I'm from Porto Alegre, his born town, and saw him as a child and how he growed gaining strenght. Luan is a prodigy, and that can't be copied. There isn't one single reason for Luan pop, but a couple of "secrets". He flicks the flip foot with a lot of strenght, and it doesn't matter if it's the toe or the heel. This strenght "throws" the board up with a lot of power. And then he bends the knee higher, so he caught the trick high. He also spins the body with ease, doesn't matter if it's frontside or backside, what is also something rare. He also soften his weight when landing, allowing to slide his reverts. And his fine coordination allows him to control the tail foot and the front foot like nobody else, as you can see in his biggerflips, and 540 flips. Luan can't be copied. Nobody else can be at same time technical and aggressive. Sorry for the english mistakes.
To get more pop, you need to do the "wave" on every trick. Everytime I have problems with my pop and trick, I remember to do that. I will explain what the "wave" is. Let's say you are goofy (right foot forward). The moment when you decide to do the trick - so the moment before you squat - your weight is more towards the front foot (right foot). When you start to squat, your weight transfers from front foot to back foot (left foot). When you are in the maximum squat position, your weight should by then be on the back foot (left foot). Now comes the moment of pop. BUT you don't pop the board to forward, instead pop it SLIGHTLY to backward - so against the direction that you are going. That is the key to high pop. When going up in the air, you drag the board with the front foot (right foot) but with NO or LITTLE WEIGHT on it - just for control. Your weight is still on the back foot (left foot) and you slowly transfer the weight to center and then front foot (right foot) when you are at peak height to level the board and land. So think of it as "wave" motion and remember pop the board against the direction you are going.
i was going to say the same thing, the pop comes from the direction, popping it backwards means more friction for your flicking foot leading to higher pop, assuming you can tuck your knees long enough to catch
glad someone else figured this out as well. a while back I used to have the same issue. Sometimes i'd get massive height in my pop sometimes i wouldn't and i just never knew why. One day it clicked to me as to why my fakie ollies and nollies and tricks were so much higher and better than my regular and switch ones. It was because i'd naturally pop against the direction i was headed, causing the physics of the board to respond way easier and properly to certain tricks i did in those stances. Learning how to ollie properly ended up making flips, grinds and slides a lot better looking and much easier for me.
@@beanguru6838 This is exactly what i was thinking about. In nollie/fakie it is so easy to pop high without an effort. I took some days off from skating because right now im not fully recovered from last sesh, so i did some thinking and came to same conclusion. Next time i will try this and see how it works out.
I think Luans power comes from him being able to move his legs quickly. I assume thats called fast twitch muscles. Ive seen Luan run a few steps at full speed before jumping on his board and then frontside flip a long double set, and those few steps he took before jumping on his board literally looked like speedy gonzalas or the road runner. He's quick.
I know exactly what you’re saying it’s like the top 100m runners have got it also . We’d like to think it was technique to get us that high but I’m not so sure at all
@@littlebear2477 it's god given talent mostly. There's no shame in not having it, i know i don't.. There's a youtube video on how to have Antwuan Dixon's style, but the truth is (and everyone knows this) nobody can duplicate his style cuz it's HIS natural style.
@@brunofranca3718 everyone has there own favourite / favourites you can’t push yours onto anybody just like who you like and let whoever else like whom ever they like….
Everyone should always remember, technique is definitely important and it's good to analyze others but I'd say a huge reason Luan can pop tricks like he does is because he skates every single day as an athlete. It's not *just* skating, he is working out constantly, it's always on his insta stories. Much like other skaters in his league, they are more than just skaters, they're athletes that train their bodies daily.
plus dude been skateboarding everyday since he was young and none stop jus like nyjah. You can tell who been doing it for a year vs 10 to 15years. they got that pop n style unlocked n on point. Everything looks effortless n graceful.
Então vou começar a malhar e andar todos os dias e ter o pop do Luan, não faz sentido, já viu os vídeos dele criança e adolescente? Luan é talento lapidado, ele nasceu com uma pré disposição para andar de skate, e ainda é extremamente esforçado. Não tem como ser só treino, o cara nasceu pra andar de skate ponto.
That was brilliant man. It all makes sense. As I am older, my pop goes away. Also my hips are weaker because I always sit at my work. What can also help a lot is stretching your achilles heel muscle. If that is shortened, you will have less pop.
broo.. im 31. plumber for life. i never thought my dad was telling me truths about hurting when you're older. fuck LOL. im gonna anything i can to keep skating my whole life. i did a 6h sesh today for the first time all season. it hurt but im going back tomorrow and im gonna try these new stretches
I’m getting up there in years so my ability to skate has diminished, but growing up one thing I had going for me skate-wise was my ability to ollie. I could ollie way higher than my friends, and I really didn’t have a huge vertical leap. I could never dunk a ball, but after a year and half of skating I could ollie onto picnic tables. This was 1990 too so without the benefit of a large nose to counterbalance. When asked , inevitably, how do you ollie like that, I would always say the same thing:” Spring up fast and suck your knees all the way up to your chest.” I didn’t know about hip flexors or fast twitch fiber at 15 but yeah, this is huge part of it. That and pulling your front foot farther back down the board before popping helps the board get vertical and will give you more time to pull your legs up and level out.
I was one of the members of my friend group who could pop the highest. I never knew the trick to it, but when I started learning how to ollie over a 2x4 piece of wood, I just stacked another 2x4 on top of it and Ollied it like 5-10 times before stacking another. Eventually I was jumping over a wall of skateboards about 5 boards tall with ease. I never knew the trick to my high ollie but when going over really tall stuff, my biggest problem was my back wheels clipping. And then it hit me. Literally. I knee’d myself in the chin with my back leg and I realized that was it. To suck your knees up really high. But it’s not just that tho. It’s important to leap upwards high too to get the maximum height. You squat down and really try to jump high like you’re gonna dunk. And THEN you tuck your knees once you’re in the air. For Ollie’s in particular, a third and final tip for ollies over waist high objects, it’s not just about tucking your back knee straight up, but you gotta tweak it sideways while your front foot pushes forwards on the nose like a ninja kick. Now you can take your ollies over anything
Same but I was never able to ollie as high as I wanted to. What you said here makes a ton of sense, Ima have to actively keep that in mind while I do the entire motions until it’s second nature. Thanks dude!
