Book Review @ Sk8boarding4Life

“When Craig B Snyder started his crowdfunding project for this book I thought, ‘Strange, it has all been said, what else does he pretend to know.’ The book came out recently and I was blown away.” — Chris Eggers, Sk8boarding4Life.com

Read the review that OG skater Chris Eggers from Germany has posted for A Secret History of the Ollie. At the end of the review are some vintage skate images from Germany including an early flatground Ollie. Check it out!

Ollie Physics: Skateboarding Explained

Aatish Bhatia, a recent graduate with a Ph D in physics and a love for skateboarding, recently published this article on WIRED titled "The Physics of Doing an Ollie on a Skateboard, or, the Science of Why I Can’t Skate." The article is nicely illustrated with a video and a series of animated GIFs the explore the mechanics of the Ollie.

Now a Staff Pick on Kickstarter!

Less than 36 hours after the launch of the Kickstarter project for A Secret History of the Ollie I was informed by Kickstarter that the project is now a staff pick. What an honor!

House Design by Pierre-André Senizergue, Gil Le Bon Delapointe, and Francois Perrin—and the Ollie.

"Imagine a city of the future where skateboards are used as the primary form of transportation and recreation – in and out of your home. A utopia city for skateboarders would mean that a skateable path, like a ribbon connecting everything together, links each building in an unending ability to keep in motion on your board. The PAS House takes this concept and brings it to life through an architectural project mixing a modern single family home with a skateboard ramp structure – all from an environmentally-driven perspective."

One would have to wonder what this unique house design (still in prototype stages) would look like without the Ollie. The oval deck shape used throughout the house as a theme was a by-product of the Ollie, as well as certain design aspects of the interior to entertain Ollie-based maneuvers. Pierre-André Senizergue, founder of the Etnies brand and its mother company, Sole Technology, has been working with designer Gil Le Bon Delapointe, the man behind the Skate Study House project, and Los Angeles-based, French architect Francois Perrin, on the PAS House where skateboarding and art collide.