I really stink at skateboarding. Can anyone give me some tips on how to ollie?
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Ollieing takes time. You just need to practice a lot. You can also find trick tips on the web. Try www.skateboard-city.com or www.skateboard.com. These sites are pretty good. Practicing on the grass wouldn't really help. You should hold on to a fence or a handrail while doing the ollie. You should have your front foot in the middle of the board and your back foot at the tip of the tail. Bend down, jump up right before you pop. Once you push your back foot down you should IMMEDIATELY jump off it to get a higher ollie. DRAG your front foot up the board while you do all that. Suck you legs up to your chest, and gravity will bring you back down. You should bend your knees when you land to absorb the shock. You should pop your board while bending down. You should bend, jump, pop and drag, suck up legs, land. You should pop 3/4 through your jump. practice ollieing down, up and over stuff. Ollie down stairs, curbs, ledges. Ollie up curbs. Ollie over gaps, decks, rocks, stuff like that. Main thing is practice.
610003
The only suggestion I can give you is what my son does, just go to the skate park and practice. You may fall, you may get hurt, but the only way to learn is to just do it. If you don't have a park available, just watch some Tony Hawk stuff, and go try it in the driveway or where ever you can. Just watch out for cars, please. GOOD LUCK!
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the easiest thing is get a skateboard and practice, make sure you give a little bit of oomph while you skate, and don't go too fast though!
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Hey banannas a kick flip is a basic okay. Its already a regular flip. Okay dude start by riding at a slow steady and comfortable speed. Put ur back foot on the end on the curve and ur front foot in the middle of the board. Push ur back foot down and drag ur front foot all the way up the board but drag it at n angle towards u. Hope I helped thanx!!!! (6)
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This site explains how to do an ollie.\n\nhttp://www.wikihow.com/Ollie
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Put one foot on the board, and push with the other. Wear kneepads/elbow pads and helmet, you can hurt yourself. Practice skating around at first on a flat area. Most people will get good with one positioning at first. I.e left foot on the board, or right foot on the board. I personally started with my left foot on the board, I would push with my right, so that means when you are moving your left foot will be forward so thats where your left foot goes, a bit forward. But you can reverse it.\n\nThe first things you try doing are: just skating around, then when you are comfortable with that try going down some small inclines/hills. After that you can try doing manuals thast where you lift up your left foot to balance on only 2 of the wheels, the back set of trucks. Manuals are a good way to get your balance. After that you can try to do an Ollie, which is basically jumping with the skateboard, and actually geting the skateboard to come up with you... basically you jump and drag your front foot up on a diagonal , using the grip tape a bit. Well, skateboarding takes alot of skill and practice, and once you get comfortable go to a skatepart. You can learn alot from people there! and most important, have fun!
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try to go in a crack in the street and do ollie 10 times or more then wen u do a ollie while moving go on a tredmill a do it. its not that hard ask ur freinds if they can help\n\n1.pop up\n2.slide foot\n3.slide foot push down sliding foot\n4.YAY u did an ollie\n\n\nwant more help contact me my sn is edn0505
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The biggest trick to the landing is lining your board parallel with ground. This is tricky at first because when you leave the lip, your at a different angle then the one you're going to have to land at. Now, naturally gravity will adjust your board a bit, but ultimately the control is up to you. You do have some leeway with this however, because your board can "slap" a little bit when you land. This is the benifit of snowboarding as opposed to skiboarding (short skis). Also, keep your knees flexed and slightly bent when you land and make sure your direction of travel doesn't change until you're confident enough.
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Go to google and type in how to do an ollie. I know you have to have back foot on tail and front almost midway, push down on your back foot, shift the weight back to your body and... I have no idea. Every time I try I can't
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Ive been skating for about a year and ive gotten pretty good. the fist thing ur gonna want to learn is manualing (doing a wheely on ur board). once u can do that for a while. learn to ollie, that should olny take about a week or two. then u will want to learn to do a pop shove-it. then u can pretty much take it from there.\ngood luck!
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That is definately not a ollie.  I think you would be talking about a kick flip.  An ollie is when you kick down on your back leg causing the board to do a pop up action.\n\nYou would use an ollie to jump over things, or onto things, or etc.
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This should help.\nhttp://skateboard.about.com/od/tricktips/ss/JustStartingOut_5.htm
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Ok.\n\nFirst of all, A board. Since your first starting to skate, you wanna get a good street board. From my view, ZERO is the best board to start with, they are easy to get used to, and have a lot of pop to get your ollies down. Other people have told me that Alien Workshop is also a really good beginners board, and they seemed pretty good boards....\nStay away from Birdhouse, [which is REALLY heavy, you will never be able to ollie with that], Blind [cheap and flimsy] and Element [Widely made, and made cheaply]. Believe me, get a Zero or an Alien Workshop.\n\nNext is shoes. It really doesnt matter what shoes you get [I like etnies, globe, and osiris], they are really all the same. It seems harder to ollie with DC's, but people i know can do just as good with them.\n\nBy far, the best truck brands are Phantom 2, and krux. I have heard Grind King are good, but i know personally that Phantom 2 and krux are reeeeaaallllyyyy good.\n\nAsk anyone, Zero Black Widow Bearings are by far the best bearings.\n\nSpitfire are the same for wheels.\n\nYou don't really have to completly dress like a skater, like the girl said, but dont wear like Abercrombie and skate, unless u wanna be called a poser. So if you want, get some skating brand shirts and hoodies, or just normal clothes that feel comfartable. [A t-shirt and blue jeans work fine for me...]
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no i suck..actually im good at inline skating but not skateboarding
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alright. so first you stand near the back of the board with both feet. with your back foot, you pop the tail down and jump right away. with your front foot, slide it up to level the board out. then you will land on all fours. its gonna take a longgg time to get it. took me almost a month. but once you get the hang of it, play with where you put your feet and all of that; get comfortable with the ollie.
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Ok you have to LEAN darling and make sure your arms are in the right place. If you're going anti-clockwise around a circle put your right hand infront of you at 12 o'clock and your left hand at 6 o'clock. \nPush with your right foot from the ball of your foot while concentrating your weight on the left foot. Then when you come to cross your right over your left, bring that right foot infront to place on the inside (of your circle) push slightly out with your left foot to make room for the right. And place the right down where the left was.\nThen start again. Your posture during the cross overs is gonna make or break it. Practice in a small circle (About 1.6 yards) and consciously lean your body toward the centre of your circle - this will make your blade 'stick'. (p.s. check if your blades are sharp enough too)\n\nYou're gonna look like a little bit of a dork the first few times till you get the hang of it, but once you get it, you're gonna look fab!\nAlso these skating skills are the most important to get right now, because they are the building blocks of all other skating elements.\n\nPractice sweety!
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Lean to where you want to turn. maybe bending down a little while doing that will help you balance better. You can also try kickturns if you are pretty comfortable with a skateboard. push down just a little on the tail, just a little, to get your front wheels off the ground. Move you front wheels to where you want to turn to.