Now I'm good and I snap down most of the way.Well to ollie, you place one foot right before the bolts with your heel off the board and your foot straight. Your other foot is on your tail/ nose in the same position, your heel halfway off the board. Then you snap down, jump with BOTH feet, and slide your foot that is right before the bolts and land.Well hopefully you got some air and landed, if not, keep trying, you will get it in time. Also please comment I like reading them. And please click the “I like it” button. Thanks =D

1. The Sea-Crop

Jump in the air and when you are at the highest point put your legs out in front of you.

2. The Knee-Drop

   Jump in the air and when you are at your highest point tuck your knees behind you.

3. The Tuck

   Do a knee, and when you tuck your knees behind you, stick them back beneath you.

Intermediate

1. The Handstand Flat-Back

   Do a knee, but when you touch the trampoline, put your arms out and try and do a handstand.

2. The Flip

   Do a Tuck, but when you get to your highest point, push your head beneath your knees, and let your legs touch the ground.

3. The Back-Drop (Starter)

   Slowly let yourself fall backwards. WARNING! Do not land on your bum, or it will hurt.

Advanced

1. The Back-drop (Advanced)

   Do a Back-drop (Starter), but instead of falling, jump backwards.

2. Straddle

   Jump up, stick your legs out on each side, and touch them with your hands.

3. Pike

   Jump in the air, put your legs in front of you and touch your toes with your hands.

4. Combos

   Try doing two or more tricks in a row, without stopping. E.g. Do a Straddle, then a Knee-drop, then launch yourself back into a Back-drop.

As you go off of the jump, have your arms out in front of you and look at your left arm, flex your stomach, and when you have done a 180 be looking at the takeoff, this will get you spinning a little forward so that you will land flat on the landing, look back behind you and pull your knees in a little. The rest will come naturally if you have done this.

How to 720

Well first, you need to be brave. Next, as you are going off of the jump, start spinning as if you were to do a 360 and when you hit the 180, and not a second before, tuck your arms in as hard as you can for a full 360 so you will be at a 540. Then just go one more 180 as you spot your landing. GREAT. Thanks for reading.

The Stance

For the ollie you should have one foot on the center of the nose (or back of the board) and one foot either in the center, or somewhat behind the front bolts. Now this isn't the only way to setup for the ollie. It's all about your preference and how you like to do it; I'm just describing the way I do it.

The Pop

Ok what you have to first do is snap down on the tail and slide your front foot up. The trick is just as simple as that, although learning it isn't. You have to snap down hard, when I say snap I mean you're kind of like stomping it with your back foot. Now your front foot will slide up giving your ollie height. It's kind of like jumping with the momentum of your back foot.

The Land

Landing is probably the easies part of this trick. It shouldn't be a problem if you correctly popped it. Just make sure you stay on the board.

Problems

There are certain problems you might face while trying this.

“I'm not getting off the ground”

If your not getting off the ground then try to pop harder and jump higher.

“I always fall and can't stay on when trying this”

If you're having problems committing to this trick you need to not be afraid of the board and falling. Wear protective pads if necessary, sure you might look stupid but you'll overcome the fear of getting hurt.

I won't lie this was pretty hard to get down. I fell a lot myself, but with tons of practice it will be the easiest thing you've ever done. And once you get it perfectly you'll wonder how you didn't get how to do it before.

1. Make sure you fell right when you first step on you board.
2. Put your board on the ground.
3. Make sure you foot placement is like this

4. Pop the back of your bored and at the same time slide your foot up like this
5. Fifth step: don't lean to far back or your going to bail but don't lean forward either. Just go with it and land it! And congratz you just ollied

Let's get to know your skateboard. If you already know allot about your skateboard skip this section. For you who are new to all of this I'm going to name the parts. Trucks. Your trucks are the metal bindings strapped to the bottom of your board and have your wheels. Wheels, wheels let your skateboard roll.

Bearings, bearing are inside your wheels that let the wheel roll freely while bolted to the truck. Grip Tape, grip tape is the black tar-like film on the top side of the board. Deck, the deck is pretty much just a curved piece of thick wood.

Since we just found out about our skateboard let's learn about the gear to make you safer on a skateboard. Helmet, a skateboard helmet is best but any helmet would work. Pads, you need knee, and elbow pads for most times when you fall you fall on your knees or head or elbows.

Guards, wrist guards are very important for new skaters for most people learn to catch them selves with their hands. When falling let your shoulders and legs take the fall. Don't know what the front and back of the board is? See which one is tilted vertically at the end, that would be the end.

Simple Riding:

Before you ride you should stretch. Being tense raises your chances of falling. To start stand up and relax, just relax. Then reach down to your toes as far as you can. Hold that for 10 seconds. Now you should sit, legs out in front and reach for your toes hold it for 10 seconds. Limber out your arms too. Arms help you keep your balance. Roll your ankles a few times. Limber up your body try and not to be tense.

