HOW TO PERFECT OLLIES

Check out some of Jonny Gigers videos. The way he positions himself over the board and the way he maintains his body weight distribution throughout tricks is beautiful. [VIDEO]

Nice ollie. Bone it out forward for some style, it’ll also help you get higher and stick the board to your feet better. Video reference. [VIDEO]

So in my mind there are 4 steps to an ollie. The Pop, the Guide, the Jump, and the landing. Perfecting all 4 while rolling are going to be main focuses on making the ollie, or really any trick work and make you look good doing them. So first off I just want to say, you should be trying to learn your ollies rolling. This will infinitely benefit you in the long run. Not only on how you feel on your board when your doin

Next step for improvement is to move your front foot less in an up and down motion and more in a circular motion. Up and out then down and back. When you do this your back foot will need to move with the board as well and kind of tuck up under your butt. This will help you get more height and level the board out hight in the air so while your body may not actually be going higher the board will. This is a good video

Pretty nice skatepark you have there, lots of learnig obstacles. Started recently as a 23yo adult, and such skatepark would speed up my learnig curve a lot. What I can say, that you should work more on your ollie before learnig kickflip. Make it higher, and elevate your back truck. This video helped me with them: HOW TO PERFECT OLLIES [VIDEO]

That looks good! Keep adding stairs! I saw this video that really helped with my ollies. I think anyone interested in getting better at them should check out. [VIDEO]

[VIDEO] Go to 0:49 to see what I mean

You're pushing your back foot backwards off the board, it almost looks like you're doing an "ollie south [VIDEO]" You need to commit to pushing it straight down, then lifting it straight back up. The tail of the board should basically stay right under your back foot the entire time. Pause your video around 2, 7, and 15 seconds and look how far away your back foot is from the tail of the board. Don't do that, just pus