Nollie (skateboarding trick)
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A nollie is a skateboarding manoeuvre in which the board is lifted from the ground without the use of the skateboarder's hands, or stepping off the board. The trick works by forcing the nose of the board downwards with the front foot, and then lifting the front foot quickly allowing the board to rise. The rear foot drags towards the tail of the board, aiding to lift the board into the air.
The trick is derived from the ollie, a similar move which is instead performed tail. The nollie is not to be confused with the fakie ollie, where the front kicktail is again forced down, but the skateboarder is riding 'backwards' (ie: in the direction less comfortable to the rider) or the switch ollie, in which the skateboarder is again riding backwards, but uses the back kicktail (hence using the same foot as used in a nollie).
Famous nollie based skateboarding tricks include Cairo Foster's Nollie flip down the Sacramento triple three set and Andrew Reynolds' frontside nollie 360 down the carlsbad gap.
