You need to shov your front foot forward to the nose right after your pop

slide your foot forward, dont push it down just slide it forwards to the nose a nd let your back foot push it down then go up fast

Maybe you're smacking good the tail but another thing you have to do is that your front foot has to slide the grip. Don't forget that.

Maybe you're not shoving the table with the front feet and try to jump as the board pops the floor

How many people say skating is physic the tail not goes up when u smack it because the tail goes only up if the ground gives enough force back to pop it so the resolution is that u need to jump before ur tail comes on the ground only only smack it on the ground don't gives not enough force cause of ur bodyweight u can practice it with ur foot on the tail and popping it up so u can catch it

So once u get tail slide ur front foot forwards also try doing it fast

You may be not sliding you foot forward make sure you do that