The KEY to Ollie on A Snowboard

Being a skateboarder as well, the one thing that I realized that really makes your tail do the work is remembering to really pull up on the front leg, which you have to do in a skateboard Ollie

Strapped in in the basement on carpet and practiced for about an hour. Thank you for a great video and excellent instructions. Going to keep trying at home until I get onto the snow.

I'll be 42 this month and have been skateboard as a kid and into my early 20s. Been snowboarding since I was fifteen. Thanks Ed...it's always nice to have a refresher tips for tricks!

Ive seen many ollie tutorials but this one is not only great but hella motivating!! Gonna shred it tomorrow on the hill 🤙🏼

Keep crushing it man! Love the content you post!

this video was so helpful. can't wait to get out there and try it.

Excellent explanation

I'm super hype for this season.

Great tutorial, thank you 🙏🏻🙌🏻

Awesome vid! I didn't even know I needed this!

Love this video, I keep coming back to rewatch it. And improving as it goes. Thanks for teaching

Wow! This is the best video explaining Ollie. Thank you. 👍 and Subscribed!

Very good video! I will practice in living room !

I think this is he best 'how to' ollie on youtube. thanks. will try this tomorrow

Thank you ❤

Love it dude - keep up the great vids

Thank you so much

this video really makes me want to try and master this trick

nice one, thank you 🙏 l will work on it

Thanks for this!

Love this snow board for my 7 year old son. He wanted to learn how to snowboard and this was a perfect board to try out his skills. The Velcro binding is way better then the plastic. It makes for easy on and off because he still does need to walk back up the hill. This board is not meant for the ski slopes but perfect for the steep hills and golf courses are our neighborhood. Great buy!

Dude great tutorial. Thank you. Subbed.

Great video, good job!

love your videos!

Looking good

This will improve my ride

Thanks.

This is reeeeeealy well explained thx

Sick tutorial

I am surprised this channal only has a little over 7k subs it's really good.

The most thorough ollie video I've seen. Now I just need to practice!

Cool thing to do to get the feel of your board is to find flat ground and try to hop on your tail and nose like a seesaw. You start to get comfortable and you will hop higher eventually popping stationary ollies and nollies back and forth. I like to to this for warm ups and it looks like you are goofing around wich is fun

Hey man you’re awesome. Even though I’m an avid boarder your videos help me because it helps me realize mistakes and try things a different way. The right way. And keep up the great work

Absolutely the best guidance for ollie. Great job

Love this channel bro! Keep it up, I’ve watched quite a few of the videos here over and over again. Very entertaining and informative! 🤙🏾✊🏾

this was beautiful, where is the setting?????

thx man i what to be on a board more and i have only been standing on one for 4 hours in my life (and i am going to go somewhere with my school so thx)

I’ve had probably a total of 20 days in the mountain spread throughout a span of 10 years, I learned as a kid with 11 years old and it feels like riding a bike, you never forget how to ride but doing jumps? It seemed way to distant until this year, I didn’t go to any park or big jumps because it’s 2 days and I don’t want to ruin them injuring my self but I had massive fun learning how to ollie, take off on the side of the track and the little bumps, trying 180’s (almost had them). Snowboard is way too fun, I’m glad I can do just those 2/3 days a year.

Dude. This is the best tutorial. Clean and clear. Love your style, too.

I just found out i have always been doing this wrong, i kept hoping with my own strength and never have enough air time and due to excessive strength i used on hopping made my upper body very very unstable mid air

Thanks for the tutorial, I've been skateboarding for 2 years now and going to try snowboarding for the first time the day after tomorrow, this'll be a great help!

Never thought about matching the take-off and not the landing, cant wait to try it out. Thanks man!

Hum, kinda interesting video! I found out some usefull tips for myself in the vid. In addition as a rider who's desperately trying to learn stable and high ollie i often face some more failures and mistakes l'd like to share:
1) when trying to pop off the ground the tail of my board slips out either in front of me or behind
2) when the nose of the board is in the air it sometimes feels almost impossible to jump with just back leg
3) landing on the front foot first
4) it looks like i am trying so hard to jump higher on my own and snowboard doesn't help me with it's flex so i can't imagine how do i take off for one meter off the ground.
I am not a native English speaker so i apologize if something isn't understandable

Hi thanks for the video, im like the lady on the video can jump high is really hard any tip? Im really beginner and my board feels so heavy

underrated channel

What flex is good? I have gnu riders choice wide is this good for starting learning jumps? I wanted to buy yes basic too but i soo that the flex is near mine bord, what am i missing? Many says the the yes board is good for hitting jumps but gnu is not so pop friendly.thank you

only 4k subscribers??? your vids are so good

ya I tried to ollie off the smallest jump, one that I hit times just jumping with no issues, and I broke my wrist. So much for that. I will have to stick with just jumping off both feet vs this front to back ollie stuff.

You guys ever see an ad for edshreds while watching edshreds

TIL I’ve been hopping and Ollie is a thing on a snowboard. Apparently you lean forward and “load your tail” because there’s no fulcrum from the truck but it’s largely the same. Thanks

I’m buying my first board but I’m used to 150 what size do you recommend. I’m 5”10 200lb

Nothing like poppin ollies and doing butters....never gets old. Nice vid man.
I grew up skateboarding and I can affirm, if you wanna shred well skateboarding will mos def help.
Started skiing with my Dad at age 7 and when I was 15 in 95 that was the first time I saw snowboarders. Tryed it and started next season and have never looked back.
Enjoy your season brother!

Will shred school teach me how to ollie better than in this video? Because I was thinking of getting it.

