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Get More Pop on Your Skateboard

Skate IQ10 skaters recommend it · 10 mentions, 2025 to 2026
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292K views · 1 year ago · Tutorial · Beginner

Skate IQ tutorial with Mitchie on getting more pop for ollies. Covers popping versus jumping, bringing the board toward you, letting it rise, back foot motion, dropping the front foot and the tail strike.

Why skaters like it

Gets linked in r/NewSkaters whenever someone asks why their ollie is low. Commenters say it reframed pop as a flick, with a fix for the back foot.

“I just started learning and this video from Skate IQ completely changed what I thought I needed to do to pop an Ollie. I was thinking of it as stomping my tail into the ground”

u/Branflakesd1996

What skaters said on Reddit

u/Chi_Ron2025 · 7 points

I’ve been skating on and off for almost 40 years and this videos has improved my ollies more than decades of practice [VIDEO]

u/Educational-Aioli-522025 · 3 points

I am kind of struggling with the same problem, but I think I have found a fix. What I think might be happening is the tail running into your back foot. Maybe try to bring your back foot up faster. Or snapping your back foot more towards the back...you could also watch skate IQ's latest video on ollies. He tackles this exact issue there, if I remember correctly. Anyways...let me know if it works :) Link: [VIDEO]

u/CoreyTheGeek2026 · 3 points

Don't try to do monster Ollies, start out relaxed and just jumping and trying to get the movement locked into your muscle memory. If you try to pop it huge every time before you have the sequence and muscle memory right you're just gonna frustrate yourself and tire yourself out fast Good overall help with drills that do help *but you gotta actually do them!* [VIDEO] Talks about pop but Ollie is center [VIDEO]

u/Branflakesd19962026 · 3 points

I just started learning and this video from Skate IQ [VIDEO] completely changed what I thought I needed to do to pop an Ollie. I was thinking of it as stomping my tail into the ground but thinking of it more as a using my foot to flick it into the ground made it click way more.

u/UnnecessaryLemon2026 · 3 points

I mean, you actually has a pretty good form. Now check this video "Get More Pop on Your Skateboard [VIDEO]" and rip those legs up fast.

u/Conscious-Win-48272026 · 3 points

check out what Mitchie says in this video about the back foot at 8:17 [VIDEO] do that

u/Lopsided_Figure13422026 · 1 points

Sometimes we forget an Ollie is basically a jump. He‘s just not jumping high enough to clear that manual pad, the board has nowhere to go under him. He needs to pull his legs up in order to allow the board to travel upwards. Also give the board more time to actually get up there before stomping, this video [VIDEO] should help him out.

u/aaron_siegler2025 · 1 points

Consider this: [VIDEO] if you want better pop. Many people forget that speed is much more important than strength in this case.