Tricks and Difficulty Levels
Trick List for General, Recreational and Fitness Inline Skating
Inline skating is the perfect mix of endurance training, coordination, fun, and style.
Whether you're cruising along or want to improve your skills with cool tricks, the right technique and solid basic posture will keep you safe and efficient.
Here you'll learn everything about maintaining a healthy posture, braking effectively, falling safely, mastering efficient skating techniques, and performing exciting tricks of all difficulty levels.
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SkaMiDan's Leisure and Fitness Inline Skate Trick List
Your guide to general, leisure and fitness inline skating
Leisure and Fitness Inline Skating is the ideal entry into a sporty and active leisure lifestyle. Those who master the right way to fall, the basic techniques and first tricks, quickly gain confidence, joy of movement and coolness. And the best part: The fun factor increases with every new move!
This is exactly where our SkaMiDan Trick List comes in:
We have compiled the most important skating techniques, braking methods, falling methods, tricks and much more, such as proper body posture and situational skating, in our trick list, sorted alphabetically by difficulty level.
Especially helpful: For many tricks you will find complementary images, videos and even detailed video tutorials, with which you can get started right away.
You will not only learn new techniques and tricks, but you can also finally call them by their correct names – or vice versa: You know the name and quickly find out what is behind it.
The SkaMiDan Trick List is more than just a collection – it is your personal training companion on the path to confident inline skating, more control and safety on your wheels.
The best part: If you work through our trick list chronologically, it also serves as an optimal guide for you as a skating beginner to learn inline skating correctly and successfully from the ground up.
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Fundamentals – Your Guide to Getting Started
In the basics of recreational and fitness inline skating, you will learn the fundamental body posture for inline skating, important movement sequences, as well as skating techniques such as how to fall safely, brake correctly, and more.
For our list of the basics, we have deliberately chosen not to sort them alphabetically.
Instead, we have structured them for you so that you can use them as the perfect guide for learning inline skating.
If you are a beginner or are just getting started in earnest, we recommend going through the following list of tricks from top to bottom, absorbing the knowledge, and learning the techniques and tricks shown step by step.
Everything for your safe start!
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The right inline skates, shoe size, and life hacks
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The right protective gear – What you should know!
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Skate posture (body posture when inline skating)
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Car Slide (learning to fall safely with inline skates)
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V-Step (learning to move forward with inline skates)
First steps and moving around with inline skates
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Pole Stop (learning to brake with inline skates)
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Wall Stop (learning to brake with inline skates)
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Meadow Stop (learning to brake with inline skates)
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Snow Plow (learning to brake with inline skates)
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Heel brake (learning to brake with inline skates)
Braking with the brake pad
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Learning to jump
For a stable and safe body posture for everyday skating on inline skates
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The Parallel Turn (learning to turn with inline skates)
This is how we easily and safely roll around the corner.
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The Crossover Turn (learning to turn with inline skates)
To run, drive, and skate around the corner while accelerating.
Difficulty
Beginner
You've mastered the basics? Then it's time to learn the first techniques and tricks of the beginner level! How many? As many as possible! Because the more of the following tricks you can check off, the more confident you will be on your inline skates and the freer you will feel on your wheels.
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A Stop (learning to brake with inline skates)
- Back Manual
- Duckwalk
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Eagle Spinout (learning to brake with inline skates)
- Front Manual
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Lemon / Egg laying (learning to skate forward with inline skates)
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One Foot Rolling – Rolling on one foot
Posture and balance
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Shuffle (learning to skate forward with inline skates)
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Side Step Stop (learning to brake downhill with inline skates)
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Slalom (learning to skate forward with inline skates)
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Slalom Stop (learning to brake downhill with inline skates)
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Soul Stop (learning to brake downhill with inline skates)
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T-Stop (learning to brake with inline skates)
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Waving (learning to skate forward with inline skates)
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Intermediate
Welcome to the intermediate level, the techniques and tricks that will bring you limitless freedom on inline skates. If you master several of the following techniques and tricks, you will be able to handle any situation on inline skates. You will no longer be afraid of falling and will never again worry about bad roads, roads with potholes, or pebbles and sticks (at least regarding safety).
