Scientific breakdown of How to OLLIE

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Ollies require a lot of dedication and commitment. Let's break it down scientifically and understand its objective physics to learn it more effectively.

-- Table of Contents --
0:00 Intro
1:02 Premises
1:26 Common problems of Ollie
2:18 Step #1 Jump
3:34 Step #2 Pop
6:27 Step #0 Foot placement
7:33 Step #3 Slide
9:50 Mental preparation

Please take a moment and try to study this in detail.
I'm trying to eliminate subjectivity from my explanation as much as possible by referring to scientific and physics theories. Please use my 3D models to solve your "why."

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[artyohm]

I simply love it when someone is THIS commited to helping others.👏

[beanguru]

While everything you mentioned is actually true, a main key factor is the direction of pop. The nose of your board needs to bite into your front foot. Notice when you pop, you're popping straight down. That's not good because the nose of the board is not properly connecting with your front foot, therefore the nose just mobs slightly upward making it a struggle to level it out. While it is possible to ollie this way, it's a lot harder and energy consuming and not really proper when learning how to pop into certain slides and grinds like lipslides, smith grinds, etc. To solve that issue, when you're rolling regular or switch, or even stationary, don't pop straight down, you gotta pop the tail back, against the direction your going. This makes the nose bite directly into your front foot properly, giving you more control over what the board does. Depending on how high you can jump and suck your knees up, you can easily and consistently get the board pretty darn high like Luan or Torey and with very little effort used.

[pastaboinch]

I think the most important step you mentioned here that most tutorials never touch on, is the fact that you need to pop AS your body weight is already lifted up off the board. The better you get at this timing of knowing when your center of mass is lifted up and when to begin popping really determines how well you ollie.

You should crouch down, start to begin your jump, and once your body weight is off the board, THEN you begin your pop. Most tutorials just tell you to jump, pop, and slide, which is not helpful at all.

Then if you want to ollie higher, you need to learn how to keep your head and upper body down while bringing your knees up to your chest. Doing an ollie higher isn't simply about having a higher vertical jump, you need to essentially crouch in the air and bring your knees up like you're doing a box jump.

[fem]

Started skating September 5th, rested on the 6th, and I did my first Ollie today September 7th thanks to this video... Each and every other video left out this crucial information that was really helpful, "pop once u r almost off your board so that the weight from you wouldn't be so present" I repeat"pop once u have shifted all your weight or suppressed energy into a jump, do it just after you leave your board guys, it'll def work..."

I did skate 8years ago when I was like 13 but now I took it a step further by learning tricks instead of only cruising like I did in the past... Thanks man! I wish you could see me on that board today, I was so confident and I did lots and lots of Ollies(40% consistency) today and I'll go back to improve tomorrow before I switch to pop shuvits.... Literally took me two days to learn and execute an Ollie... I'm catching up fast, Thanks man ❤️

[KazPaz]

This is such a good breakdown! And confirms my suspicions as to why my ollies are no bueno. I noticed the thigh/centre of gravity really does come up first before the pop when I watch others ollie, but this is never ever pointed out in any tutorials. And very few tutorials explain that your foot should not touch the ground when you pop. It's taken me so long to realise these things! Wish I could've seen this vid 2 years ago!

[mr.tofficial]

halfway tru this video and I want to mention IT’S INSANE HOW detailed and good this guy teaches all the tiniest things that other skaters who mastered the ollie probably think are default and obvious. Im surprised he doesn’t have more views he DEF deserves it, I’ve never seen a tutorial THIS good. Man im extremely impressed!!!

[AdriStouse]

Innovative skateboarding tutorials. That's what you are doing. Amazing! Please keep doing that

[ZorlanOtterby]

The main role of the front foot is to act as a fulcrum when the front trucks are near their highest point. Think of the board as a lever. There are three fulcrums in an ollie, each of which is active at a different time during the trick: rear axle, tip of tail, edge of front foot on the nose. The first two are associated with rotating the nose up, while the last one is associated with rotating the tail up. You can test this by placing your board underneath a rail, standing behind the board, and popping the tail so that the nose hits the rail right about where your front foot would contact the nose during an ollie. The board will do an "ollie".

This is a simplification, of course. Other torques are involved, and the front foot does some other work as well. The main point of my comment is that people get obsessed with "dragging" the front foot -- even though that actually creates a very small effect on ollie height -- and don't appreciate the foot's role as a fulcrum, which creates a huge effect on ollie height. The major reason that getting your front foot higher into the nose yields a higher ollie is simply that you've moved the fulcrum further up on the board. Popping harder creates more torque around that fulcrum. Pushing forward on the nose enhances the effect, for reasons having to do with some of those "other torques" I mentioned at the beginning of this paragraph.

[roseyrosable]

this channel is unbelievably underrated. THANK YOU so much!

[basdobbelaere]

This is so detailed, amazing and in no way or shape I have seen explained elsewhere like this, yet at the same time very helpful. Great work!

[anyduca-nbnx]

im a beginner and just watching your video i learned to do an ollie in 5 min LITERALLY INSANE. ✨ 💅thankiu

[voidvoidvoid]

This is exactly what I needed, it's weird but I tend to learn a lot faster when scientific explanations are used to teach me something. Thank you so much !
EDIT : Wow, the mental preparation part was so motivational... dude, I won't give up, I'll land it when I'll land it.

[zackkurs]

Day 2 of skating @29 I hit my first Ollie thanks to your videos. Out of everyone on YouTube I think you’re the best resource thank you.

[sauro]

Amazing explanation, it has solved all my problems and mistakes with the ollie. Good job and thanks for the video!

[ricardo-simoes]

The most complete problem solver, thank you so much for this. Every manouver should be "debugged" like in this video

[greenfox]

Thank you very much ! Now i begin to feel that my board begins to pop under my feets. I was trying to pop when all of my weight was on a skateboard instead of jumping first. You have made my day ❤

Now physics on my side !

[pablovirus]

Wish I had found this video earlier, it's really well done and perfectly explained. Thank you!! I'm hitting the skate park right now to see if I can land a proper Ollie. I've been trying for a few days with only little success.

[philip]

This is so much better than all the videos out there.

[trcctrl]

Always the best explanations for tricks, thank you!

[Tribuneoftheplebs]

This is such an amazing video... breaking down popping blew my mind. Thanks bro