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. Physics? Yep.)
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? Well, it's not at first. But, practice makes perfect.
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.
1. Before you put a lot of time into 180 ollies, make sure you feel comftorable with regular ollies.
2. Unlike the regular ollie, a frontside 180 must be practiced while rolling, as it is speed that aids in the process of turning 180 degrees while flying through the air. So, push a couple of times.
3. Once rolling, bend those knees and pop and ollie.
4. As you begin to travel up, and your foot slides toward the nose, start to turn your body. There's no way to exactly describe how to get your momentum shifted so you're turning without using levels of math that would give Albert Einstein a migraine, so we'll just leave it for you to experiment with.
5. The important part of the 180 aspect of the 180 ollie is the speed of your 180-degree rotation. A frontside 180 (backside, too, for that matter) must begin its rotation immedietely upon smacking the tail, and it must end just as the wheels are landing. And there's one thing you need to keep in mind: the longer you're in the air, the slower you must turn.
6. Reread 5, so you understand it.
7. Land with your knees bent, and convince yourself that you're now going backward. If your mind gets confused and freaks out, you're not going to bleed. Not that bleeding is necessarily a bad thing, but it's good if you do it less than once per day.
1. Gain Speed
2. Place your feet in the standard ollie position (though you may want to put your front foot a tad closer to the nose of your board until you feel completely comftorable with the trick..)
3. Perform a clean ollie.
4. Immediately upon takeoff, you'll need to start your backward rotation, keeping in mind that the speed of your rotation need to be adjusted to suit the purpose of your backside 180. For example: if you're just doing a quickie to turn yourself from regular to fakie, you'll need to turn quickly, but if you're backside 180ing a big gap, you'll want to rotate slowly, so you don't over-rotate.
5. To rotate correctly and retain balance for landing, your entire body must turn. Explanation of how to turn is wasted breath - for everyone the process is different.
6. When you land, try hard to get all four wheels to land at once. Your weight should be centered over your board - over weighting your nose or tail upon landing could prove to be disastrous. Your shoulders should be in line with your board, your arms raised for balance.
7. Remember to absorb the shock of landing with your knees, not the lower back. And if you're backside 180ing off of something high, to avoid deck-breakage, land with your feet directly over the trucks.
8. You've landed, you're now going fakie, or backward, or switch, or whatever.
1. Ride towards the bench or block going fakie.
2. Be parallel to the bench with a slight angle.
3. Fakie ollie high enough so that your board is angled; this will let you hit the back truck first.
4. Once you feel your truck lock in place, let more of your weight fall on the back, but leave a little up front.
5. Proceed to grind in the fakie position.
6. As you approach the end of the obstacle, give your board a little fakie ollie pop with or without hitting the tail. This'll make sure that the front truck is clean for landing.
7. Land, and proceed with your day.
1. Riding up the bank in nollie position can be tricky. Your foot should be on the nose, but your weight should be back just a bit to successfully roll onto the bank.
2. Alright, you made it. Now you’re going to get your crouch position going.
3. Timing on banks is important—you want to start popping right before you stop rolling up the transition.
4. Start turning your body and pop that nollie heelflip.
5. Suck up your legs so it flips freely.
6. Catch it and keep turning so you land straight.
7. Land and stay centered.
8. Get ready to roll to the flat.
9. Oh yeah, peice of cake.
A hardflip is when your board rotates 180 degrees like a frontside pop shove-it, but flips like a kickflip. It might help to think of it as a frontside kickflip shove-it.
1. Compress for some pop and set u your feet like Rodney’s.
2. It seems like it helps to keep your shoulders square with the board and ollie higher for this trick.
3. You pop the board a bit like a frontside pop shove-it, but flip it like a frontside kickflip. This is tricky, but keep trying.
4. Now you have to get your feet out of the way so the board will flip freely.
5. Put your feet in the catch position. See how the extra pop helps?
6. Flatten out and straighten the board, then extend your legs.
7. Center yourself.
8. Roll away.
9. Rodney did this switch for bonus points