The First Ollie In The World Alan"Ollie"Gelfand

Everyone has an opinion - here's mine - the first "Ollie" was perfected around 1978 on vertical (bowl, pool, halfpipe), and there is lots of conflicting documentation regarding who, what, and where. The point is skateboarding was around long before the "ollie", and skaters had a great time doing all kinds of flat ground tricks leading to more difficult transition tricks , and then progressed to vertical tricks. This

Good point. Yes, you're technically right, but the ollie that Gelfand invented was a transition trick and was more of a back foot scoop to turn the board around, as seen in this video [VIDEO]. Mullen invented the flatland ollie which, as I'm sure everyone here already knows (duh!), uses the tail pop to get height instead of relying on getting air off a ramp. That's what we know and love today as the "ollie", even if