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Modern ollie technique. The ollie is a skateboarding trick where the rider and board leap into the air without the use of the rider's hands. [1] It is the combination of stomping (also known as popping) the tail of the skateboard off the ground to get the board mostly vertical, jumping, and sliding the front foot forward to level out the skateboard at the peak of the jump.
In skateboarding, a nollie, short for "nose ollie", is an ollie executed at the front of the board while the rider is positioned in their natural stance. Professional skateboarders Karl Watson, Shuriken Shannon, Tuukka Korhonen, and Sean Malto have been recognized for their ability to perform the nollie trick.
Alan "Ollie" Gelfand (born January 1, 1963) is an American skateboarder, racing driver, and businessman credited with inventing the ollie, the foundational skateboarding trick. Early life [ edit ]
Among his most significant contributions to the evolution of modern skateboarding, [15] Rodney Mullen adapted the ollie, first pioneered by Alan Gelfand on vert (where Gelfand would scoop off the back trucks to obtain more air off the wall, but without popping the tail of the skateboard in the process), to flat ground.
Ollie north: An Ollie in which the front foot is taken off the board. Pop shove-it: A shove-it performed while popping the tail to make the board attain air. See: Air, Pop; Pop: The act of striking the tail of the board against the ground to propel the board upwards. Regular foot: A skater who more comfortably rides with the left foot leading.
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“Ollie is out there ballin’ and I see Coach Woz out there turning up with him. The same Woz I remember, and it makes me happy.” Scott Wright covers Oklahoma State athletics for The Oklahoman.