You CAN learn to ollie!! (even if you're scared)

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Comment below: What was your mental hurdle when learning to ollie?

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[RegularJason]

I have an ollie tutorial and a bunch of other tutorials on my channel - subscribe so you hear about the next one!

Comment below: What was your mental hurdle when learning to ollie?

#shorts #skatebasics #skateboarding

[rosecitystud]

I don't think non-skaters realize the gap between a moving ollie and a stand still one is bigger (imo) than the gap between not doing an Ollie and doing one.

almost compounded by the fact *you know how to do it* in your head but can't do it, idk. I tried skating at the grass to help and it kinda did but this looks better I didn't think to try with my back to the grass that's smart

[Xcraxel]

Honestly, falling makes you have less fear since you're already familiar with and it's not a unfamiliar event.

[animalfinatic]

your videos are always so helpful so far. Thanks :)

[DirtBikeBoy]

Just landed my first ollie down a 2 stair today I was so happy

[HOLOCULT]

Your advice and channel rules! Thanks for tbe tips!

[FeelingDizzyRay]

"And try to make it less scawy" LOL

All jokes aside your videos are really helpful

[chrismathis]

I don’t know if this would help anyone but I always found it easier to Ollie onto something rather than Ollie down or flat. I’m guessing a combination of comfort level and not having that feeling like my board was attached, but it gave me a target that I could actually see instead of one I had to visualize.

[OPEK.]

The way I learned to Ollie in 2004, I was hanging out with my older brother and our neighbors and they were all going to go skate town, I wanted to go but didn’t know how to skate so they told me I couldn’t skate with them until I learned how to Ollie up a curb… kinda fucked up thinking about it. But I learned to Ollie that curb. Another time at a public skatepark in 2007 the locals wouldn’t let us enter the park until we could kick flip this 3 stair in the parking lot… never got to skate that park :/

[thejumpergaming]

Right now I'm just now getting it down, for me it was the stance shift that made me scared. Putting my foot on the tail and moving my front foot to the center of the board sussed me out so much. So for a while while at the skatepark I practiced JUST moving my feet into position then back out. Yesterday I got my first air on a rolling Ollie and it felt like heaven

[thatjoshwright]

I Ollie’d stationary, then rolling, then rolling over a line, then over an obstacle, then down a curb, then up a curb.

[Ihitjoo]

I learned switch ollies by doing 1 leg lunges then exploding up and lifting the foot. pretty much what your front foot is doing on the ollie. dropping down and exploding up with most force being generated by the front leg

[Jff_Kng]

My man if you are afraid learn with protection
That's what I usually do if it's something that Idk if I can do it fallless I put some gear and stop worrying, if you learn the physics and how to interact with your skate then you can probably do it always first try

[EvaGreene-wznk]

Bro thank you this actually helped me so much because I know how to do a really good high ollie but only when standing still and I practised this way for a week and I’m already able to do it so well ❤❤

[MaynardOwns]

The grass thing help me as a kid. It was all in my head. I did it FS to grass. Seeing it helps trick your brain. Falling isn’t going to hurt less btw. But it 100% helps.

[noahquigley]

Helmets and especially wrist guards are awesome because they make it so you can skate for more sessions and lessen the fear of getting hurt as well as lessen the actuality of getting hurt WHEN you inevitably fall. People who don’t wear gear are either more experienced and never wore it in the first place but have the sprained wrists and road rash to prove it or they’re too lazy to buy it and put it on/take it off, think it will limit mobility (Tony hawk wears full gear) or are afraid of being judged or just seriously not too bright especially when they’re clearing stairs and doing crazy dangerous stuff to look “cool” because they don’t wear gear. Just put it on to make the newbies feel better and safer about advancing to more extreme tricks!! Set an example for the kids!

[Nephern]

how do you fully commit to the ollie, i keep wimping out and not getting it

[adamspork]

Currently afraid of the exact same thing. I will try this

[klock_tax]

Need to get a good pair of wrist guards as I happen to have a habit of catching myself wrong often, I'm sure I've sprained both wrists grade 2 and nearly had a grade 3 finger sprain on my right middle finger practicing ollies on curbs in the frosty November evenings😬

[Suit_and_tie_reptile_guy]

If you are scared of hurting your ankles, don't be. If you are balanced enough to carve, you're probably good when dropping from a foot or two