How to Improve Ollies: Skateboarding Tricks

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We're going to talk about another advanced street technique which is how to improve your ollie. Many people when learning the ollie is that they have problems ollieing higher. A trick to ollieing higher is keeping your front foot back further than what you would normally would and keeping your back foot further back on the tail than what you would normally would. Often times to pop a really high ollie, you only use the very tip of your foot to pop the tail. First let me demonstrate an ollie with my front foot just behind the front bolts with my back foot entirely placed on the tail. Now let's try that same ollie moving my front foot back further away from the bolts moving my back foot further on the tail. Hopefully this will give us more pop and improve the height of the ollie. Move the front foot back from the position you had it earlier move your back foot to the very tip of the tail bend your knees more than what you did the first time and you'll be able to pop it much higher ollie. After practicing this trick enough, eventually you will get use to combining the bending of your knees, the placement of your feet to make your ollie's higher and more effective.

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