Learn HOW TO OLLIE In UNDER 8 MINUTES 

most instructional videos i've watched talk about the dragging of the front foot towards the nose of the board and few of them talk about the lifting of the back leg as soon as it has popped the board. like, after popping immediately lift it. this was the first video i watched that pretty much does the exact opposite. no mention about the dragging of the front foot and underscoring the importance of lifting the back leg, since, the still stretched out leg will keep the board from lifting and therefor make it an ollie. Btw. from what i see, and this video opened my eyes to it, there is no dragging of the foot towards the front in the board. what seems to happening is that the front foot is coming up and the nose of the board is on its way to meet it, as it rotates backwards toward it. the moment they have contact, the upper movement is still happening and the board stops rotating coz of its contact with the foot. the front foot is now in contact with the board but it is still moving upward (coz of the jump). this is what looks like dragging the tip of the shoe forward while in reality the bend front foot is just moving upward on a backwards rotating nose of the board, which for the foot feels exactly the same. the feeling of something dragging up towards something is the same as the feeling of that something dragging down towards something. and it also looks similar. but here the front foot is just going up. just look at it, it never moves forwards it just goes up along with the body (coz of the jump) and down with it (coz of gravity). so, why practice dragging the foot upwards onto the board? it's like practicing a move that's not part of the trick. i can't ollie yet, but i'm much more confindent after having watched your video.

I’m not quite there yet but this is the *MOST HELPFUL* Ollie tutorial I’ve ever seen. I’ve made 10x more progress in 8 minutes than I have in weeks.

I literally tried for my FIRST TIME to ollie by watching this video, and nailed my first one within 10 minutes. Super stoked!!

My first ollie today!! Thank you! 35 yrs old and just started skating last week!!

If you don’t make it under 8 minutes don’t overthink it, keep trying until you can’t raise your feet off the ground, practice is key. Don’t give up I believe in each one of you :) Edit- I performed my first ever ollie a while ago myself, that is enough proof for y’all to land one too, good luck once again

IT WORKED IT ACTUALLY WORKED It seemed impossible but then I watched this video and I did it! You can do it too, I believe in you. Don't give up!

Thanks for putting up this video! I’m a skater from the 80’s and this was such a milestone for us when we finally learned. We didn’t have anyone to teach us (and this was before the internet) so all we could do was watch a Bones Brigade video or Gleaming the Cube, or watch an older skater from our town. And our town had less than 4000 people in it and hardly anyone skated. But when we did witness it it was like magic. It was the way I imagined people felt watching the first airplane fly. It seemed impossible. There was no ramp, no engine, no springs. But skaters could get more air than bmx’ers and they were on flat pavement. It was the holy grail for us - all other tricks were based on it. It was the price of admission for getting radical. We would watch each other to see if any of our ‘pops’ resulted in the tail leaving the ground. “You were airborne dude! Only a couple centimeters, but you were in the air!” The dream of being able to Ollie onto a curb seemed impossible. We spent long sessions working on it. I remember taking a break from watching MacGuyver to go out to my driveway for a weekday late night session. Eventually we all learned, one at a time. I was the first - I had my ‘89 Hawk ‘Claw’ mini and I nailed it one day. My friend Pete was next on his Cab with the ‘Dragon/Bat’ graphic, and then Jeremy. He rode a McGill Snake/Skull with the spoon nose. It was awesome. Seeing the comments on here of groms nailing it just like that - some one their first try - is awesome. And anybody who’s having trouble because they didn’t get it in the first 8 minutes, don’t worry! It took us MONTHS to get it and we practiced every day! Lol And even then, I didn’t have the awesome glue foot style of my skating bud Jeremy (RIP bro). I learned first but he had way better technique. So don’t worry about how fast you learn and skate at your own pace, you’ll get there!

Idk who you are or what kinda of sorcery you did... but thank you so much, thanks to this video I mange to land my 1st ever ollie. This is deffentifly 100% the best ollie video on RU-vid.

AAH SHIT I'M A BEGINNER, NERVOUS ABOUT FALLING, AND WANT TO NAIL MY FIRST OLLIE VERY SLOWLY THIS RULES, THANK YOU SO MUCH AAAAH I'M STOKED

Just got my first ollie on cement before this video:)

Also make sure you’re comfortable on your board! It’s much harder to learn without having correct level/technique.

Longboarder here. Snapped my cheap longboard doing a trick and decided I prefer doing tricks to cruising. Watching this video as I’m about to order a new skateboard. Got a feeling I’m gonna learn how to Ollie within a week thanks to this video.

