99% of New Skaters Get This WRONG About OLLIES! 

The OPENING OF THE KNEE! Man that changed the game.

Good lord, what an excellent video. I can't believe every other instruction I've seen hasn't drilled those details before. Can't wait to start trying ollie's again.

What really helped me a lot learning how to do ollies was being already confident on the board from riding, carving, and general board feel.

I see ppl say on a lot of videos, "this is the best tutorial..." But in all honesty,this is the absolute best tutorial for an Ollie I've ever watched. Just the small steps to work up to getting comfortable with your back wheels leaving the ground will help people a lot. From there, it's easy. I wish I had this video a long time ago.

Best description of an Ollie on RU-vid, hands down! Terrific way to approach it and you’re right, I’ve been “muscling through” my Ollie’s and they are exhausting. Your explanation makes so much sense and when I approach riding on my board the way you break it down, I find I become “lighter” on the board as opposed to being locked and feeling heavy when I first started skateboarding again. Great video, definitely saving it for my practice sessions.

I think the bit about your forward knee is incredibly important and it's not something i've seen in many ollie tutorials (maybe any i've watched and that's a lot). I listened to the video and immediately thought "oh man - i bet that's why i struggle with the height of my ollies". sure enough - started practicing the ollie with the knee bit in mind and im already getting a LOT more height out of it. Thanks man! this helped a lot!

I just want to add that these principles also apply to other tricks. You can’t shuv if your weights still on the board. You also need tension between your feet (using your knees) to manual AND it helps to lift your weight up briefly to get into a manual or a slappy grind. This exercise helps build up strength in the muscles that you need (ankles primarily) as well as board control and comfort being weightless and detached from your board.

I really needed this 24 years ago, but I now wanna get back into skating after watching.

the "open your knee" cue is a complete game changer.

You may have been a beginner when you posted this, but you are a great natural teacher and I think this video is gonna help once my first board arrives. 👍

Wow, I thought I had studied the ollie thoroughly enough in my 1,5 years of skating, and I basically know every single step of the Ollie, but had I practised it exactly like you are suggesting, I would have succeeded much much sooner! I will start again from scratch following your exact method 😊 yes, open the knee - I never saw it that way! Amazing!!! Although the hight has improved a lot, the Ollies are still way too exhausting for me, so I will try to relearn them your way. Thank you for the great video!!! ❤

Wow! This i have to say is The Ollie Tutorial for me. Since i saw it, it clicked in my head. It almost instantly improved my ollie and my pop. That jump-tap moment is the key. Nobody else mentions this in tutorials. Thank you!!!

So helpful! Thank you for putting an alternative method out there. I just don't get any value out of the classical method. This way of progressively add details to your jump feels much more doable.

Yup, really solid description, I think this is one of the only videos that I've seen that mentions the knee movement to life the front foot, which honestly is the biggest blocker I've found in getting consistent Ollies. Nice breakdown!

希望翻译功能会帮大家看到我的中文评论。我觉得你说的太好了，你的经验分享中提到的动作很自然，自然是这个视频的重点和亮点，其他很多静态教学视频把动作分解地很不自然，别扭，特别是前脚向前刷板，如果刻意去做，会很难过，也不知道如何才能做出来，看了你的分享才知道，是膝盖提高后的自然过程。谢谢！

I have spent the last 18 months watching ollies tutorials until I found THE tutorial. Thanks mate 💪

This is the most helpful ollie tutorial ive ever seen thanks alot

this video gave a totally different way of thinking about this! thanks man!

This makes more sense than any other tutorial out there! Thank you!

Great tips. Haven’t seen any video that talks about front foot turning. Still struggle with levelling out the board. Gonna give that a shot.

precise, well done, I hope I can apply your insights to next skate session, thank you very much!

This definitely makes more sense. I’ve gotten to the conclusion that I need to actually prejump the pop, but the practice steps shown here is logical and helps a lot. I’ll head out if the weather allows and try it out. Peace out.

