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Jump without jumping: you kick the board, the board lifts you, physics takes the credit.
means A skateboarding trick where the rider and board leap into the air together without the hands touching the board, achieved by snapping the tail down and sliding the front foot up.
from Named after Alan 'Ollie' Gelfand, a Florida teenager who in the late 1970s figured out how to pop his skateboard off vertical ramps without grabbing it. The move got his nickname instead of a technical name, and by the time street skaters adapted it to flat ground in the 1980s, 'ollie' had already stuck — a rare case of a trick keeping its inventor's name intact.
- origin
- named after skateboarder Alan Gelfand, 1978
- mechanism
- pop tail down, slide front foot up
- no hands
- literally the point, unlike old-school aerials
- foundation move
- basis for almost every modern skate trick