Ollie jumping improved by keeping arms out to the sides
I have promised myself to not "waste" too much time on learning how to ollie, since I've already spent hundreds of hours on it during the last 7 years or so. But the ollie keeps pulling me back. So does hippie jumps, or jumping on the board in general. I guess I really want to learn it.
Very recently I have started to discover how important the arms can be in skateboarding, all thanks to an advice I got from watching Norman Woods videos. Please check out his amazing KZread channel here: / @normanwoods
Every time I discover or learn something new and "transformational" in skateboarding I try it out in all sorts of situations to see if it can be helpful in more situations than the one I originally "discovered" the new technique in. So in this session I explore how arm movements and "keeping the arms out to the sides" can help in jumping. One thing is for sure: it felt great to jump like this compared to all my previous jumping techniques.
I think the arms help both on the way up and the way down, that is, they help extend the body and then compress the body. Keeping the arms out to the side probably also helps to keep the body aligned with the board, instead of turning frontside.
Norman Woods also talked about crouching really low before an ollie so I tried that towards the end of the session, but when I watch the video I notice that I don't crouch as deep as I thought :-O
0:00 Using my arms improves jumping a lot
0:10 Keeping the arms out to the sides
0:42 Trying to pop messes things up, as usual :(
0:53 Board turns frontside, as usual :(
1:18 I got some kind of pop here and the following attempts
2:03 Insane amount of frontside turn :(
3:05 Not too bad pop!?
3:44 Not too bad ollie attempt!?
4:01 Trying to crouch extra deep
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Practising ollie while holding to the rail will help you to keep your shoulders in line and therefore avoid the turn.
from what i can see you only try to jump upwards. if you add forward motion, especially with your front leg/foot it will improve your ollie. you can do it!
my stance is regular on a skateboard, I can ollie but my right arm stays tucked in until im coming down to land and then it goes out to the side but my left arm is out to the side no problems and its almost like im not committed with my back foot sometimes I really need to fix this I don't see anyone else with this issue
Have you ever tried practising with a small handrail? I’m practising my kickflips with it and works great!
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Yeah, I have tried it a few times during the years that I have tried to learn how to ollie, but so far it hasn't been of any help to me :(
you keep pulling your front foot behind you, but it looks like you anticipate because the part of your foot that lifts the ollie is pulling it behind you. Try moving your front foot into different position, either more off the board, or more on the board.
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Interesting observation! Do you mean behind me as in behind the tailside of the board or as in behind the heelside of the board? When you say that I should experiment with different front foot positions, and moving the front foot more off or on the board, do you mean how much of my front heel is off or on the board?
Have you ever been coached by skaters? Maybe you should go to a park and ask for advice
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Hehe, yeah, I have been coached many many times both by fellow skaters at the park and by professional coaches, but I seem to be unable to make use of the advice they give me :(
to me it looks like your back foot is too far forward, and the balls of your feet need to be at the center and they look they are towards the edge like a 180 would benefit from which is why your board keeps turning .... Ben Degros posted kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZoyupdqSisKtnJM.html; different topic but @7:12 he goes over what you are doing in that video and why you are not getting any pop and the board keeps turning. Notice where he puts the finger tip pressure, the first example he easily puts the tail down and it is centered to the tail where the balls of your feet should be, and the second time he shifts it forward where the balls of your feet are pushing in your video
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Interesting! So you think that my trucks might be too lose and that causes me to pop with the side of the tail rather than the tip / center of the tail? And that in turn causes the board to turn. Maybe I should try to tighten my trucks then. But when I study my videos in slow mo or frame by frame it often looks like the most of the board turn happens when the nose of the board comes in contact with my front foot up in the air. Look at 0:57 for example and go frame by frame in KZread if possible. The board is pretty straight until it hits my front foot. Then it starts turning.
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@ Sorry about the confusion, not that tight vs loose trucks part just the part where he is explaining where the pressure position of the pop is on the tail. Maybe try scooting your foot more into the pocket, and into the center of the tail. When I am watching it in slow motion it looks like you are pinching the tail against the ground not allowing it to pop up with your back foot hanging off so much. You shoe is grabbing the ground. I don't know your board set up, but ollies at least for me are allot easier closer to the pocket than the tail; as well as with your foot hanging off so much it means you have even more distance for your back foot to catch onto the bolts.