Ollie North or One-Footed Ollie? Skate History 

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I'd never heard or read the term "ollie north" until a video game, and I absolutely refuse to call it that 😄

I started in 87 and I remember the thrasher comic about olliver north and of course the trials on tv. I tend to think the ollie north is how kickflips were invented, like someone accidently did a kickflip while doing a ollie north. Its the same motion, the one footed ollie is also a great precursor to kickflips.

I think Frankie Hill knows best "the big fat ollie one foot". This is how everybody in the Netherlands used to call them in the 80's and 90's.

I think Ed Templeton needs a mention. He did them and did them well. When he won world champs in munster Germany in 90 was a big deal. Usually vert guys would place in street comps, which they did in 90. But Ed won. He probably did a one foot lol. Here's a slight variation on theme. Nose bonks came about from the one foot technique, where u kick nose down to bonk it. But the other way was to basically do a short nose wheelie.

@3:48 - freeze frame of perfection!

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If you kick your back foot out, isn't that an ollie south? I thought that was where the naming came from.

I grew up skating this era, never heard anyone name the trick Ron Allen did but the Hensley version was definitely called an Ollie North. Only thing my friends and I ever called it from '89 on.

I likewise remember, after Colonel Oliver North, it being named.

i live in Canada and we always called it an ollie one foot. Some guys came up from the southern US one time and it was the first time I ever heard it be called an ollie north, but we never switched to that terminology.

In Australia 88-89 we called them an Ollie one foot

Jerry Hsu did a beaut of an ollie north to bs lip down a handrail in Black Cat.

Ollie north because of a compass ❤

I remember hearing the name “mad Ollie” before 1 foot. This must have been around the Matt Hensley era of the 360 1 foot.

I don't know if it's a Canadian thing but i remember it often being called a lumberjack.

People don’t bring up the Iran-Contra affair enough in skateboarding-thank you! Great video apart from that too!

Oh man 😂the kid at the end with the One foot manual drop in , Ender , told to sit down hahaha

Popping it into the knee to level it out and doing a regular ollie until the end where you take your foot off past the nose are clearly 2 different ollie variations. Rodney was mentioned doing it with his hand, but he also has a perfect example of doing the one footed ollie with the knee in Public Domain. It's not the same trick as what is known today as Ollie North.

drop in north gave me anxiety

also called a Hi Ya somewhere

Ollie North because the board points North 🙌🏻

K Grind or crooked grind, Ab or G#?

I would say a 1 footed olli is a no comply without a foot plant. Olli north is a olli with extending the front leg over the nose, olli south is extending the back foot over the tail to the back. North: up, south: down. With a 1 footed olli the front foot just needs to go out of the way like with an no comply, but it dows not drag the board. With an olli north the front foot levels the board befor going north. How can be using two foots right at the beginning of the trick be "1 foot". My math is bad but I count two ;-)

1:32 how steezy was that? holeh moleh

There was an old prophecy that actually stated.. “when you see a group of skaters trying to work out a trick called an “Ollie-north drop in”, we can all rest assured that every possible maneuver/trick that’s possible on a skateboard, has now been invented.

Here I'll mess you bro, my scene called it an ollie hang, so there.

Down in San Antonio we used to call them shot guns

one footer!

I heard it as “Ollie-one-foot”. I thought THPS invented the Ollie North name for it. What about 43s vs No-complies?

One-footed ollie may be the original but Ollie North is shorter, allows for more variation (ollie south), and describes the visual better. An ollie followed by a kick off the north end of your board. Personally, one-footed ollie sounds more like a no-comply, which may be why one reason people stopped calling it that.

Ollie north, one foot, kick out

A1 footed Ollie is more like a no comply without putting down your front foot

Alex Moul circa 1989 Meanwhile. Best One Foot .

Ollie North was in news in 87. In 89 We called it an Ollie one foot. I never heard it called an Ollie north until more recent times

I'm sticking with Ollie North and Chinese Ollie.

One foot

Let’s just rename it a “fruit-boot” or a “SKITT! Get! Get dog”

Frankie Hill likes to throw down " the big fat ollie one foot"

I've never heard of a one footed ollie. It's always been an ollie north. You can call it whatever you like, but, I'm going to look at you weird if you refer to it as a one footed ollie and probably ask, do you mean an ollie north?

It's a one footed ollie.

It's an olie one footer, the only history i know is olie north was in THPS. I um .....yeah , what eva 😇🤪😋

How it got the bastardized name of OLLIE NORTH I’ll never know. I do not see how the military got into this but it’s always been a ONE FOOTED OLLIE. Oliver North should have zero to do with this because as we all know skateboarders are such up to date news junkies. I feel that it’s always been a 1 footed Ollie . I’ve skated all through the 80,$ , 90, 2000,$ and until now. I feel I have some weight in this convo and I just wish GROSSO & PHELPS were here to weigh in on this 😂 Thanks for listening to the rantings of an OG . (Old GUY ) there’s nothing gangster about being 51 😂 Sincerely OG MIKE /LES NYC currently living and repping the skate Mecca of the ATL GWINNETTE area. Come see all the parks they are amazing. Also come support DUNCAN SKATE SHOP run by an extremely rad dude James M & his wonderful family. Skater owned and operated. A true OG in the skate world.

both of you guys are single and live together aren't you

They were 1st called Lumberjacks, then Ollie North's. Lastly Transworld (as I remember)changed the name to one footed Ollie.

BRO THERE LITERALLY THE SAME TRICK🙄

This trick was named "Ollie North" on Long Island New York in about 88

Ask those kids what a No-comply is......i bet they don't know and will claim what is being done today (uncomply)😂..is a No-comply......also due to the chumping down of Sk8 in the early and mid 90s....

One-Footed Ollie . That's it.

😮Mixed messages here.... The term Ollie North came way later , the trick was being done long before that and was known as a one-footed Ollie ....not until the chumping down of Sk8 to the speed of walking in the early and mid 90s did any terms or names of tricks get messed up , confused or just plain wrong.....😮

how is it a one footer if you're actually using both feet?? skate and have fun is cool, but it's not cool to be disrespecting the pioneers by changing all the names.. not just the ollie north, but it;s so hard to even watch any competitions anymore because over half the tricks are being called wrong

Ollie south is much more superior

The one footed ollie is an outdated term in my opinion. Besides gatekeeping ridiculous shit like that is just plain weird to me. (at least use that for stuff that matters like park etiquette) Plus you could also do ollie south, west, and east. making it a fairly more practical way of differentiate it, as opposed to the one footed ollie. Besides all language and especially street slang which skateboarding jargon essentially falls under has an habit of always changing rapidly especially with new generations. trying to fight this proces that has been human nature for as long as we started grunting to each other as cavemen is like trying to fight windmills. (feel free to do so, but ur the weirdo i.m.o.) By the same logic the ''kickflip'' should still be called a ''magicflip'' yet nobody seems to want to take that high road. so it all seems pretty convoluted. Also face it. Ollie North just rolls of the tong easier anyway. thanks for coming to my ted-talk.