alright, i can ollie pretty well, i'll always do them properly and land them, but the problem is getting them higher. I know what everyone says when people ask about getting their ollies high, pop as hard as you can, jump as high as you can, and suck your knees in. The problem with that is the last two steps.

whenever i ollie, i always try to bring my knees as close to my chest as possible, but i can never actually do it, like i dont really have enough time :\

is this a problem that i can fix with practice, or do i have to just force myself to do it?

also for the jumping part, i've never been able to jump too high. But now i actually want to improve my jump... so what are some good ways to do that?

doing workouts should help jumping. calf raises,squats, those are pretty good as they target more than one muscle group. also just jumping around would help to

^Yeah thats good.

I've heard skating with ankle weights on could help.

Also, ollie EVERYWHERE you go.

When i go for higher ollies, i dont bend down to low. It seems to help me very well.

Put your hands on a small fence or something to lift yourself up while doing it.
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then just learn to do it wit out the fence

Take out about and hr of your sesh just ollieing like something small. A spare skateboard or w/e you can find. Then keep making it higher till your happy with it. That's what i've been doing lately and it's made my moving ollies a lot better.

plus, i ollie higher when jumping up ledges or w/e

i can never ollie high when just riding flat.

Try holding on something if you want harder pop and jump. Also try jumping jacks for higher jumps

I bring my front foot back a bit more then i would for a normal ollie so i level out later thus gaining more height. I also try to be light on my feet just before i pop if you see what i mean.

I don't really think that its that important to be able to jump high as not many people can ollie as high as they can jump. If you think it can still help you may as well try to jump higher. Whatever works for you.

whenever i ollie, i always try to bring my knees as close to my chest as possible, but i can never actually do it, like i dont really have enough time :\


If you don't have enough time, it's because you're simply not getting high enough to begin with.

It really just takes practice.

Oh, and you need a semi-new board to really pop an ollie well imo.

Doing squats and getting your legs stronger will always work. Another thing I do is instead of putting my whole foot on the tail I just put my toe on the edge of the tail and once you get used to it, you will get more pop which equals more ollie height.

ride around doing random ollies that's how i practice em

i can ollie 2 boards prety cleanly. i just fiund that jumping a object is alot easyier then jumping nothing. just keep ollieing somethign for like 30 mins a day every day and ull be good at no time.

The wheels off of your board and ollie around instead of rolling.

just pop really hard and be sure to drag your foot up to your knee for height

Try putting on ankle weights and ollieng.

I haven't tried it but people said it works

yeah the ankle weights is a great idea.

ollie over stuff, i can't ollie on flat very well, but over stuff i can ollie much higher. makes you more determined.

do squats and such, strengthen your legs.

jump around, jumping jacks, ect.

ollie when cruisin' to the park or your spot.

just ollie.


you'll be better dang soon :)

just do stationary ollies and try to improve the height each time. when you stop at a certain hight, like when you average that, take a note. then keep practicing and eventually youre gonna do something out of the ordinary, take a not of how it felt and try to duplicate that feeling. REPEAT. practice.

I always ollie the height and length i need to. For example, if there's a drain, I can ollie it no problem, but on flatground, i need to concertrate a bit more to make it that far. I dunno why it happens :S

Check this out.
http://www.skaterscafe.com/showthread.php?t=69413

Everyone has to stop seeing ollies as 3 motions (pop jump drag) and seeing it as one. Everytime I saw it as 3 motions, I would pop really hard, jump realllly high, drag alot, but there were delays in these intervals. You should see it as one. Not like boom boom boom, but more like BOOM. Then start practicing a lot, and naturally they'll go higher

Ollie over stuff. Boards, bike racks, benches, manhole covers, garbage cans, small children, old ladies.... whatever you can find. Persistance pays off. The ollie is an extremely explosive motion with a lot of very subtle timing and technique variables that can go wrong. One of the biggest things to help improve ollies is the elusive "pop" everyone talks about. Everyone has heard of it but few seem to really understand what it is or how it [I]actually[I] works. When you "pop" a board this is what should be happening. First I use just my big toe on the very tip of the tail. As you rise up from crouching you should wait for your legs to straighten and your knees to just about lock. This is the very last moment you'll remain on the ground so this is the precise moment you need to explode into the air. As your legs straighten you will be jumping and your back foot doesn't actually go down at all with the tail. The "pop" everyone talks about comes from extending through your toes on your back foot and actually kicking the tail towards the ground as you go into the air. Done correctly your toe should be pointing down to the ground as the board hits. Your back foot is not actually even on the tail when the tail hits the ground. That loud snapping cracking sound or "pop" is your board actually bouncing off the ground and will imediately jump up towards your back foot. The "pop" is like cracking a whip with your leg. You crouch extend and then right at the precise moment you snap it. It's an extremely fast motion. This takes a lot of practice to get the timing down and there is a lot of technique in balance, foot drag, and form in the air to stretch out the ollie.

As for jumping you gotta have ups anyway. Calf raises, squats are both good. Jump rope, stair climbs, weighted squat jumps, high skipping plyometrics and stretching.

It all boils down to practice practice practice and slowly perfecting your timing.

I have a 28" verticle leap, can run and squat jump over 3 recycling bins stacked the tall way which is about 4 feet and 6 inches. I used to be a high jumper back in the day for track and field where I jumped 5 feet 10 inches. I can ollie 38 inches and I'm still trying to improve my ollies after almost 8 years of skating. The higher you get the harder it is to improve. The difference between 10 inches and 11 inches is far less than between 40 and 41. If that makes sense. Just keep at it and hope this helps.