What is a Nollie BMX Bike Trick?

Video Transcript

"The Nollie is trick with it's roots directly from skateboarding both in the name and the execution. In skateboarding a Nollie is when you essentially do an ollie but you pop off of the nose of your board rather than the tail to generate that vertical lift and on a bike it's pretty much very similar. It's a lot like a bunny hop in that you want to pick up one wheel first and then the back or then the second. Except that it is different where you are picking up your back wheel first and from there using your arms rather than your legs to generate the force in that vertical lift. With an ollie on a bike, odds are you are never going to be able to do an ollie of a five stair or anything like that. It doesn't have the same level of versatility that a bunny hop has which may have you wondering why I would be talking about it. The reason that I am talking about it is that it is a building block for a whole series of really fun tricks that usually are not tricks that you see all the time. While you can go and do nollies down stairs, you know nollie gaps and stuff like that, my personal favorite variation of them, is all sorts of nollie spin tricks. It feels a whole lot different than doing bunny hops, bunny hop tricks and so, essentially that is why I am talking about it. The first motion that you're going to want to take is that you're going to want to throw your weight forward and at the same time pick your back wheel up. So that's going to, it's one of those motions that, it's, it's pretty similar to doing a bunny hop the way that you probably did in third grade, where you pick straight up like that, rather than a good three part bunny hop. Except with this, rather than picking straight up you lean forward and use that same type of theory to get your back wheel to pick up. You throw your weight forward almost up into a nose wheelie and then from there the sort of weak point of the nollie is exposed where you basically have to pop off of your arms and for ninety-nine percent of us, our arms are just not as strong as our legs. So for me personally I am never going to be able to nollie two feet high but like I said it's more important as a building block so you want to lean forward and then push forward and then you actually compress off of your arms like you would with your legs for a bunny hop and get a good explosion and you pick up and level the bike out. You know, for a lot of people, there are a lot of people that do all sorts of incredibly complicated nollie based tricks who can only nollie two or three inches high. So the main thing is just to make sure that you can get a solid pop, where you are in control of it and something that you can do consistently. It doesn't have to be super high, but if you can get them four or five inches, then that's when you know you've really got them."