Let's now go out and get ready to go! Put on your helmet and pads. When buying pads get the ones that have socks for your arm/leg and 2 straps. Helmet should just be a helmet if you have fallen on your helmet and the padding inside can be pulled out I suggest buying a new one.

Now let's get ready to ride. Hop on your board. Put your feet where you feel comfortable. Usually put your feet on the bolts. Let's first learn how to move. To begin keep your feet firm on the board. Take your back foot off and plant it firmly on the ground. Proppel your foot and your moving. But the hard part is learning how to put your foot back on. Pick your foot up and place it back on the board.

Simple Tricks:

After getting used to riding your skateboard you probably want to learn some tricks. The first trick every skater should know is the simple ollie. The ollie is the hardest trick to learn because your not used to jumping with a skateboard so I'll teach you how to do a simple ollie. First thing is the placement of your feet. Put your back foot flat on the tail of your board (back) and put your foot right in the middle in between the bolts. Now it's time to start the trick.

To start snap the back of your tail so it hits the ground. After it's rising the tail slaps the ground and the board start rising you should lift your knees up so it hits you in the chest. The board should start being at the peek of its rise. Now it's time to put your feet on top of the board. Make sure you bend your knees while landing to absorb the shock and not to hurt your knees.

Now you want to learn some other tricks along with your sweet ollie. Let's go with the manual. The manual is the same thing as a wheelie except on a skateboard. It's very simple to do just set up the same way as an ollie except put your front foot on the bolts. Push down on the tail but not so hard that it hits the ground just enough for the front wheel to come off the ground. Now keep your balance while riding along and you did it!

Now you want another trick to make a sweet combo right? Well all you have to do is learn the caveman.

Just hold your skateboard in one hand and jump and put your feet on the top still holding your board together. If you let go of your board the board can turn and you can hurt yourself. now just land flat by the time your feet are flat on the board then you can take your hand off and land safely.

More Complex Tricks:

Now you learned those super cool tricks but now they're way too easy and your bored of mastering your simple tricks. So well learn the kickflip. The kickflip is the hardest trick to learn except after you mastered it everything is simple.

To start your kickflip set up like an ollie. Snap your tail so the board rises. Slide your front foot up with the side of your shoe once you get to the nose flick your toe. I call it flicking because its like flicking the fly away! Now after it start spinning get out of the way. After the board spins all the way around once put your foot flat on the board bend your knees and roll away. Now master it!

Now set your feet up like an ollie (again) and flick the tail (again) start pushing pressure the ball of your foot and move your back foot off so the board can spin freely after completing one spin put your foot on the board flat so you can land.

Now you wanna connect all those tricks together? But how! I could use a manual but those are boring so let's try... a nose manual. The nose manual is way harder than a regular manual because your supposed to lean back and press forward. So set up in a nollie well ill put it this way front foot flat on the nose and back foot in the middle of the board. So all you have to do is press down with your front foot and lean back with your body and balance with your arms.

Troubleshooting:

When you're feeling good and go skate and then oh no you figured out you left the oven on with the napkin in. Well that happens to everyone but if you think about it within your trick you can hurt yourself BADLY by chicken footing black footing or breaking your board.

What do these mean well ill tell you. Chicken footing is when you're ollieing and you think it's going good but your back foot seems to land on the ground. That hurts if your rolling because you can go into "ripped pants-acoma". Now black footing is pretty much falling just when you fall you chicken foot and hit's you.

Now breaking your board is kinda hard. But there are many ways to hurt yourself breaking your board. One way is when you land an ollie you land in the middle of the board and snaps in two. Shards of wood can go into your legs or worse go into your leg.

Ending:

I've hurt myself so many times skateboarding. Scraped knees, road rash, broken ankles, broken wrists. Remember, stay a skater - not a hater! Be safe not sorry when you've broken a bone! skateboarding is a dangerous sport; remember to stay safe!

Without farther ado we present how to Ollie!!!

In order to Ollie you need a skateboard but once you got that place your leading foot right in the middle of the board.

You do that so you have room to slide you foot. Pop your back foot (on the back of the board) slide your front foot out and lift you back foot a little get back down on the ground ,and

Ride away looking cool.

Getting your Ollies better

In order to get your Ollies better you should do these two things. Get skate shoes I recommend vans, etines, nikes, airwalk, DVS, element,DC and many more that I can't remember...

Getting your ollies better

You should get a good skateboard that is real, like mine has blind deck, reds bearings, Indy trucks, and bullet proof wheels (not really bullet proof just a name) that is a good skateboard. When you Ollie you could bring your feet up towards your body so you get higher.