Ollie North or One-Footed Ollie? Skate History

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SquareState Skate

SquareState Skate

7 ай бұрын

A mysterious and polarizing trick that first surfaced in the mid 80's, the Ollie Nor- I mean, the One-Footed Ollie is more than just a stylish way to pop the board. Take a deep dive to learn about the trick's history and name. Which side will you end in? Ollie North, or One-Footed Ollie?

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@BagelDaze
@BagelDaze 7 ай бұрын
The editing and creativity in the Square State videos always makes them a real treat to watch. I loved learning the skate history and you guys make skating look so fun
@squarestateskate
@squarestateskate 7 ай бұрын
G’awww shucks, thank you!
@laboutique6257
@laboutique6257 3 ай бұрын
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.
@AlexNiedt
@AlexNiedt 7 ай бұрын
I'd never heard or read the term "ollie north" until a video game, and I absolutely refuse to call it that 😄
@donniebobb74
@donniebobb74 2 ай бұрын
I was there back then as you may have been and I agree! like I said, we called them 'Dog Pissers" until we called em 1 foots.
@cormac8613
@cormac8613 2 ай бұрын
I would always hear people say this about overcrooks as well
@bux77
@bux77 2 ай бұрын
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.
@tomf4087
@tomf4087 7 ай бұрын
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.
@squarestateskate
@squarestateskate 7 ай бұрын
The extended edit has mentions of him… as well as Jason Lee, Danny Way, Matt Hensley, and more. Join our Patreon for that exclusive content.
@ron8935
@ron8935 5 ай бұрын
The nose bonk started with the Chinese ollie....you are right about Ed
@AndySo2000
@AndySo2000 3 ай бұрын
While Ed Templeton was the biggest street skater of 1990, ollie norths were pretty done for by the time Useless Wooden Toys came out. If anything Templeton doesnt get credit for his chops in street skating in general, he is more known for impossibles as he pretty much brought them into street skating.
@CaseyDarwin
@CaseyDarwin 6 ай бұрын
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.
@oldtobyco9601
@oldtobyco9601 7 ай бұрын
Ollie north because of a compass ❤
@Rufusdos
@Rufusdos 7 ай бұрын
This video has good vibrations. You guys are my kind of people.
@Inexpressable
@Inexpressable 7 ай бұрын
If you kick your back foot out, isn't that an ollie south? I thought that was where the naming came from.
@mikehemens9359
@mikehemens9359 7 ай бұрын
That's Pierre Andre's signature trick. Google image "Pierre Andre skateboard".
@earthman808
@earthman808 7 ай бұрын
No. We called them Ollie Norths because that's what they were called.
@ron8935
@ron8935 5 ай бұрын
No it happened at the beginning of the chumping down of Sk8... early 90s😢
@ron8935
@ron8935 5 ай бұрын
​@@earthman808....too young and late to the game..... When they were first done there was no Ollie North or Iran contra scandal 😂
@earthman808
@earthman808 5 ай бұрын
@@ron8935 Oh, really? I was very actively skating in that era when the scandal broke and the hearings were televised. In 1987. We were doing street plants, and launching off of jump ramps, and trying wall rides. The one footed Ollie / aka Ollie North, was not being done, because it had not been done in front of a camera yet.
@glenncampbell1176
@glenncampbell1176 7 ай бұрын
In Australia 88-89 we called them an Ollie one foot
@dneck
@dneck 3 ай бұрын
@3:48 - freeze frame of perfection!
@AndySo2000
@AndySo2000 3 ай бұрын
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.
@Inexpressable
@Inexpressable 3 күн бұрын
@@AndySo2000 i find one foots harder than a kickflip. they're between a kickflip and a heelflip, and since I learned those first it feels unnatural for me
@mattimaranda9638
@mattimaranda9638 6 ай бұрын
Jerry Hsu did a beaut of an ollie north to bs lip down a handrail in Black Cat.
@snicka
@snicka 7 ай бұрын
I remember hearing the name “mad Ollie” before 1 foot. This must have been around the Matt Hensley era of the 360 1 foot.
@warwicklilley4160
@warwicklilley4160 7 ай бұрын
Yeah, could be short for the madonna, Tony Hawks trick also
@squarestateskate
@squarestateskate 7 ай бұрын
