㉒episode To Ollie ( if you want to get parallel, high, please read) SK8-60

Ollie is based on the principle of two levers. The principle of the first lever is that while lifting your body, use the rear wheel as a fulcrum and swing the front of the skateboard up by snapping it with your ankle so that your back leg is fully extended in a straight line. I think it's easy to understand because you can visually see that the rear wheel is the fulcrum.  The timing to snap is only the moment when your weight is released from the skateboard. This is the movement of the hind legs. I learned the ollie in my 50s by simply going over objects without even realizing that the principle of the second lever existed in the first place. At that time, Japanese skateboarding was not as popular as it is now, so there was not much information about it. The front leg is rubbed up based on the lifted part of the body (this is a state of holding back the raised front leg. Skilled players delay this step as much as possible so as not to rub it up and crush it, resulting in the high ollie) and push it down a little and poke it forward (my ideal idea is to draw a circle). This produce a fulcrum and causes the rear to spring up. The skateboard can be parallel in the air and land on 4 wheels. If you are having trouble doing the ollie (or someone who is not used to it), I think it is a good idea to practice holding on to a handrail (the trick is to find a height that is as comfortable for you as possible). Get a feel for the timing of playing with your back foot and pressing forward with your front foot by pushing down a little. Now let's make the skateboard parallel in the air. The expression of pressing down a little with your front foot and thrusting forward is your own image, so please use your own senses to refine your front foot movements and become a stylish skateboarder. I don't know if I was able to describe it well, but I have written about what I started working on again at the age of 60, things to be careful of (for when Ollie is not feeling well), and things that I think will be helpful. (Please use the above as a reference at your own risk). I can the ollie fairly well even at age 60, so it may be difficult, but if you try, you can do it. I think it's best to use theory and practice effectively. I feel that the anti-aging effects have also been further improved with the ollie.

Although I haven't done the ollie for a long time, unlike switch stance (I experienced the horror of the blank period with switch stance, it may be a good thing that I didn't have high expectations for the  ollie). I was careful about this and put it in smoothly. I thought I could do it in a short period of time if I practiced increasing the number of ollies, but since ollies are so extreme, I took my time carefully (I feared doing them too much could hurt my body). I don't think taking the time is a good way to practice (I'm old), but I managed to get my ollie back. It's because of the ollie that I previously stated that I had a plan in mind when I use the new deck. I used a new deck because it will be hard to tell if the ollie was the now abrasion or the past abrasion on my old skateboard . When I do ollies, the tail (back) of my skateboard gets chipped. I wanted to make sure that the chipped area was centered (that it was doing the ollie properly without tilting). I have no problem with the center being chipped properly. However, I am also experiencing some concerns. My Achilles tendon (as I mentioned before, is the part I worry about the most) feels strange sometimes. I hope I'm just nervous because it's my Achilles heel, but I'm finally challenge to perform my long-awaited skateboarding trick.

　　　・・・・・・・・・To my dream kick flip

(・・・End  of  Episode  ２２・・・・・・・・・・・・to  be  continued・・・・・・）