How-To Skateboarding: One Foot with Ron Allen

What this video teaches

Ron Allen teaches his own version of the Rodney Mullen original, where the board is aimed at the inside of your thigh rather than just levelled out in the air. Front foot goes up around the front trucks and the back foot stays in ollie position; the front foot flicks off the front of the board as the back foot comes off the tail to catch it. When the nose hits the inside of your thigh, that leg pops it again and sends it back under your feet, and the whole thing feels like a step hop forward. He stresses ample speed and going perfectly straight, since drifting makes you tic tac out of the landing.

Key tips

• 1Have your ollie and ideally a standard one foot ollie down before trying this version
• 2Front foot up around the front trucks, back foot in normal ollie position
• 3Flick the front foot off the nose as the back foot comes off the tail to catch the board
• 4Aim the nose to hit the inside of your thigh, then let that leg pop it back under your feet
• 5Carry ample speed and jump forward into it like a step hop
• 6Go perfectly straight, because drifting makes you tic tac out of the landing and look uncontrolled
• 7Be aware the board can catch your knee or shin, so control where it hits

Summarized from the video transcript.