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Nollies are absolute heartbreakers, make no mistake. So you can ollie, and clip fakie ollies too, and you would think that nollies are just that motion standing the wrong way round, n’est -ce pas? No coffee for me, thanks, but nollies are completely different again because you are using your power leg to snap and your recoil leg to power. Expect to look like a remedial for the duration. * The first thing you need to feel comfortable doing is steering by your back foot. Just roll around feeling that for a while. Like the ollie, two- thirds of your weight is on your power (in this case, back) leg. * The temptation is to put your back foot just around the back bolts to keep your stance spread, but it doesn’t allow the nose to spring up from the ground. Be able to see a full two inches of tape between the outside of your foot and inside bolts of your back truck. * Front foot: save yourself a lifetime and listen. Logic dictates that maximum energy transfer would be made by putting your foot right at the tip of the nose, but it kills the nollie two ways. The board wants to fall over itself and not rise, and the poise of your stance is shot to bits by the instability of the roll.* Place your front foot just at the centre of the entire nose, where you can feel the nose begin to swing up steeply from the shoulders of the board. Feel that? Begin to nestle your foot hard into that crook. Feel the nose flex slightly under the weight. *
Whereas in a fakie ollie you stand facing sideways, to nollie you need to
‘open’ your stance slightly, which is to say open your shoulders almost to
the point where you face forwards. Otherwise, your nollie always seems to drift
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