5 Tricks to Learn BEFORE the Ollie 

Number one trick to learn. “Ride”. Ride your board everywhere. Get comfortable on it. Then this video. Don’t underestimate how important just moving on the board is, it’s fundamental. Everyone wants to do tricks right away, but riding should be priority. All that being said, plenty of simple tricks to do in this video. All needed to get better. Hope everyone learns something or at least gets reminded of something and tries it out. More skaters the better!

There were decades of skating, entire careers, before anyone ever jumped off the ground!

This dude whipping out that Rodney Mullen shit telling us it’s easy 😂

01:20 | 1. tictac 02:14 | 2. tail stop shuffle 03:15 | 3. tail stop to rail stand 05:06 | 4. monster walks & 05:48 penguin walks 06:55 | 5. do all tricks in one sequence Great vid Mike! Really makin me wanna get a freestyle board now.

I’ve watched probably a dozen Ollie tutorials now and just still can’t get it and this is absolutely the best video I’ve seen for beginner beginner basics

From a tutorial to a flexing video

As a 47 year old coming back to skating, this vid was golden dude. I skated for many years growing up. Haven´t been on a board for 30 years. Gonna be interesting to say the least. Im just gonna ride on it for a few months and then get going.

Very nice, as someone who is probably much older, heavier, and unathletic compared to the average total beginner, its really encouraging to see good tutorials for simple, foundation building tricks that I can learn with low risk of injury.

Bro you have some insane skills

Haven't skated since I was a kid; just started doing so again at 28. Love skating, tis like dancing on the plank of an enemy ship in beauteous form. These tips are things I probably never thought were important and so learned to Ollie then learned to kickflip (barely) but I've always had trouble landing them and this is hugely vital, I feel, and am grateful for your teachings. Big ups man 🤙

dude is literally playing hacky sack with his skateboard

great tips. this whole rush to do the ollie first can be rough. back int he 80s i did just that because thats all i saw Natas doing over high stuff. 100s of other things you can do on a skateboard before you even consider the ollie. great video. very helpful to anyone who picks up a skateboard.

Fantastic tricks for basic board comfort 👍 I think hippy jump's a huge help with timing and giving learners a sense of the bolts and balancing across the deck's long axis.

Thanks for sharing

The board, the fundamentals, the OG tricks. This guy gets real skating. Stop worrying about Ollie-ing day one. GO RIDE.

Awesome man, just found your channel and I've been looking for tricks to show the kids as they get started

Appreciate you explaining what the fundamentals lead into.

Really vital video, thank you!!

Thanks. Got me a start now.

Thank you so much, i'll try my best to learn them 😃

Great tutorial

Great tips

Thanks for the video, you're awesome 🤩

I bought a board as a gift for myself with all the good stuff and can’t wait to get on it and have fun and maybe after I get used to riding around I can try these neat moves :-) ♡

this was absolutely crazy, thank you for teaching me those things. i will get better thanks to you

Great video!

I love 70s/80s freestyle. I want to be able to do that style of skating and transition really. This video is great.

Thanks for this video! I didn’t realize how much nicer basketball courts and tennis courts are than parking lot asphalt. I tried skating on a basketball court today, and tricks were so much easier! I was able to check these tricks off, and they definitely helped my little ollies

Dag. Very well done. Your delivery here has me jonesing to get out with the kiddo and get me legs back. Tanks!

Thank you

LOVE THIS!! thanks for breaking this down.....everyone wants to move to Ollie and it's one thing to do it on grass vs. Moving....=)

Hearing Scarlet Fire behind this made me really happy and just made me laugh thinking about Dank Pods

Very informative and sick af! I love how you’re doing this at el dorado parks basketball court lol.

This is a great video man!!!! that finger tre (I THINK hehe ) was sick!

My New Year’s resolution this year was to learn how to skate, I’m working my way to an Ollie and these tricks and tips are really helpful!

Awesome to have some tricks to do between ollie practice, as it can be frustrating and monotonous. Plus those combos look sick! 🤘🏻

You my good sir, are my savior

Cool vid

Bros nice with it

thanks

I learned how to burt slide and different ways to fall going fast, and tail stop, then Ollie air walk and a few others before Ollie

Just into skating a year ago, normal popsical board (double kick) will this help for board control? Need to get comfortable with balance etc

This is a great alternative to the standard “steps to ollie” videos

nice

thank u so much for this video! :D

Bro you are absolutely phenomenal hahaha

Awesome video, I like these! Does it worth to try on a street deck too?

i can can already ollie (goofy) was just tryna look for tricks to trick switch but i’ll try these goofy

honestly I learned how to Ollie first but these are a super fun challenge because you don't always develop all these skills just learning to Ollie

Its all about leverage to make tricks easier. Shorter wheelbase, narrower width will be much lighter than a wide and long wheelbase.

Goated

I want to get into skateboarding so bad. I looked up a video on skateboarding once on RU-vid and now it’s all I see 😭

I'm 43, this video helped me to jump on my board and go back to play basketball, thanks 😂!

Is it okay with a mini cruiser board?😅 like just one tail board

*6:21** Something I've noticed about a lot of very skilled skaters is that they seem to be stuck in their forte. Or entitled to it? Ha. Gotta love.* Correction: You're a totally awesome and amazingly helpful guy, a freestyler and a skater. Like the rest of anyone that rides on things that you don't.