This is literally the best ollie tutorial on youtube that helped me. Thankyou so much

Ya spot on. I would do that I pop the tail and you can see that with no weight on it the back foot can easily pop it pretty high. Took me awhile to get them leveled out. I do use my back foot on a Ollie more to help level ,kind of use inside of my foot drag the board toward the front foot. If that makes sense.

Wow never heard it explained this way! Helps so much thank you.

Great video! I can Ollie but always get to get tips and I’ve never seen it broken down like this! Makes total sense!👍

Excelet video Alexsander. Thahk u so Mach. I'm traying to build my ollie and your explanation it's so clear that it will bee the key for me. 👌

What a great and detailed explanation. As a beginner skater myself I can say that simply concentrating on jumping and leaving the board was the key.

This is INSANELY useful. Thank you!

Thanks for this. I learnt to ollie a long time ago, but I've got a nephew who is trying to learn and, before now, I haven't known to explain it to him like this.

Thank you bro! this covers every little detail that I personally needed that i didnt find anywhere else, almost got it down now! lol fr thank you!

Really helpful man thanks for making this!!

So glad I came across your video. Both my son (he is 5) and I can ollie now!! Thank you so much for sharing this!!

Really interesting video, cant wait to get on my board and focus more on that front knee. I noticed it while watching kader Sylla

Best advice for olies in 2023!!! Explanation is on point. Very descriptive and informative. Nice clean shots slow mo's and close ups. All very well said. Sharing!

Very good! The fist tip (low effort) is the key to the ollie and no other tutorial pay attention to that!

This is gold! Opening the knee is master tip. Thanks for that.

I came to one of those ideas on my own, which was that I should probably just practice hopping up and back down onto my board in a smooth controlled fashion first. Realizing I couldn’t really do that without a bunch of jerky motions I just worked on that for awhile. Your other tips are gold!! I’ll try em out

I skated for many years and had an ok Ollie but man.. this is the best tutorial out there. I wish i could go back and show it to my self

this was super helpful thanks

I agree this is the best tutorial.

That is pretty on point. Everytime I have seen an ollie tutorial that keep saying to stomp your foot on the tail really hard. And with a trick as time precise as an ollie it takes a lot longer for your brain to wrap around the fact that you jump first then immediately flick your toes to generate pop.

Absolutely amazing! Your advice was game changer for ne! God bless you dude!

Thank you so much! This is the video that did it for me !

Great video!

Turning your knee is something every other ollie video never mentioned. Thanks so much lad!

Bro I can’t thank you enough. I’ve been skating for a few months now and could not seem to get how exactly and Ollie works and as soon as I watched this video I followed each baby step you showed and I literally ended up doing multiple Ollie’s for the first time ever. This is by far the best explanation video of how to Ollie thanks so much!

Thanks for this awesome video! Really helped my understanding!

Is honestly insane that this video is not more popular, I've been struggling with doing an ollie for quite some time now, and haven't been able to do more than 2 or 3 Ollie's. But the way you've explained it in this video seriously makes so much more sense. Thanks man!

This is fantastic. The part about opening up the hip is invaluable. Thank you kindly. :D !

Dude hands down the best tutorial on how to ollie!! The fact that you also put this together being a new skater! Hats off to you Sir👏 Over analyze things also, i can relate! Just Subscribed✌👊

Very good advice.

this is by far the best video I've found on Ollies :) thanks very much

This is the best tutorial on Ollies on youtube.

I've seen soooooooooooo many videos on how to ollie and the one Sarah Park-Matott does is great in breaking down those steps kind of like you do, but the knee thing 🤯 I knew I was missing something, I have some of those earlier steps down, but I still wasn't doing well with the front leg slide thingy and this totally just opened it up for me. Awesome video!

Genius. Thanks for posting. I look forward to practicing this way.

This is the best video on how to Ollie I’ve ever seen it helped me out so much

This was really helpful. I've been struggling to slide that front foot up properly and this looks promising - gonna try it out tomorrow!

