Please explain ollie

PennsylvaniaJeff · Newbie Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 14

I keep seeing references to an ollie, and making sure you can do this beofre you tricks listed in the beginner section, but there is no explanation of just a simple ollie. I can wake-to-wake and ride switch, so now I'm ready for more...

Thanks!!

BleedingDead · Outlaw Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 110 City: Granbury

an ollie is pretty simple, man. all you have to do is push down with ur back foot, then pull the board up. i'm sure u have done it... just getting air without hitting anything is what i'd call it

simland · Posted: Jul 07, 2004 7:08 pm Post subject:

Easy to learn hard to do really well I would say. I wish I could ollie really well but mine suck and are kind of washy.

leslisa · Posted: Jul 08, 2004 11:37 am Post subject:

simland, Mine too and I have been riding almost a year (course I can't even go W2W so no surprise there Laughing

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Lisa

pooser · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 4738

to learn an ollie i always kinda reccomend "bouncing" out in the flats. but basically you want to push down with your back foot and pull up with your fornt then flatten the board out. form there its just working on timing and stuff.

savage3221 · Posted: Jul 08, 2004 2:58 pm Post subject:

also called a bunny hop

simland · Posted: Jul 08, 2004 4:48 pm Post subject:

What's good heigh for an ollie? I can get maybe a foot or so.

pcm2a · Soul Rider Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 318 City: LaVergne

Do you have to do the ollie to do the move where you hop and flip your board around to switch (or back)?

Fredrick Eisenhauer · Posted: Jul 09, 2004 5:29 am Post subject:

2 foot is pretty good.

savage3221 · Posted: Jul 09, 2004 6:25 am Post subject:

you can do that surface too...but the ollie 180 looks better and leads up to other things

DLX134 · Criminal Joined: 16 Aug 2003 Posts: 87 City: Nashville

if u want to try to get more height, you can lean to the front of the board, putting more weight on ur front foot before pushing down with the back one. it gives u momentum

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

savage3221 · Posted: Jul 09, 2004 11:01 am Post subject:

I never do, its just a way for him to grasp the concept

smahmoud · Outlaw Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 101 City: Cairo Egypt

Man when i ollie i feel that the board is sucked into the water

MiCkLe · Newbie Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 19

A guy told me that in order to do a bunny hop, you have to push your front foot down quickly (kinda like stepping on sumthing) and it actually works for me.

savage3221 · Posted: Jul 10, 2004 7:55 am Post subject:

you weight your front foot, and then (with the right timing) you snap back, putting your weight on your back foot. this gives you more of a pop... this makes your ollies more effortless and smooth, no more awkward looking ollies that look (and feel) like your board is made of cement. GOOD LUCK GETTING IT DOWN! Razz

Scorched_Ice7 · Posted: Jul 10, 2004 9:13 am Post subject:

This probably isnt the best ollie I did but its the only one I have a picture of. You can see from the water that the board was kinda stuck to to water til it released.

Mike.H · Posted: Jul 10, 2004 6:11 pm Post subject:

is it kinda like what you would do for a skateboard ollie?

simland · Posted: Jul 11, 2004 2:08 pm Post subject:

So you weight the front foot? I usuall just push down with the back, bring the front foot up and then suck the back leg up into my to level off the board. I do it like I would on a skateboard.

Norcalboarddude · Outlaw Joined: 12 Jun 2004 Posts: 193 City: Modesto,Ca

Alan C · Soul Rider Joined: 26 Jan 2004 Posts: 329 City: Calgary

ya wieght on your front foot??? never heard of it... i just push down real hard on my backfot... bring my front up then my back... it works good

simland · Posted: Jul 16, 2004 10:58 pm Post subject:

If you watch the relentless trailer a guy pulls off a really sweet ollie 180. It looks like he weights the front a little. And yea I expereicen the feeling where the board feels like it is glued to the water but I apparently get air.

pcm2a · Soul Rider Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 318 City: LaVergne

MAN! That guy looks like he barely pushes down at all! He leans on his front foot a little and then just soars into the air.

The only thing I can see that I have never tried is being on edge when I do an ollie. I barelly get 2 inches out there. He looks like hes up pretty good on edge and then does the manuver.

simland · Posted: Jul 17, 2004 9:40 pm Post subject:

I went for an ollie 180 today and landed it as a 90. I let go right as I realized I wasn't going to get the board around but I had already hit the water at 90 degrees. Funny part is that I just ended up doing a butterslide out in the flats. Thank god, I prefer that to the horrible face plant I expected.

savage3221 · Posted: Jul 17, 2004 9:51 pm Post subject:

the weight on the front foot is slight and it kinda loads the board for the snap. it sorta sinks the whole board in more and then releasing the front foot and pushing down with the back foot get the board in deep and at an angle that just the water moving past the board pushes you up.

Shifter · Newbie Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 37

Thank you - I was wondering what an ollie was (yup - very new to this) Wink