@@localjoe nice… I have been doing a lot of jump training to give myself move of a vertical leap and squats to strengthen my knees. I figured maybe if I could make my legs a little stronger that would help. It did a little bit but the floss bands really helped with the pain. I always had hip flexor problems but I thought it was ice hockey and skating, which it probably was. I find that stretching helps but it’s slow to show any results. Dong that exercise you recommend seems like it might have better results because I won’t be straining or over training. Sucks getting older. Definitely can move like I used to but you’ve really helped me at least be able to move better than before and that’s given me the ability to skate more and better. I really appreciate your videos dude and not just for the skating tips, which are great, but also for helping me to keep skating. I was starting to believe my time with it was coming to an end but your tips to stay healthy have given me more time to enjoy my “stupid wooden toy.” 😉🤘🏼 Thanks dude.
luans flip tricks are plain and simple PERFECTION. he lands them bolts he flips them even he catches them peak pop he pops them as high as possible while landing light and rolling away at the same speed.....and last but not least is his style which is steezy asf. perfect.
Really enjoying the recovery exercises and info about different injuries and how to improve them. Started that knee flossing and my knees stopped hurting all day at work and only minimal pain after a long ass session! Keep it up homie!
Love the quality and information in your videos! And your skating is getting significantly better week after week :) You should do a video on Luan's board shape. I saw him at Copenhagen Open this year and he literally skates a a board with zero concave. It's the flattest board I've ever seen and could be another reason why he's able to pop his tricks so high.
I think theres more physics to it then tucking. He is not only tucking more, but his pop has way more power in it, and his long legs help him a lot to. The more power in ur initial pop makes the board bounce off the ground with more force giving u more "pop" which then allows u to go higher using ur front foot to guide the board up and out. Idk its hard to explain pop in words.
skater for 24 years here-- luan is one of my favorite skaters right now. my opinion on his high kickflip (and every other trick) is pretty basic. have a high and controlled ollie. Learning how to ollie while rolling and then ollie high is one the first things u should be learning and eventually master. when first starting out you would typically be skating in the streets with your friends where you learn how to ollie over each others boards and inevitably have contests of who can ollie the highest. So you stack the boards higher and higher. this sets the foundation for all your tricks. eventually as you learn tricks you learn how to do them not only off of things but over different obstacles. It forces you to learn how to pop over while at the same time, timing your pop and your flick. This builds muscle strength and muscle memory to where you do it so much it becomes second nature. so when you do it on flatground it will consistently have that high pop. But unfortunately kids now adays have the worst style because they never focus on the basics. its all about how many tricks you do not how clean you can do it. they grow up in skateparks where conditions are perfect and controlled. Smooth ground and the same obstacles. My explanation is already long enough so i'll just leave it at this-- any real skater will tell you that they want to be remembered for their video part and what they were able to do in the streets for the culture and sport of skateboarding. not what they did in a skatepark or in a contest.
The flexibility and mobility is something very underrated in skating. But that being said it’s still not easy to have pop like that because of timing, power and control. IMO Luan has the best kickflip
A lot of good comments. I say form and syncing your feet. Focusing on strength likely has benefits, but getting your form right is essential. Go back to old videos from the 80’s and 90’s with young, weak looking skaters on big, heavy setups. They still have pop because they’re form is so good. Blasting over trash cans and all that.
I know that a lot of people might be clowning these “how the pros do it” videos since he’s not “popping” as high as luan “so you don’t know what you’re talking about.” However, I haven’t skated in years and I recently just picked it back up. Between not skating and now, I have worked out a lot and since getting back on the board, I’ve noticed I have a lot more power and coordination but I don’t know what to do with it. So these videos he puts out about how to do tricks like the pros actually have really helped me because the queues and techniques he is explaining are truthful and precise, like that of a “skateboarding coach” or “skateboarding personal trainer”.
I can do kickflips pretty high and the secret to it is waiting long time after pop so the board gets steeper. This gives you more pressure on the flipfoot and you can pull it higher.
I think you are making confusion. Luan have to bend his knees because the board goes high, otherwise he cannot catch it. What you describe is the opposite: the board goes high because he bends his knees. Now the question remains: why his board pops higher? It pops higher because he jumps higher. If you try to jump higher you have to compress suitably before the trick (you are not doing it in fact you are not poping much) and if you want to jump higher you necessary have to excess more force (pop) on your feet and thus on your board (newton law). So luan pop stronger than many of us to jump higher and, as a side effect, in order to catch the board he his obliged to bend his knees.
I recommend kick blocking or just kicking a bag, that gets everything in shape. Luan also rides a tiny board, a 8.125 they’re easier to pop considering the weight difference.
moving your legs quickly up requires recruiting your muscles in a very short span of time, this is called power. Just training for strength can be helpful, but usually doesn't translate to increased power. In order to train power (like that used in ollie tricks where you pull your knees up very quickly), you must train power. One idea is to do squat jumps with high knees while wearing ankle weights. The squat jump is very close to the movement of an ollie, add in the high knees and you have the "high pop ollie". Add the weights and you have the training stimulus that should translate to the board. A sample workout might include 3-5 sets of these jump squats with high knees, each set 5-10 reps, and 5 minutes rest between sets. Important - as soon as you start to feel yourself "powering down", STOP. Training power at less than maximal potential actually detrains your body. I've inspired myself to try this!
I heard this tip about tucking your knees from Dan Corrigan's kickflip tutorial. Seeing this vid helped things click and I relate a lot more to watching you skate than an out-and-out pro. Thanks.
