Inline Skating & Rollerblading Tricks: Fakie Acid Cross Slide
also known as ??? If you know another name for this let me know!
Drills & Supporting Techniques
It helps if you're able to do the following:
- Fakie Acid Slide
- Stalled Power slides
- Toe-toe and heel-heel transitions into and out of crossed legs
The Move
- easy way: do a slow Power Slide
- stall the slide
- rolling foot goes on outside edge and passes the stalled foot
- cross your feet and lock the position in - nearly all weight on
rolling foot!
- trickier (and flashier) - cross your legs rolling forwards
- rotate towards your front leg (e.g. left in front rotate
counter-clockwise)
- lock in position immediately
- like this:
Progress to
Once you've mastered this move you should be able to start working on
- Acid Cross Slide (yes, forwards!)
- Sahvana, Soyale, outside edge T-stop
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