OLLIE LEVELS #4

[@LameBalsam]

This guy taught me how to ollie. Now im trying to learn nollie tricks, thanks norman.

[@stickersteve007]

very well explained. the difference in ollies makes a lot of sense

[@CurbBlurbs]

There is no one teaching Ollie’s like this… the smollies help

[@NormanWoods]

They really do. Learning form first is helpful.

[@santiagoherrera500]

I used to be obsessed with learning how to Ollie as high as possible and I applied that so much in the beginning, I would notice I'd have a hard time trying to Ollie up a curb or manual pad because I was trying such a unique technique on something that didn't need that level of skill set and it would throw me off balance. I now only try to bring my knees up to my chest when I try to jump over something or get up a big ledge.

[@lumix2477]

I've applied your method of aim to ollie immediately to other parts of my life and I think about it when I skate sometimes too. Thank you for being cool. I'm trusting in nothing but the blood of Jesus to pay for my sins to keep me out of hell.

[@cromag_jetlag9079]

Jeez everyone's an expert. Your ollie video was super helpful to me. Haters gonna hate, I appreciate your teaching method.

[@NormanWoods]

It’s the name of the game. But I’m still gonna put my experience out for those who can use it. Thanks for watching 👊🏾

[@cezusbezus]

Don't even address the haters bro. We know you give good advice!

[@matroxman11]

Agreed

[@Unoriginal3]

Respect to the wisdom your spitting early on Reiki/peruvian shaman here - been thinking about adding spirit to my channel

[@michaeltimcisko7828]

I like how you approach things from a different perspective. As someone who started skating again after 20 years, your way of describing this is valuable when trying to maintain progression of learning new things while building on important fundamentals

[@NormanWoods]

This is my biggest goal, in making these videos. Trying to break things down, so that all levels of skater can benefit. Thank you for watching!

[@babytigerx]

Perfect timing , I’m on my 29th day of the moving ollie after dedicating an hour and a half a day EVERYDAY. I’m getting about a foot and a half up and over things now thanks norm 🙏🏽

[@NormanWoods]

Congratulations on the progress👊🏾

[@Dragonmastersservant]

Your beginner method for ollies totally changed the game for me man. I used to skate when I was younger but never even landed an ollie; just got back into it two months ago at 31 and managed to land a couple but have had zero consistency and even started regressing and losing them. Found your videos this past Sunday and have been grinding out your method for a couple hours a day since then, yesterday I think I landed at least 10 stationary and I'm finally getting the confidence to put them down while moving even if I bail. All of that to say you are an incredible teacher and an awesome person for putting these vids up for free. Big blessings bro 🙏

[@NormanWoods]

Stoked that this helped you. All I could ask for. If someone has an easier time skating, thanks to my long winded drivel, I’m happy! Keep shredding!

[@c2dchange]

finalllllly, people kept telling me i was popping too high for my back 50s and i couldn’t figure out how to control it but i think this will help

[@NormanWoods]

I really hope it does. Control is one of the hardest parts of learning.

[@willblackett4709]

Re: latency As a Taijiquan ( Tai chi ) student I know there's a time difference (delay) from when the skeleton goes up, (when I ollie) until the blood sloshes up (catching up to the skeleton) The same when going down. "Sometimes tall people can feint if they stand up to quickly from sitting, it's sorta because their blood is still sitting"

[@NormanWoods]

That’s interesting. Someone I skated with recently mentioned Tai Chi. Said it’s done a lot for him and his movement.

[@DrDizzyMorris]

Norman always out here dropping wisdom with the highest amounts of intellect and respect sprinkled in. Great well-reasoned response to commenter. Keep up the good videos bruh 🙌🏽

[@eboebreo]

Omega x Swatch. Bro you don’t miss. 🔥 still need to cop me one of those. Love the tutorials man. 👋🏻👊🏻‼️

[@NormanWoods]

Aaaaaaye! Another horology nerd 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@haroldcampos9661]

Ollied onto a painted kerb and we went a few feet. If I can't ollie onto a 50-50 I can jump into it and board does follow, but then I also get pitched. Technique can be verbalized and passed down, but if you don't keep it simple it can frustrate someone who's learning. I think we can all agree there's levels to every trick. I struggle with height on flatground, popping a bit earlier, ollie'ing while going fast, ollieing bigger distances, etc. I've always had a tendency to jump over my board and miss it completely, I think they call that whiffing it lol. I've been practicing over this kind of hump type thing that feels like it takes my weight off the board and it's hard to pop... it's kinda helped! Skating doesn't come that easy for me either, I feel good on my board, but I probably look a bit awkward to other skaters lol. In fact last time I tried ollie'ing one board and forcing my legs over I had a mid 90's moment and didn't talk about it. But I still see myself progressing when I skate, but the small things do help. The baby steps, the trick tips, I appreciate it. Maybe I don't always need trick tips from my favorite pro, but also from the guy that teaches 6 year olds. It is what it is though, if it can get me onto a manual pad with a youtube shorts, I'm down for trying out that lesson.

