So this is a move that is taking FOREVER to refine, but I do feel like I made a breakthrough (October 2022, Day 110ish) on adjusting my snakewalk to get that zigzag effect (where your legs are moving in opposite directions. There are a lot of tutorials that I’ve watched early on that don’t emphasize the … Read more
Spinning is hard, and it gives me comfort to hear skaters I really admire say that they’ve never worked so hard on anything. At first, I could do 1 rotation at a time. A solid 2 foot spin, but even in my early days (Day 8), I could feel the pressure on my toe of … Read more
I started learning to dribble probably 2 weeks into my skating journey. I kept my toe stops in until after I had about 50 days of skating under my belt. I started with some tutorials that emphasized lunging, but I had the darndest time transitioning from that to dribbling in place. Probably the key drill … Read more
When I first got exposed to all the different skate skills (still getting exposed), I was super overwhelmed in terms of figuring out where to start and where to go next. Thanks to @tkrollerskates on Instagram, I stumbled across the below skills tree that someone (okchickadee) from Reddit apparently drafted. I don’t know who okchickadee … Read more