Science of leveling Ollie

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After being able to pop down the tail, leveling out your board is the next step. However, you can't simply push your front foot forward to level out your board. Instead, you have to pay attention to other components such as the use of your back foot and weight distribution. Let's scientifically break it down and learn how to level out your board efficiently.
-- Table of Contents --
0:00 Intro
0:37 Why you can't push the nose
1:46 How to pull up your back foot
3:15 The use of upper body
5:39 The use of feet
6:28 Landing
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[@ariekanibalie]

This 100% facts, yours are the best tutorials out there. Two related tips: 1 apply pressure on the tail, but focus more on retracting the back leg as fast and high as possible (rather than pushing down hard on the tail) and try to wait with pushing the front foot forward until the back foot is already coming up. 2 body/head position play a huge role: I always say it's not how deep you crouch down but how far over the front bolts you lean your head when you pop. The more you lean forward, i.e. the further back the nose comes when you pop, the more room your front foot will have to extend and level out the board. I think I also pop slightly back, rather than straight down. Everyone's different, but I think often the problem is people (unconsciously) hold back a bit for fear of eating shit, when really the spirit is to jump into the trick 'face-first' as it were.

[@rwandeuk]

Many thanks for your experience 👍

[@ahappyimago]

What does leaning forward have to do with the nose rising? If anything wouldn’t you be more likely to hold the front part of your board down

[@adambituin6616]

thank you so much! i just started skateboarding 2 days ago and i was able to land a ollie not exactly a clean perfect form but enough to produce a ollie. your tutorials are detailed and amazing for any beginner out there trying to learn! cant wait to learn new tricks from you. 🙌🙌

[@oliec2540]

I can push my board outward but never realised that I did it by lowering my upper body 👀 Thanks for the vid and I can now try to improve my switch ollie 🔥

[@owenguerrero8992]

damn your channel is what happens when a smart person starts skating, thank you so much

[@luiza177music]

Holy shit I think this video just unlocked something for me. Now I just need to get used to not trying too hard to jump high and straighten my body so much. Thank you so much!

[@whythetrick]

You are very welcome. Thanks for the comment!

[@calvinstevens-charles5320]

This is the best video I’ve ever seen. It’s broken down to the smallest detail.

[@whythetrick]

Thanks for the comment! Glad you like it. More coming up soon. Please consider subscribing!

[@harithirfan5008]

Thanks man. You really deserve 100k subs

[@0R0D]

You have such an awesome approach to skateboarding and have helped me sharpen my skills keep on doing what your doing !!!

[@ryanyoung5607]

Great Ollie tutorial and the physics is so important to understand. Thanks for a great video!

[@bureaucratbayonet]

Love this channel already.

[@Pump]

You have incredible tutorials, I love science so seeing it broken down in the way you do is great for me!🔥I watched your other how to Ollie video before this, thank you! Subscribed with notifications.

[@Thanocroc]

love your videos bro, they really help me to understand the trick

[@felipoto]

New sub man, I was overextending my upper body so I was not able to level out the board with my front foot correctly.

[@whythetrick]

Thanks for sub!

[@burger1113]

I'm afraid you have overlooked one crucial part of the technique, which is actually what's limiting your ollie height as well. You said jumping too high is not good, but that is not true at all. If you see pro's doing tricks with a lot of height, you clearly see their shoulder come up higher than where they would be while stood up. It's just the matter of when to place the most force upwards generated. In order to get a high enough ollie, you need to squat down way deeper first. why? because you will be doing most of the jumping BEFORE popping. From a deep knee and overall body's bend, you start exploding up very quickly with your arms flailing up and slightly behind the body. With that initial surge, you get most of the propulsion done, and as your body is at least halfway done extending, you start the popping motion. With this technique, your tail does not get stuck in between the ground and your feet at all, as your bodyweight is already leaving the ground. This means the sliding motion will not be hindered, and it can start as soon as the tail hits the ground.

[@frater_niram]

correct ! and explained better than i did

[@wowgingermobile2123]

Thank you so much man! Been stuck at this how-to-jump-explosively-before-popping part for quite a while now.

[@quentinlauterbach]

keep it comming you get my like everytime!

[@clottedcream164]

im happy to finally see someone else who dramatically throws their front arm behind them on every trick XD i thought i was alone

[@JohnnyEase]

Excellent video!

