By the board
Question: When skateboarders jump over an obstacle, I have watched carefully,
and the boarders do not lift the board by placing a foot under it. So how do
they lift the board? It’s very spectacular because sometimes they can leap over
jumps that are knee height.
Answer: Jumping the board into the air or onto and over obstacles is called
an ollie and forms the basis of a limitless array of tricks. To perform an ollie
the skater must be rolling forward with the back foot on the tail and the front
foot some way down the…