[@NormanWoods]

Whatever keeps you on your board.

[@haroldcampos9661]

Yep, Gotta stay committed.@@NormanWoods

[@tylersaupe1612]

Wow I’m very grateful the KZbin algorithm brought me to your channel. I just ollied a 1 stack yesterday for the first time. This vid would have come in handy! I’m about to binge all of the other lessons, great stuff sir!

[@nabilchoury2372]

THanks norman for all this a first time i hear about ollie thats way .Nabil from France

[@matroxman11]

Excellent breakdown, I see exactly what you mean about generating that upward momentum before popping. My body started figuring out the difference between a low ollie and a high ollie but my brain had no idea. I’m excited to go try to pop over some bigger stuff now that I have a better idea of what’s happening

[@NormanWoods]

I hope this info helps you blast off. Learning the difference between the two helped me gain control.

[@shalabazertheboltstruck8645]

Michael Jackson is ok! But my King of Pop is Norman Woods baby 😉 But for real now, truly one of the best, if not the best, tutorials and advices out there 👌 this explains why I mess up my ollies up curbs so often. Can't wait to go out and hit em with this new input

[@humfra09]

Hey Norman! we met at the skate park couple of days ago, your videos helped me get back into the basic of skating again I’m 36 and it feels good to back on keep up the great videos 🙌🏽

[@NormanWoods]

Welcome back 👊🏾

[@TheRealSaiyanTrunks]

Finger snaps bro. Learned a lot today. 🖕🏽 the haters.

[@awab7703]

Another great breakdown man. Do you have a video about finding and breaking out of bad habits? Certain things I've learned early on hold me back from optimizing my movements mid-trick.

[@melodichypnoticproduction]

Thanks for all the info you share,

[@CurbBlurbs]

12:30 This is what I’m gonna start Saying

[@emiliomarrero7587]

norman i would really love if you could speak about ollieing moving while not looking at your feet. for context i longboarded and skated every where as a child but never actually tried tricks. so riding a skateboard is like a bike for me but now im 26 trying to learn tricks and parks and im pretty decent at ollieing while moving but am having trouble commiting to obstacles because i feel scared when im not looking at my feet, which inevitably makes it impossible to time when to do the ollie. it makes me discouraged and i havent found one video that addresses this nuance specifically. thank you

[@ryanrowe1975]

Good advice

[@AnneALias]

Love the free high quality education. Constructive critique: your text notes appear right when you're starting a trick, so we gotta choose between reading and watching, and then we gotta rewind and replay. Put the text up like 3 seconds sooner so we can read it right before you put it into practice : )

[@skellygaming6522]

Oh man i found ur channel to late i learned explosive ollies first and i had no control but slowly learning how to control my pop i love ur channel ur tips help me so much 🤘🔥🔥 Thanks Norman my favorite skater!

[@circlesplitter]

get well soon brother

[@NormanWoods]

Thank you 👊🏾

[@slavaz7932]

You High Ollie seems like a magic - flying on a board! Wish you be healfy and get over virus!

[@stay_troubled7735]

Thanks for your great work! I really appreciate your comprehensive analysis of skateboarding practice. About the latency: I‘m am not a neurologist but even with this latency being a physiological fact, as a pedagogue I doubt that a neurological approach will help here. My thesis on your question if latencies stack is that we need to look at the respective practice. You learned the timing of your movements in relation to everything which is part of the process: the board, the obstacles, the requirements of the trick you commit to, the speed you prefer, your individual body and more. After all this practice, you know how to perform and time all those complex and precise movements in relation to the intertwined elements to make the trick work. This knowledge can be considered as incorporated or prereflective and already includes and adjusts the latencies. If you really had to think about and consider every step before deciding to perform it, I guess skating and a lot of other stuff would be impossible, like walking, writing or using a spoon to eat. Trained practices just don’t work this way. Any neurological points of view out there?

