8 Common Ollie Mistakes

the ollie the goal of most beginner skaters and probably the hardest trick a beginner will ever try to master over the summer i worked really hard to improve my ollie and was able to get some pretty decent results but it took a lot of trial and error and a lot of time and energy [Music] so [Music] hi i'm sarah and today i'm gonna go over eight mistakes that beginners tend to make and hopefully give some useful methods and advice to fix them but first what is a good ollie now my ali is not perfect it's not as high or beautiful as it can be and hopefully one day will be but i found this awesome way to measure how good my ollie is and how much my alley has progressed and that is how close the height of my trucks are at their tallest peak the closer the peaks of my trucks the better and more leveled out my ollie is i want the back truck to be coming up as high or even higher than my front truck the first mistake is poor foot positioning now a lot of new skaters will try to ollie with their feet much too close together and that makes it much harder to balance but also much harder to land bolts and i think that the reason this has become such a common problem is that a lot of beginner skaters will start to get a little ollie where their back trucks do come off the ground and then they want to figure out how to ollie higher so they'll look up how to ollie hire and what is the suggestion to move your foot back and to put it more towards the middle of the board instead of near the bolts but the thing is this only works if you already know how to level out your ollie if you cannot level out your ollie this will just make it harder most beginners have a low olly because they aren't leveling out the board take a look at pros having a little session at a skatepark and you might notice that their feet are often right by the bolts when ollying that's simply because there's no need to ollie crazy high they know they can make the obstacle if they just level out the board so i suggest putting your feet just like this this is a good beginner stance if it feels uncomfortable feel free to move your feet around a little bit but otherwise i really suggest trying to learn a nice little clean ollie right here and then you can experiment with moving your foot back or forward once you really start to get down the mechanics the second problem is regarding pop pinching the board to the ground or getting ghost pop is a big hurdle that most beginner skaters need to overcome some new skaters don't realize that your foot should not touch the ground when you ollie you really need to be jumping without that foot touching the ground what normally happens is new skaters jump off the ground or they jump too hard and end up pinching the skateboard to the ground another common problem is ghost pop where you pop the board but the tail doesn't actually touch the ground in this case you might need to pop harder or you might be popping at too much of an angle if you want the board to pop up you need that force to be going relatively straight down i'm a huge fan of practicing the pop while standing still just pop the board up and grab it while pulling your knee up then catch the bolts as you drop the board back down it will keep your foot from touching the ground reminds you to pop straight down and help you build up some good pop muscles without all the jumping when you feel good popping it you can add a caveman just to make it more fun and to practice jumping back on your board timing is another big problem that beginner skaters run into and i know that the ali is technically one fluid motion but to me the ali is two distinct motions and telling myself this and visualizing this has really helped me improve my timing so the first half of an ollie is when you jump up bring your knee up and turn your ankle in the second half of the ali is where you kick the front foot out to grab the nose and push it forward while bringing up the back knee although technically slamming those feet onto the bolts could be the third part gravity will help you in the beginning while you're starting to get the feel of what catching the board feels like so immediate review you can think of the ollie's timing like a heartbeat one beat has two distinct moments that is the timing of an ollie in my mind so really think about that and visualize it in your head as that bubba motion and hopefully thinking of the ali's timing like this will help you as much as it helped me the fourth problem not pushing the nose of the skateboard forward is the same as not leveling out your ollie and i think because most tutorials really emphasize your foot sliding up the grip tape a lot of new skateboarders are deprived of the fact that that does not level out your ollie that motion going up the board gives you the power to push the nose forward it's absolutely necessary it's critical but it's not the part that actually levels out the skateboard i recommend a few things for this first of all think timing on that second heartbeat you really want to push the nose forward also when you practice the drag push your nose forward and make your board vibrate a little bit practicing the full extension here helped me to get my foot to go out instead of just coming up also strangely enough just stretching my knee and allowing it to swing past the nose worked really well it looks silly but it's surprisingly helpful the fifth problem is actually leaning in any direction leaning too far forward or backwards too far to the side it's going to make ollying a lot harder so if you're doing an ollie and you realize that you're falling backwards and the ollie's going in front of you try to focus on your body weight if your body weight is not centered then you're gonna have a harder time ollying and a harder time landing hippie jumps on and off of your board and then up and down i think they are a perfect warm up for this because you have to be perfectly centered to do them well do a few of these or even do just a good knee tuck jump to focus on jumping straight up the sixth problem is not bringing your knees up when you jump it's a different problem with pretty much the same advice you need to jump hippie jumps cavemen knee tuck jumps all of these will greatly help you work on just bringing that back leg up and maybe your front leg the ali is a jump after all so jumping even off the skateboard is going to help you and give you that muscle memory of bringing your knees up trying to ali too soon or only trying to ali is the seventh problem allying is hard it is so ridiculously hard now you can learn a shove it in a session or a few weeks if you really try hard but ali's take months it often takes skaters a year or more depending on how much they skate to get a decent ollie so trying to ollie too soon or only ollying during your sessions can leave you super tired and unmotivated there are so many other tricks out there that don't require an ollie so learn other tricks lots of other tricks they will improve your board control give you lots of skating practice and improve your strength and comfort basically every other trick you learn will make learning the ollie easier if you really want to learn the ali right away that's fine too i understand the desire to ollie but please don't just learn to ali learn other tricks so that your session is diverse and full of fun and excitement and not frustrating the eighth and last mistake that i see a lot of beginners make is starting their sessions with ali practice or even just trying the ollie too early in the session now i don't know about other skaters but my ali looks the worst in the beginning of my session i'm not warm my muscles aren't really ready and awake yet and i'm not in a super good mood from landing all my warm-up tricks and all the other tricks that i did first so if you want to ollie save it for the middle get a good warm up do some other fun tricks that don't require an ollie and then attack the ollie when you're nice and warm and in a state of flow from getting those other tricks you won't be too tired yet and your body will probably be more willing to listen to you and that's it eight common mistakes that a lot of beginners make when trying to learn how to ollie but before in this video i just want to leave you with four more little pieces of advice that might help you on your ollying journey one i'd like to emphasize learning other tricks once more because it will help i promise two consider this suggestion don't dedicate more than thirty percent of your session to an ollie as a beginner you will learn to alley faster with the help of the other seventy percent of your session three record your ollie and try to see what issue might be affecting yours in particular but it's also nice to keep track of them so you can see your ali progress it might not progress over days but it definitely will over weeks and months four try to break it down with my five step method build up the basics of all the movements and then work on getting the ollie down again [Music] to review awling is freaking hard but you can definitely do it so don't feel rushed just have fun and enjoy the process as always i really hope that you enjoyed this video i hope that you gained something from watching it and i hope to see you next week [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Sarah Park-Matott

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Length: 14min 31sec (871 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 20 2021