It took way too long to get why you take exception to what I said. When I say “rise of the Ollie”, I don’t mean invention of the Ollie. I learned to Ollie right after no-comply and manuals, like the same week.

What I mean by rise is it’s rise in importance. Ollies went from being a freestyle trick to a core street trick. It took a long time for it gain full dominance in skateboarding culture. The guys in the videos had been skatings quite a few years longer than the average skater. The average skater didn’t immediately stop doing old school stuff and try to Ollie a double set.

We didn’t know about how the sweeping forward motion worked or that it made you go higher. No one knew of or saw a proper Ollie pop in person.

Note: once it clicks in your head how the Ollie is really supposed to work, rather than that weak Ollie newbies do, you can go from barely ollieing on to a bench to barely Ollieing onto a picknic table in like a week or two.

Anyhoo, the whole transition really complete until people like Koston were skating switch at a high level. Until then, no-complys were still standard. They were left behind as people began experimenting with the crazy combos like nollie to switch feeble.