Luan has a crazy feet click setup. If you watch him setup his feet they flick back and forth right before he pops a trick. Most skaters do this too but Luan like really moves them. I also noticed he does a little of what I did to change my pop.. instead of popping straight down, pop the back foot outwards a little when you pop. By outwards I mean like your back foot goes down and out parallel with the tail, not outwards like a tre scoop. Works a little for me
The mystery of great pop is in part raising your legs or making sure you're not limiting the popped board with what you're doing with your feet. The big factor is in your ankle. You're back foot should barely touch the ground - if at all when you pop. The weight transferred between your back foot to your tail on lift should be creating a recoil like a drummer lifting up their wrist as the stick hits the drum skin. It's in that finite momentary weight transfer that snaps the board to stand straight up and then lift vertically into the air. The more powerful you can make that recoil, the more you're board will want to fly up. It's a great feeling when you feel a skateboard clap into your feet without trying to catch it by putting your feet down.
Jump with your front foot as much as you are with your back , along with what he said you should be able to grind anything you can jump on I know I can
one thing i do to get great height is thinking power. when i slide my foot out for an ollie i kick forward as hard as i can, as fast as i can, and raise my back foot. also loading my ankles as if i’m trying to touch a basketball net without a running start. for warmups i ollie over cones that are standing up until i land a couple and then proceed with the session. cool transition btw😆🤟🏾
Luan is a really interesting skater I Rember hearing an interview with Paul Smitt talking about how he skates a low concave board that doesn't help with pop, usually if you want more pop you skate high concave boards like tyshawn does but because how tall Luan is and his execution of tricks (how he builds up to the pop then lifts his legs after) allows him to get mad pop
Hey I know this park! I’ve been playing around with stylizing tricks and sort of tweaking em and getting in tune with board control. It seems like for me really bending those knees inward helps get that power behind the flick and pop but it does seem to get different results than say having your knees out which seems to add stability. One skater that comes to mind is Shane O’Neill.
Many skaters just don't practice enough with their ollie height progression. Once they have an ok ollie they spend too much time moving on to trying different flip variations. Building up to a powerful ollie is something that you need to do constantly like working out in a gym.
skate community would benefit so much from knowing kneesovertoesguy... overloaded hip flexor raises... strong tibialis, full range of motion in the ankle and knee... so many injuries that would be prevented, old skaters that would keep skating and so on... honestly a bit sad that the knowledge is there and free and people ignore it and complain about their bodies..
@@localjoe Yep I agree. Essentially the knowledge available from high level coaching for free now is better than anything I had as physical therapy growing up after surgeries. It's nuts. But cool that you're aware, I was really surprised to see you come to the conclusion of hip flexors for Luans pop! I think the other half of the equation is that the pop is also stronger when you have strong hip flexors/quads/vmo/ankles and more range of motion and so the board actually gets to where he pulls his feet up to. Crazy :)
I also noticed him using the momentum of his feet snapping in the board in opposite directions. Keep going. Muscle strength and memory will get those knees up in the air ✌🏼🤙🏼🌈🛸☁️
My secret to popping things higher is to live an active lifestyle. I notice even if I skate for an hour or two every other day, if I stay on the PC all day long, working from home, watching youtube, etc. etc. I lose so much strenght and I am constantly out of breath. Skating a few times a week is just not enough excercise. The best advice is to just get out more and not sit on a chair for 14 hours a day.
Another thing about Luan is that he also skates a 7.75 size board which helps the pop of the board but there’s a lot more that goes into it than just the board
In my opinion, the simple reason for that higher pop is the length of your foot and the strength of those foot to bend up symmetrically to your lower abdomen.
One other thing, crouch a little lower and spring up fast. Think of yourself like a coiled spring. The more you compress it the stronger the release and greater upward momentum created.
It's not really true though, there is an optimum bend and going below is wasting energy coming up. You're not squatting ass to grass when trying to jump as high as possible either.
@@pnksmigge5324 i woz gonna say that,i can olly just as high without squatting so low ,it can sometimes throw you off balance,like you said waste of energy
"Hip flexors" - nice one! I didn't know what they were called. When I first got back into skating I kept straining/pulling mine every single time I skated. I could even land a few nice kickflips, but try more than a few and suddenly owwwwwie. Those muscles went away when I stopped skating. After a few months it's now stopped happening but I'm still struggling to get that good tuck, especially combined with pop and flick, legs just feel kinda dead pretty fast. I think getting those flexors stronger is really key and going to help alot with getting higher kickflips, and legs out of the way for lots of other tricks
Somebody else mentioned "twitch muscles" - those too! Mine are always sore, and I've strained them badly enough I've had to stop skating a few days at a time. The stronger they get the better I skate
Luan é talento puro, claro que ele se preparou e aprimorou suas manobras ao decorrer do tempo, mas é nitido que ele tem uma facilidade quase que divina emcima do skate, oque skatistas comuns precisam treinar por anos e anos a fio ele consegue de forma quase que natural, isso pra mim é muito talento lapidado, desde muleke ele mandava tricks absurdas, 15 anos de idade mandando switch tail gazelle hell, como se copia um cara desse ? É muito difícil alcancar seu nivel com a mesma facilidade que esse cara tem emcima do skate, é um conjunto de coisas que nós meros mortais temos extrema dificuldade em por em prática, Luan é talento puro...
Not a bad idea. With higher knees, there's more room for the board to rise. You can also try putting your hands closer to your knees to make that last exercise progressively harder.
THE SECRET: Watch early luan footage. His crouch is low He crosses his arms at its lowest point and as he begins to rise up, he brings them up at his sides to help his upward momentum. He is putting his entire body into the trick. As this upward momentum lifts his upper body, he is able to tuck his knees in tight to his torso. The clip you show at 2:40 illustrates this technique well. If you watch young luan, you will see it done purposefully..
