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IntroductionThe ollie is an absolute essential trick if you're planning on doing flip tricks or grinds/slides. In a sense it's an "introduction" to skateboarding tricks. But no matter how developed your trick list gets, you'll still find fun in doing the simple ollie across gaps and such. What You Need to KnowOther Skills: The ollie is oftentimes the first real trick you're going to learn concerning skateboarding. But before you start trying to do this, you need to know how to atleast roll around and stay balanced on your board. You really don't have to know a lot to learn this one, but atleast be comfortable. Doing The TrickPositioning:
- The back foot
The back foot should be square on your tail of the deck. Make sure it's positioned to be able to offer a good pop as well as maintaining balance.
- The front foot
The front foot will be best placed just a few inches behind the front bolts. Make it level with the board. You will likely want to try moving it around a little bit depending on your personal preference
Motion: Get yourself rolling slowly and position your feet for this one.
- Smack your tail against the ground
- As you're performing step one, bend your foot and drag the side of your foot up the deck towards the tail. If you combine these two motions properly, the draging motion will be lifting you off of the ground with the deck still intact to your feet.
- As your front foot is over the bolts, unroll your front foot while leveling the deck out. The leveling out will come more naturally with practice, so don't worry too much if you're having a hard time with it at first.
- Once you're board is leveled out, you'll begin falling back to the ground. Make sure you stay centered over your board. When you hit the ground, bend your knees slightly to absorb the impact.
TroubleshootingThe ollie is going to be a bit confusing at first. But the troubleshooting to this trick is very important, as it's going to teach you and help you understand some key elements about skateboarding. At first though, you might have a hard time understanding what is exactly causing particular problems, but that's what this part of the guide is for.
- I pop my tail and just kind of jump off my board.
The reason the board isn't sticking with your feet is because you're not making the motion your front and back foot at the same time. The best way to really correct this is just plain practice. Overtime, you'll naturally develop better timing and having your feet perform in sync together, if you will.
- I get into the air, but I force the nose of my board to the ground quicky
The cause for this is because you're not leveling out properly. You're applying too much force downwards when trying to level it out, and you're pushing it straight down. Try applying less force with your front foot
- I get into the air fine, but upon landing I fall off my board
This is a real uncomfortable problem, to say the least. Chances are this is happening because you're not keeping your upperbody aligned with the deck. Make sure you avoid leaning too far in any direction while performing this trick.
Another thing to make note of is to observe the ground you're skating on. Make sure the surface isn't too rough (which is slightly dependent on the size of your wheels). And, of course, make sure there isn't anything that could mess up your movement upon hitting (i.e small pieces of grave, sticks, cracks, ect...)
- I get up and down okay.. But I'm only getting a tiny bit off of the ground, and want to go higher
When you first start getting this trick done, don't expect to soar beautifully through the air like some of the pros do. It's going to take a while to get solid style developed and it's going to take a while to get higher into the air.
The only thing you really need to do here is practice. The more you do it, the cleaner and fluent your ollie will become. The more consistent it will get. It will also get higher up. Just keep practicing it!
Where Do I Go From Here?It's not my place to tell you where to go from here. Once you got this trick, you've opened a whole book of possibilities. Maybe you want to start making that deck do some flips/spins rather than just sticking to your feet. Or hey, maybe you want to ollie down/up/over/across some stuff rather than on flat ground. Maybe rather than simply landing on the ground, you'd like to land on a rail? There are seemingly an endless amount of possibilities. Have fun |
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This is in the new V2.0 format, that's why it's being published. Of course it needs a few images before it really shows how good the V2.0 format is.
It'll direct you to my personal site. And it's totally legit too. 2 easy tips is all it takes.
I could ollie really high not moving but I barely get of the ground moving.
ANY HELP????????