Ive never been into skateboarding until i learnt of rodney mullen now i want to learn so this video was very cool

I’m starting my skateboarding journey and have been practicing the Ollie. Wish me luck 😂

real deal

what kind of board and shoes are that?

i have a larger board so the monster walk is weird for me, but still trying

Great tips! something I suggest to new skaters, is to learn how to fall. by tucking your head towards your chest and try to roll into the fall. watching people trying tricks down many stairs, you'll notice that sometimes they fall, get back up and try again because they dampen the impact by rolling into it, if not there would be no second try.

Wow

Yk what as a 13 year old skater who is a girl this has really given me the confidence to try out more tricks for example I’ve been doing it for abt 4 months and I can ride the board nicely do manuals tictaks duck walk or (penguin walk) soccer flip, and others and this video has rlly helped me, also I love how you didn’t cut out the parts where you messed up on your board that I found was a great way to show even pros like you make mistakes!

SLAM!!!

Bro looks like he’s stumbling on ice but not falling. So clean oh my god

I never remember trying to learn any specific trick before learning to ollie, it was just months of getting to learn how to skate. You can’t just buy a skateboard and automatically jump on the board and start learning the tricks with no sense of balance and maneuvering first.

W video

I’m old school 80s skateboarder , have not tried any tricks in years . Would a old heavy board work for this path to master the Ollie ?

what inch of your deck? pls help me i really like small deck like that.

Oliie is over hyped and have almost not style. Now, a Sal flip, no comply, or boneless are sic ways to get the board off the ground. I can't do any of them but I'm trying to get there before ollie. Oh! Yeah. Awesome video man. These will definitely help. Thanks

Thanks! I'm just starting out, whenever I start to go forward with my opposite foot My whole balance is ruined lol

dang, what shoes are those?

Crazy🎉 what size is your board?

Quick question- Does it matter which way your skateboard is facing???

Most people forget skateboarding is about having fun not the tricks you know

It is all about the foundations of what tricks are built upon to be able to do them. You need to be able to walk to jump. You need to be able to stand to walk. You need to be able to breath to live. You live on a foundation, skate on one as well.

The best thing you can learn is how to fall over. It's never as bad as you think and you learn to roll. Gives confidence.

I like your shoe what type of shoe is that?

what's the brake pad ? where can I buy it

2:30 shuffle tail stop

I live there that’s in el dorado

I've always wanted to learn to skate and been more interested in flat ground and freestyle but I always find a reason to put it off. now I'm 30 and super pregnant. of course I'd find this channel today and not last year 😑

My dad just ordered me a skateboard and it'll be here on Wednesday, but I only see him weekends so I'm gonna have to wait even longer 😭

bro's board survived hydraulic press

The name and model of that wheels bro ? Can u tell me plz ??

Every minute i was just waiting for the next cool name of each trick

My problem with skating (and soccer) was smashing my shins, I could take a hit on just about any other part of my body when I was younger but I just couldn't hack that pain. Strange enough, went for BMX instead which is even more pain 😂 Wish RU-vid had been here when I started 35 years ago, might have had a better chance if I'd watched this- now I'm 40. Think I'll stick to playing guitar

i can’t keep watching freestyle youtubers or ill end up spending another 200 dollars on getting a complete freestyle board set up 😭😭😭

BRO I JUST LEARNED OLLIE, WHYD I GET THIS NOW

What kind of board is that? I’ve never seen anything like that 🧐

What size board is he using?

Freestyle is the basis for all street tricks. My 2 cents if it’s worth anything is Newtons theory of motion. Something that is in motion tends to stay in motion until it looses momentum. How you say does this help you in your OLLIES you ask? Well my pet peeve is people who learn Ollie’s not moving. It’s literally not helping you. Have you ever tried to stand on a bike withought moving ? You fall over correct ? Well it’s the same with the skateboard. If you are rolling forward you gain stability. After you master going straight fast you will have stability and you can start to learn to tap your tail . You don’t have to nail it the first time and go huge. I prefer learning slowly step bye step. Always moving forward and faster as you feel comfortable.. If you try to learn these things in the grass as this guy says it’s my opinion that you get into bad habits. Big Ollie’s need a lot of speed and learning to float your Ollie’s is very important. You cannot learn these things standing still, and even worse I see guys standing, still practicing these things, not facing forwards because they’re not going forward, so they get into this really bad habit of looking sideways and cranking their Ollies to their back and the whole idea of an alley is to go forward and over the obstacle The best way to do that is to be almost looking completely forward and learning how to go fast wow using leverage and cracking your board up into your legs.. Don’t get into bad habits. Remember, you should be squared up. Almost forward. Or at,least semi squared up… I hope some of this help somebody ..keep trying and have fun. That’s the most important part.

Bro hit a better Ollie than I’ve ever been able to do and said “aw that was so bad” 😂

90A?

What kind of board is that?

ive mastered the ollie but have such a hard time doing tricks :I

I find the caveman is also a good one for understanding how to jump and land on the board

Los trucos son buenísimos pero el chico se emociona y los hace a mil por hora

1:02 2:11

First trick to learn in skateboarding, and best trick to learn. How to FALL! learn young and learn how to fall on different obstacles. Everything else will feel that much more attainable.