Beginner Roller Skating Dance Move - The Hez

This is a really nice beginner move if you want to learn rhythm or if you just want to get a bit more control over your skates. You can always hold on if you want to. So this move consists of two main steps, the slide and a little curtsy. So my skates look like this without a toe stop in. I'm just wearing them so you can see my feet moving a little bit easier and where my weight's going on my wheels. But if you've got skates that look like this or like this there's no reason why you can't do this move. If you're very new to skating you may find that your wheels aren't yet quite doing what you want them to do. So if you're holding on put your feet in a nice V position because that will stop the wheels from rolling away from you and we can do the move from here. So I'm going to transfer all my weight to this right foot and I'm going to slide this one forwards. You see how this knee's bent and this knee's straight. Then I'm going to come back to the V, transfer my weight to this side and slide this one forward. Now this time when I come back to my V my left foot is going to do the curtsy. So you see how I'm rolling onto the toe wheel and I'm going to do a little curtsy and that is the move. And then we're going to do it the other way around. So you're going to do right foot first, transfer, left foot and the curtsy then is on this right toe. So this is all about the weight transfer to here. So this foot's free so you can slide it out. Back to centre, transfer to here, slide it out. Back to centre, then transfer to here so you can do your curtsy. So all the weight is on here, the little bit of weight on this foot. So the move I'm breaking down is called the Hez and you can get a little bit tied up in knots with this one. It's left, together, right, together and now the left foot, so the one that was first, does the curtsy. Back to the V, this time it's right, left, back to the V and the right leg curtsies. So we alternate. Sometimes with these moves it's easier to follow it from behind so I'm going to show it to you this way as well. So right, V, left, V and because the right foot was the first one I moved forward I'm going to do the curtsy on that foot. Back to the V, now left, together, right, together and because the left foot was the first one the left one is the one that curtsies. So a really nice way to practice this is to music as always because it just gives you that little bit of rhythm to skate to and you can build up the speed and the tempo the more comfortable you get. Once you start to get more comfortable and more confident with the balance what you can do is lift the toe on this front one. So we're already lifting here onto the toe but this time you can go onto the heel and lift the toe there. So as you roll the foot out to put more weight on the heel and then bring it back in again. So more weight on the heel and back in. So I'm going to show you it from the back as well because often it's easier to see what's going on and also much easier to follow along like this. When you do this with your toe stops in it's just going to be a bit more of a toe stop curtsy and again you can always lift the heel. I hope you've had fun learning this one. There is also a moving version of this called the barrel roll and I'm going to show you that next week. I'm Katie, you've been watching Skaty and I'll see you next time. Bye!