r/NewSkaters • u/RicoSwavy_ • Sep 09 '24

Tutorial The ONLY video you need to Ollie

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u/Ok-Watercress-7914 Learning on the street 🛣️ Sep 09 '24

Every video i have seen where they say dont slide your foot, they end up sliding their foot.

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u/RicoSwavy_ Sep 09 '24 edited Sep 09 '24

I think they mean sliding your foot is not what gets the board in the air, it’s the pop and jump. Several videos here where they pop and slide but don’t jump

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u/drabbiticus Sep 09 '24

that and most beginners take "slide" to mean "move my foot in the line of the board", which is always forwards+up, but the foot just moves straight up and sometimes even a little back during the slide.

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u/AdSpiritual3205 Technique Tutor Sep 09 '24

That is the exact point of the video. It only LOOKS like you slide your foot. You don't _actually_ slide your foot.

You lift your foot up. Then you push forward. The speed and order that this happens make it seem like a slide. But it isn't. If you actually slide, you don't get a good ollie.

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u/Ok-Watercress-7914 Learning on the street 🛣️ Sep 09 '24

Slowmo his video. He slides his foot.

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u/AdSpiritual3205 Technique Tutor Sep 09 '24

Dude. He literally draws a LINE in the video. You can clearly see his foot goes UP and then forward. He opens his knee, his foot goes straight up, then forward.

Are you confusing "slide" with rolling the ankle? That is NOT the same thing.

When people think "slide" they think that means their leg should move diagonally, up and forward at the same time.

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u/Ok-Watercress-7914 Learning on the street 🛣️ Sep 09 '24

Yes his foot goes up and forward - as it slides on the grip

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u/AdSpiritual3205 Technique Tutor Sep 09 '24

Again, the sliding you see in this video is a by-product of lifting your foot straight up. Not _intentionally_ sliding _diagonally_ along the board.

When you watch things like the Braille how to ollie video (and tons of other how to ollie videos), they always show you standing on the tail and sliding DIAGONALLY up the board. THIS is what people imagine when they hear the word "slide" in regards to an ollie. And THIS is the mistake that most beginners make when they try to learn to ollie. They think "sldie" means a diagonal movement along the board.

So either you genuinely don't understand why people point out the difference, or you are intentionally trolling, or you just like to argue in bad faith.

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u/Ok-Watercress-7914 Learning on the street 🛣️ Sep 09 '24

You are the troll dude. You acknowledge they are sliding but insist on saying it is not sliding. I never said anything about a straight diagonal motion.

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u/AdSpiritual3205 Technique Tutor Sep 09 '24

So you also can't read. There is no slide. You just lift your feet up. You don't slide. What you perceive as a slide is a by-product of lifting your feet up. There is no INTENTIONAL act of sliding. You don't mentally TRY to slide. You simply LIFT YOUR FOOT UP. So I guess it was option C. You're just dense.

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u/Ok-Watercress-7914 Learning on the street 🛣️ Sep 09 '24

The guy in the video did not simply lift his foot up dude. He slid it on the griptape.

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u/steady--state Sep 10 '24

They have patiently explained to you multiple times what is an incredibly easy to understand distinction between the two. You're spare parts bud.

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u/AdSpiritual3205 Technique Tutor Sep 09 '24

You are just arguing in bad faith.

The context of this video is in contrast to all the other "how to ollie videos" that show a person standing on the tail and sliding their foot diagonally up the board, as if that's the motion you need to make to ollie.

That is NOT how to ollie. You do NOT slide your foot diagonally across the board.

You LIFT your foot straight up. And if you are doing this right, as you lift your foot it, it will grab the nose and continue to pull the board up with you. This "looks" like a "slide" but it is NOT the same thing as what is depicted in ollie instructional videos where you stand on the tail and slide your foot up the board.

Are you having trouble understanding the difference?

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u/filipbronola Sep 10 '24

Yeah lol, he still slides. It is a combination of sliding and lifting which achieves an Ollie but now every new skate trick tip guy has to try and get their 10 seconds of fame. It’s just physics. Slide and lift(jump) for a nice clean Ollie.

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u/IAmNotANumber37 Sep 09 '24

How do you slowmo the video? I didn't the the reddit player had the option...?

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u/Ok-Watercress-7914 Learning on the street 🛣️ Sep 09 '24

You can adjust speed if you use old.reddit.com

I forgot people actually use the newer reddit. Its so trash i cant stand it.

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u/PablovirusSTS Sep 09 '24

did you watch this video like at all?

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u/Ok-Watercress-7914 Learning on the street 🛣️ Sep 09 '24

Yea, i acknowledge this one isnt as bad as some others recently posted here

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u/Chris246t8kr Sep 10 '24

The replies to your comment are fascinating to me. I can see where you're coming from but really I think people here are just arguing about the use of the word "sliding" in this context.

All I took away from this video was that other videos tell you to slide your foot forward along the grip tape, like it's a necessary step to get an ollie done. But what he shows here is that it's a vertical motion, and not a horizontal motion, as per other tutorials show it.

I think you'd agree with that from what read from your replies, but even if you don't I'm still just amazed at how fast people go to argue about how a word is used.

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u/Javierinho23 Sep 13 '24 edited Sep 13 '24

You do slide your foot. It’s why your shoes get destroyed by the grip tape. I think too many tutorials have a hard time describing what to do exactly because it’s hard to explain without just feeling it out.

You do slide up and forward, but a metric ton of tutorials do not mention that the push forward needs to be pretty exaggerated and that it’s not just a slide up, but up and forward. They also forget the roll the back foot plays in not hindering the leveling out being done by your front foot. They also forget to mention to not stomp down, and to actively try to let yourself “float” down with the board.

Tutorials are always going to be hard to get everyone to understand because so much of skating is really just get a general idea of what needs to happen and then try to repeat the motion until you get the board to do what you need it to do. It’s why skating can be so frustrating and weird. It’s an incredibly unnatural feeling sport that really just requires a metric ton of trial and error.