[@stay_troubled7735]

Just looked it up: I don’t mean incorporated, but embodied knowledge 😅 learning a language has similarities to learning to skate 😉

[@justinbishop7142]

Vary useful tips for sure💯thanks

[@bermchasin]

holy shiz bro, that one frame at 4:15 when your board is literally at the top of the screen

[@bermchasin]

hope you are starting to feel better from the virus

[@steexy_7vn]

I had the same exact problem with learning the Ollie in reverse and to this day I still sometimes struggle with ollieing over small obstacles

[@egotgame38]

Learned a lot from this video bro

[@TheIanSamuels]

Great content !

[@NormanWoods]

Thanks Ian!

[@muhdhadziq-z5c]

hello norman,great video btw,can you make a video on how to ride switch and learn switch tricks?,i can do switch ollie but still didn’t know how to balance and how to roll on switch,thanks for the video and also thankyou for all of those video,i literally learn 5050,heelflip and kickflip and also wallie with your videos,thankyou norman!youre the best!

[@NormanWoods]

I will be making this soon. Someone else asked for it as well. I’m trying to get an impossible tutorial done now. But this will be next. So happy that my videos have helped you learn these tricks. Best outcome I could hope for.

[@atypical_blk_guy]

There's nothing he can tell you in a video that's going to help riding switch. You just have to force yourself to skate switch every time you skate. I never skated nollie and switch growing up and I've forced myself to skate in those stances since getting back into skateboarding. Trust me, it's going to take time but just like you got used to skating in your normal stance, the same thing will happen for switch.

[@muhdhadziq-z5c]

@@atypical_blk_guy thanks dude!sometimes i get scared when riding switch bcs i will always off balance when riding switch🤣

[@atypical_blk_guy]

@@muhdhadziq-z5c I started off the same. Even now my switch ollie isn't great but I'm able to do switch kickflips. As a way to train them, I practice switch 5050s every session as a warm up. It feels awkward but over time you adjust.

[@RikRiorik]

Norm my dude, I’m always so impressed by the height of pop you’ve got. But today I actually paused the vid and what I saw was ridiculous 😂. Sky High Norm with the Perfect Form. I actually went and showed my gal and went frame by frame til you reached your zenit at 4:15 and we we were yelling at each other three times each, successively louder (M: me, H: her): M: ‘Where you going bro?!’ H: ‘How does he do it?!’ 😂

[@NormanWoods]

😂😂😂😂

[@mgjulesdev]

If the ledge is knee high or below, you can away with smollies. Only having to bend your knee without all the jump coordination is great and will save your energy so you get longer skate sessions.

[@NormanWoods]

Exactly! I love doing those little guys when I’m desperate to skate, but lacking motivation/energy.

[@pxtixntzero7127]

On point.

[@amirsim2479]

Norman what’s your record Ollie ???

[@kylesalmon31]

Man I wish. Could skate more again… I have so much pain in the ball of both my feet that skating feels excruciating.

[@Lects]

yo i can ollie and get all the wheels off the ground but i feel like i cant ever bring my back leg up higher than a certain point, i cant ever bring my back knee up to my chest even though i can with other tricks

[@NormanWoods]

You’ll get it. Takes lots of reps. Focus on it and it’ll click at some point.

[@Kuzumeayate]

Hey i got a question, my skatebord was in the rain a lot and the grip tape is trash, how can i remove it and how do i get the new one on the deck? i never did it

[@KaitouKaiju]

Heat gun. If the deck was in the rain then you are going to need a whole new deck because it will be soggy and have zero pop

[@scizophrenic2602]

a child first born learns to crawl before they walk. same with skate progression. in time the child learns the proper movement and control over all that new leg movement in walking compared to crawling. same with someone first learning how to ollie. a child usually takes 10 -18 months to learn how to walk. dont be in a hurry to learn this skateboarding stuff. be realistic.

[@NormanWoods]

Couldn’t have said it better!

[@steezorteez9829]

Man!... my wife be doing that always blaming me for stuff haha 😅

[@snowpc722]

Yoo, what type of Ollie do you use for stair sets?

[@cartier_dam]

Wow such a great fucking video bro I just started you may have just turned me into a pro skater

[@TheSk8Escape]

10K hours on the stunt wood.

[@otogaal6098]

🌳🛹🌳

[@savagelifeskateboarding]

Norman I’m asking a very impoimportant question your answering everything elese why was there pentagrams and other witch craft symbols flashing in the videos it’s spiritual so you need to answer this question if it spells just say that

[@savagelifeskateboarding]

I love the content but I’m extremely confused about the chart with definite witchcraft symbols I’ll send a pic but you edited them in ten seperate times all I could say is the blood of Jesus don’t lose ya soul cause that pop can’t help you in hell I hope it’s not what I think but I’m def concerned and won’t watch another video until you tell me what the symbols were I hand ain’t no way it’s a accident ten times 1 video braaaa