How To Ollie While Rolling

how to ollie while rolling so if this concept sounds easy or stupid to you then you can go ahead and skip this one but this is actually one of my most requested videos and seeing as how a ton of people first learn their Ollie's while standing still I thought we could take a look at a few of the common problems that people have when making that transition from stationary to moving Ollie's and first off I just want to say that if you're brand new to skateboarding and you're just now learning Ollie's then I highly suggest you learn them while rolling in the first place even if it's while rolling extremely slow this will save you a whole lot of trouble in the long run once you start to get them down better now I think that one of the main reasons people start off learning their Ollie's while standing still is that it just feels safer all you have to focus on is the ollie itself and you can practice in the grass or in a crack but I also feel like this can lead to learning some bad habits when it comes to the aldi so most the time when I first see someone learning an ollie it looks something like this the nose gets up in the air and the back wheels come up a few inches and the person will generally land back heavy now part of this is just the natural learning steps to an ollie you can't expect to pop your Ollie's super high and leveled out right from the start but I think if you do practice your Ollie's well rolling it can help fix a few of these problems specifically making sure that your weight isn't too far back when you land and helping you have more control over your board in general now before you go any further I would highly suggest that you watch my other how to ollie videos I try to go pretty in-depth about how to ollie and all the little mistakes that you could be making along the way so one thing I see a lot of people having trouble with is that they're not comfortable enough just riding their board if you go to set up for an ollie and you feel off balance and like you're barely hanging on then this is obviously gonna make it more difficult to ollie while rolling the key to learning how to ollie while rolling in a controlled way is to feel well balanced and comfortable so I would suggest that you get extremely comfortable just riding around turning and messing around with a little kick turns at first and then once you really have a grasp of feeling stable and having control of your board you can move on to actually trying the Ollie's while rolling so the next thing to focus on are those back heavy landings that I mentioned before while you're standing still is you tend to ollie by jumping straight up and then landing straight down this causes rocketed Ollie's that when you try while moving it will cause you to either take the board out in front of you or land on the tail when you try allaying while rolling you naturally tend to jump forward towards the nose of your board which helps you maintain control after you've popped the key here is to focus on shifting your weight from the rear to the front of your board after you've popped your ollie and if you're properly popping and jumping towards your front foot this should eliminate the back heavy problem and help you stay above your board while you're doing a rolling ollie and the last big problem I see people having when trying to learn their Ollie's is that they tend to turn their shoulders which causes them to land at 90 degrees and this probably happens to people whether you're learning stationary or rolling but if this is what you do while standing still and then you try and do it while rolling it's gonna be pretty hard because you won't be able to land straight to roll away cleanly in order to fix this you need to be really aware of what your shoulders are doing a lot of people don't even realize they're doing it but if you're doing an ollie and you open up your shoulders then your board is gonna follow and you're gonna turn 90 degrees so it's really important to keep your shoulders straight almost in line with the board when you do an ollie and the same motion I mentioned before about naturally jumping towards your nose when you're rolling should really help with keeping your shoulders straight because for whatever reason the momentum going forward tends to keep your shoulders and body in the right position so just really make sure you pay attention to how you're moving your upper body when doing an ollie now I know I've said a lot about the benefits of learning all these while rolling and that's all true but it's not to say you can't practice a good ollie while standing still but if you're a beginner who's just now learning Ollie's I think that getting really comfortable on your board first and then starting off practicing your Ollie's well moving will help ingrain the proper techniques from the start and also you can always use similar methods that you would use to practice an ollie while standing still and apply them to a rolling ollie practicing while rolling and Ollie into the grass is a great way to get comfortable with the whole feeling that you need to get used to so if you've already learned how to practice while standing still you can still learn how to ollie while rolling - it's just a matter of focusing on the specific points that I mentioned in this video the key here is balance control and proper technique and you'll probably start off a little wobbly and uncomfortable with some rocketed Ollie's but the more you practice the better you'll get so just remember to keep it real and keep pushing yourself as always I'd like to thank my lovely patreon pledgers they always keep me rolling with their support and besides that I'd like to thank you for watching and you can like and subscribe if you want

Channel: VLSkate

Views: 818,951

Keywords: skateboarding, skateboard, skate, skater, skating, sk8, vilas, left, vlskate, atm, click, bones, ipath, real, world, hardware, tricks, trick, kickflip, heelflip, poway, security, fight, braille, vs, hater, bail

Id: PiOPXt3vrEk

Length: 4min 52sec (292 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 28 2017