Skateboarding Tricks: Switch Frontside 180 Ollie

Video Transcript

"A great variation of the frontside one-eighty ollie is to learn it rolling switch and do a switch frontside one-eighty ollie. What's cool about the switch one-eighty ollie is that unlike the ollie one-eighty instead of landing fakie and rolling backwards at the end, you do it starting fakie and land rolling forward. So, it's sometimes a little more natural feeling after you start to roll away from the switch one-eighty. So, what you do to do a switch one-eighty is you're rolling backwards in a switch position. You got your foot on your nose but since your rolling forward, it's in the back. You want to build up the same momentum that you'll need for the one-eighty. It's exactly the same rules apply. You just imagine it backwards in your head. You setup and you swing your arms. You hit your tail on the ground or what it's actually your nose, pop out off the ground and travel one-eighty degrees and land rolling forward. Some of the tricks you'll need to learn before doing this is just having some basic switch rolling knowledge and being comfortable rolling switch. The other thing you may need to know how to do is how to do small switch ollies because the switch one-eighty is going to require you to have just a little bit more pop than the regular switch ollie because you got to get all the way frontside one-eighty around."