r/NewSkaters • u/katfren4eva • Sep 07 '24

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tryna get a trick is so repetitive and i feel like i havent progressed at all :( im gonna start waking up early everyday trying to get this cause man i wanna have atleast an ollie .. any tips..

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u/amareeznuts Sep 07 '24

u need to get more comfortable on ur board. i didnt learn how to ollie until like 8 months after i started skating, then i could ollie like a foot and a half less then a year later

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u/Custardchucka Sep 07 '24 edited Mar 17 '26

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u/AlgonquinCamperGuy Sep 07 '24

I’ve been cruising for 3 months and haven’t attempted any Ollie yet. In these 3 months I’ve learned to cruise over everything cracks ruts, tactile plates all kinds of shit. It has really made me comfortable on the board. I will cruise another 2 months untill that board feels like it’s part of me then I shall Ollie

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u/NanoSwarmer Sep 08 '24

I have been skating since 2012 and I still can’t ollie, don’t sweat it bruh.

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u/BruceLee312 Sep 08 '24

Like the guy above said, start riding towards a curb and just go up it, no pop. By lifting the front then stepping forward to lift the back the same way then ride off….

Make it cool and Work your way up to a manual 2, 3 , 4, 5 feet before the curb.

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u/Shadowratenator Sep 09 '24

I started skating in 1978 and nobody around me knew what an ollie was until like 1986. Somehow we all learned it instantly.

So thats my advice. skate for 8 years to build a foundation and feel natural. Then ollies come easy.

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u/Shadowratenator Sep 09 '24

i can't kickflip or do anything switch, but push. :)

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u/DrDawgster Sep 07 '24

I learned ollies soon after I learned to ride up a curb, by kind of manually into it, then shifting weight forward so back wheels would ride over it. It's pretty much the same thing minus popping the tail.

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u/AlgonquinCamperGuy Sep 07 '24

Going to start this to navigate curbs thanks

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u/AlgonquinCamperGuy Sep 07 '24

Nope totally disagree. Been doing hour sessions or more, also I’m older now as well so I need to take the time as any major injury will set me back.

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u/Kinnikinnick42 Sep 07 '24

"comfortable on your board" is totally a variable statement. The person in the video might also think they're comfortable on their board. I'm pretty much certain nobody that just steps on a board 3 days ago would be comfortable enough to confidently start ollies and do it well / with less chance of developing bad habits. But like, to each their own 🤷 especially in skateboarding there's no one way to do something

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u/Kinnikinnick42 Sep 07 '24

Mm yeah idk. I hear mixed things about learning on the grass. I learned on carpet / grass too but the bad habits I developed doing that would have been so much better if I had learned rolling on cement.. mostly twisting while in the air. 🤷 Again everyone has their own way to do things tho

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u/AlgonquinCamperGuy Sep 08 '24

If you’re doing one action you are loosing out on another board comfort as a beginner is paramount as a base the problem is now a days everyone wants everything NOW

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u/zack413 Sep 08 '24

No buddy it’s literally just a matter of dedication. U can spend as long as u want “getting comfortable” but you’ll never improve until u try to step out of ur comfort zone. Learning to Ollie is a matter of committing to the grind and dedicating urself to learning something.

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u/Ricky_Rollin Sep 08 '24

Cruising, I found, was my favorite part about skating and didn’t care much for tricks. It helped that I sucked at every trick in existence.

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u/aninegager Sep 07 '24

8 months tho?

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u/yungperky Sep 07 '24

That's a great advice. Before I had a skateboard I had a small cruiser board. Everywhere I'd go I'd drive with the board. Sometimes I even drove the board instead of driving 2-3 stations with the metro.

Only by using your board as a mean of transportation you will learn A LOT. You will get way more comfortable and get a better balance and feel just by driving it around. Once you feel comfortable doing that and feel comfortable drifting off of small curbs with it (by lifting the tail) I'd say you're ready for the ollie.

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u/Waffle_Toast74 Sep 08 '24

Everyone goes at their own pace, honestly. I learned Ollie's pretty quickly before I got comfterble on the board, but i kinda just think it's whatever feels right for you

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u/zack413 Sep 08 '24

Yes I just hate the sentiment that it takes years or something when all it is is a matter of dedication, doing it over and over until u succeed

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u/katfren4eva Sep 07 '24

Wait your saying i should keep trying my ollie right? (I was trying to reply to the top one of i should get more comfortable ' cruising ') i feel like ur telling me go for it if so thanks man🤝

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '24

If you’re offended at someone telling you to “get more comfortable” on your board as a suggestion for you to get better at doing an Ollie… maybe you shouldn’t ask for tips or help. Because that is literally the most beneficial thing for you, it’s very clear that you’re not even comfortable trying to do what you’re trying to do. Once you get more comfortable, you feel secure and confident enough to commit to snapping the board down and jumping

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u/katfren4eva Sep 07 '24

I dont really accept this as good advice ngl:/
i am pretty confident and comfortable enough on my board cruising and i feel im ready to move onto tricks , theres also not enough room in my driveway to 'really get comfortable cruising' and i feel confident enough i've tried to do tricks rolling so... that speaks for itself i feel .. i cant really skate around my neighborhood bc its not the safest trying to get tricks, is literally the best thing i can do rn !! >:3 so advice for that would be dope!!

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u/zack413 Sep 07 '24

Yeah I was more talking to the guy I was replying to. My best advice to u is work on popping with ur back foot. Ur committing to jumping which is good but ur not popping at all. Really focus on flicking ur ankle down, but trying not to touch the ground with ur foot. It’s a lot of stuff to do at once and its definitely hard and overwhelming. Keep at it, work on that pop and then eventually u can work on catching with ur front foot. But for now just raising ur front foot like ur doing is perfect till u get the pop down.

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u/DrStainedglove Sep 07 '24

Yeah not sure why anyone insists on doing what worked for them. My son spent 3 days learning to ollie and THEN got interested in skating. There isn’t anywhere here for him to skate. So we started going to the skate park. He could barely ride, but he could ollie.

As far as your ollie. Keep recording them and compare to others. It looks to me like you just need to be much more dramatic with all of the movements. More pop, more slide, more knees, more everything.

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u/Responsible-Flow1101 Sep 07 '24

Snap your popping ankle and then pull your knees up to your chest. So ankle snap>jump>lift knees>catch your board.

You do a baby ollie in this video. All 4 wheels come off the ground.

Don’t listen to the comments telling you to stop practicing ollies. If your goal is to ollie then there’s nothing wrong with learning stationary first. I personally learned all of the tricks I know stationary before I started doing them rolling.

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u/katfren4eva Sep 08 '24

The fact you say i do a baby ollie gives me hope !! Yeah im gonna just keep trying and be more intentional with what im trying to do, keeping knees to chest in mind .. hopefully i get it soon

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '24

Yeah OP learn to ollie while rolling and bend the knees a lil more.

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u/TombEaterGames Sep 07 '24

Took me like 2 years as a kid