Learn How to time the Ollie Take Off - USSEA Nerdy Skateboard Breakdowns: Ep 5 

Thank you for the support! I'm going to keep digging in to the ollie a bit more and then I'll get into some others. Stay tuned!

I'm so stoked you found this and that it helped! And yes you now have the right plan!!! A little science can make the magic a little easier to attain! Have fun and let me know how you progress!

Thank you for the support! Trying to help people see what a coach sees and make it easy for people to visualize , feel and work into their skating!

For sure. You are the first that I’ve seen explain the type of weightlessness you need when starting the pop

So glad this helped! Our goal is to give you the ability to self analyze and make changes!

Heck yes!!! I'm sure I'll be jealous of your ollie soon! Send video!

So glad it helped and yes he's got some good snap in them legs!!!

Thank you for the kind words! I'll be working on it over the next couple months! It will likely be more than one video but this will be a fun one to breakdown for everyone!

Right?! When I first started I remember someone told me to push the tail to the ground and jump off the tail when it was touching. That made it impossible to ollie. The ollie is an artistic expression fo timing and control. That's why it's so dang hard!

Brother I'm so glad you found us in the sea of your tube tutorials:)! Keep crushing it and let me know how we can help!

Thank you we love you too:)!

You are most welcome! Stoke I could help!

You're so welcome!

Not there yet but it feels better and makes so much more sense!!!

Really appreciate the support! I love making things easier to understand and feel!

Thank you! You're very welcome!

You're so welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!

You totally nailed the sequence in one really long sentence! Just trying to help people see the science behind the blur of sequential movements that are almost indecipherable for new skaters! Thanks for supporting!

Nerdy fun for sure!

You got it jump first lift front foot and flick after.

@@unitedstatesskateboardeduc5205 I was watching an instructional video on shovits and reading the comments and one person mentioned it didn't click for them and they never saw it in any tutorials was how you jump forward a bit during a shovit. I still don't have it down 100 but it definitely helped make it click mentally. Thought I would share that when you get to covering them.

Great point! Arms have the ability to throw us out of balance or help us build momentum to create more height in our jump and better balance overall. Even high jumpers use the momentum of their arms to assist in getting more amplitude.

Critical right! Let me know how your progress comes along!

Of course you'll get it. You're a skater and while skaters get frustrated they never quit because they are made of grit and toughness and hard working humans who love to master their world! You got this just take your time and don't hesitate to send video always happy to help!

So glad this helped. Ya focus on jumping up with both legs once you are getting light on your feet lift the front and flick the back pretty simultaneously. The mistake most make is trying to push hard off the back foot. It's a light flick of the back foot and a quick lift and roll of the front. Send video if you want more help. Thaanks.

I hope these videos help you! Make sure you get help from your parents and other adults in your area too! Let me know if there is anything I can do to help make learning easier!

Yes those are tramp trucks. Rubber molded wheel and truck shapes to give you grip and feel when bouncing on the trampoline. Check them out here: trampolineskateboarding.com/ Have fun!

Part of the reason for that frontside turn is that when you tip your lower leg it actually rotates at the hip socket creating some frontside rotation even with your shoulders closed. The shoulders are just the more obvious thing to see. It's really happening from the hips down. Try standing next to a wall without a board and simulate the movements of the front leg and see if you can use the wall as a guide to get that leg moving straight ahead sort of parallel to the wall. Gently drag your front toe along the wall to help develop the muscle memory of keeping the foot and leg working toward a straight ahead movement pattern. Hope that helps:)! You can always send video if you want some feedback...

@@unitedstatesskateboardeduc5205 woah, thx I will try that, first time I read this precise advice. and maybe this isi exactly the problem. 🤔otherwise I have to send you an embarrassing video of myself ollieing 😆

Ya I get embarrassed on video too. Let me know how it goes:)

@@unitedstatesskateboardeduc5205 how can I send you a video? Instagram?

Sorry for the slow reply! I hear you on this one. Everyone will tell you it's a feel thing but when you're not naturally gifted at ollying it's so hard to figure this one out. A quick tip to help you is to keep your back heel up (above the toes) through your entire pop. Next watch great ollies and note that the back foot doesnt really drop below the level it starts at. so think of lifting your front foot later in the rise. One thing that has helped me figure out the feel of both the lift and the snap is using a trampoline. This way I could isolate extending then flicking the back foot in the air or lifting the front knee and foot. Then I could blend the moves together (Jump then lift then flick). The more you can delay the lift and snap usually the better.

Also if you're cool with it I'd love to do a video review and share your learning with people here on our channel?

@@unitedstatesskateboardeduc5205 Yeah, I would love if you did a review of one of my videos :) I'm trying new things all the time, mosts recently I did a "reboot" and try to start from scratch again, focusing on keeping my body straight and landing softly by letting my butt drop down low. 1min 41sec in this video is a quite nice jump and "natural pop" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K24JSpoD-_E.html

It's really hard to change that muscle memory sometimes. The timing of that pop is a tough one. One of my favorite ways to get a feel for this in the beginning is to change how you view pop a little. Start by standing as tall as you can and dropping down so fast that your feet come off the ground without jumping. This is unweighting your feet by rapidly moving your core down and then you need to actively pull the knees and feet up to make it happen. Next try starting low and rising slow into your pop. Just before you reach max extension in your slow pop move drop down and pull the knees up. Slowly speed up your pop move but keep adding the drop. Start by doing this with your feet in between the wheels and just hippy jump it. Then start to work in the ollie moves with the same feel in the pop. Eventually the drop move becomes mostly a retraction move (pulling the feet and knees up). This is something that most basketball players do not do when shooting a jump shot. Pretty rare to see a player pull their knees up much in a jump shot. Let me know if this makes sense. Maybe I'll make a quick video to break it down for you:)...

For a great exercise to practice the above concept: use a 18"-24" high plyo box and practice jumping up and pulling your feet up. If you don't feel that same amount of pop before you start to lever the board into the ollie then you'll get the dreaded no pop ollie. Speaking from experience it's kind of scary to jump hard into an ollie. Often times we weaken the pop by starting the lever too soon in our pop.

I think it would help a lot! Even though it would still hurt to fall it would likely hurt less and more importantly it would give the skater more confidence to try simply because it looks safer...

Start by extending (jumping) with both legs then lift the front foot first followed by the back foot.