Height on Ollies

listen2cky · Posted: Jul 20, 2004 7:52 am Post subject: Height on Ollies

How high can you guys get when you olly? I know guys like Parks can get more than 2 or 3 feet, which is insane, but what is your average? I can probably get 12-16 inches, which is good. It's enough for me to do any of the olly 180's i need to do front or backside.

One thing I like to do to practice my ollies is to ride hard into the wake like I would for a normal jump, but olly just before the trough so that you, in a sense, olly over the wake and land in the middle. It is a fun way to practice. Throw in a little frontside 180 everynow and then.

AbsoluteRida · Outlaw Joined: 24 May 2004 Posts: 156 City: Atl

on an average i ollie like two feet . widening my stance has helped me because i can suck up more to get on RAILS!! jUST KEEP WORKIN on it and u will get it. plus im really short but i dont know if that hurts or helps me! (5ft3in)only 14 though)

colefooter · Posted: Jul 20, 2004 2:47 pm Post subject:

Pffff i can ollie 3 feet on a wakesurfer

not really but i probably ollie about 1 foot on a wakeboard

AbsoluteRida, what tricks can u even do, doin ollies 2 feet high u should beable to do air backrolls and stuff, can you?

south · Posted: Jul 20, 2004 3:13 pm Post subject:

im crap but one of my mates is great at them.. he's done a BS 180 over a tube, which had a wooden plate across the top with a orange traffic cone on top, so 2ft high or more, i reckon i'd struggle to ollie much more than a foot.

try doing ollies over bouys around your lake.

Haggy102 · Outlaw Joined: 16 Apr 2004 Posts: 103

same here...i probably get a foot when i ollie....but thats good enough so far

simland · Posted: Jul 20, 2004 3:30 pm Post subject:

There is a difference I prolly get a foot but I can suck the board up so that it looks like I have 2-3 feet of height.

colefooter · Posted: Jul 20, 2004 5:20 pm Post subject:

yeah thats what i do, theres no really exact way to see how high you can ollie, because when you bend your knees it brings up the board to look higher

and if you ollie with your knees locked your weird

simland · Posted: Jul 20, 2004 6:24 pm Post subject:

The pc term is "different". Should be able to tell by the hips if you gots footage, that's how I do it mostly for w2w jumps.

Lantzvillian · Posted: Jul 21, 2004 3:40 pm Post subject:

I get two 1/2 feet.. I figure that cause I was olliing a slider that was about 2. I htink the best way to make you get more pop is to stomp down on the nose then kick up on the back and level out.. It flexs the board and makes a mini wake to get air off of. I can do ollie front side 3s and switch ollies to blind.. I think thats the secret if you watch any movies or stills of sliders. My friend can do ollie cab 3s over a 3 1/2 foot booter.. ( and hes doing it on the flatside not the ramp) hes my hero Very Happy

colefooter · Posted: Jul 21, 2004 6:21 pm Post subject:

stomp down on the nose? Wouldn't you do like a nose dive?

I basically push off of the water and then ollie as high as i can, never been on a slider though so i really don't know how high i exactly do one

intotheflats · Posted: Jul 21, 2004 8:17 pm Post subject:

I can get about 2 feet I think, I ollied over a no wake buoy a couple times and it was about 2 feet over the surface.

Lantzvillian · Posted: Jul 22, 2004 12:07 pm Post subject:

no you don't nose dive.. look at that slider thing in the last wakeboarding mag.. the episode part with the guy doing the 270 off stuff.. maybe the issue b4 he does it too.. Suposidly it gives you more pop and control/timing.

Fredrick Eisenhauer · Posted: Jul 22, 2004 10:48 pm Post subject:

2 feet is alright, sometimes if I really try I reckon I get 3ft.