5 STEPS TO BETTER OLLIES

holy shit you did what took me 6 years as a kid in a day. there are tons of videos online to help with cleaning the ollie up, from here you've pretty much got it. check out Braille Skateboarding, specifically these videos. In short you have to stick your front front out once you slid all the way up to the top, extending it horizontally. Bring your back foot up much higher, suck your knees in as much as you can, and t

You are doing awesome. This stuff is hard, so I can see that you put a lot of work into this. Other people have pointed out that you didn't actually jump, and that is the first thing that is limiting you. The second is that your back foot is going down too far. Your back foot is going all the way to the pavement. It should only go about 4/5ths the way down, and you flick the tail down with an ankle movement to get th

Practice sliding it by the having tail on ground and doing just the front foot motion [VIDEO] (watch until he says step 4) until it feels like your muscle memory is starting to develop. Once comfortable with that, transition to doing just the slide to give it air while your back foot is planted on the ground [VIDEO] once you get used to that and it feels like it's 100% muscle memory, go back to trying the full ollie.

Watch Aarons 5 steps to a better ollie: [VIDEO] Step 4 is what you're asking.

Best ollie video. [VIDEO]

You're recommending beginners throw away their deck's fresh pop before they even learn how to utilize it? Dragging your tail against the ground is the fastest way to kill the pop by razortailing it... Hanging your heel off and using the sole of your shoe is more sensible. Doing a couple accidental scrapes of the tail here & there during a manual is one thing, but using the friction of the deck against the ground whil

If you havent already seen them, Braille skateboarding on youtube has super helpfull videos Link to ollie video [VIDEO]. Link to ollie video 2 [VIDEO] Link to ollie video 3 [VIDEO] I have linked all three videos becuse im not sure what stage youre at, but its deffinetly worth watching all three. Skateboarding is pretty much exclusively for patient people, som have insane natural talent, but most of the really good sk

I think you’re shooting your hips forward and so shoulders are falling back and away. Try be flexed forward at the hip, even at the top of your jump. See the slo mo at 10:10 in vid [VIDEO]