The Ollie
1. Find a flat surface - a driveway, a smooth parking lot, a basketball court, a quite street - any smooth, flat surface will do.
2. Push a few times, so that you're rolling with
moderate speed. (the faster you're traveling when you ollie, the farther you will go.)
3. As you're rolling, position the ball of your back foot on the tail, and place your front foot in the middle of the board.
4. Bend your knees.
5. Here's where the trick is: You must simultaneously (at the same time) smack the tail on the ground, jump, and slide your front foot up the deck. (smacking your tail allows the front of the board to raise up off the ground, jumping allows your body to break the confines of gravity, and sliding your front foot up the board allows the deck to level out, thus raising the back of the board from the ground.) Sound simple? It's not at first.
6. Stay over the board. At the peak of your ollie you should be centered on the board, your knees bent again ready for landing.
7. Important note: keep your shoulders in line with the
direction you're travelling. (the ollie requires you keep
shoulders in line, or will certainly lose balance.)
8. When you land, keep your knees bent to absorb the impact with the ground. (this will save your lower back.)
9. Upon landing, your back foot should be on the tail, though slightly closer to the back truck bolts (so as not to break the tail), and your front foot should be directly over the front bolts.
There! You pulled off the ollie!!!
Fakie Kickflip
1. This trick is just like a normal kickflip, the only
difference is you're rolling fakie.
2. First learn how to do fakie ollies and be able to kickflip.
3. Ride along backward, and do a fakie ollie.
4. As you're doing the ollie, kick your front foot down,
making the board flip.
5. Catch the board, and level it out.
6. Land and ride away.
7. Start out on small terrain and build up.
Pop Shove-It
1. Pop shove-its are easier off of your nose, so ride your skateboard backward to start.
2. Ollie, and at the same time, use your back foot to shove your board 180' degrees. The more you exaggerate this movement, the quicker the board will shove-it around.
3. Keep your eyes on the board as it rotates. It's easy to land wrong.
4. Once your board has gone 180' degrees, use your front foot to stop the rotation and "catch" the board. It sounds strange, but you'll understand when you try it.
5. Before landing, make sure your back foot has found its way back to the tail.
6. Land with your knees slightly bent and roll away.
Nose Manual
1. For this trick, all you need to do is be able to balance on your front two wheels.
2. Approach the obstacle you're going to nose-manual on at top speed.
3. Snap the tail and ollie; this will enable you to get up
on the terrain.
4. While ollieing, lean forward so you land on the front two wheels, so just roll with it.
5. You've landed on the front two wheels, so just roll with it.
6. When you want to come off, nudge your body forward a little - kind of like you're doing a nollie.
7. Land back on the ground with all four wheels down, and ride away.
Pivot Fakie
1. Learn rock fakies, so you can get used to the sensation of coming off the lip backward(to fakie) also axle stalls and pivots.
2. Approach the lip as if you were going to do a rock to fakie, except you'll need a lot more speed.
3. As you pick up the front trucks at the lip, start to
straighten your front leg while at the same time rotating 90 degrees with the lower part of your body. Center yourself over the back truck, and shift the weight to the back foot.
4. Once the truck makes contact with the coping, your weight should be 100 percent on the heel of the back foot (this makes your wheels lock into the coping and stall briefly).
5. At this point your weight should be somewhere between the deck and the transition (so you can stall). It helps to keep your upper body facing your buddies on the deck.
6. As your return to transition, slightly bend your front knees so as to help release you from the grip of the coping; at the same time, shift your weight from your back heel to the toes of your front foot.
7. The second half of this trick is identical to the first: Just keep your front trucks aloft so you can clear the lip and not hang up. Remember to keep your weight centered. After you get the basic pivot fakie down, try grinding (five-O to fakie) or ollieing out, or even slapping it to fakie rock.
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