[@wainamchan8265]

After repeated practice, I figured my way to ollie and level it out easily and consistenly. You guys may try it out too but it is NOT a proper way to do it. The trick: Keep most of your weight on your front foot as you crouch until you finish pushing the board forward. It looks like you are leaning your whole body on your front foot as you crouch. You also mainly use your front thigh to lift yourself up when jumping. This might sound weird and tiring. But by doing this, you can: 1. avoid your back foot blocking your board from lifting (cuz your back foot can go up very quickly) 2. easier to make consistent but strong pop (as not much weight is put on this foot, you can precisely control direction of pop) 3. have more control on your front foot for sliding and pushing forward (your knee could reach above the nose after sliding) To me, doing this increases the room for timing error, and a lot more control when im in the air. If you really wanna land a level-outted ollie no matter what, you may try this out. But now, I start trying to ollie and jump with both of my thighs as I think we cant put that much pressure only on front foot when doing other tricks.

[@wainamchan8265]

you guys may try it out and tell me how u think abt this tip

[@whythetrick]

interesting point. thanks for the comment!

[@kirillpospolitaki860]

Спасибо! Hello from Russia!

[@thundernixon]

I’ve been puzzling this out for months now. I got to the point of ollieing over a 10” obstacle, but I couldn’t bring up the tail to level the board. More recently, as I’ve started working towards a kickflip, two things have helped me… pushing “back” on the tail when I pop, and really kicking my front foot forward, almost trying to ollie north. I’m still awkward with this, but i can tell these things are helping the tail snap up to follow my back foot better. Really excited to dial these in and see if I can clear something higher than 10” with a more leveled board.

[@fugg3d]

these videos are great bro keep it up

[@whythetrick]

Thanks!

[@JRSKATELAB]

You’re awesome man

[@frater_niram]

Actually i believe you can send your body forward, by jumping very slightly sideways (ie forward or towards the nose), just to compensate for forward momentum. My ollies look nothing like yours, my back foot never "hits" nor "pushes" against the floor. Its a bit more subtle you have to snap your ankle/toes while you lift up, as close to the end of it as possible. But for sure your backfoot should never go below the front foot level, only the toes. Snapping while jumping creates huge forces that will allow you to snap it so hard itll come back into your feet, and then you gently accompany the board up.

[@japrar]

This is correct.

[@donny268]

Excellent video and explanation

[@whythetrick]

Thank you!

[@luiza177music]

Really interesting stuff here. Will give this a try next time. I can never seem to get my ollies right and reliable

[@drone-vision]

Thanks, hope this scientific knowledge will help me to improve my rocket ollie... great approach

[@whythetrick]

I hope so too!

[@briankaunda6492]

I was even watching basketball 😁 nice explanation

[@whythetrick]

Glad you enjoyed

[@senzation01]

Amazing and less-well known tips!

[@SlickRick4EVER]

Ok… I don’t know if you are aware, but you do not have to push your foot too much forward, to level your board. You do it slightly, while your front ankle levels out, so that your tail rotates right up your back foot, “sucking up” to the back foot.

[@user-nc5pq2cv2p]

can you make a video on dropping in? ( no matter what I do, I always go down on my tail )

[@whythetrick]

Will see what I can do but simple motions are always difficult to explain, although they can be hard before you get used to them. Like, can you explain “how to jump?” Haha. Anyways thanks for the recommendation.

[@constantinosfudas3785]

my board is 20 pounds (battery) slowly trying to learn ollie and manual

[@NathanLin]

I thought you should put your weight on the front foot when you jump. I will try this tonight. Tks for the video.

[@alanchung9383]

I got my kickflip and heelflip down half year ago, but never did a straight clear ollie. Probably, I jumped too high and straight my back, like basketball jump. It may make my pop a bit turn sideway, I pretty sure my shoulder is parallel to the bound and I pop straight down. This problem still exists after my 3 years practice. To this end, I gave up skateboard a month before. May be, someday, I will come back

[@rupert6478]

it's funny how your ollie looks just like the one in the simulation

[@desjonspears5819]

I see i need to turn my back foot inward

[@tinormous-road2gains13]

Lets goooooooooo

[@japrar]

This is not the best ollie technique - you should avoid pushing through the nose as much as possible to maintain more board control and contact with the front foot for better, more consistent ollies. Also, if your board has a short nose (or no nose, for old 80's style boards), you definitely don't want to use this technique, because your foot will come off and you will have to bail. Even with modern board shapes, it's far better to use the friction of your front foot on the griptape behind the front bolts. Then, you will be able to easily have the board leveled and in control at the peak of your ollie, allowing for clean, high flip tricks, late shuvs, and other such advantages. If you ollie using the flat part of the board instead of the nose to drag your ollie up, you won't have the board pushed out in front of you and you won't have to worry about pulling the board back for a landing. You want to just keep your shoulders nice and centered over the trucks instead, which allows for easy landings. You should only start pushing the board out in front of you for style variation, not for a basic proper ollie.

[@ezrhino100]

why can i not push the nose? answer: i suck at skating.

[@felipoto]

4:02 is that a Jojo pose?