Thanks for this vid, pop is something I’ve theorized about for years and years and I’ve been hoping someone on YT would tackle. I think that you have honed in on one portion of the mystery of high pop, that of elevating the knees, however this isn’t the full story imo. There are 2 more components that play a very big role. The first is fairly obvious and was already hinted at by other commenters. Luan’s (and anyone’s) ability to elevate starts with that explosive power, that ability to accelerate his (and his board’s) mass up into the air. The generation of force is a matter of physical strength and mobility, yes, but also of efficient and precise neuromuscular coordination. There’s lots of ways to improve these aspects of one’s fitness and we all start at different places, with different attributes and tendencies. Secondly, there is the question of foot technique and board control. This aspect is probably the most difficult to articulate in a comment, but it is my feeling that the counter-pressure of the feet preceding the instant of pop has everything to do with how the board behaves in flight, and that this aspect is under-discussed and poorly understood. One cue (on ollies and flip tricks) that has helped me is to visualize both of my feet pressing in opposite directions as I wind up a trick. By imagining the popping foot as not just rebounding the nose/tail off the ground, but also pulling the board in the opposite direction as the sliding/flicking foot, you are creating more friction on that foot with which to propel the board up into the air. I didn’t realize this until learning switch and nollie tricks, which were always low and rocket until I learned to do this. Funny how by reverse-engineering tricks we know so we can teach our bodies to do them switch, we gain new insights we missed the first time around. Anyway thanks again for the vid!
it's important to note that luan doesn't pop his tricks while pushing down his feet, but he kinda pushes it a bit far off from where his feet starts, cause when he kicks there is more room for the board to move too
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Great video! I still haven't learned how to ollie, but I have studied a lot of ollie videos over the years and done a lot of failed experiments :-D I actually think how fast you lift the front foot is one of the most important factors for how much pop you get. You need to move the front foot out of the way of the board to allow it to go up into the air. When you apply power to the tail of the board, the nose of the board will rise very quickly. If your front foot is in the way when this happens, you will decrease or stop this motion. So lifting the front foot at the right moment is also very important. And it's not just the upward motion which will be decreased or stopped if your front foot is in the way. The downward motion of the tail will also be decreased/stopped and then you will get a weaker pop. But this is just a lot of "theory" from an overthinking struggling skateboarder :-D I'm very impressed by Spencer Barton's ollies and he talks about timing and technique, especially foot movement. Checkout 4min 51sec in this video ua-cam.com/video/vUFHGAeldW8/v-deo.html
The best thing you can do is starting to flip on or over stuff like manny pads, ledges and gaps. The fysics behind it is just to complicated to write out in a comment. It just has a lot to do with timing of sertain movements, pitch of the ankle flick and position of the head and shoulders in regards to your front and back truck.
I would say another HUGE TIP would be make sure your jumping with your front foot just as much as your back foot I feel like people when trying to pop end up focusing too much on power in just back foot instead of jumping as high as you can with both legs along with what he said
I've notice you have no pop but still like your video. Tip you should focus on is loading up your weight on your popping foo! in doing so in most tricks you will do will be a pulling/pushing pop! This will help you out more than u can imagine. Just load all your weight on your popping before u pop the trick, it will allow you to slide your foot off fast and easier on the way up!
It’s the kick on his nose/tail. I wouldn’t even consider his pop powerful. Just quick with velocity. Which is what power really is. Speed= Velocity. But the secret is his shape. Which is honestly weird asf IMoP but I hardley ever missed my snap. The board is nearly flat
Dude your kickflips are low cause you pop and flick straight and you don't put a delay on your flick. Try this with your kickflips pop then with your flicking leg bring that knee to your chest then flick your foot straight up. Just practice that motion flinging your board up as high as you can with one foot. You' ll immediately realize that the trick to getting any trick up high has nothing to do with your popping foot but rather how high you extend your front foot. So a propper high kickflips should follow these steps one pop next knee to the chest next flick up as high as you can then back foot focus on back foot on touching your ass then land bolts. Also with flip tricks in general a delayed flip and a higher flick will result in a higher trick.
I'm from Porto Alegre, his born town, and saw him as a child and how he growed gaining strenght. Luan is a prodigy, and that can't be copied. There isn't one single reason for Luan pop, but a couple of "secrets". He flicks the flip foot with a lot of strenght, and it doesn't matter if it's the toe or the heel. This strenght "throws" the board up with a lot of power. And then he bends the knee higher, so he caught the trick high. He also spins the body with ease, doesn't matter if it's frontside or backside, what is also something rare. He also soften his weight when landing, allowing to slide his reverts. And his fine coordination allows him to control the tail foot and the front foot like nobody else, as you can see in his biggerflips, and 540 flips. Luan can't be copied. Nobody else can be at same time technical and aggressive. Sorry for the english mistakes.
Well said, style and pop of Luan cannot just be summed out in one single "hack".. it is a mutlitude of skills and good fitness mixed with hard work
Your English is good brother
Ur explaining him like some anime god or something 😭
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If you think popping like this is unattainable because he was “born with it” you’re just making excuses to not get better
To get more pop, you need to do the "wave" on every trick.
Everytime I have problems with my pop and trick, I remember to do that.
I will explain what the "wave" is.
Let's say you are goofy (right foot forward). The moment when you decide to do the trick - so the moment before you squat - your weight is more towards the front foot (right foot).
When you start to squat, your weight transfers from front foot to back foot (left foot).
When you are in the maximum squat position, your weight should by then be on the back foot (left foot).
Now comes the moment of pop. BUT you don't pop the board to forward, instead pop it SLIGHTLY to backward - so against the direction that you are going. That is the key to high pop.
When going up in the air, you drag the board with the front foot (right foot) but with NO or LITTLE WEIGHT on it - just for control. Your weight is still on the back foot (left foot) and you slowly transfer the weight to center and then front foot (right foot) when you are at peak height to level the board and land.
So think of it as "wave" motion and remember pop the board against the direction you are going.
i was going to say the same thing, the pop comes from the direction, popping it backwards means more friction for your flicking foot leading to higher pop, assuming you can tuck your knees long enough to catch
glad someone else figured this out as well. a while back I used to have the same issue. Sometimes i'd get massive height in my pop sometimes i wouldn't and i just never knew why. One day it clicked to me as to why my fakie ollies and nollies and tricks were so much higher and better than my regular and switch ones. It was because i'd naturally pop against the direction i was headed, causing the physics of the board to respond way easier and properly to certain tricks i did in those stances. Learning how to ollie properly ended up making flips, grinds and slides a lot better looking and much easier for me.
@@beanguru6838 This is exactly what i was thinking about. In nollie/fakie it is so easy to pop high without an effort. I took some days off from skating because right now im not fully recovered from last sesh, so i did some thinking and came to same conclusion. Next time i will try this and see how it works out.
