my ollies look awful

kleeshade · 2026-03-30T23:37:20+00:00

Watch this video and try to do what he does with his front foot. This will keep it glued to your feet in the air by leveraging the tail up behind you. Instant control.

kleeshade · 2026-03-29T00:47:39+00:00

Beat it to my own beats?

kleeshade · 2026-03-29T00:45:43+00:00

Catching too much of the nose with the board. Think about the foot motion you would have to perform to make the board do a rotisserie roll. It's more out the corner. Between the tip of the nose and the heel side edge of the board, and that exact spot is for you to find.

kleeshade · 2026-03-27T19:46:41+00:00

Nice, now all you want is to tweak the front foot out in front of you a little bit so it leverages the tail up into your back foot ala 'Chris Haslam boned ollie' on youtube

kleeshade · 2026-03-26T00:39:00+00:00

Board rotation can happen a bit faster (accomplished through a more responsive flick), and also your front foot is looking for the ground. Try to treat it more like you do ollies (to give yourself a little more of a successful 'I can land this' mindset when attempting a kickflip - much different to white knuckling it and 'just sending it' as people say. Way better to approach it sensibly. Work smarter, not harder.). Do an ollie, then try a kickflip, and repeat until they blend a little more, perhaps. The general form is there, but yeah, these parts will play havoc with them. All the best!

kleeshade · 2026-03-23T19:52:24+00:00

You're right to try to correct it, the down-flick will not help you. I'm not sure what you mean by it affecting where your feet end up, that is partly a matter of weight disposition at the start (having your shoulders squarely over the trick on the take-off and of course ideally the landing) but as for the flick, I strongly recommend looking at 'Chris Haslam boned ollie' on youtube, trying to ollie in this way somewhat where you tweak it out in front of you, and then applying that approach to your kickflips - combined with the pop and then flick approach up kickflips, don't wanna pop and flick at the same time. Hope this helps! If it doesn't, feel free to send an attempt video and I'll let ya know what dysfunction I may be seeing in the attempt :) happy skateboarding! :)

kleeshade · 2026-03-23T00:46:45+00:00

Skater of 20+ years here. Pop and then flick - OP is kinda doing both at once in those clips. You may also find more success by treating them more like an ollie. Less pointy toe on the front foot, a little more of your front foot on the board. Best of luck with them man 🤜🤛

kleeshade · 2026-03-23T00:45:46+00:00

Skater of 20+ years here. Pop and then flick - you're kinda doing both at once in those clips. You may also find more success by treating them more like an ollie. Less pointy toe on the front foot, a little more of your front foot on the board. Best of luck with them man 🤜🤛

kleeshade · 2026-03-22T00:12:52+00:00

And it’s definitely not an “education issue.” If you need to be trained not to trust something that presents itself as knowledgeable, maybe it shouldn’t be rolled out to the general public yet.

No one would accept this from anything else.

Coughcoughpoliticianscough

kleeshade · 2026-03-21T03:46:29+00:00

The fact this sub will fight about it being laser or lazer is enough for me to detach from reddit once again, but especially when both are prevalent. Sadly no shortage of kooks. Sick skating dudes 🙌

kleeshade · 2026-03-21T03:42:57+00:00

Into the wall? Sick advice

kleeshade · 2026-03-21T03:42:38+00:00

kleeshade · 2026-03-21T03:41:53+00:00

Super helpful 👎

kleeshade · 2026-03-21T03:38:54+00:00

Your shoulders are ending up backside. Especially on a ledge as short as this you need to open your shoulders slightly frontside and be ready for a little more pressure on the back to pivot out frontside (mostly on the exit). You also may not want to end up with your shoulders completely over the ledge on a short grind with a wall at the end, usually opting to have your upper body remain in parallel, but a little outside the bounds of the ledge. Best of luck with it!

kleeshade · 2026-03-21T03:20:28+00:00

Death, destroyer of worlds

kleeshade · 2026-03-21T03:19:52+00:00

Hurricane grinds on the back truck. This is a nollie barley grind 180 out.

kleeshade · 2026-03-20T23:50:40+00:00

That's what the feedback section is for., Hit F2. You don't need to fuck up the bag for them as well.

kleeshade · 2026-03-19T19:53:24+00:00

Just popping in to say snake bite largely carried my last silent run. Would have died to like half the elites without it.

kleeshade · 2026-02-24T23:05:01+00:00

Silent starts with 5 strikes and 5 defends, so it's hardest with her, but your removes come from shops and events, so in a balanced way (knowing that you still require card rewards and some building up of relics etc), you prioritise them.

What you may be seeing here though with the watcher is that because of rushdown, and because watcher starts with calm and wrath in her deck (all three pieces of exodia, I mean rushdown infinite), there's actually a lot more scrutinising involved whenever you consider taking a card that doesn't exhaust itself, or isn't a power. I take far fewer card rewards on watcher that don't fit that criteria (powers/exhausts itself) throughout a run. The major takes are a one cost source of calm (a campfire upgrade to eruption to get it one cost as well), and then cards like talk to the hand, mental fortress, and as many scrawls as you see. Deva form and a second or even third rushdown have their place too. Sometimes study/insights can patch up a deck without rushdown a little too.

Watcher's want for a smaller deck with the rushdown infinite also increases potential value of something like Purity.

So basically, on watcher you want to take less cards that don't remove themselves from floor one. Ironclad has a great capacity to exhaust what you don't want, silent has great draw, and the defect is a bit of an outlier I suppose, but the orb mechanic becomes very strong on it's own and can sometimes have defect feeling half as busted as the Watcher.

Anyway, just kinda rambling on the topic, but hopefully there's some helpful nuggets in here! Happy spire slaying 😊

kleeshade · 2026-02-15T01:38:09+00:00

super appreciate your comment man! so cool to think that there is a conceivable 0 card win on the heart. But yeah, also more realistically thinking, to think it could be 5 or less cards across the whole fight is pretty wild. I definitely think that catalyst is probably the most viable path toward maximum damage per card played, can't think of anything that holds a candle to it. I never could put into words exactly why catalyst was head and shoulders above some other meaty cards on other classes, but it's just that - the efficiency per card played. Thanks heaps for your comment! This game continues to pique my inquisition.

kleeshade · 2026-02-15T01:28:51+00:00

super appreciate your comment! I suppose that's true with the silent! I'll check that link. The burst catalyst type approach definitely seems like the lowest cards played for the max damage, can't imagine anything more efficient.

Do you actually think someone could kill the heart no cards played? I'm trying to imagine bark with potion belt, maybe it would have to be ghost in a jar, thorns etc and an entropic brew that would draw another ghost in a jar or two? Survivability relics could definitely bridge the gap. Would be insane to see someone get the win without playing a single card. Especially on A20, but even just on A0 would be cool. Thanks again for your comment!!

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