I have been attempting an ollie for 8 .5 months and now im so hppy i did it im literally crying

This actually helped me a lot I had my phone in hand listening to the video while watching and just followed what you did and landed it mid video, thx so much bro.

i’ve been practicing for 2 days using other tutorials and it was so hard (maybe landed 3 or 4) but when i found this video it just made so much sense and after 20-30 mins i can now ollie successfully nearly every time

Wow! Thank you so much, I don’t know how the hell you did this magic but this really helped me.

dude this video made me nail ollies down holy shit thank you man it feels so good to land it more now

Just got back into skateboarding after a few years, I can drop in and ride okay but my ollies where never consistent, this has helped loads and I'm better than I was already! Thankyou so much dude

I got to say after looking at a load of Ollie videos this is the best one and I am so proud of myself for doing my first Ollie thanks to you

Me getting 1mm in the air 😎

Landed my first baby ollie because of this video! Thanks a lot! Just gotta keep practicing and I can finally do an ollie!

Worked so well and unexpectedly, I missed realizing I accomplished my first Ollie until my friend started shouting "u did it!". 😁 Thanks!!!

I've been watching this video for some days now and I've finally learned how to do an Ollie because of you! I'm so happy that I can finally do it I have been trying for four months and I learned it in three days because of you. Keep up the good work:)

Justin is back! The most insightful skateboard teaching videos in Internet! Once again great explanation!

This is honestly the best ollie tutorial I've ever seen. I did my first baby ollie today! Still needs some work but I'm just happy I was able to land one :)

Omg THANK YOU! Landed in grass and with a crack. This is so easy to follow along with and I got it! I’ve been skating like 3 times so it’s really good for beginners!

Rmb to learn to slide your foot up the board once you get comfortable with these steps as an advanced tip :D (this vid was really instructional especially that jumping part)

I’m Very inconsistent with my Ollie’s and out of all the videos I’ve seen on Ollie tutorials, this is by far my favorite!

Omg thank you so much you gave me more progress in a few minutes than i’ve had in months

Justin this is the BEST step by step instructions for learning how to do an Ollie. I really appreciate all your time and effort you put into this video. I haven’t skated in decades and have never done any tricks. So this is going to be awesome! Please keep making these kinds of videos. Thanks again man!

This worked extremely well for me! I wanted to learn ollies and I landed my first one in about 10-20 minutes.

I've watched a bunch of "how to ollie" videos and this one is by far the best! Approaches the technique in a totally different way compared with others I watched. Most of them just explained something along the lines of popping the board, dragging your foot along and jumping all at the same time, which I just couldn't make sense of and work out. I think the others go about it in completely the wrong way, as the act of jumping, lifting the front foot off first as taught here, is really what creates the movement... SO glad I found this video!!

Thanks, it's well done and informative. As far as I can tell, your back foot should not be in contact with the board anymore when the board touches the ground. Your body should already be in the air. Otherwise, your foot just clamps the board to the ground, and prevents ollieing. The ollie also makes a very different sound depending on where your back foot is during the pop. It feels weird/magical, but it seems to be supported by slow-mo videos of ollies.

The part about jumping on the board was very helpful! It definitely helped me get closer to doing my first ollie!

This really helped me, I haven’t gotten it yet but I’ve improved a lot. Thank u so much 😁

Thanks so much!!! I have watched a lot of ollie tutorials and this one is the best i've seen.

This litterly the most helpful ollie tutorial I've seen Thank you so much, I landed my first ollie within 20 minutes thanks to your video Keep up the great tutorials man 🔥

I'm almost as old as tony hawk and just bought my first skateboard. I'll try this on grass and practice falling.

Thanks so much, this video was really helpful, and I finally landed my first ollie! it was a small one but still. This video was so much easier than some of the other ones.

I've watched so many videos and this one had me doing them before the video ended🤯 THANK YOU

I finally landed my first ollie yesterday with this tutorial! Thank you so much for making this video 🙌

I cannot thank you enough for this tutorial! Assumed learning it in 8 minutes was greatly exaggerating but with no prior practice I could do a decently high Ollie after 10 minutes

This is by far the best Ollie video I have seen because it actually shows what to do since all the other videos just say “ok now pop up the board” and I’m here questioning how to do that yet you explain it perfectly

I literally nailed my first Ollie today on my second day of skateboarding thanks to this dude. This video is valid for sure

Father (aged 39) and Son (aged 11) both tried this method today. Managed to get the front wheels quite high. Back wheels came up about 1cm off the ground 😂😂😂 Were both beginners so hoping to make progress!