I think Luans power comes from him being able to move his legs quickly. I assume thats called fast twitch muscles. Ive seen Luan run a few steps at full speed before jumping on his board and then frontside flip a long double set, and those few steps he took before jumping on his board literally looked like speedy gonzalas or the road runner. He's quick.
I know exactly what you’re saying it’s like the top 100m runners have got it also .
We’d like to think it was technique to get us that high but I’m not so sure at all
@@littlebear2477 it's god given talent mostly. There's no shame in not having it, i know i don't.. There's a youtube video on how to have Antwuan Dixon's style, but the truth is (and everyone knows this) nobody can duplicate his style cuz it's HIS natural style.
Tiago Lemos is better o think!
U see the new king of macba tiago vs nassim? Insane level of skateboarding.
@@brunofranca3718 everyone has there own favourite / favourites you can’t push yours onto anybody just like who you like and let whoever else like whom ever they like….
Everyone should always remember, technique is definitely important and it's good to analyze others but I'd say a huge reason Luan can pop tricks like he does is because he skates every single day as an athlete. It's not *just* skating, he is working out constantly, it's always on his insta stories. Much like other skaters in his league, they are more than just skaters, they're athletes that train their bodies daily.
plus dude been skateboarding everyday since he was young and none stop jus like nyjah. You can tell who been doing it for a year vs 10 to 15years. they got that pop n style unlocked n on point. Everything looks effortless n graceful.
What do you talking about !? Most serious skateboarders skate everyday and don't have that pop
@@sylviesoleil431 you're not reading.
Então vou começar a malhar e andar todos os dias e ter o pop do Luan, não faz sentido, já viu os vídeos dele criança e adolescente? Luan é talento lapidado, ele nasceu com uma pré disposição para andar de skate, e ainda é extremamente esforçado. Não tem como ser só treino, o cara nasceu pra andar de skate ponto.
That was brilliant man. It all makes sense. As I am older, my pop goes away. Also my hips are weaker because I always sit at my work. What can also help a lot is stretching your achilles heel muscle. If that is shortened, you will have less pop.
Yeah sitting at a desk is rough!
Then you do something about it
broo.. im 31. plumber for life. i never thought my dad was telling me truths about hurting when you're older. fuck LOL. im gonna anything i can to keep skating my whole life. i did a 6h sesh today for the first time all season. it hurt but im going back tomorrow and im gonna try these new stretches
@@victorlarsson1815 Its easier said than done, when you have multiple sclerosis.
Really cool how you study and research pros’ techniques and then put it all in your videos that’s the real best way to learn something!!
I’m getting up there in years so my ability to skate has diminished, but growing up one thing I had going for me skate-wise was my ability to ollie. I could ollie way higher than my friends, and I really didn’t have a huge vertical leap. I could never dunk a ball, but after a year and half of skating I could ollie onto picnic tables. This was 1990 too so without the benefit of a large nose to counterbalance. When asked , inevitably, how do you ollie like that, I would always say the same thing:” Spring up fast and suck your knees all the way up to your chest.” I didn’t know about hip flexors or fast twitch fiber at 15 but yeah, this is huge part of it. That and pulling your front foot farther back down the board before popping helps the board get vertical and will give you more time to pull your legs up and level out.
Yeah that knee tuck is the move!
I was one of the members of my friend group who could pop the highest. I never knew the trick to it, but when I started learning how to ollie over a 2x4 piece of wood, I just stacked another 2x4 on top of it and Ollied it like 5-10 times before stacking another. Eventually I was jumping over a wall of skateboards about 5 boards tall with ease. I never knew the trick to my high ollie but when going over really tall stuff, my biggest problem was my back wheels clipping. And then it hit me. Literally. I knee’d myself in the chin with my back leg and I realized that was it. To suck your knees up really high. But it’s not just that tho. It’s important to leap upwards high too to get the maximum height. You squat down and really try to jump high like you’re gonna dunk. And THEN you tuck your knees once you’re in the air. For Ollie’s in particular, a third and final tip for ollies over waist high objects, it’s not just about tucking your back knee straight up, but you gotta tweak it sideways while your front foot pushes forwards on the nose like a ninja kick. Now you can take your ollies over anything
Me too!!
Same but I was never able to ollie as high as I wanted to. What you said here makes a ton of sense, Ima have to actively keep that in mind while I do the entire motions until it’s second nature. Thanks dude!
That’s a really smart way to strengthen your hip flexor. I never would have thought of that.
Knees over toes guy is how I found it out
@@localjoe nice… I have been doing a lot of jump training to give myself move of a vertical leap and squats to strengthen my knees. I figured maybe if I could make my legs a little stronger that would help. It did a little bit but the floss bands really helped with the pain. I always had hip flexor problems but I thought it was ice hockey and skating, which it probably was. I find that stretching helps but it’s slow to show any results. Dong that exercise you recommend seems like it might have better results because I won’t be straining or over training. Sucks getting older. Definitely can move like I used to but you’ve really helped me at least be able to move better than before and that’s given me the ability to skate more and better. I really appreciate your videos dude and not just for the skating tips, which are great, but also for helping me to keep skating. I was starting to believe my time with it was coming to an end but your tips to stay healthy have given me more time to enjoy my “stupid wooden toy.” 😉🤘🏼 Thanks dude.
luans flip tricks are plain and simple PERFECTION. he lands them bolts he flips them even he catches them peak pop he pops them as high as possible while landing light and rolling away at the same speed.....and last but not least is his style which is steezy asf. perfect.
Really enjoying the recovery exercises and info about different injuries and how to improve them. Started that knee flossing and my knees stopped hurting all day at work and only minimal pain after a long ass session! Keep it up homie!
I'm glad you like them! I'm trying to show more of the behind the scenes
Love the quality and information in your videos! And your skating is getting significantly better week after week :) You should do a video on Luan's board shape. I saw him at Copenhagen Open this year and he literally skates a a board with zero concave. It's the flattest board I've ever seen and could be another reason why he's able to pop his tricks so high.