Correct… a no handed (Ollie) Madonna was termed a Madollie.
@ron8935
@ron8935 5 ай бұрын
Matt Hensley's 360 one footer was 10-12 years after the original one foot Ollie
@lewisbarlot4823
@lewisbarlot4823 7 ай бұрын
I don't know if it's a Canadian thing but i remember it often being called a lumberjack.
@videotime706
@videotime706 7 ай бұрын
People don’t bring up the Iran-Contra affair enough in skateboarding-thank you! Great video apart from that too!
@squarestateskate
@squarestateskate 7 ай бұрын
Thanks! (As the video editor who has never heard about the Iran-Contra debacle, I learned a lot!)
@zoltthebolt217
@zoltthebolt217 4 ай бұрын
drop in north gave me anxiety
@helorumtheknightsofmambrin2155
@helorumtheknightsofmambrin2155 6 ай бұрын
I likewise remember, after Colonel Oliver North, it being named.
@dreammule
@dreammule 2 ай бұрын
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.
@TomWyker
@TomWyker 6 ай бұрын
also called a Hi Ya somewhere
@vorpalblades
@vorpalblades 3 ай бұрын
WAATTAAAHHH!!!
@theprogenesis2000
@theprogenesis2000 7 ай бұрын
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.
@mikehemens9359
@mikehemens9359 7 ай бұрын
Yes, Rodney did it with his hand but Ron Allen would bang his fuckin knee off the board. ; The right way, the hand way and the shiddy knee smash way -3 ways.
@ron8935
@ron8935 5 ай бұрын
​@@mikehemens9359.... What Ron Allen did was take the actual real No-comply (long gone) and eliminate the foot plant part....no-complollie 😂😂😂
@nooboard
@nooboard 2 ай бұрын
@@ron8935 what is a "real" no-comply? 😀
@truthhurts7637
@truthhurts7637 7 ай бұрын
Ollie North because the board points North 🙌🏻
@warwicklilley4160
@warwicklilley4160 7 ай бұрын
Oh man 😂the kid at the end with the One foot manual drop in , Ender , told to sit down hahaha
@bdogthegreat1
@bdogthegreat1 7 ай бұрын
I heard it as “Ollie-one-foot”. I thought THPS invented the Ollie North name for it. What about 43s vs No-complies?
@DariusBlue-sx3fm
@DariusBlue-sx3fm 7 ай бұрын
That's exactly where it came from...
@vorpalblades
@vorpalblades 3 ай бұрын
It was Ollie North before the Playstation even came out.
@narrowonflow
@narrowonflow 7 ай бұрын
1:32 how steezy was that? holeh moleh
@DrMerkinstein
@DrMerkinstein 2 күн бұрын
It was called an Ollie north cause you were kicking off the front of the board the top of the board or…wait for it…yeah the north! And it was the assay of Oliver north because it was that time frame.
@fteej7861
@fteej7861 7 ай бұрын
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.
@azazelreficulmefistofelicu7158
@azazelreficulmefistofelicu7158 7 ай бұрын
Except no ollie "sounds" like a no comply.
@ron8935
@ron8935 5 ай бұрын
😂😂....one footed Ollie like No-comply??.... One is a foot plant , one is not a foot plant 😯
@DavidPleshaw
@DavidPleshaw Ай бұрын
Oliver North Iran contra hearings, took place in February 1989. Powells Ban this came out in 1989 as well but the footage was from 88. Frankie Hill said he likes to throw down the big fat ollie one foot. So it was called a One footer by the people doing them before the Oliver North trial. That’s what we called them.  Nerds that started skateboarding after 1989 started calling them the Ollie North, because of a military guy on trial. It sounded dumb to me 35 years ago, and it still does. It’s a ONE FOOTER.  And I’m proud to be a skate nerd.
@nooboard
@nooboard 2 ай бұрын
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 ;-)
@richdixon
@richdixon 2 ай бұрын
Here I'll mess you bro, my scene called it an ollie hang, so there.
@phatallbutt7879
@phatallbutt7879 7 ай бұрын
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
@ron8935
@ron8935 5 ай бұрын
😂😂😂... After the chumping down of Sk8.... And the flooding inundation of non-sk8rs riding at the speed I walk.... Little wheel gimmick I never fell for 😂😂😂...and now the damn Olympics 😂??? How much more gimmick garbage is sk8 going to go through 😢....for fks sake it's slow as hell and borderline hopscotch as it is 😮
@nemo2875
@nemo2875 7 ай бұрын
Down in San Antonio we used to call them shot guns
@mattnejmanowski631
@mattnejmanowski631 7 ай бұрын
one footer!
@johnm3946
@johnm3946 2 ай бұрын
K Grind or crooked grind, Ab or G#?
@glenncampbell1176
