How To Ollie On A Snowboard

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Hi, I'm Ali McRowland. This is Hemel Snow Centre. I work part time as a shaper.

I'm a freestyle snowboarder and I work for FBB Building Park putting on events around the country. Today I'm going to teach you how to do an Ollie. Fundamentals to doing an ollie are getting your position, your balance, and your timing is crucial.

What you want to do is fundamentally a jump or a little hop on your snowboard. So you're going to want to come down, this is your balancing now and you want to come down to this position. Similarly with doing an ollie on a skateboard, you want to put all your weight on your back foot, pull up with your front foot, and your should feel the weight or the flex of the board just here behind your foot.

Basically you'll feel it flex and when it's ready you'll feel it pop up. So let me just demonstrate that for your quickly. Start going down, pull back on the back foot, flex it to about here, and then pop it up with a little jump.

So just a recap, down, flex, jump. You can do this multiple ways. You can do this off your nose for an ollie which is the same principal, to the front, down, flex, jump.

And that's how to do an ollie on a snowboard.