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Join Date: Sep 2008
03-18-2009, 5:19 PM
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mine is weak. any tips?
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Join Date: Apr 2007
03-18-2009, 5:25 PM
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Start by egding out, slowly flatten and really slam that tail down and start lifting your board in the air with your front foot. As your allowing the pressure of the water and your front foot to lift you suck up your knees to add extra height to your ollie. Try to also plane out your board in the air so your ollie is flat and not just lifting your nose up. Really make sure when you lift your front foot you dont put your weight on it. Otherwise its a ollie to nose dive to hospital.
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Join Date: Dec 2008
03-18-2009, 5:30 PM
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learn to wakeskate, that really helped me
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Join Date: Sep 2008
03-18-2009, 5:33 PM
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learn to wakeskate, that really helped me ---- haha i stick to surface spins on the wakeskate. i dont have teh balls to get air born. and when i ollie. i push down on my front foot first, then i imediatly push down on my back and after doing that it sends me into the air. i get around a foot or a foot and half doing that. is it all wrong?
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Join Date: Sep 2008
03-18-2009, 5:35 PM
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henry, i just re read what you said. it thinking logic. that makes alot more sense then what im doing
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Join Date: Sep 2007
03-18-2009, 5:39 PM
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Watch the pros, often they do a little bounce before the ollie to get the board deeper in the water.
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Join Date: Feb 2003
03-18-2009, 5:46 PM
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What kind of board are you on?
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Join Date: Sep 2008
03-18-2009, 5:48 PM
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i either ride a lyman 139 (mine) or a watson 142 (dads) im riding the watson more and more though, i get more pop with it off the wake. and im working on wake o wake tricks right now more then anything.
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Join Date: Nov 2008
03-18-2009, 5:51 PM
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Watch Adam Errington, his pre-bounce is really noticable and he has insane pop. GettingOlder, does the type of rocker matter for ollies?
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Join Date: Nov 2008
03-18-2009, 6:17 PM
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I used to ollie pretty high last summer on my old marius, and I got a Ronix Bill to take with me to Florida. I cant ollie very good at all on it, but I rode a Viva at OWC and I was doing ollies higher than I ever have.
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Join Date: Jun 2005
03-18-2009, 6:36 PM
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You can ollie higher at O-dub due to the cable pull.
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Join Date: Aug 2002
03-19-2009, 3:16 AM
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If you can ollie a skateboard, you'll be able to ollie a wakeboard. Much cheaper to practice that way.
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Join Date: Mar 2009
03-19-2009, 4:18 AM
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I'm poor at the ollie also, great advice ... I will practice on my sons skateboard on the grass instead of the concrete.
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Join Date: Nov 2002
03-19-2009, 4:55 AM
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Skateboarding is key.
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Join Date: Jun 2006
03-19-2009, 5:33 AM
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plyometrics/jump training
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Join Date: Sep 2008
03-19-2009, 7:38 AM
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If you can ollie a skateboard, you'll be able to ollie a wakeboard. Much cheaper to practice that way. ---- i could NEVER ollie on a skate board. i have a long board that i just ride around on. so thats pretty much out of the question. i can get around an inch of ollie on a skate board. lol
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Join Date: Oct 2006
03-19-2009, 8:22 AM
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skateboard ollie and wakeboard are nothing alike anyway. the pre-pop is very important, the harder the push down the harder the water is going to push you back up. that is when you pull your front foot up then snap your back foot up with you. its kind of hard to describe, so i hope that makes sense.
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Join Date: Sep 2008
03-19-2009, 8:25 AM
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should i be pushing my front or back foot down first? from what ive read here im seeing back foot. but ive always done it with my front. im going back out to vegas on friday to ride saturday, so ill be able to try then. if its the back foot first. that might be my problem. i want to be able to ollie over a no wake boouy but im not even close. haha
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Join Date: Feb 2007
03-19-2009, 8:27 AM
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PrePop!!! The big ollie secret!