I think theres more physics to it then tucking. He is not only tucking more, but his pop has way more power in it, and his long legs help him a lot to. The more power in ur initial pop makes the board bounce off the ground with more force giving u more "pop" which then allows u to go higher using ur front foot to guide the board up and out. Idk its hard to explain pop in words.
Small dudes have pop too
@@modestareinoso5368 i nvr said they didnt. I just said his long legs give him and advantage in power. It comes down to how u use what u have.
That hip flexer exercise is awesome, it's so easy and it works. Can't believe I've never seen that before in thousands of videos. Thanks man.
Good job in this video. I'm going to try it next time I go to the park.
skater for 24 years here-- luan is one of my favorite skaters right now. my opinion on his high kickflip (and every other trick) is pretty basic. have a high and controlled ollie. Learning how to ollie while rolling and then ollie high is one the first things u should be learning and eventually master. when first starting out you would typically be skating in the streets with your friends where you learn how to ollie over each others boards and inevitably have contests of who can ollie the highest. So you stack the boards higher and higher. this sets the foundation for all your tricks. eventually as you learn tricks you learn how to do them not only off of things but over different obstacles. It forces you to learn how to pop over while at the same time, timing your pop and your flick. This builds muscle strength and muscle memory to where you do it so much it becomes second nature. so when you do it on flatground it will consistently have that high pop. But unfortunately kids now adays have the worst style because they never focus on the basics. its all about how many tricks you do not how clean you can do it. they grow up in skateparks where conditions are perfect and controlled. Smooth ground and the same obstacles.
My explanation is already long enough so i'll just leave it at this-- any real skater will tell you that they want to be remembered for their video part and what they were able to do in the streets for the culture and sport of skateboarding. not what they did in a skatepark or in a contest.
Well said
Very well said
Congrats on the kickflip Manuel and the front crook. I have super high pop for Ollies but not flip tricks. Wish it wasn’t raining so I could practice.
The flexibility and mobility is something very underrated in skating. But that being said it’s still not easy to have pop like that because of timing, power and control. IMO Luan has the best kickflip
Sewas kickflip is cleaner
I like Jake Hayes kick flip
Timing is so important. And alot of people seems to not really jump, but rather move their legs up.
I just practiced my ollies alot and focused on bringing my backleg up when doing them and now I kinda do it on every trick
Yeah it crosses over really well
bro don't be like embarrassed of your transitions, I think they're great cuz you actually enjoy doing them. Love your vids❤️
A lot of good comments. I say form and syncing your feet.
Focusing on strength likely has benefits, but getting your form right is essential.
Go back to old videos from the 80’s and 90’s with young, weak looking skaters on big, heavy setups. They still have pop because they’re form is so good. Blasting over trash cans and all that.
I know that a lot of people might be clowning these “how the pros do it” videos since he’s not “popping” as high as luan “so you don’t know what you’re talking about.” However, I haven’t skated in years and I recently just picked it back up. Between not skating and now, I have worked out a lot and since getting back on the board, I’ve noticed I have a lot more power and coordination but I don’t know what to do with it. So these videos he puts out about how to do tricks like the pros actually have really helped me because the queues and techniques he is explaining are truthful and precise, like that of a “skateboarding coach” or “skateboarding personal trainer”.
Glad it helped I don’t claim to be a great skater just how I think about thibgs
This makes sense. I always feel like i look so stiff when i do anything and its literally because my back leg is usually straight
Def gonna do that lil technique/work out from now on. It’ll help flipping tricks into grinds too
I can do kickflips pretty high and the secret to it is waiting long time after pop so the board gets steeper. This gives you more pressure on the flipfoot and you can pull it higher.
I think you are making confusion. Luan have to bend his knees because the board goes high, otherwise he cannot catch it. What you describe is the opposite: the board goes high because he bends his knees.
Now the question remains: why his board pops higher? It pops higher because he jumps higher. If you try to jump higher you have to compress suitably before the trick (you are not doing it in fact you are not poping much) and if you want to jump higher you necessary have to excess more force (pop) on your feet and thus on your board (newton law). So luan pop stronger than many of us to jump higher and, as a side effect, in order to catch the board he his obliged to bend his knees.
I tried this trick for higher pop and my tricks got like 2 times higher. So thank you for this video it helped me out alot.
I recommend kick blocking or just kicking a bag, that gets everything in shape. Luan also rides a tiny board, a 8.125 they’re easier to pop considering the weight difference.
moving your legs quickly up requires recruiting your muscles in a very short span of time, this is called power. Just training for strength can be helpful, but usually doesn't translate to increased power. In order to train power (like that used in ollie tricks where you pull your knees up very quickly), you must train power. One idea is to do squat jumps with high knees while wearing ankle weights. The squat jump is very close to the movement of an ollie, add in the high knees and you have the "high pop ollie". Add the weights and you have the training stimulus that should translate to the board.
A sample workout might include 3-5 sets of these jump squats with high knees, each set 5-10 reps, and 5 minutes rest between sets. Important - as soon as you start to feel yourself "powering down", STOP. Training power at less than maximal potential actually detrains your body.
I've inspired myself to try this!
That skatepark looks like so much fun!
It's a super fun one!
This view on the hills is amazing!
You should also do a series of this over a month or two of progression coming into winter to see if it helps you ollie higher.
Hell yeah man, kickflip manual was super sick!
thanks man out here tryna learn things!
agree 100 percent. found this out through my own experience and it's true
I'm not great at it but it makes sense
I remember struggling to learn to kick flip stationary & my buddy telling me to lift my knees higher. I landed it next try such a big tip.
I heard this tip about tucking your knees from Dan Corrigan's kickflip tutorial. Seeing this vid helped things click and I relate a lot more to watching you skate than an out-and-out pro. Thanks.