@glenncampbell1176 7 ай бұрын
A1 footed Ollie is more like a no comply without putting down your front foot
@TheBlackHarrington
@TheBlackHarrington 6 ай бұрын
Ollie north, one foot, kick out
@dreammule
@dreammule 2 ай бұрын
Let’s just rename it a “fruit-boot” or a “SKITT! Get! Get dog”
@warwicklilley4160
@warwicklilley4160 7 ай бұрын
Frankie Hill likes to throw down " the big fat ollie one foot"
@squarestateskate
@squarestateskate 7 ай бұрын
Well played, sir!
@mrcards169
@mrcards169 2 ай бұрын
One foot
@tjohnson4
@tjohnson4 7 ай бұрын
It's a one footed ollie.
@vorpalblades
@vorpalblades 7 ай бұрын
I'm sticking with Ollie North and Chinese Ollie.
@brendangreen6197
@brendangreen6197 7 ай бұрын
Alex Moul circa 1989 Meanwhile. Best One Foot .
@DrMerkinstein
@DrMerkinstein 2 күн бұрын
To be clear an Ollie south is kicking the back foot off.
@ApexConsoleStreamer
@ApexConsoleStreamer 20 күн бұрын
They said "when Rodney first did it" then show a clip of Rodney doing an airwalk. Like wtf. 😂 I even slo-mo'd the video to make sure, and yes, he is doing an airwalk. Lol. He Ollie's, graps the nose, and has both feet off the board. That's not an Ollie north. Lol.
@DudeEggs
@DudeEggs 2 ай бұрын
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?
@stevebanning902
@stevebanning902 7 ай бұрын
both of you guys are single and live together aren't you
@squarestateskate
@squarestateskate 7 ай бұрын
Best roommates imaginable
@stevebanning902
@stevebanning902 7 ай бұрын
called it@@squarestateskate
@g1oomer
@g1oomer 3 ай бұрын
BRO THERE LITERALLY THE SAME TRICK🙄
@XSteve-gz5ko
@XSteve-gz5ko 7 ай бұрын
It's an olie one footer, the only history i know is olie north was in THPS. I um .....yeah , what eva 😇🤪😋
@deeteeohbee6794
@deeteeohbee6794 7 ай бұрын
Yep, THPS was the first time I ever heard the term ollie north.
@squarestateskate
@squarestateskate 7 ай бұрын
So true! That game helped standardize a lot of tricks…it did lead me to believe that the “sack tap” was going to be more wide spread though haha
@XSteve-gz5ko
@XSteve-gz5ko 7 ай бұрын
@@squarestateskate funny, yeah i thought we would see lots of 360 bennihana's lol
@mikehemens9359
@mikehemens9359 7 ай бұрын
They were 1st called Lumberjacks, then Ollie North's. Lastly Transworld (as I remember)changed the name to one footed Ollie.
@michaeljohn8905
@michaeljohn8905 7 ай бұрын
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.
@squarestateskate
@squarestateskate 7 ай бұрын
Can you explain the Madonna, Sean Penn, Woolie Mammoth, or any number of stupid outdated names?
@johnbrazelton6130
@johnbrazelton6130 7 ай бұрын
This trick was named "Ollie North" on Long Island New York in about 88
@gumeskate4live
@gumeskate4live 7 ай бұрын
One-Footed Ollie . That's it.
@DrMerkinstein
@DrMerkinstein 2 күн бұрын
Naming conventions in the 80s and 90s were different it literally had nothing to do with Oliver north. Just like a Madonna has nothing to do with Madonna and a stalefish literally only has anything to do with stale fish cause it’s something Tony ate that day🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️ it’s cause the nose of the board is the north and the tail is the south🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️
@ron8935
@ron8935 5 ай бұрын
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....
@ron8935
@ron8935 5 ай бұрын
😮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.....😮
@smilessmiles7906
@smilessmiles7906 7 ай бұрын
Ollie south is much more superior
@JasonWalker-vy4yt
@JasonWalker-vy4yt 7 ай бұрын
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
@kjah11
@kjah11 7 ай бұрын
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.
@squarestateskate
@squarestateskate 7 ай бұрын
Excellent TED talk. No doubt the sands of time will wash away all of what skating holds sacred eventually. Funny how many skaters have come to different origin stories about why the trick is called an Ollie North nowadays (usually something about the front foot being the “north” part of the trick as opposed to Oliver North). Haven’t seen many serious examples of Ollie East or Ollie West though.
@kylespevak6781
@kylespevak6781 5 ай бұрын
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