I've been tryna learn Ollie for 2 years . I've still haven't learnt it but I'm gonna try using ur video. I must say ur video looks amazing and it's the first time I've seen such a good video on the Ollie cuz everywhere I go they teach it conplicatidly. the best video so far. I will keep u updated on my progress buddy. thanks for sharing such good content!

This guy is a possibly the best youtuber at breaking down tricks.. his methods actually work after you learn his way you obviously need refine it as only a short video but it works. amazing help thank you!

Literally the best tutorial so far, thank you so much!! It looks good for me so far, haha ! cx

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH i learned how to do a Ollie in 30 minutes witch makes me SOOOO happy I’ve been trying to do it for like a year now but u thought me how keep up the fantastic work

Thank you man I finally got my first Ollie down I feel amazing now

Thank you so much! This one of the most helpful tutorials I've seen.

Thank you! Im a first timer and this absolutely made me do my very first Ollie. Much love and thanks! 🌀

Im having troubles doing a shuv it, i would really like a shuv it tutorial

Landed my first Ollie from this vid 🥳! Thanks man, u don’t even know how much u helped out!

Thank you! I feel so much more confident now!

Thanks so much! I've been skating for ~3 years and since I'm basically fluent at just skating I wanted to start learning tricks and after 2 months of trying, watching videos , going to the park and watching others I kept getting so close , but I never got it... Turns out I just had to change my jump(front leg first) and now I'm kinda getting it!

This is a great tutorial. I already knew how to ollie going into watching this so I can't attest to it's effectiveness, but it seems like a great way to teach someone. My method to teach people is; 1. Stand stationary on board. 2. Put all weight on tail, stand there (as in, only back wheels and tail (of the board) on ground.) 3. Go back and forth between those. 4. After a few, stand with all of your weight on the tail, and just practice sliding the side of your front foot along the griptape, towards the front of the board (just to get your body comfortable with that feeling). 5. Slowly combine those steps, and when you feel comfortable add "a jump, straight up in the air". With all of that said, the method in this video seems like it would be way more effective. My method was more so "Learn to ollie in a few hours", lol. The "sliding your foot" helps with learning kickflips (and I guess heelflips, although I've never taught someone how to heelflip like that), as well. Love the message of this channel, hate to see people in the community not supporting everyone, including newbies/aspiring skaters etc. So thanks for helping keep the metaphorical train chuggin.

Me, who has been learning how to ollie for 3 days on a slanted concrete road with little rocks , with no pads, 👁👄👁 Okay so I messed up step one, time to retreat to some grass 😂

Bro thank you so much for this first 10-15 mins nailed my first real ollie keep up the god work man

I cannot thank u anymore. Today I tried it for the first time on carpet (I was holding on to something a little bit) but I managed to land my first Ollie after 4 tries. THANK YOU!!

This is nothing but incredibly UNDERRATED Keep up !

I will try this method, i usually lose my balance when i pop the board or maybe because i’m afraid to fall

Haven’t been able to Ollie for awhile… first time i used these tricks I nailed it. Thank you

I’ve spent 3 months trying and this is the only video that actually helped me improve.

I remember watching your older video on how to Ollie 8 months ago and now Im able to jump onto stuff!

I'm glad your back to making videos man, your older ones helped me a lot when I first got my board. This one helped me get my first stationary ollies yesterday!

I landed my first Ollie after a few days of trying to do it thank you so much I need to work on it a lot but I still did it

This is low key my favorite ollie tutorial

Wow. Got my first skateboard yesterday tried to Ollie for 3 hours and never got it. Today I got it in 10 minutes. I like how you never once say to push down on the tail. You just take your front foot off first and let physics do the work.

I am finally able to land an Ollie!! After sooooo many videos… I rly wish I woulda just found this video my first day trying haha so glad I did! I also just subscribed to your channel and I’m so excited to improve my skating 😄

Ready to try this today appreciate the help

the emphasis on the jump seriously helped, I've finally been able to do it, I'm 23 and I've been skating for like 3 years now 😭😭😭

waw. really really helpful tutorial. I finally understand my biggest mistake. first I should have take my froont foot of. i was doing the opposite. Thank you so much

Im working really hard on perfecting this, I'm new to skateboarding, I've been trying for about an hour but I'm getting closer each time! Edit: so I practiced for 2 hours or something and now my legs feel broken lol

Thank you! I just attempted my first ollie and landed it. It’s not the prettiest but i’ll keep practicing.