Back heel was fire 🔥
Luan has a crazy feet click setup. If you watch him setup his feet they flick back and forth right before he pops a trick. Most skaters do this too but Luan like really moves them. I also noticed he does a little of what I did to change my pop.. instead of popping straight down, pop the back foot outwards a little when you pop. By outwards I mean like your back foot goes down and out parallel with the tail, not outwards like a tre scoop. Works a little for me
The mystery of great pop is in part raising your legs or making sure you're not limiting the popped board with what you're doing with your feet. The big factor is in your ankle. You're back foot should barely touch the ground - if at all when you pop. The weight transferred between your back foot to your tail on lift should be creating a recoil like a drummer lifting up their wrist as the stick hits the drum skin. It's in that finite momentary weight transfer that snaps the board to stand straight up and then lift vertically into the air. The more powerful you can make that recoil, the more you're board will want to fly up. It's a great feeling when you feel a skateboard clap into your feet without trying to catch it by putting your feet down.
Thank you for making this
Hopefully this will be the thing that means I can Ollie high enough to do ledge tricks 🤞
It will help for sure! Good luck!
Jump with your front foot as much as you are with your back , along with what he said you should be able to grind anything you can jump on I know I can
one thing i do to get great height is thinking power. when i slide my foot out for an ollie i kick forward as hard as i can, as fast as i can, and raise my back foot. also loading my ankles as if i’m trying to touch a basketball net without a running start. for warmups i ollie over cones that are standing up until i land a couple and then proceed with the session. cool transition btw😆🤟🏾
I should practice over a cone
that kick flip manny was sick!!
Luan is a really interesting skater I Rember hearing an interview with Paul Smitt talking about how he skates a low concave board that doesn't help with pop, usually if you want more pop you skate high concave boards like tyshawn does but because how tall Luan is and his execution of tricks (how he builds up to the pop then lifts his legs after) allows him to get mad pop
Really great video, your content and skating just keeps getting better, gnarly man.
Hey I know this park! I’ve been playing around with stylizing tricks and sort of tweaking em and getting in tune with board control. It seems like for me really bending those knees inward helps get that power behind the flick and pop but it does seem to get different results than say having your knees out which seems to add stability. One skater that comes to mind is Shane O’Neill.
Lovely content, thanks so much!
Thanks my dude!
Many skaters just don't practice enough with their ollie height progression. Once they have an ok ollie they spend too much time moving on to trying different flip variations. Building up to a powerful ollie is something that you need to do constantly like working out in a gym.
Also it helps with really understanding your board
In my experience athleticism is huge for this. Also lifting the front knee up waiting for a “second” before going horizontal
skate community would benefit so much from knowing kneesovertoesguy... overloaded hip flexor raises... strong tibialis, full range of motion in the ankle and knee... so many injuries that would be prevented, old skaters that would keep skating and so on... honestly a bit sad that the knowledge is there and free and people ignore it and complain about their bodies..
Yeah I think there's a big shift happening where this kinda stuff is becoming more common among pro's and eventually might trickle down.
@@localjoe Yep I agree. Essentially the knowledge available from high level coaching for free now is better than anything I had as physical therapy growing up after surgeries. It's nuts. But cool that you're aware, I was really surprised to see you come to the conclusion of hip flexors for Luans pop! I think the other half of the equation is that the pop is also stronger when you have strong hip flexors/quads/vmo/ankles and more range of motion and so the board actually gets to where he pulls his feet up to. Crazy :)
I feel like flip tricks you can do late but I sometimes flub the pop on an ollie by leaning too forward. I bombed a hill switch today!
I also noticed him using the momentum of his feet snapping in the board in opposite directions. Keep going. Muscle strength and memory will get those knees up in the air
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Thanks for sharing this information.
I am curious to know what is your setup?
Greetings from Argentina!
I go over my setup in todays video
My secret to popping things higher is to live an active lifestyle. I notice even if I skate for an hour or two every other day, if I stay on the PC all day long, working from home, watching youtube, etc. etc. I lose so much strenght and I am constantly out of breath. Skating a few times a week is just not enough excercise. The best advice is to just get out more and not sit on a chair for 14 hours a day.
Another thing about Luan is that he also skates a 7.75 size board which helps the pop of the board but there’s a lot more that goes into it than just the board
In my opinion, the simple reason for that higher pop is the length of your foot and the strength of those foot to bend up symmetrically to your lower abdomen.
One other thing, crouch a little lower and spring up fast. Think of yourself like a coiled spring. The more you compress it the stronger the release and greater upward momentum created.
I like that!
It's not really true though, there is an optimum bend and going below is wasting energy coming up. You're not squatting ass to grass when trying to jump as high as possible either.
@@pnksmigge5324 i woz gonna say that,i can olly just as high without squatting so low ,it can sometimes throw you off balance,like you said waste of energy
"Hip flexors" - nice one! I didn't know what they were called. When I first got back into skating I kept straining/pulling mine every single time I skated. I could even land a few nice kickflips, but try more than a few and suddenly owwwwwie. Those muscles went away when I stopped skating. After a few months it's now stopped happening but I'm still struggling to get that good tuck, especially combined with pop and flick, legs just feel kinda dead pretty fast. I think getting those flexors stronger is really key and going to help alot with getting higher kickflips, and legs out of the way for lots of other tricks
Somebody else mentioned "twitch muscles" - those too! Mine are always sore, and I've strained them badly enough I've had to stop skating a few days at a time. The stronger they get the better I skate
The secret is to pop diagonal ↙️ almost backwards if that makes sense instead of straight down ⬇️ and tuck your knees as much as you can
Kickflip manny was insane!!
Luan the BEST in tricks
Always a fire vid 🔥
Thanks G! 🙏🏼
Luan is a monster haha. Congratulations for the channel.
He’s one of a kind for sure! ThNks for watching G!
The best hip flexor exercise is decline bench situps with one leg out and the other leg anchored. I do 3 sets of 10 on each leg
you got to have sooo much pop to talk about luans secrets
Luan é talento puro, claro que ele se preparou e aprimorou suas manobras ao decorrer do tempo, mas é nitido que ele tem uma facilidade quase que divina emcima do skate, oque skatistas comuns precisam treinar por anos e anos a fio ele consegue de forma quase que natural, isso pra mim é muito talento lapidado, desde muleke ele mandava tricks absurdas, 15 anos de idade mandando switch tail gazelle hell, como se copia um cara desse ? É muito difícil alcancar seu nivel com a mesma facilidade que esse cara tem emcima do skate, é um conjunto de coisas que nós meros mortais temos extrema dificuldade em por em prática, Luan é talento puro...
