How to Ollie - The Only Ollie Tutorial You'll Ever Need

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00:00 Intro & Common Mistakes
03:35 Picking Up The Nose
10:52 Tic Tacs
16:39 Hitting The Tail
20:56 Hippy Jumps
28:13 Popping
33:55 Tempo & Landing
36:45 Ollie While Moving
38:15 Ollie Up Features
39:57 Ollie Board Control Drills

[ahappyimago]

This is going to be the greatest Ollie tutorial on YouTube hands down. Calling it now. The hippie jump/ nose lift hippie, as a foundation for the Ollie is a genius innovation in teaching.

Couple tips I would add to this tutorial:
1. When you're practicing your hippie jumps, its a great time to learn to use your arms to stabilize. If you look at
Paul Rodriguez he does it perfectly- starts with hands in center of body and throws them up. If you do this with the hippie jump you get a feel for how arms stabilize you.
2. If you are having trouble with the pop make sure the heel of your back foot is the highest point of the board meaning you're really on the ball of your foot.
3. He mentions it in the video but its worth saying it from a different perspective, you're not jumping as high as you can, you're bringing your knees up. Another way of looking at it is keeping your butt in roughly the same spot, or you can see it in this video how his head stayed in roughly the same position even as he ollies up. In fact it helps to fold your upper body down a little at the top of your ollie. This concept of lifting the knees and keeping upper body in place in versus trying to jump like in a basketball game is pretty important.

[smoothforreal]

Kids are lucky to have a 45 minute tutorial video on just the ollie now days. Back in the day all we had was the old tony hawk learn to skate video and that was 45 mins in itself lol

[MrPanic]

The jumping off the tail line is THE BEST IVE EVER HEARD. Too many of these tutorials give the impression you have to slam the tail down hard with your foot while raising the front leg. GENIUS WORDING to just characterize it as jumping off the tail.

[itmightgetdark]

I've been able to Ollie for over 20 years, and for 10 of them I was going over picnic tables, but I still learned something from this! That's how great of a teacher Mitchie is!

[Bfrsgjmvdwwerrfg]

Literal 45 min masterclass on the Ollie. Something you could only get from skateIQ, this is insanely good work you’re doing for opening up skateboarding for beginners. Bravo sir 👏 👏

[notjackk]

so grateful that you posted this on youtube, i was living off your shorts trying to learn this but now i have an amazing in depth version. props

[Johnny-otgo]

19:17 back foot position and feeling
23:20 land soft when hippie jump
25:36 throw the tail to the ground by jumping off
32:26 pressure from board all the way
34:53 get floaty Ollie. Pick legs up and land softly (absorb impact with knee and hip in my opinion)
39:57 drills to do

Thanks for giving detail instructions, Mitchie.

[corygrossman]

I went to school for music and it's no stretch to say you teach with the technical specificity and clarity of some of the very best music teachers I've studied with or watched online. LOVE your teaching style 🔥

[kmatt]

We've got a world class athlete who's, somehow, an even better teacher/coach and he shares his knowledge with all of us for free. Amazing. Mitchie is the man.

[brokedownsuperman]

I’ve been skating for two decades and 1 min in he’s already explained the Ollie in a new way 🤯

[kevskatesNM]

🤩 MAN! Been skating for almost 40 years now…and at 51 years old…I’m grateful to get consistent curb-high to small ledge high Ollies. This video would have saved me a couple decades of heartache lol. If you ARE ALMOST getting your Ollie going? Please listen to what he is saying…this is the best explanation I’ve seen. “I came for the vert/pool skating, stayed for the street/pop”

[villanelleprotectionagency]

just got my first board two days ago after being interested in skating for awhile and having your shorts pop up in my recommendations over the past week. i'm definitely not ready to ollie as i'm just trying to get comfortable on the board first, so i really appreciate how you broke the ollie down into steps that i feel like i can begin to be aware of and practice as a beginner, like the balancing to lift up the nose, tic tacs, and hippie jumps. will definitely be returning to this vid multiple times as i progress up the steps and build up my foundation until i'm ready to get into the harder steps of working on the actual ollie! i love all the nuance and detail you put into your explanations. i'm grateful to have found a teacher like you as i start out!

[jcsk]

That´s the most comprehensinve ollie tutorial ever. Period! I´m a 45 yo skateboarder and as far as I know some of the tips showed, some I´ve never imagined. Thank you for this one.

[akioasakura]

Speechless. Everyone just likes to say “just practice”, but no those ppl are just rude, and don’t want to actually help. these things can be taught and u just did it wonderfully. Tysm sir 🔥🔥🔥

[bin]

Some excellent pointers in this extended tutorial. I think the only thing I thought he'd cover that wasn't included was arm movement during the pop to help with balance, weight distribution and achieving that weightless feeling.

[newrenaissance]

5:09 OMG I came to this 60/40 weight distribution on my own but i thought i was crazy because no tutorial ever said it.
I opened this video trusting you'll point this out and there it is - one of the first things said! I tried so many different approaches and hated myself for gravitating to 60/40. I feel so much more certain about where i need to go with my ollies now. Thank you!

[karlawson]

This changed the game for me! As a thirty one year old getting back in to skating and having never mastered the Ollie, thank you so much, my friend. ❤

[TheMrsmoof]

dude you are hands down the best skate teacher on youtube

[birdman]

Just know that someone out there can sympathize with you. I started as a 46 year old during Covid. I got the Ollie pretty quickly but they turned frontside FOREVER. I think the jumping straight up and keeping the feet parallel with the ground is key. Actually, every single thing in this video will probably help. I hope these tips save you any future frustration and you get flying straight.

[konradex]

I’m 33 years old and I decided recently to realise one of my biggest dream - to skateboarding. I found your videos - they are great, Your way to transfer knowledge is very simple and understandable. I know that with your videos it will be much easier for me to learn and get better. I am from Poland 🇵🇱, also I send my best regards from my country!😊