I'm so happy!!! i finally landed it after months! this is definitely the most helpful tutorial.😄

How?? I just landet my first Ollie! Thank you so much :)

Hey this helped me so much. I ollied my first day. Something I really need to emphasize and I feel like he should’ve gone more in depth in is the slide!!!! It’s probably like 70 percent of the Ollie and once I started sliding my foot to the nose I got perfect ollies. Next month I will update you on the tricks I can do

bro this gusy jsut taught me how to ollie at midnight in my room after days of not getting it. and i got it not perfectly but rright away while watching this, best tutorial and it never hurts to start from scratch

I just learnt it, thank you so much 🙏🏼

When falling all you gotta do is roll to avoid serious injury that's all that I been doing, works fine

I really think the whole wrist guard recommendation should come with some important additional advice. Because _no_ pad will prevent arms or wrists or elbows from breaking when you assume it can take full impact in a slam and keep everything extended, because you're wearing pads. The reason why knee pads in vert ramps work is because you use them to slide down (and folds legs under you). You don't use them to take full impact either. This is very underrated commentary on using protective gear. Needless to say, wearing a helmet is _always_ a good idea. Keep those limb bend and roll out, don't extend and take the full impact. You'll break bones. Some of the worst slams where you could hit your head, will also come out of nowhere wiping out hard. I'd also recommend beginners to try to land on a board with knees bend very consciously. Maybe even show what happens when you land with one or two extended / stiff legs, because that's usually an instant wipe out. If you land on just the tail or middle of the board with one foot, but have that knee bend / crouched, the board will pretty much never shoot out from under. Last but not least, the key to falling is really trying to 'roll out', making sure the energy from impact isn't taken head on, but gets transferred in ways that don't hurt or damage. Why can experienced skaters take slams down an 8 or 10 stair set? Well, most likely because he or she knows how to 'go with the flow' and roll out of a slam.

Thx for the tutorial and covering the jump literally all other tutorials I’ve seen make it sound like pushing up your ankle is the only thing that matters

I’ve been watching a lot of these videos this with you stood out and helped me the most

This is the most underrated tutorial ever

can u do a part 2 where u explain the foot sliding up the board

THANK U SO MUCH!!! I haven't been trying for half as long as some people but was watching other videos where everyone was saying the same thing and I kept getting extremely frustrated but your vid finally help me not only learn them, BUT DO MULTIPLE OLLIES CONSISTENTLY!!! Of course they aren't perfect, and I still wanna learn how to go higher but for my first time this vid was so helpful. Thank you again😭😭

This was straight up the best ollie tutorial I’ve ever used. Thanks yo 🤙

First off, thanks for this incredible tutorial! I’ve been able to consistently get the ollie (thanks to you), but find that I always seem to rotate towards my heel side. If I start the ollie with my board facing 12 o’clock I land with it facing 11. Any idea what could be causing this?

To any new skaters here there’s a couple things to remember: get comfortable riding your board before you mess with ollies. Once you’re comfortable riding regular, practice riding switch and try to learn how to manual and power slide. I’m not saying you have to completely master those things before trying to Ollie but I promise you will have a much easier time learning how to Ollie once you build confidence riding your board. And also… don’t give up you got this! And ignore the feedback from people in the beginning just think about it as the initiation into the community.

This helped so much… Thank you!!

i watched this vid and straightaway tried it and did it. so helpful def watch vid!

THIS TUTORIAL HELPED ME i was really having a trouble with ollie...but now I understand everything! Wish me luck, I'm going to learn ollie Edit : I DID IT! I DID MY FIRST OLLIE TODAY! tysm for the tutorial 🥺💖💞

Nice, but no human being ollies after 8 minutes :D

this helped a lot thank you for the great video got my ollies from a tiny jump to a proper ollie

DUDE THANK YOU SO MUCH IVE BEEN TRYING TO OLLIE FOR MONTHS AND FINALLY GOT IT BECAUSE OF THIS VIDEO

A couple of trys In I accidentally landed a kickflip

I finally landed a high Ollie, I didn’t even realize I could use carpet on concrete

You are a blessing, thanks for the video, Its really helpful and I actually landed my first Ollie, I am excited to learn more, I love your videos! Keep it up!

Im getting a little desperate not gonna lie