Just go to a four stair and try to Ollie up it you’ll learn to tuck your legs real quick, also luan is very in shape and light
Not a bad idea. With higher knees, there's more room for the board to rise.
You can also try putting your hands closer to your knees to make that last exercise progressively harder.
Also box jumps and slow controlled work outs like climbers do to get strength and mobility Conditioning.
THE SECRET: Watch early luan footage. His crouch is low He crosses his arms at its lowest point and as he begins to rise up, he brings them up at his sides to help his upward momentum. He is putting his entire body into the trick. As this upward momentum lifts his upper body, he is able to tuck his knees in tight to his torso. The clip you show at 2:40 illustrates this technique well. If you watch young luan, you will see it done purposefully..
Beautiful park
Thanks for this vid, pop is something I’ve theorized about for years and years and I’ve been hoping someone on YT would tackle.
I think that you have honed in on one portion of the mystery of high pop, that of elevating the knees, however this isn’t the full story imo. There are 2 more components that play a very big role.
The first is fairly obvious and was already hinted at by other commenters. Luan’s (and anyone’s) ability to elevate starts with that explosive power, that ability to accelerate his (and his board’s) mass up into the air. The generation of force is a matter of physical strength and mobility, yes, but also of efficient and precise neuromuscular coordination. There’s lots of ways to improve these aspects of one’s fitness and we all start at different places, with different attributes and tendencies.
Secondly, there is the question of foot technique and board control. This aspect is probably the most difficult to articulate in a comment, but it is my feeling that the counter-pressure of the feet preceding the instant of pop has everything to do with how the board behaves in flight, and that this aspect is under-discussed and poorly understood. One cue (on ollies and flip tricks) that has helped me is to visualize both of my feet pressing in opposite directions as I wind up a trick. By imagining the popping foot as not just rebounding the nose/tail off the ground, but also pulling the board in the opposite direction as the sliding/flicking foot, you are creating more friction on that foot with which to propel the board up into the air. I didn’t realize this until learning switch and nollie tricks, which were always low and rocket until I learned to do this. Funny how by reverse-engineering tricks we know so we can teach our bodies to do them switch, we gain new insights we missed the first time around. Anyway thanks again for the vid!
The king of pop🖤🔥
Core strength helps too. Hip flexors are the middleman.
Had to like the vid after that fakie flip, got me bro! lol
thanks for the vid
How did u know I needed this 💀
it's important to note that luan doesn't pop his tricks while pushing down his feet, but he kinda pushes it a bit far off from where his feet starts, cause when he kicks there is more room for the board to move too
Great video! I still haven't learned how to ollie, but I have studied a lot of ollie videos over the years and done a lot of failed experiments :-D I actually think how fast you lift the front foot is one of the most important factors for how much pop you get. You need to move the front foot out of the way of the board to allow it to go up into the air. When you apply power to the tail of the board, the nose of the board will rise very quickly. If your front foot is in the way when this happens, you will decrease or stop this motion. So lifting the front foot at the right moment is also very important. And it's not just the upward motion which will be decreased or stopped if your front foot is in the way. The downward motion of the tail will also be decreased/stopped and then you will get a weaker pop. But this is just a lot of "theory" from an overthinking struggling skateboarder :-D I'm very impressed by Spencer Barton's ollies and he talks about timing and technique, especially foot movement. Checkout 4min 51sec in this video ua-cam.com/video/vUFHGAeldW8/v-deo.html
Damn that park looks so fun
Damn i need to start a skate channel . Just got back into it. Nothing beats shredding with a crew of homies
The best thing you can do is starting to flip on or over stuff like manny pads, ledges and gaps. The fysics behind it is just to complicated to write out in a comment. It just has a lot to do with timing of sertain movements, pitch of the ankle flick and position of the head and shoulders in regards to your front and back truck.
I would say another HUGE TIP would be make sure your jumping with your front foot just as much as your back foot I feel like people when trying to pop end up focusing too much on power in just back foot instead of jumping as high as you can with both legs along with what he said
Sounds like box jumps would be great to teach to lift the hips up and onto things
Flat or concave board?
What music is playing at the end?
I've notice you have no pop but still like your video. Tip you should focus on is loading up your weight on your popping foo! in doing so in most tricks you will do will be a pulling/pushing pop! This will help you out more than u can imagine. Just load all your weight on your popping before u pop the trick, it will allow you to slide your foot off fast and easier on the way up!
Wow what a great video! Subbed 👌
where is this skatepark at?
keep it up
love the vids
thanks g!
what camera do you use?
It’s the kick on his nose/tail. I wouldn’t even consider his pop powerful. Just quick with velocity. Which is what power really is. Speed= Velocity. But the secret is his shape. Which is honestly weird asf IMoP but I hardley ever missed my snap. The board is nearly flat
i love your videos, i think im similar to u in skill and age which makes ur vids click with me really well, this one was awesome
Thank you sir
Ayeeee lil homie on the board gonna be insane one day haha🔥
haha I hope he wants to skate!
the board size also, a maximum of 7,8''
Does he skate that narrow?
Dude your kickflips are low cause you pop and flick straight and you don't put a delay on your flick. Try this with your kickflips pop then with your flicking leg bring that knee to your chest then flick your foot straight up. Just practice that motion flinging your board up as high as you can with one foot. You' ll immediately realize that the trick to getting any trick up high has nothing to do with your popping foot but rather how high you extend your front foot. So a propper high kickflips should follow these steps one pop next knee to the chest next flick up as high as you can then back foot focus on back foot on touching your ass then land bolts. Also with flip tricks in general a delayed flip and a higher flick will result in a higher trick.
Fast legs but also looong, look how tall Luan is, it's no wonder you can pop so high!
He is very short haha
I learn to not hinge and slouch but rather squat and back little straight
Jake hayes posted up a recent tik tok about his foot positioning to be able to pop his kick flips high, im sure it could help you out.
Speed is the key
“Nobody does this better than Luan Olivera “ uh try Jake Hayes bro King of pop and high Ollie champ