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S tanding No Comply
Exercise to develop back foot control
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The no comply is a one footed ollie trick. You step your front foot off the board as you're rolling and pop the board up with your back foot. Then you jump back onto the board. The trick can be done with no grab or with a grab. The no comply is not really an old school trick, because it involves an ollie. It's an old trick though, and I don't see them peformed much these days. I've seen it on Bob's Trick Tips. I've seen several variations on Natas Kaupas videos. He was a master of that trick.
It's pretty hard to do a no comply while rolling. The standing no comply shown here is a simplified version of the trick, done from a standing start and using a grab. It's very similar to the pop, catch, jump brick, but it's all done in one motion, instead of broken into two parts.
The brick starts in the same way as the pop, catch brick. I stand on my front foot and place my back foot in the snap position on the tip of the tail.
I snap the tail down with my back foot. My front hand is placed where I can grab the board as it pops up.
As the board comes up to vertical and bounces up off the ground, I help the board action by dragging my back foot up the board. The bounce off the ground and back foot action make a grab on the nose fairly easy. The grab is not on the tip of the nose, but on the heel side near the tip. This grab position is a Lien.
Here's where the trick starts to differ from the pop, catch, jump. There is no hesitation after the catch before jumping. While the pop, catch is going on, I'm crouching on my planted foot, setting up to jump off it.
Quickly raising my back arm for some extra lift, I jump off my planted front foot. My back knee comes up. This does two things; it helps give me some more lift, and it makes a natural back foot drag, which controls and pulls the board.
I thrust off my toe, or ball of the foot, to get into the air. My back foot is close to or in contact with the board on the takeoff.
I let go of the board with my front hand. I bring the foot I jumped off, my front foot, forward.
While still airborne I will place my front foot near its normal position. My back foot, having finished the takeoff motion where it was dragged up the board, can now be backed up slightly to a landing position in front of the back trucks. This back foot motion was noted in the simpler pop, catch brick, only here the adjustment is done in mid air.
As the rear wheels touch down for the landing, I have just gotten my front foot back in a regular stance position. Notice I've extended my back leg somewhat out of its crouch air position. This gives some range to compress into the landing, for more control and cushion.
I complete the landing, front wheels touching down last, and I'm in a regular stance in the middle of the board.
Once you master this brick, you should have more back foot control which will help in your ollies. You can also try to learn the advanced version of the no comply trick where you are rolling as you take your front foot off the board and plant it. It's harder to time the move, and the jump must be done quickly. It's also harder to grab in the rolling no comply. It's often done with no grab, using back foot control only.
