The Ollie, is a great trick because it is the fundamental maneuver that gets you onto things, over things, into other tricks or just up in the air.

Start with the ball of your back foot on the tail and your front foot in the middle of the board.

Bend your knees and get into a compressed position.

The key is to simultaneously snap the tail of your board to the ground while jumping up and foward.

While jumping, slide your front foot toward the nose, using the friction between your shoe and the grip tape to drag the board higher. Keep your body centered over the board at all times.

At the peak of the ollie, push your front foot down to raise the tail and level out the board. Remember to lift your back leg to get it out of the way of the rising tail. If done correctly, your back foot and the tail of the board should rise in unison and appear to be stuck together.

Keep both feet touching the board and bend your knees to absorb the impact of the landing.

Land with your feet centered over each truck to prevent your board from breaking.

~ Other Tricks ~

The Ollie Kick-flip
Doing an Ollie while rotating the board under the feet 180 degrees.

The Frontside 180
Doing an Ollie while rotating 180 degrees.


Basic Grinds & Slides

Railslide
Sliding on the underside of the deck, either on the sidewalk edge or handrails or poles.

Noseslide
Sliding on the underside of the nose end/front of the board.

Crooked grind
Grinding on the front trucks.

5-0 grind
Sliding along with only the back truck in contact with the edge. Also called a manual grind.

50-50 grind
Sliding along with both trucks in contact with the edge.

Nose maunal
A wheelie on the front two wheels.

 

.: Skate Slang :.

Acid Drop:  Dropping off something such as a ledge, and landing on the bottom.

Air: What you get when you hit a ramp or fly off a ledge. Any time a skater and board  leave the riding surface together.

Ali oop: Spinning in the air the opposite way you are traveling. Mainly used on quarter pipes, halfpipes and transitions.

Backside: A move where a skater's back faces an obstacle.

Coping: The material on the edge of a ramp or pool used for grinding or sliding.

Dropping in: When a skater goes down a ramp from a still position.

Fakie: Riding backwards

Frontside: A move where a skater faces an obstacle.

Grab: When a skater reaches down and grabs the deck of the skateboard.

Grind: To scrape one or both axles on the edge of an object.

Nollie: Like an ollie, but instead of snapping the tail down you snap the nose down to get air.

Slide: When any part of the deck slides on a surface.

Stall: Resting a part of your board on something for a second or two.

Street skating: skating on streets, curbs, benches and handrails.

Transition: Refers to any curved incline rising from a flat riding surface.

Vert skating: Skating on ramps and other vertical structures designed for skating.