Damned ollies!!

ben8473 · Criminal Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 86

OK, I have not been riding long, so i guess practice is the key, but I would appreciate any tips on the correct way to pull ollies off better.
I can do small ollies but as soon as i get the front of the board any higher, i cannot level out.
Help!!!!!!!!!!!

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

I got the tony hawk trick tips video 1 and it helped a bunch. It's all about practice. Try to lean over the nose of your board more if you can't level it out.

ben8473 · Criminal Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 86

Thanks for the advice Wakebrad, I was gonna ask about good tip vids to get. Is Hawks vid the best one or are there others that might be worth getting?

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

ben8473, to be honest I don't know of any other videos. I bought the Hawk video and it helped. There might be better ones. An ollie is about the only skateboard trick I can land consistently so I'm not an expert. Hopefully someone else can chime in and let you know some more info. I took up skateboarding in the off-season to help my wakeboarding. But now that I have a boat I can go year round so there's not much point.

ben8473 · Criminal Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 86

I took it up for the same reasons but have grown to hugely respect skateboarding, and unfortunately, realise just how damned difficult it is compared to wakeboarding. Thanks for the help Wakebrad, and nice avatar.........

Jester · Posted: Apr 14, 2005 4:20 pm Post subject:

Ollies are a matter of practice. If you can do a stationary one then you just need to refine your technique. Before you go & buy a vid you might wanna see what you can find on the internet, I know several years ago the Birdhouse skateboards site had a buncha videos of Willy Santos giving trick tips on ollies, kickflips, & heelflips.

Couple things to remember:
-Suck your knees in to your chest to maximize your height
-Don't forget to lift your back foot.

cookiemonster420nj · Criminal Joined: 18 Aug 2004 Posts: 98 City: midland park

Don't get discouraged. I started skating when I was 12 (now 29) and the ollie was the hardest to learn. If I remember correctly it took me almost 6 months before I got any good at it. Once you learn the ollie, a whole new world of tricks open up. Grabs, varials, kick-flips. My biggest thing with getting height on ollies is squatting all the way down tight to board, and then jumping up pulling in legs tight. You'll learn how far forward to place your body. If you have a shitty, skinny, light board or an old freestyle board, this is the best board to learn on. Moving while doing the ollie will help as well. If you're stationary while trying the ollie, it's ok. But you'll start to learn how to handle the board more with it moving and you should be able to get more height this way as well. Good luck to you, and don't give up....once you get it, there's nothing like it and you'll be doing ollies high as shi* on the wakeboard. Water lofts you excellently on a wakeboard ollie. Water gives where as concrete does not.

sj11 · Criminal Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 50 City: gilford, nh

the eayest way to learn ollies are get all of the tips and the main things you have to do and then pratice a lot Wink

wake_quake · Posted: Sep 11, 2005 6:07 pm Post subject:

cant really help i kinda ollie without thinking