Great breakdown! When Ollie off an edge, where are you directing your weight? I have an easy enough time on a flat base but when trying to spin, I always feel like the Ollie messes up my balance and I start to just jump straight. I know I’m leaving some pop on the table by doing that. Thanks again for an awesome tutorial!

Awesome explanation, I'm just starting to snowboard but I can't wait to learn and use this

So, we level in the jump to avoid getting the nose accidentally way too down (and thus catching a dangerous front edge), and then adjust to landing angle so to not land on tail way too heavily, right?

Do you have spinning videos whereby you teach popping off an edge? Skateboard style ollie's for spinning jumps kinda throws off my rotation

yo ty this was very helpful! as a young snowboarder (im 13) i have been snowboarding for 8 years now (started when i was 5) im always trying to impress my friends with some new cool trick this is going to help a lot with this so thank you! quick question what do u think would be a good trick for an intermediate rider like me to learn?
(edit) do you think it would be good for me to learn how to ride both goofy and regular cause right now i ride left foot forward and i cant ride right foot forward otherwise i fall. so should i learn to ride both ways?

I snowboarded as a kid but sadly moved and got into a state where it doesn’t snow, i picked up skateboarding and got pretty good and im going back to snowboard in a few weeks but im afraid the skills won’t transfer or I won’t have the muscle memory from when i was a kid, still very excited tho

When and where do you pop?

i dont agree on always use a sligtly ollie when do big jumps. I like to pop on big jumps for better balance in the air, spec if i gonna do a 360 or more.

Hey, really nice tutorial!
just a couple of question from an intermidiate/advance level snowborder:
1) When you are going really fast on the track in order to jump over an edge and so do a massive ollie ( 50-60 km/h - 3 to 5 mt jump ollie) how do you balance urself just before the takeoff?
Is it correct to take off wile riding on toeside/ heelside ?
2) where do i need too look before the takeoff?
With regards to the video an example could be the ollie at 4.21 but faster.
Since in Italy right now there is only artificial snow I'm practicing going really fast both switch and normal but as i try to jump at this speed over a common track edge i find really difficult to adjust my position correctly before the takeoff and so i end up landing in the worst position ever.
Thank you!|

What if you are a doing a spin like a FS 360 off a park jump? are you still olling?

there’s no snow around me right now, and snowboarding season is over. can i practice in my front yard?

Yo Ed. Any tips on staying straight when crouching down to ollie? For some reason when I get ready to do a big ollie I tend to veer off to the right.

Hey man, I have heard that being on your toe edge when doing/landing an ollie is helpful for your balance that true?

Can you Please teach me?

Tried to follow your video tips, ended up doing 360 flip instead, pretty cool tho

Do you land flat?

This is the most informative video I’ve watched on learning to ollie. Would it get more views if you were speaking to camera on the slopes? Also, feel your search intro might be causing viewers to jump off. Thanks for the great info though.

How do I do this at speed?

The main difference from skateboarding ollie to snowboarding ollie is that skatboarders jump off their front leg and pop the tail with their back leg while moving up, while snowboarders use the same back leg to jump and pop at the same time while the front foot lifts the board with it.

Good tips, and yes the ollie is important. However, so is learning pop,
The timing is way easier on a pop and you can still get good height so long as you time it right. I find with spin tricks it’s easier to take off in a pop rather than popping only off the tail.

While ollies are great for small obstacles, it's more of a pop you're after when doing larger jumps as it easily throws you off balance.

I can do it pretty well when standing or going with super low speed, but when I go a little bit faster(still slow tho) I can not do it.

It’s all about having hard boots!!!

I literally put ALL my strength into, and i can't jump high at all :( My legs get tired so fast. I guess is a good work out lol

Не сломается доска если так гнуть ее?

Lmao I just got a shred school ad on this video

i love snowboarding but i dont live in a place where it snows, i only can go once every 2 years😢

You ride camber?

i ride goofy skating and regular snowboarding, took me ages to learn to ollie cuz it was backwards so I could only nollie on the slopes. this helped a lot thx

When should you hop rather then ollie

Jump?

I can ollie, I can nollie, but i can't do it switch. It's like my brain isn't talking to my legs.

I just started practicing this trick , my problem I can’t jump high enough :(

I watched a video recently on olllie, said to jump bringing front foot up then back foot - I tried and got little air
This is by far the best explanation, I'm also so glad you emphasize on the importance of learning this

Tommie Bennet says: use Pop in terrainpark and use Ollie only for flat ground terrain, or drops.
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So as you are both experts.. I am confused now. For me its really hard to Ollie in strong kicking jumps. It makes me unstable if I ollie at the end of an e.g. table jump. Tommy says basically same in his Video.
I noticed also..if you have a stiff Camber board, then ollie is easier and saving energy on flat ground. If you have a soft rocker board, it does not a lot of support, making ollies even bit lower than pop.
The skateboard comparison is a bit misleading, as you cant pop a skateboard (missing binding). but place a binding onto a skateboard and you jump higher when using pop

i disagree with ollie'ing off a kicker - the kicker is already sending you up, and ollie'ing off the lip increases your chances of being in the back seat. Just my 2 cents, otherwise, awesome vid.

Why does everyone in this video ride regular?

So confusing. I have had actual pros tell me they don't ollie off of big kickers but "pop" off of both feet. Especially during spins and flips.

except you shouldn’t ollie on big park jumps because it can throw you off balance

Ollie? OHIO🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

You can barely ride and you are trying to teach?

One thing I think you missed, it definitely helps if you have a softer board. You have a stiff board, it would be nearly impossible to do ollies.