Just for skaters

Ollie

Considered the trick of all tricks, this trick was what allowed Flatland Skateboarding to reach a vertical height and gave rise to the merge of Freestyle to Street obstacles creating an entirely new style of skateboard. Streetstyle Skateboarding. Streetstyle Skateboarding became possible when Freestyle tricks were allowed to be done on Street obstacles and the Ollie was the trick that allowed this to become possible. The Ollie was not developed by Rodney Mullen. He was the first to do it on flatland but did not invent it.

The Footwork in question was one that the rider did to go from stationary into Switch Tailstop. While in stationary the rider pops the board down on the tail with the back foot and the front foot drags up the board all the way to the tip of the nose and all weight is put on the front foot as the rider comes down in Switch Tailstop with his front foot now on top of the Nose of the skateboard which is touching the ground. Rodney Mullen realized that by doing this action but dragging the front foot only half way or a bit more than half way instead of up to the tip of the Nose, he could get the board to go in the air but land on all four wheels instead of a Switch Tailstop.

The rider stands stationary or rolls forward and pops down hard on the tail with the back foot. When the nose of the skateboard starts to point up the rider drags the front foot up the skateboard which causes the skateboard to drag up and get higher. The rider lifts the back foot and eventually the rider stops the drag while the skateboard stops its vertical ascent and the back of the skateboard rises up to the same level as the other side of the skateboard is at with the back of the skateboard meeting the back foot. The skateboard has now "Leveled Out" and the rider braces for impact on all four wheels, rolling away. This trick can be done in staggering amounts of variations including all kinds of combinations of rotations, flips and body rotations combined which truly makes it the most versatile trick in the existence of skateboarding.