How to Do a Goofy Ollie

Video Transcript

"This is Kyle Hovercamp from Skatechurch in Portland, Oregon. On behalf of Expert Village, this is the tutorial of how to learn how to ollie on your skateboard. In this clip, I'm going to show you how to do a switch ollie. Before you can actually try the switch ollie, you have to know if you're goofy or regular. That's the different positions that you stand in. Goofy is when your right foot is in front. That's what I am. Regular is when your left foot's in front, so that would be switch for me. Goofy is what I'm comfortable with, and then switch is the foot position that you're not comfortable with. Unless you're ambidextrous, then you're going to have some kind of foot position that you're not comfortable with. To learn a switch ollie, if you're goofy and your right foot's usually in front, you have to switch to where your left foot's in front. It's going to feel really weird, but that's the only way that you can skate switch. If you want to do the switch ollie, it's pretty much like learning an ollie over but the other way with your other foot in front. You have to do the pop, slide your front foot, jump, level it out. Everything but with your other foot in front."