From the article: How to Ollie on a Skateboard
Learning how to ollie is strange. Some skaters learn in just a few hours of practicing, while others can take more than a year! I have the How to Ollie instructions, but how did YOU learn to ollie? What problems did you run into, and how did you get past them? Tell your learning to ollie story here, and if you have any advice, share it! Share your Story
how i learnt
- ive done skateboarding for 2 months now, just cruising round until i wanted to do an ollie so my auntie tried to teach me but she wasn't teaching me right so after a month i went on youtube and learnt it in half an hour lol
- —Guest Adz :D
Watch. Think. Do.
- Coming back home from a day skating (7Y.O) a few years ago, thinking about ollies, got out and just did...
- —Guest Charlesworth
how to ollie
- All you have to do is slide your front foot up the board but put your feet only half on the board and put your front foot in the middle of the bord or a bit higher ist so simple but it can give U a lot of trouble
- —Guest classified
It takes some time
- Well i started skating about one and a half week ago, after about 3 days which was about 5 hours i was able to land a ollie but it was a pretty tiny wan so i did rarely any air. now today after one and a half weeks i´m able to do a ordinary ollie but it´s still a way to bad to be the base for a kick/heelflip, so i just have to train more. My biggest problem was that i didn´t realize that i have to jump with both legs i always just got my front foot up and forgot to get my backfoot up aswell so my backfoot kept the board down at the ground preventing it from getting air... Good luck at trying.
- —Guest Lorenz
It came to me suddenly after a month
- I'm 14 and have been skating roughly 6 or so months+ a little bit when I was seven for a tiny while but i couldnt do any tricks. I kept trying and trying til I got it roughly a month and a half to get them down with a reasonable height. I'ts best to record yourself. For example I did it and saw I was getting only an inch of air and no level what so ever with the board. I learnt to bring my feet up and slide etc. And suddenly it just came to me and i started converting it to moving and so on. The bottom line is it can be a real pain as it is an arse of a thing for most to learn. Now I can pop shuvit cleanly moving pretty fast, fakie bigspin and just learnt varial kickflips and boardslides. It is an essential flatground trick as it is used in all tricks possible exception of the shuvit(but it still helps a lot to learn it.
- —Guest Humphrey
easiest trick you could learn
- I learned how to Ollie two years ago when I first started skateboarding the first time I got on the board I did like a 2 inch Ollie then in my back hard I started to perfect them no I can Ollie 8in just by olliing over random stuff
- —Guest chase
How I learned
- I wish I could have remembered how I learned! I teach my friends by telling them to go into a "flanking" position and slide their feet up. Then I tell them to ride up, snap the tail, but jump off. Then they snap it again and see how far they fling th board. All that's left to do is put it all together. It works pretty well and I hope you can learn it my way!
- —Guest Methodious
Can't say it enough, PRACTICE!
- Well I started skating when i was 16 and it took about two months to land a solid ollie. My mistake was not perfecting it and when cold weather came around i barely touched my board. Now for some reason it's like 45 degrees in February and i seemed to have lost my ollie. So of course i went into a binge of youtube videos and pratice. What i learned is; It takes commitment, you gotta want to do it. Eventually i had that "i don't care" attitude and just tried things. Feet positioned to what feels good, bend knees, on the way up pop the back and jump, directly after the pop and during your jump drag your front foot. Try to bend your knees on the way down to absorb the impact. Keep at it and never doubt yourself.
- —Guest Zelly420
My Ollie story
- I first tried to skate 4 years ago... Until I met 2 my best friends, we started skatin months ago.... Next thing we knew, we were poppin triks. But the first one to Ollie was my friend Jordan, while my friend kevinn is still practing....I can do my Ollie perfectly but just need to land it. What I did was I set it up some simple steps... 1.learn how to pop the board up without falling. 2.jump without falling 3.pop and shuv upwards 4.if u can complete these things in the above .... Then all you gotta do is don't panic cuz you know your not to fall. 5.just practice it while going and landing!
- —Guest Jnlor52
Very quick learner
- I learned how to ollie on accident after school in a few minutes 2 years before I had a skateboard. I saw my friend do one so I wanted to do one I tried to do it but couldn't. Then my friends borrowed my shoes to play basketball his shoes were waay to big for me so when I tried I rolled my ankle up the board and did an ollie then two years later I started skating I have been skating for a year and can 50-50 and handrails and all grinds and slides on ledges bs flip, fs flip, kickflip over fire hydrants. Tre flip 540 big flip, all shuvits bs big, nollie flip, nollie heel, switch heel and kickflip, nolli bs bigs down 8s hardflip nollie inwards and alot more i guess skating was my talent
- —Guest Very quick learner
l never gave up
- my friend introduced skateboarding to me in 2011 . l liked it and l went to get my own skateboard . he started coming over to my house teaching me how to do tricks . he was'nt helping very well so every time l fell over he laughed and he was showing off around me and l couldn't . l went to the skate Park and found a guy that could teach he toid me to get comfortable and start learning at my own speed every one was laughing at me bla bla bla. l started skating 4 hours a day. 4 months down the line nothing came up people told me not to give up. one day at the skate park l met the guy ge told me to jump up straight thats all l tried it l got it and there was a smile on my face. That was the happiest day off my life. l tried harder and got my ollie to about three feet high know l'm working on kick filp but nothing is coming up you just have to believe and never give up. it took me 5 months to ollie and started skating 5 months ago it's possible thats why their miracles
- —Guest ivory
It's not a 1try to get it down
- Wen I tryed my 1st time and didnt get my tail up I thought I sucked but I tryed a lot and went through a couple of bails I lrned how 1st i tryed getting my back foot up next i tryed sliding my foot forward then i put it together (by the way u got to do the steps fast not slow how the versions look ) it took 2 weeks next i tryed to get my Ollie higher now i can do it pretty high in all it took like 4weeks but at the beginning i thought I sucked cause i didn't get It right away but then I did it lil by lil
- —Guest Sk8er
NeverGiveUp!!!!!!
- Giving up is your weakness but u have to fight it. I never did an Ollie in my life even I have started a few months ago but had skateboard for two years now and I was riding it. But I decided to start again do every thing again. I got my new boart for Christmas and guess what I'm actually trying hard to lean it. My ollie isn't that good but I got the move of poping. So my point is never give up never and stick to a board that u actually love and chose it your self. Thanks for reading hope it helps!!!!!
- —Guest GuestVictor
be brave
- First when i tried to do ollie i was doing it on the grass. It took a couple of week for me to get the feeling thou, and then i could do it smoothly. Sadly, when i tried it on the road or pavement i just lost my guts and my ollie always messed up, and the board flew away many times (it almost break my balls too -ouch-) hahah. but i'll just try and won't give up
- —Guest anonymous
ollie
- i just hate trying to do ollies i have been on a skateboard for 3 years now
- —Guest fgsdfgd
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