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Different Level of Skills Taught

BASIC SKILLS for Learners:

  • Ready stance/position;
  • Balance Enhancement (Tai Chi Squats; Side-stepping; Pick-ups & Set-downs; Knee-ups; & many other balance exercises) Athletic Recovery & Spill Avoidance (Rolling Squats;; Pad Slides);
  • Beginning movement (V-walk/Duck Walk/Basic Stride 1; Scooter Push) & Intro to Stride 2;
  • ‘Frog-Style’, ‘Tripod’, & ‘1-leg’ rises; Safe-T stance;
  • A-frames , Forward Swizzles, & Tic-Tocs;
  • Beginner Turns (‘Step-Around’, ‘Scooter’, & ‘A-frame’ Turns) & intro to Cone turning;
  • Scissoring & 5 Wheeling; Step-overs;
  • Heel Brake Stopping (Beginner; Feathering; Toe Twists; Braking & Steering; Lead Foot Push; Butt Sink, etc.), Grass Stops;
  • Seawall & Pathway Skating (Curb Stepping; Surface Transistion; Obstacle avoidance; Lane use; Passing & Safety);
  • Intro Roller-Dance moves (Scissor Shuffles; March Rolls; Side Drags; V-rolls; T-rolls; Toe Taps; Heel Taps; 1 foot Zig-Zags;

INTERMEDIATE SKILLS:

  • Intro to Backward Skating & Backward Swizzles;
  • Forward & Backward 180-degree transition; Mohawks’ 2 foot 180’s;
  • Pivot Turns; Curls; Tight A-frame turns; Spin Turns; Spin Stops;
  • T-stops, T-drags, Toe-drags; Heel-drags; V-drags, L-drags;
  • Intro to Cross-overs (forward & Backward); Cross-Unders; Shuffle Cross-overs (Regular, Long, & Short, etc.); Forever Cross-overs & unders;
  • Striding Techniques (Heel Carves; Side-pushes; Stride 3’s);
  • Skating cones, Slalom Turns; Parallel turns
  • Hill work (Steep hill Heel braking, Hill turn slowing techniques, Lunge turns & steep hill turn tight edge turns);
  • 2-Wheel Heel Braking; Mono-Blading; Worm-Turns;
  • Boot claps; Stackers; seatbelts; grabs; Kicks; Scissor Popcorn jumps;
  • Intermediate Roller-Dance moves (Zig-Zags; Delayed Zig-Zags; Contra-steps; Side-Jumps; Linked Armed Pairs; ¼ turns; ½ turns; toe twists; heel twists; Locker Step; Rag Doll; );
  • Roller-Soccer;

ADVANCED & EXPERT SKILLS & TRICKS:

  • 1 foot heel stops, Wile E. Coyote Stops; Toe-Clap Heel Stops; edge stops & lunge stops; Backward Hill stops;
  • Power slides (forward; backward; D-slides; 90/180 degree slides; jump slides, kick slides, soul slides, etc.);
  • Skating stairs, curb jumps & curb stalls;
  • Skate parks, pipes & bowls (drop-ins; exits; Fakies; bank rides; wall slides; toilet-bowl flushes);
  • 180- & 360-degree jumps, curb jumps; 3-turns;
  • Spins (Pump Spins, Daffy Spins); Waltz-Jumps;
  • Grapevines, roller-dance, 1 foot blading; 1 foot Zig-Zags; Kick Starts;
  • Daffys & other 1 or 2 wheel Tricks (Toe’ys; Toe Walks; Heelies & Heel Walks; 2 wheel twists; Hip-Hop daffy’s);
  • Spaghetti Legs; Rubber Legs; Moon-Walking; Crazy Legs; John Wayne; 1 foot turns; Jersey Turns;
  • Criss-Crosses & Basket-weaving (including thru cones) & other Cone Freestyle ( Backwards; 3 cone work; crazy legs & other moves through cones)
  • Toe Flares; Heel Flares; (Flat or on 2 wheels)
  • Backward T-drags & inverted brake drags, Venice Beach Double Push & other tricks; Backward Heel-drags; Heel Stop T-drag;
  • Mexican Chopstix & other ‘New Skool’ Asphalt Free-Style Hip-Hop Style Roller-Dance Moves (Sprinkler turns; Infinity loops; Elvis; Delayed Elvis);

DOWNHILL SKI TECHNIQUES (aka ‘Skate-2-Ski’):

The ultimate ‘Ski-Fit’ dry-land training opportunity (without having to buy a lift pass or a 4-wheel drive to drive to the mountain) before the snow arrives! Develop your Ski Skills:

    • Ski Style ‘edge turns’ will benefit your downhill blading in locations like Seymour Forest .
    • Slalom cone turning (straight line & off-set) for improving your GS, Slalom & mogul turning;
    • Use your downhill ski poles (with duct tape or rubber caps on the tips) to improve your pole plants;
    • on gently grades to dramatically improve your parallel skiing stance & balance; & expand from gentle ‘Green’ runs, through ‘Blue’ & ‘Black’ run steepness;

INLINE SKATING RACING /SPEED BLADING RACING SKILLS:

  • Blading Warm-ups ; Cool-down stretches;
  • Stride 3; Side Pushes; Heel Carves; power-pushs; stride choice;
  • Various ‘Double-Push’ Techniques;
  • Racing Cross-Overs; Cross-Over Turns;
  • Hammer Glides; Ampersand Glide; Glide Ratios; Edge rolls
  • Racing Ready Positions; Tucks; Arm Rests;
  • the ‘Hook’; Pack Skating; the ‘Pelaton’; Team Skating; Lead Rotation; Drafting; Pack Bump; Pulling;
  • Start Line Sprints; Hi-Speed Cornering; Hill climbing; Tactics; Fitness inline-skating, & Marathon Blading;
  • Arm-swings (Starting Line swing; Hill climb swings; swing angles)

**Even if your plan is to recreationally inline skate & not to race, modified racing skill instruction is valuable for effective/efficient striding & maximum balance on outdoor pathwaysl

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STUDENT’S SAFETY EQUIPMENT REQUIRED:

  • Skates with heel brake;
  • Helmet;
  • Wrist Guards; Knee & Elbow Pads;

**Lessons Focus on Low-Impact Movement**

**If you have not purchased gear & are using rental gear (or if you’re planning to purchase new equipment) take a lesson with Lorne who will give you personalized advice as to which which equipment will fit your size or style of blading best!!

‘LADIES ONLY’ INSTRUCTION: From blading instructor Jennifer Harvey is available.

VIDEO-CAMERA feedback & slalom cones available during lessons .