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Learn OLLIE, KICKFLIP, & Shove-it TODAY with these HACKS

GP Picks11 skaters recommend it · 17 mentions, 2020 to 2022
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791K views · 6 years ago · Tutorial · Beginner

George Poulos walks through his tips for learning ollies, kickflips and shove-its, aimed at beginners. Covers foot position, leveling the board and fixing chicken foot on kickflips.

Why skaters like it

Linked in r/NewSkaters whenever someone struggles with ollies, shove-its or chicken foot on kickflips. Posters say he explains it better than they can.

“This guy George Poulos explains it super well. Basically you aren't diving your nose into the ground enough.”

u/Glasses2Times

What skaters said on Reddit

u/kaden-skates2020 · 3 points

A cool tip that I got is before you start sliding your foot is that you can do a teeter totter motion with your front foot. Ex you pop with your back foot then when you are in mid air drive your front foot to the ground then it will look ugly but get used to that then start sliding your foot I’ll post a video Ollie tip [VIDEO]

u/PRODBYCROW2020 · 3 points

ahhh man i’m sorry i remember how frustrating it was for me when i had chicken foot. i didn’t personally do this but if my method doesn’t work this video might: [VIDEO] there’s a kickflip section at like 4:00 that covers chicken foot. hope it helps!

u/Glasses2Times2020 · 3 points

Your pop is good you just aren’t leveling out the board. Try to think of using your left foot to bring the nose down instead of just brushing up with it. Ollie hack [VIDEO] Watch this vid it helped me when I was learning. Good luck brother🤙🏼

u/Ok-Mongoose-43912022 · 2 points

Sure thing! The first half of the motion looks great! Your board is going in front of you because you're not jumping forward with it. If you stayed over it, it would level out. Your front foot is sliding just fine. One thing that might help since you're using skater trainers, is to try and purposefully do small, low ollies [VIDEO]. Try and focus on landing front trucks first, like a see-saw motion [VIDEO]. It's an ex

u/fatshit4202020 · 2 points

I can try but I reccommended this video [VIDEO] by George poulos because he explained it better

u/javery982020 · 1 points

Saw a video about this actually recently, I'm not good at skating yet so don't take my word for gospel but in the video the guy talked about committing to landing with the board upside down, so that your muscles just get used to it. I'll link the video here [VIDEO]

u/lasimies2021 · 1 points

Shift your weight more on the front foot so the board will level out sooner. George poulos did a good video on this: [VIDEO]

u/bobweaver30002021 · 1 points

good luck! if you haven't seen any videos, George here has some good advice re: see-sawing as you pop [VIDEO]

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