ollie trouble

w2w motive · Outlaw Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 105

i've been wakeboarding a while, and skating for a few months and i love it. but i just cannot ollie to save my life. i wanna get better and i can do surface 3's and all that, but i just cant ollie. ive read all the online trick tips i can find but cant get the board out of the water. anyone have any advice?

nickl011 · Posted: Jul 24, 2007 5:59 pm Post subject:

Can you do it on a skateboard? Id suggest practicing as much as you can on land, then try it on water.

Jester · Posted: Jul 24, 2007 7:54 pm Post subject:

I'm no good at wakeskating so take this advice with a grain of salt, but I've been watching a lotta wakeskating on Fuel lately and it looks like the guys stomp the nose a little first before they pop the tail.

nickl011 · Posted: Jul 24, 2007 8:21 pm Post subject:

Jester, yea they are "pumping" , it helps.

w2w motive · Outlaw Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 105

im not really into/dont ever hope to be into skateboarding, so no i cant do it on a skateboard.

Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

w2w motive, its similar to the concept on a wakeboard. You have to launch off your tail and get your front foot in the air.

Basically rock onto your back foot, lift your front foot, jump off your back foot and then level it out.

edrex · Posted: Jul 25, 2007 2:42 pm Post subject:

I'm finding in/out ollies to be much easier then ones out in the flats. Today we had an awesome day on the lake and I was popping those higher then I ever had before. Also did some one wake jumps but those were much less consistant for me.

andrewt · Outlaw Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 140 City: lewisville

it's not really like doing an ollie on a skateboard at all..

cadence_131 · Outlaw Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 136 City: Miami

okAy stop stop stop.. i know i havent been on this site in a while, mainly because i go on ws.com now but.... i really have to correct this advice

you cant ollie (at least properly) by pumping the nose first like you would a wakeboard. it is a completetly different motion. Its all in your back foot. you absorb your front foot after using your back foot to pop it. at first i was stomping my back foot first but i found that the ollies came smoother and higher if you use a kind of sliding motion with it instead, but still popping the tail with a forceful foot. your front foot does nothing but absorb, it does not have to "pump"... thats for wakeboarders.

also, make sure your elbow is in and your over the board and not on an edge. when you pop with your back foot, absorb your front foot, then kinda absorb your back foot... you should feel it come with the pop.

i just realized, wakebrad gave perfect advice

deepcove · Soul Rider Joined: 15 Mar 2004 Posts: 296 City: Vancouver

cadence_131 · Outlaw Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 136 City: Miami

on a wakeskate? well, im not saying it isnt possible, because a friend of mine said he does that, but every other wakeskater ive rode with will tell you thats not the proper way to learn to ollie (including him). the biggest ollies i have ever seen were the ones that popped from the tail. the only time ive seen some one pump is wakeskaters that were previously wakeboarders and their tail didnt even come off the water.

plain and simple, its not the proper way to ollie and for those who do do it and get a good ollie, they know exactly what to do with there feet. but its not something beginners should try.

endlessracingz · Newbie Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 16

Its odd... I can ollie on a skateboard fine but on the wakeskate its a bit different.

I think I just need to play around with it more.