This helped me so much I was taught to stomp the tail to get the most pop

I got my skateboard last Monday and have been skating everyday for about 10 days or so now and have been able too learn how too ollie through the rushed way so this video really helped me learn how too wrap my mind better around it and not destroy my board as much

This is great, I would love to see you break down the shuv/pop shuv

This might just be another way of thinking of detail 2 here (putting the front knee forward), but I find it very helpful to think of pushing the tail “back” a bit, to kind of pull the board into my front foot. Yet another way of saying this is to jump with forward momentum. This has really helped me start to ollie up curbs, and has been really important to think about for working on kickflips.

This is a great video man. I've been skating since 99' and been trying to help my 12 year old daughter learn to ollie. Even I never thought of some of the things you brought up. Absolutely awesome bro!

this is an EXCELLENT video. Hands down the best ollie tutorial for beginners. I want to also mention that the concept of opening the front knee to aid the turning of the ankle may be helpful, but be careful because it also may cause the board to turn frontside, which makes it extremely difficult to land and ollie while moving. Just make sure to not overdo the opening of the knee, and keep all motions going up and straight for ollies. Finally i have two tips that will help with ollies (especially when rolling): Once you have the basic motion of the ollie down, focus on lifting your knees and getting your feet level in the air. Make sure to also bend your knees when landing to absorb impact. the second tip is to square your shoulders(make sure they are straight) ; i sometimes cross my arms infront of me (not leaning forward though) to help keep them straight and “closed” when I ollie. Opening you shoulder to much when ollieing can cause the frontside rotation i mentioned earlier whew hopefully that wasnt too much but again love this tutorial so much 🙏

Top tutorial dude. So comprehensive!

This must be the best ollie tutorial I’ve seen so far. Great video.

Yo thats excellent advice..ive never realized that opening up those knees naturally allows for that angle to slide with the front foot. And the hopping practice is great, ill be practising those next session, thank you!!

simply perfect!

i start next week aged 39, this deffo makes the most body sense as regards boiling the whole 4 motions jus down to 2 actions. Cant wait to try. subd

Wow, that's the most helpful ollie tutorial I've seen! You addressed pretty much every difficulty involved in a beginner being able to wrap their head around an ollie. I've tried all the steps before: pop, jump, slide and they are very exhausting and difficult and unnatural feeling, whereas everything you're saying makes much more sense. I can't wait to try it!! Thanks for making this video. 🙇‍♂️🙏☺️👍

This is THE video I was looking for. I was trying the first tip u mentioned without knowing it was a good thing and I did a very huge improvement. A few days later I came back to try ollie but I didn't practice that and I totally lost it. I wasn't able to stay on the board. So I'm totally going to practice this every time I go skate. Thx a lot.

This is amazing! Thank you so much because your video and tips helped me a lot :). Opening my front knee to a 90° and reaching it toward the nose seriously helped me to Ollie and even to jump over smal obstacles like sponges. So, thank you very very much :)!

Dude thanks so much for this video! You are the best! The practice of jumping with little tap has helped Me To overcome my fear in olleing on pavement. It allowed Me to gain confidence. After that, i got a solid pop now!!!

Good video man, thank you. I have been able to ollie for quite a while now but have been a bit frustrated that I’ve struggled to get a consistent feeling ollie. I feel like these tips will help me so again thank you dude

THANK YOU this finally made it click in my head!!

Damn, ollie makes some much sense for me now. Thank you

I am going to do my part and direct people (like me) who are trying to Ollie to your video. This is gold. If we come back here in a year and this has millions of views imagine how many new skaters you helped! Thank you.

Congratulations mate!!..you’ve just delivered THE BEST DAMN OLLIE TUTORIAL IN THE UNIVERSE…everyone else’s is also very good (thanks to everyone out there don’t get me wrong )but not as enlightening as yours…another GREAT piece of advice that had helped me learn the Ollie was that u have to think of it as JUMPING OFF YOUR BACK FOOT(Justin Lauria or nsi tutorial I don’t remember exactly who)

amazing video

very helpful

WOOOOW this is what i was missing for YEARS!! no lie bro, i wanted to quit bc i couldn't ollie over rails and stuff after almost 10 year skating..im going back to basics and relearning my foundation with this video! Thank you!!

