Ollie - Super Slow Motion

Hell yeah that’s an Ollie! One thing about Ollie height, you can only get as high as you allow each end of the board to go up in the air. So the physics of an Ollie is first slamming the tail to lift the nose. Then stepping on the nose to lift the tail. You do a good job of getting the front up. To get the tail to follow it, you have to push down the nose as it rises to its max height. It’s not really done by pressin

Check out this video: [VIDEO] And **you must** check out this one: [VIDEO] From what I can tell, you're squatting down but not actually utilising the power you get from that because when you try to pop the board, your leg's almost already straight again. Your back foot doesn't and shouldn't stamp down to the ground - as shown in the second video, your foot should pop the board down but you should already be jumping b

one more thing, in your head, draw a rectangle between your shoulders and the bolts of the board, and if you start having trouble getting the motion down in one swoop, I found this slow mo [VIDEO] helped me a lot.

This. To elaborate, you need to actually jump as your doing an ollie and bring your knees up towards your chest. Step 2 you need to slide that front foot farther forward to level out the board. Edit: Here's a good clip a quick search returned. [VIDEO] Notice how he's jumping off his back foot and his knees come up towards his chest to get more height out of the board, and the front foot slid towards the front of the

[VIDEO] Look at this video

Trying too hard can prevent progress so it's good you start with just an itty bitty one, so GJ! I'd advise to push down quicker and harder at a gradual pace each time until you get a nice loud *smack* sound. Also, your board is raising higher then a russian satellite, 'To fix that, The board will have to grip onto your shoe's side and break away as you bend and *kick* your foot in a sliding motion [VIDEO] Agree with

It sounds like you are positioning your front foot too far toward the toe-side edge of the board. It should not contact the board as you drag your front foot. Try positioning your front foot such that the ball of your foot is closer to the center of the width of the board, so that your heel and ankle are hanging off the back side of the deck. This is better for stablility, since your balance is best on the balls of y

Nice! I highly recommend watching some slow mo videos [VIDEO]. Most of the height of an ollie comes from sliding your front foot up towards the nose. Like you're literally using the friction of the side of your foot against the grip tape to drag the board into the air. The pop is simply what lifts your nose so that you're able to do that. So for the height it's all about that drag. And part of being able to slide you