Tutorials

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Getting Started

How to Roller Skate for Beginners by Dirty School of Skate
Roller Skating For Beginners – Top 5 Tips You Need To Get Started by Skatie

Forward Skating

Skating Forwards by Classic Sk8 Crew
How to Rollerskate – Pushes for Beginners in under 5 minutes! by Appelusa

Backward Skating

How to Roller Skate Backwards – The Absolute Basics by Dirty School of Skate
Backwards Roller Skating by Skatie

Bubbles and Scissors

SCISSORS | BUBBLES & Beginner 2 Foot Spin by Appelusa

Falling and Getting Up

Falling on Roller Skates!!! How to GET UP! by Dirty School of Skate

Stops

✴ T-stop

T-Stop by Classic Sk8 Crew
How to T-Stop by Howcast

✴ Toe Stop

Stopping on your Toe Stops by SureGrip

✴ Plow Stop

How to Plow Stop on Roller Skates by SureGrip
HOW TO PLOW STOP 4 WAYS by This Rad

Forward Crossovers

Turning / Crossover by Classic Sk8 Crew

Edges

An Important Roller Skating Skill That Is Often Overlooked – But What Is It? by Skatie
Improve Your Skating With These Edge Drills For Roller Skating by Skatie

Transitions

HOW TO TRANSITION ON ROLLER SKATES by This Rad
How To Rollerskate – TRANSITIONS – FRONT TO BACK & WITH EDGES ! by Appelusa
Roller Skating Transitions – 180 Jump, Inside 3 Turn and Manual turns by Skatie

Other Skills

Banana

How to do the Banana by Love in Skates

Barrel Roll

How to Barrel Roll on Roller Skates! by SideZwipe

C-Step

How to do the C Step on Skates by Groovy Roller Skate

Coffin

How to do a Coffin by That Nicole Fiore
Shoot the Duck & The Coffin by Malik Thomas

Crab Walk

How to Crab Walk in Rollerblades and Quad Skates by Deez Skates

Crazy Legs

Crazy Leg Tutorial by Malik Thomas
Crazy Legs Breakdown by I’m Cherri! Let’s Skate

Dips

How to Roller Skate – How to DIP! by Dirty School of Skate
How to Roller Skate – How to Do a DIP – Part 2 by Dirty School of Skate

Downtown

How to Downtown on Roller Skates by Indy Jamma Jones
How to Do the Downtown on Roller Skates by Dirty School of Skate

Dribble

Dribble with turn by I’m Cherri! Let’s Skate!
How to Pendulum Dribble on Roller Skates by Dunbeezytv

Extensions

How To Do Leg Extensions by RoC’s WorLd
How to Do Extensions in Roller Skates by Skatealldae

G-Slide

How to “G-Slide” by Malik Thomas

Grapevine

Grapevine basic pattern and technique by BFunkphenomenon

Hex

How to basic hex on roller skates! by Kev & Jaz

Hez

Jam Skating with Tony – “The Hez” by filmposse
The Hez Breakdown by I’m Cherri! Let’s Skate!

Iceberg

How to Iceberg on roller skates with Paul! by Kev & Jaz

Jumps

✴ Bunny Hop

How to do a Bunny Hop and Double Bunny Hop on roller skates by Appelusa

✴ 180 and 360 Jumps

Jumping on Roller Skates – 180 / 360 by Dirty School of Skate
How To Rollerskate – HOPS – 180 JUMP – 360 JUMP TUTORIAL by Appelusa

✴ Waltz Jump

Waltz Jump on Roller Skates – Both Directions by Skatie
How to do a Waltz Jump on Roller Skates by Dirty School of Skate

✴ Half Mapes / 180 Toe Jump

Roller Skating Skills – 180 Toe Jump!!! by Dirty School of Skate

Manuals

Wheel Manuals for Beginners by Diamond Walker
How to Skate On Your Toes! by Deez Skates

Matrix

The Breakdown: Matrix – How To Do The Matrix by Andvilsk8s Zen Skate School

Moonwalk

How to Moonwalk on Roller Skates by Indy Jamma Jones
How to Moonwalk on Roller Skates by Moxi Roller Skates

Pendulum

The Pendulum Move by BFunkphenomenon
How to Pendulum by Milwaukee24 Sk8Fam

Shoot the Duck

Shoot the Duck Roller Skating Tutorial in 4 Easy Steps by Skatie

Side Surf / Spread Eagle

Learn To Roller Skate Sideways – Mastering Spread Eagle by Skatie
How to Skate Sideways by Deez Skates

Snake Walk

Snake walk on Roller Skates by Roller Girl Gang
How to Snake Walk in Rollerblades and Roller Skates by Deez Skates
HOW TO – Double Snake-walk by Diamond Walker

Spins

✴ Heel Toe / Two Foot Spin

How To Rollerskate – 2 FOOT SPIN – BEGINNER through ADVANCED by Appelusa
How to Start Spinning on Roller Skates by That Nicole Fiore
Learn How to SPIN on ROLLER SKATES with a WORLD CHAMP by Indy Jamma Jones

✴ Compass Spin (Pivot Spin)

Roller Skating Disco Spin / Dips Don’t Have To Be Hard, Here Are My Tips by Skatie
How to Backward Skate into a Pivot Spin by Dirty School of Skate

✴ Disco Spin (Heel Pivot)

Heel Pivot/Disco Spin on Roller Skates by That Nicole Fiore
Roller Skating Disco Spin / Dips Don’t Have To Be Hard, Here Are My Tips by Skatie

✴ Toe Spin

How to Do Toe Spins – even with toe stops in! by That Nicole Fiore

✴ Corkscrew Spin

HOW TO – Corkscrew Spin (For beginner skaters) by Diamond Walker
The Breakdown: Corkscrew – How To Corkscrew Like A Pro! by Andvilsk8s Zen Skate School

✴ One Foot Spin

How to do a 1 Foot Spin by Appelusa
The Breakdown: One Foot Spin | How To One Foot and Scratch Spin by Andvilsk8s Zen Skate School

✴ Sit Spin

How to: Sit Spin by Andvilsk8s Zen Skate School

✴ Straddle Spin

HOW TO STRADDLE SPIN on ROLLER SKATES by Moxi Roller Skates

Spiral (aka Arabesque)

How to do a spiral (arabesque) on Roller Skates by That Nicole Fiore
LEARN HOW TO LOOK LIKE A DANCER ON SKATES – THE SPIRAL by OurSkateLife

Strut Walk

How to Skate | Strut Walk by ABOMINATRIX
How to Strut Walk (In Place) by WheelYourOwnWay

Swirls

Swirls Fundamentals by I’m Cherri! Let’s Skate!
This Will Improve Your Backwards Roller Skating – Swirls by Skatie

Three Turn

How to Three Turn on Roller Skates by That Nicole Fiore

Zero

Zero Fundamentals by I’m Cherri! Let’s Skate!