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Join Date: Oct 2007
03-19-2009, 10:58 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
03-19-2009, 11:11 AM
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I used to be a pretty good skateboarder back in the day. I loved ollies especially over large gaps and stairs with at least 12 or more. It was one of my favorite things to do. I used to ollie a set of twelve stairs all the time. I have had problems wanting to push back down with my front foot when my back foot comes up. When you ollie skateboarding you put a little pressure on the front of the board to level out. I keep trying to do that wakeboarding. I hope to get it down better this summer. The two are similar but not the same.
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Join Date: Jun 2005
03-19-2009, 1:23 PM
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rock forward and that slam the tail down into the water and jump off your back foot. the water pressure will be pushing back up at you so let yourself come up and suck up your legs and then push forward with your front foot to bring up that tail and make it look good. you can ollie as high or higher then you can jump. you just have to allow your self to do it. i used to be afraid to really jump up and i would only get a couple inches.
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Join Date: Sep 2008
03-19-2009, 3:46 PM
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i have waketrix on dvd. and their instruction on ollie is terrible. thats where i got front foot first. but everyone here is saying to use back ffot first
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Join Date: Oct 2008
03-19-2009, 4:08 PM
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No everyone here is telling you to pre-pop which is pushing down with your front foot first.
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Join Date: Sep 2007
03-19-2009, 4:29 PM
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03-19-2009, 4:39 PM
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nick, my bad. i thought the pre pop was just a mini llie before the actual one
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Join Date: Jun 2005
03-19-2009, 5:21 PM
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david, no the prepop is when you put pressure on your front foot up first. it gets the tail higher out of the water so you can slam it down more on your ollie. thats what i ment by rock forward
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Join Date: Sep 2008
03-19-2009, 7:03 PM
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thanks mitch. appreciate it. thats kind of what im doing but not fully what some of the other people said. ill try it out saturday
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Join Date: Mar 2006
03-20-2009, 4:39 PM
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Sorry Mitch but I think David had in right, pre pop is like a mini ollie ( or a little bounce) before you actually ollie. At least that's what I've always believed it was. David I understand what you mean about watetrix..."To do an ollie, edge out from the wake, come off your edge and ollie." Clear as mud. Personally the Lyman has the highest ollie pop of any board I've ridden, it one of the reasons I bought mine.
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03-20-2009, 5:27 PM
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Please note the two guys on flex boards.. House and McKee.. Those things ollie like crazy.
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Join Date: Aug 2007
03-20-2009, 7:13 PM
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Lol, nice GettingOlder. Adam Errington is ollieing as high as he is tall... =P. That and the first Clear Lake video both were my two most watched videos last summer.
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Join Date: Jun 2005
03-20-2009, 11:51 PM
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phillip, some times it looks like that but that is not the idea. the book for wakeskating explains it the best.
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Join Date: Sep 2007
03-21-2009, 5:29 AM
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mitch dont tease, what does it say?
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Join Date: Sep 2007
03-21-2009, 5:31 AM
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mitch, i see it above...thanks
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Join Date: Sep 2008
03-21-2009, 1:27 PM
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i used to get more ollie on the watson. i got it down today. we where at mead. it was choppy but we found some cover. thanks so much for your guys advice. i did the pre pop thing adn did what you guys told me. and i was told from people in the boat that i was getting a good 3 feet consistantly. that was with no tower. we are going to the berryessa next weekend and we will have our boat with a tower. so im looking forward to seeing if i can ollie over a no wake bouy. .. either that or ride into it ;D hahaha
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Join Date: Sep 2007
03-21-2009, 4:20 PM
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how about start putting out obstacles and slowly make them bigger as you get more confident. I started not being able to and now can do a good 3 feet
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Join Date: Sep 2008
03-21-2009, 8:09 PM
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we have 55 gallon plastic barrels. we are going to bring one when we go this weekend to do just that
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Join Date: Sep 2007
03-21-2009, 9:06 PM
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By the way I can't ollie a inch on a skateboard...
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