the first major obstacle in skating. You may've seen this alrea