in a straight line from the new position to the center of the board, in between your feet. Once you reach this point, both legs should be flexed evenly and you should have some momentum heading toward the tail of your snowboard. Keep carrying that momentum toward the tail and begin to extend your legs. As you do this, lift the nose of your snowboard off the ground, and start to flex the tail. When you reach the apex of your extension, you will be releasing the energy out of the tail of the board, creating that pop you get from an ollie. You have essentially just created a
“diamond” motion with your hips and center of mass, allowing you to get and keep moving momentum that can be easily transferred to your tail, allowing for a higher ollie. As you get better at this and are able to make the movement more fluidly, it will become a circular motion,
When you reach the apex of your extension, you will be releasing the energy out of the tail of the board, creating that pop you get from an ollie.
allowing for an even smoother transfer of energy. Tis is almost like winding up for a spin but working more longitudinally than rotationally. By first going toward the nose of the board to initiate the ollie, you are increasing the distance to get onto your tail, allowing you to put more energy into flexing the board to get more air. Sharing this approach can help students better understand the timing of which legs to extend and when. They will have an easier pattern to follow in their heads because they don’t have to change the direction of the momentum rapidly. Instead, they change it slightly over a longer period of time. Try this
with your students but also perfect it for your own riding. Many advanced riders perform this movement pattern naturally because it is a very effective movement. You may find that you can
ollie better into 180s because you have more air time, or even get into butters more easily. Te applications are endless, so go explore and see where you can put the essential ollie into effect with greater pop and power!
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