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Snowboarding Tricks - Ollies
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STEP 1: When starting out, find a gentle slope with as little traffic as possible. You will need a relatively wide space for this Snowboarding trick. |
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STEP 2: Crouch slightly on your board, shifting your weight to your back foot. For many beginners, it is normal to look down at your Snowboard as you start the Ollies. You will learn to look straight ahead as you get accustomed in doing this trick. |
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STEP 3: Start shifting your weight on your back foot to remove the pressure from your front foot. Lift the nose of your Snowboard and use the tail as a spring to get you in the air. |
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STEP 4: Once your front foot gets airborne, level your board in midair and raise your knees to your chest, keeping the board centered underneath you. |
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STEP 5: To land, put the nose of the board down. You can also land both feet at the same time. Bend your knees to absorb the impact of the landing. |
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STEP 6: Once your entire Snowboard touches the ground, ride away and repeat the steps above until you become comfortable doing it. |
Ollies are very useful if you want to avoid blind landing and obstacles like rocks and branches when traveling fast. Practice and be comfortable in doing this trick. Once you master performing the Ollies, you can learn other aerial tricks and maneuvers.
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Tricks Overview
These are all the Snowboarding Tricks covered in our Tricks Section:
| 1: | Ollies |
| 2: | Wheelies |
| 3: | Butters |
| 4: | Air to Fakie |
| 5: | Nose and Tail Rolls |
| 6: | 50/50 Grinds |
| 7: | Rock-n-Roll Grinds |
| 8: | 180 Grinds |
| 9: | Five-O Grinds |
| 10: | Alley Oops |
| 11: | Backside 720 |
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Thursday 22nd February 2007 at 1:41:16 AM
Great animation! The animator must be brilliant. Very informative. Keep it up!
Wednesday 5th December 2007 at 8:54:07 PM
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♥; the flash
Monday 15th December 2008 at 3:54:21 AM
Hey! This Animations are pretty informative and great, i finally found out that these stylish turns are called butters^^
AWESOME! i bookmarked this page and will visit it on a daily base! Thanks for providing this!
Take care!
Saturday 27th December 2008 at 5:24:20 PM
This is a REALLY useful site! I love the looping animation to show everything really clearly. Then the step-by-step below it is super helpful in identifying each part of the move in the animation!
Well done:)
Saturday 27th December 2008 at 10:06:53 PM
im pretty sure that a butter is actually an ollie attached to a 360.. u start as if ur going to ollie.. but once uv shifted weight form ur front foot to ur back u slide into a 360 (no carving involved).. and pop the rest of the board into the air at the same time..
i could be wrong about this.. so someone correct me. but we spen about 8 hrs straigh doing this one day with an instructor
Monday 12th January 2009 at 5:39:53 AM
Just have to say I really appreciate the effort that has gone in to this website and in particular the flash tutorials.
Tuesday 13th January 2009 at 2:59:13 AM
i thought a butter was the snowboard equiv. of a manuel on a skateboard but hey ho!
Thursday 5th February 2009 at 12:25:27 AM
Great animation! Thanks!!!
Thursday 12th February 2009 at 2:28:17 AM
This website is easy to learn and informative enough for those (like me) who has not been snowboarded for more than 3 years. It is worth to bookmark this website.
Friday 13th February 2009 at 4:58:39 PM
The animation is AWESOME!!! Great job!
Thursday 26th February 2009 at 2:07:37 AM
Absolutely faboulus animation. i have only one idea for you: can you show the guy doing the trick from the back view also, maybe a switch button to choose front/back view.
i love this site:)
Saturday 28th March 2009 at 5:15:21 PM
butters are just spins i do them all the time
Monday 4th May 2009 at 9:40:36 PM
Who created these drawings? They really are great! More power to your site!
Tuesday 5th January 2010 at 10:47:04 AM
Great animation. Is it better to have feet ducked out for jumps and tricks?
Tuesday 12th January 2010 at 1:57:40 PM
I''ve started doing the nollie first it was just easier, but after a while i''ve discovered the animation and it really helped me :))
By the way if there are people like me, that have started doing the nollie first, it''s just the opposite, think of it like a nollie but from your tail and you will get it right.
Tuesday 22nd June 2010 at 10:04:08 AM
Hands down to this very useful animation. Keep up the good work.
Monday 22nd November 2010 at 3:48:09 AM
sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Sunday 5th December 2010 at 6:33:55 AM
Looking down at the board is the one thing that will prevent a successful ollie which is where I think step 2 is wrong. Make a big effort not to look down at your board. If you do your shoulders will not be in-line with the board and you will begin to initiate a turn in the air making landing more difficult
Monday 3rd January 2011 at 9:51:29 PM
super awesome animation!!!
Friday 11th March 2011 at 2:53:00 AM
Thanks for the nice blog. It was very useful for me. Keep sharing such ideas in the future as well. This was actually what I was looking for, and I am glad to came here! Thanks for sharing the such information with us.
Monday 18th April 2011 at 2:05:20 PM
Great ollie tutorial, if you do this backwards it is called a nollie, which looks cool jumping onto rails with.
Friday 2nd December 2011 at 11:44:52 PM
Still learning how to do ollies. I just can''t wait to get back on the slopes to have a go at this
Thursday 22nd December 2011 at 10:35:18 AM
I''m very interested in starting to learn how to snowboard. But I''m a newbie and don''t know where to start.. Can anyone guide me where to go to get started? I''m live in germany btw.
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