How
to ollie.
Now I'm no expert, I can
get about a foot or more on a good day, but here are my tips anyway:
OK. To start stand next
to your board and stamp on the back kick, using you hands or knee to
stabilize you board and or catch it. Look at what happened, it went
up in the air. Weird.
Get rolling. Its important to learn to ollie moving as its a
completely different method to olling stationary and who wants to do
that?
Get your feet in the right position. Put your back foot right
on the back kick. Here you put your front foot depends on how high you
need to go. Putting your front foot right in the middle of your board
will give you a high unstable ollie and closer to the front bolts will
give you more stability and less pop, good for getting up curbs at high
speed for example. Now you've shuffled your feet around get ready to
POP.
Bend your knees a bit then push down on the back kick hard and fast,
stamp on it if you will. At the same time jump up sliding your front
foot up the board to level it out.
To land make sure your feet are roughly over you truck bolts and simply
extend you legs, trying to land with all four wheels at the same time.
Ride away.
This will probably feet weird at first and take a lot of practice
to get right.
My advice is to persevere and practice, you'll need this basic move
to do any other trick. One of Newton most famous laws is "every action
has an equal and apposite reaction" basically meaning to ollie nice
and high bend you knees more and really go for it on the pop, exploding
upwards. Another tip for extra high ollies is to crouch then ollie just
after in one action, this help utilize the pop of the deck more but
can throw your balance off so takes practice.
If olling up and/or over object is proving hard for you, especially
when you know you can go that high but still keep messing up or if your
back foot keeps missing the board, try this; As you approach the object
look at it then as you get bout a meter away turn you attention down
to your board so you can see you back foot, as you ollie you will be
able to see the object pass under you and make sure your back foot staysvhere
it shold be. The timing of this takes bit of perfection and it might
not even work for you but give it a try. Good objects to try and ollie
are curbs, empty cans and other boards, first upside down, then the
right way up and on edge, before trying long ways and stacks.
Once your comfortable with olling try to introduce a middle section
to the whole movement, in between pop-level out and extend to land try
to float a bit. Just calm down a little and lift those legs and
try to just float the ollie out a bit. Not only will you find ollie
lasts longer ands lands smother it will probably go higher and be more
stable and stylish.
