How To Skate Sideways On Roller Skates! (Sidesurf)
Welcome, my name is Sideswipe and in today's video I'm going to be showing you how to sidesurf.
Okay so with sidesurfing a lot of it is in your hip movement. Now getting into this position here
a lot of you guys will find quite difficult. I did when I first started but the best way to
practice is literally to spin in a circle. So what you're doing your right foot forward like this
so I'm gonna make this position then you bend your knees and you bring your left foot as close as
you can and then and you just want to keep literally just going into a circle like I'm
doing because you're getting your muscles used to this movement. So literally just keep going
in a circle like so if you want to do it the other way. Get used to that movement and eventually
your legs will be able to widen like this. This is how you would transition so you're
getting the wrong left right, left right, right foot forward, left foot back, swing your hips
and use your arms. Arms are very important. You just literally just want to move your arms
like that and move your hips. It's the most important thing to move and then your whole
body will just swing. So I'm gonna swing to the right and I'm gonna swing to the left. Right,
left. So using your body and your hip movement in order to move. It's a little bit like longboarding
in the sense of using them hips. So if you've got really tight hips you're gonna have to loosen them
off. The best way to loosen them off is literally just to keep going in a circle and move your right
arm forward if you're going left and then you just keep swinging them. So a nice little movement
like that. There are multiple ways you can stop. You can do a side circle and literally just move
your leg back and just stop as you would normally or you could literally do like a kind of a side
circle. What you're doing is you're literally just going into a circle like this then you're just
moving your left foot back into a t-stop. I'm gonna demonstrate to you how you can speed up
doing a side circle. You're keeping this leg like that and then you're just swinging your hips
and then you're moving your legs. Left, right, left, right. New arms and then quickly move your hips.
And yes guys that is how to side circle. Anyway I know this video was quick but if you have any
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