This video described my life to a tee😂even the part about muscling out an Ollie, knowing it isn’t right, and asking for help only for people to tell me to pop harder and shit but by the time I’m recording I’m so tired from doing it the wrong way people have told me I’m doing weak jumps in the video

Excellent description of the Gordian Knot of an Ollie. The best description I had heard before was to Kung Fu kick the board. Lead with you knee is more accurate. Kudos.

Wow! This was a game changer for me. I got the ‘jump before pop’ thing down from some other videos, which is absolutely key… however the fact that you can baby step up from little jump/pops to find your timing and balance was new to me. Before I was trying to bend down to 90 degrees, jump and tuck my knees as high as possible while slamming the pop down as hard as possible. For a beginner, this is a recipe for the skateboard to go shooting out and send you for a slam every time. Baby stepping it up had me getting the back wheels off AND landing on my board in a few minutes. All over concrete without a railing and without any big slams.

Makes so much more sense than other tutorials, ty man

came to the same conclusions after a year of really really shitty ollies. I think you made some great points.

Criminally underrated

i actually learned to ollie after watching this thx man

I have to thank RU-vid algorithm for showing this underrated video on my suggested page.. thank you creator

So damn right! I figured ollie out before seeing this tutorial and did everything wrong and got to a point saying "lets break the ollie down" after two months and ended up to his theory. Everything he says is absolutely correct.

people always seem to forgett in trick tips its kinda hard to get in memory every detail for any trick because they do it for a very long time at some point and not everybody got a good understanding why any movement with your feet has to be done for example an ollie is kinda self explain if you do it for a longer time u pop so board comes up you jump so u come up your front foot slide towards the nose for making the board straight and not as a rocket but that feels way easier to understand if you skate for a long time and as you do far more complicated movements thats why i actuallly like trick tips from people more who recently learn a trick cause they got a way better understanding what makes them progress further in a trick like you explain in this ollie for example if you skate longer anything you learn you see at one point as its kinda easy you just have to do this and that but understanding that your body just learns by itself how much strenght what kinda timing you need and stuff you forgett about as more safe you get on a trick to a point that you cant think about too much about anything so u explain just what you see (foot placement, weight distribution, rotation and movement) thats why i kinda think trick tips in generell should be just see as a kinda advice rather then a guide cause depending on trick there are most of the time different ways to do them and you should learn how its easiest for you

I saw Andy Anderson talk about how hacky sack had similar motions to an ollie and that got me extending my front knee. I thought that was a good way of thinking about it as if you were bending your knee out to do an inner kick

Amazing vid!

you got crazy vertical lol. also great vid, ima try to implement the slide tip tomorrow

This is actually brilliant

So good. Thanks so much. When I heard the thing about the knee I just started laughing cause I knew it was true.

Great video ! You mean mentioned the most important part which is not having your foot on the tail when u pop My ollie’s currently look like 5:32 and is not reaching the nose just a little so am i not popping hard enough or do I need to jump higher ? Also I posted the video of my rocket ollie on Reddit and they told me I needed to lift my back foot higher how do I do that when it’s already I’m the air?

Omg, ure actually a genius

Thx alot great video!

I appreciate the effort of these types of videos, I've watched a few recently because my gf is starting to learn skating and I've been looking for a way to help her, but the truth is... there is no video that will help you learn how to ollie, other than the usual pop jump and slide your foot. There is no video that you will watch and go outside and land your first ollie with. The secret about learning ollies is that you can't learn it quickly. The secret is that there is no secret. Just repeat, repeat, repeat. You need to go through that whole thousand of failed ollies in order to discover the sensitivity needed to land an ollie. The balance, the position of your feet, the sensation in your toes, the amount of force applied, the amount of tension in your muscles, the way to distribute your weight. Your brain cannot learn any of that watching a video, you need to repeat the motion over a thousand times in order for your brain to start calibrating all those parameters. Wanna learn how to ollie ? Put down your phone, grab your board, practice. That's the ticket.