The story of the ollie is the story of a trick that changed the sport of skateboarding forever. Alan Gelfand was born in New York in His family moved to Hollywood, Florida, when he was nine years old. That was a time when skateparks were starting to pop all over the United States. And he had just seen one getting built near where he lived. Its name was Skateboard USA. Ollie, the Little Ripper Alan was starting to show off his potential, and the local press took notice. And how did skateboarding's ultimate trick got its name?
And when Goodman saw Alan accidentally perform an aerial lipslide, he called it an ollie pop. When he managed to land the maneuver, Alan was genuinely defying the laws of gravity.
A year passed before any other skater could perform the groundbreaking trick. The stage was set. The ollie had conquered the world. Share this article. Share on Facebook. Can I get air? They could ride up and down the walls of abandoned pools all they wanted, but most were stopped in their tracks by a six-inch curb. Today, skateboarders just do an ollie. If you see a street skater hop from the ground to a rail or a ledge … that's an ollie.
Lots of the high-flying tricks in the X-Games start with an ollie as well. There's even a Finnish pop song dedicated to the Frontside Ollie. It spent a couple weeks at No. Is this some sort of trick photography? No one to this day has done ollies like him, and if you saw him back then it was so effortless and no one could copy that. He was definitely an original. An originator. But was Ollie really the originator of the move we now call the ollie? So, he sat down for a re-write.
And while he was at it, he checked in with his old friend, Alan Gelfand. This is what we know for sure. During the summer of , year-old Alan Gelfand was working on the lipslide — a trick his friends had already mastered. But something totally unexpected happened.
All four wheels came off the wall. His friends called it the "ollie pop. Fast forward a year and a half, and Alan debuted an even more impressive move, the "ollie air," in front of photographers in Southern California. This was the real game changer. The skateboard seems to stick to the boarder's feet in mid-air, yet the boarder isn't using hands to hold it.
How does this work? The science of physics explains the ollie. As it turns out, it's all about manipulating the various forces involved in skateboarding. When riding a skateboard, there are three forces at work on the board. The weight of the rider and the effect of gravity on the board itself both push downward. Counteracting these forces is the force of the ground pushing up on the board.
These forces balance each other, keeping the skateboard rolling along at a steady speed. To do an ollie, the skateboarder crouches and then jumps upward quickly, raising the arms. This action raises the front of the board. When the tail of the board hits the ground, the ground exerts a powerful upward force. This causes the entire board to bounce and begin lifting up into the air. As the board begins to rise, the boarder slides the front foot forward. The friction between the front foot and the board drags the board upward even farther.
The boarder then begins to push the front foot down while gently lifting the rear foot, leveling the board until the tail is even with the front of the board. This also helps to keep the tail in contact with the rear foot. When the board is level at its maximum height, it — with its rider — will begin to fall due to gravity. As the board makes contact with the ground again, the boarder must bend the legs to absorb the impact of the landing.
It may look easy when you see it, but keep in mind that this all happens in a fraction of a second. With a lot of practice, skateboarders can ollie to even greater heights by learning to jump higher, pop the tail faster, slide the front foot farther forward and raise the legs even higher.
In case you're wondering exactly how high some skateboarders can ollie, the world records for different types of ollies usually exceed 40 inches, which is over 3 feet in the air! Rob Dyrdek holds the world record for the most consecutive ollies at Mmm… something good is cooking in Wonderopolis. Come back tomorrow with an appetite! It's time to bust out your board and start learning some new tricks! Even if you don't have a skateboard, you can still have fun watching these videos of skateboarding tricks.
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We'd love to see you shred! Thanks for sharing, Landon! Enjoy the skateboarding!!! Have you tried doing the ollie? Hi, aiden! Sounds like you have been skateboarding for a long time. Thanks for being a supportive Wonder Friend, Aiden! Hello, justin! It sounds like you know a lot about this topic and have practice skateboarding a lot!
Thanks for sharing your connection! Thanks for joining the discussion! It sounds like you know a lot about skateboarding! Hi, Wonder Friend! Thanks for your comment! We appreciate you stopping by Wonderopolis. Seeing pictures of skaters performing soaring 4-foot ollies, many people assume that the board is somehow attached to the skater's feet.
It's not. What's even more amazing about the ollie is that to get the skateboard to jump up, the skater pushes down on the board! The secret to this paradoxical maneuver is rotation around multiple axes. Let's take a closer look. Just before a skater performs an ollie , there are three forces acting on the skateboard.
One of these forces is the weight of the rider, shown here with two red arrows. Another is the force of gravity on the board itself, shown with a small black arrow.
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