<![CDATA[How to Ollie - Mahalo]]> http://www.mahalo.com//how-to-ollie en-US Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:16:05 UTC contact@mahalo.com contact@mahalo.com <![CDATA[Ollying is essentially just jumping and taking your board with you, but the trick is the foundation of lots of other tricks. Without the ollie, street skating pretty much wouldn't exist and ramp skating would be a ''lot'' less fun. Ollying can be a frustr]]> <![CDATA[In 1976, the ollie was invented by Florida skater Alan "Ollie" Gelfand. Before it, skateboarding was more or less a dry-land imitation of surfing, all about carving gracefully up and down cement embankments and weaving around obstacles without falling off]]>