Ollie:
1. Find a flat surface - a driveway, a smooth parking lot, a basketball court, a quite street - any smooth, flat surface will do.
2. Push a few times, so that you're rolling with moderate speed. (the faster you're traveling when you ollie, the farther you will go. Physics? Yep.)
3. As you're rolling, position the ball of your back foot on the tail, and place your front foot in the middle of the board.
4. Bend your knees
5. Here's where the trick is: You must simultaneously (at the same time) smack the tail on the ground, jump, and slide your front foot up the deck. (smacking your tail allows the front of the board to raise up off the ground, jumping allows your body to break the confines of gravity, and sliding your front foot up the board allows the deck to level out, thus raising the back of the board from the ground.) Sound simple? Well, it's not at first. But, practice makes perfect.
6. Stay over the board. At the peak of your ollie you should be centered on the board, your knees bent again ready for landing.
7. Important note: keep your shoulders in line with the direction you're travelling. (the ollie requires you keep shoulders in line, or will certainly lose balance.)
8. When you land, keep your knees bent to absorb the impact with the ground. (this will save your lower back.)
9. Upon landing, your back foot should be on the tail, though slightly closer to the back truck bolts (so as not to break the tail), and your front foot should be directly over the front bolts.
Ollie Manual:
In order to learn the ollie manual, it is painfully obvious that you must learn the ollie, and the manual first. Darn!
An ollie manual is the act of ollieing and landing on your two back wheels and balencing on them for a distance.
The best way I know to learn this is to pop a tiny ollie, as though you are ollieing over a crack, and don't level out the board. Land on your back wheels and try to be in the position you are in when you manual when you land.
One thing I know is that you should not try to learn this in place. Some people learn it moving fast, some people learn it moving rather slowly, but hardly any can successfully learn it standing still. You may need to try fast ans slow. Experiment with it and have fun. Don't get pissed off if you don't pull it the first try! Skate Hard.
Ollie Nose Manual:
To do an Ollie Nose Manual, you should first be able to do both ollies and nose manuals consistently.
Set up for an ollie with your front foot near the nose of the board. (How far from the nose you wish to put it is up to you. Keep in mind that if you are trying to do this trick on a ledge or other high object, you need to be able to ollie high enough to get onto it, so you might not want to put your front foot too far towards the nose.) Do an ollie while sliding your front foot forward and onto the nose. Push the nose down faster than the tail so that the tail is sticking up in the air and the nose is pointed into the ground. Be sure not to point the nose too drastically into the ground as you only want the wheels to be touching the ground and not the actual nose of the board. Keep your weight balanced over the nose in a nose manual position. When you are ready to finish the nose manual or you come to the end of the ledge/object, there are two different ways you can come out of it. If you are coming off of an object, you may want to push the nose over it quickly so that the back trucks don't hit the object as you come off. You if you, it takes off a lot of style and doesn't look nearly as good. If you are not on an object simply put more weight on your back foot and lean back a little bit until your back wheels hit the ground. Be sure not to put too much weight no your back foot because you might slip out. When you are finished, keep your balance and ride away.
