Ollie height.

sooner dud · Newbie Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 47

just wondering how high you guys can get on your ollies. i never have really worked on them but i'm going to start. what is a realalistic heigth to shoot for?

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

It's hard to know exactly how high you are until you try to ollie over something. The main point of reference I have is I love ollying no wake buoys. I'd guess those are about waist high. 3-3.5 ft or so.

Practice your ollies until you're comfortable with them and then try to clear obstacles. Just make sure you don't do it in chop or you might hit a dip and then slam into it.

STANG KILLA SS · Posted: Jul 02, 2008 7:19 am Post subject:

the good guys can ollie over a bouy no problem.

heres me attempting an ollie. im a newb not even jumping wake to wake yet. i have horrible form and no clue what im doing. but the pictures of me ollieing always suprise me, it doesnt feel like im that high out of the water in real life.
however you can see im cheating alot, nose is way high and knees in my chest.

holdsworth · Posted: Jul 02, 2008 7:51 am Post subject:

i ollied over a buoy the other day while riding. it was poking up about 2 feet and i cleared it by about 8 inches or so.

the key to ollying is the pump. bounce, without jumping, on the water to get an extra push for when you do your ollie. this helps a lot rather than just jumping. think of a trampoline, if the surface is moving up and down from you pumping your knees and you go for the bounce, you go a lot higher.

Rhawn · Posted: Jul 02, 2008 8:35 am Post subject:

http://alliancewake.com/video_details_extreme.php?id=3848

TnR6Rida · Posted: Jul 02, 2008 10:16 am Post subject:

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

This was 3 years ago (on the 4th)

STANG KILLA SS · Posted: Jul 02, 2008 10:56 am Post subject:

damn steve and brad Shocked

killer guys Cool

TnR6Rida · Posted: Jul 02, 2008 11:01 am Post subject:

Thanks. It is all about the "pump" or bounce likeholdsworth, said.

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

Thanks.

To me the rocking motion is the biggest part. You can't just jump like you would off the ground because the board sticks to the water. You want to rock back on your tail and then pop off your tail.

LakeIolaLuke · Posted: Jul 02, 2008 2:20 pm Post subject:

If you edge out and ollie while you still have speed, you can get a lot better push off the water cause it's harder. I could ollie BS180 the cheesewedge at o-dub (3 ft) cleanly, but i had to cut at it like I was gonna actually hit it.

STANG KILLA SS · Posted: Jul 02, 2008 3:27 pm Post subject:

shapiro ollies on edge. hes the only one ive ever seen do it or teach ollies to be done on edge.
http://test.waketrix.com/view_clip.php?id=77

holdsworth · Posted: Jul 02, 2008 4:01 pm Post subject:

STANG KILLA SS, many people do it to get on sliders. ollying on edge is nothing new.

STANG KILLA SS · Posted: Jul 02, 2008 5:54 pm Post subject:

ahh, my mistake.
i dont do cable, so im not that familiar with it.

bonsaitree · Outlaw Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 198

Its not that he ollies on edge, he just edges out hard first to get speed and effectively make the water harder so that he can get more power back out of his ollie. His description of how to ollie isn't exactly what he does. Watch him, he levels off before he actually ollies.

weatherford · Soul Rider Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 471 City: Seattle

big_steve, Looks like that one could be photoshoped.

TnR6Rida · Posted: Jul 03, 2008 11:20 am Post subject:

Zcaithaca · Soul Rider Joined: 21 Mar 2007 Posts: 251 City: Ithaca

holdsworth · Posted: Jul 03, 2008 1:46 pm Post subject:

it's weatherford. he doesn't know any better.

weatherford · Soul Rider Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 471 City: Seattle

haha, yeah your right. Actually i was there for that picture, in the boat.

alfromscotland · Soul Rider Joined: 06 May 2008 Posts: 259 City: aberdeen

thanks for changing the speeling of the tittle of this threed, it was rllly buggin mee

HHI Dave · Posted: Jul 07, 2008 6:55 am Post subject:

Aaron Reed (nice name-drop, I know Laughing

) said that the best way to improve your ollie skills is to practice actually ollie-ing over objects. An anchored empy milk jug would be a good starting point

sooner dud · Newbie Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 47

thanks for all the feedback.
didn't realize it was easier outside of the wake. i've always done mine inside the wake.
been boarding for about 2 seasons. tried to learn too quick. will be going back learning the basics before i start working on more pop.
don't get too go that often, and when i do i'm with the fam so my time is limited. but last time out was about a 20 min run with nothing but surface 180's and riding 90% switch. switch is getting a little easier. still squirrelly when i really try to dig in and edge.