- 180° Turn / Jump
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Acid Slide (Learn to brake with inline skates)
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Back Step Stop (Learn to brake downhill with inline skates)
- Back Turn
- Body Turn
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Boot Slide (Learn to fall)
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Compass Stop (Learn to brake with inline skates)
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Crossover Lemon (Learn to skate backward with inline skates)
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Crossover Lemon (Learn to skate forward with inline skates)
- Duck Spin
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Fakie V Stop (Learn to brake downhill with inline skates)
- Front Turn
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Knee Slide (Learn to fall)
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Lemon / Egg-laying (Learn to skate backward with inline skates)
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Lunge Stop / Lunge Slide (Learn to brake with inline skates)
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Obstacle Skating (skating over obstacles)
Have you always wondered how to no longer get caught on pebbles, sticks, train tracks, cobblestones, or other things and simply skate over them? Then obstacle skating is just right for you!
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One Foot Skating – Skating on one leg (Learn to skate forward with inline skates)
Balance, technique, and acceleration
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Porn Slide / P-Slide (Learn to brake with inline skates)
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Power Slide (Learn to brake with inline skates)
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Push & Glide (Learn to skate forward with inline skates)
Never skate in a V-step again
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Slalom (Learn to skate backward with inline skates)
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Soul Slide (Learn to brake with inline skates)
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Sprinting (Learn to skate forward with inline skates)
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Stairs Ride – Downstairs (Learn to skate down stairs with inline skates)
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Stairs Ride – Upstairs (Learn to skate up stairs with inline skates)
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Waving (Learn to skate backward with inline skates)
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Advanced
It's time for slides, the most effective braking methods, and more. The tricks in this category are already very difficult and are only mastered by advanced skaters who train regularly:
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360° Jump (learn spin jumps with inline skates)
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Fakie 180° Jump (learn spin jumps with inline skates)
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Fakie 360° Jump (learn spin jumps with inline skates)
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Far Jump (learn to jump far with inline skates)
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High Jump (learn to jump high with inline skates)
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Hockey Stop / Parallel Slide (learn to brake with inline skates)
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Magic Slide (learn to brake with inline skates)
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One Foot Jump (learn to jump with inline skates)
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Zero Jump (learn to jump backward with inline skates)
Difficulty Level – Learning to Brake with Inline Skates
Braking Techniques – From A to Z
Learn the widest variety of braking techniques for general, recreational, and fitness inline skating, from A to Z. The more braking techniques you master, the better prepared you'll be to no longer fear everyday inline skating!
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A Stop (Learn to brake with inline skates)
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Acid Slide (Learn to brake with inline skates)
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Back Step Stop (Learn downhill braking with inline skates)
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Compass Stop (Learn to brake with inline skates)
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Eagle Spinout (Learn to brake with inline skates)
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Fakie V Stop (Learn downhill braking with inline skates)
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Heel Brake (Learn to brake with inline skates)
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Hockey Stop / Parallel Slide (Learn to brake with inline skates)
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Lunge Stop / Lunge Slide (Learn to brake with inline skates)
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Magic Slide (Learn to brake with inline skates)
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Meadow Stop (Learn to brake with inline skates)
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Pole Stop (Learn to brake with inline skates)
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Porn Slide / P-Slide (Learn to brake with inline skates)
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Power Slide (Learn to brake with inline skates)
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Snow Plow (Learn to brake with inline skates)
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Side Step Stop (Learn downhill braking with inline skates)
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Slalom Stop (Learn downhill braking with inline skates)
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Soul Slide (Learn to brake with inline skates)
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Soul Stop (Learn downhill braking with inline skates)
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T-Stop (Learn to brake with inline skates)
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Wall Stop (Learn to brake with inline skates)