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 casually cruising around or looking to level up your skills with cool tricks, with the right technique and a solid basic stance, you’ll be skating safely and efficiently.
Here you'll learn everything about healthy body posture, effective braking, proper falling techniques, high-performance skating techniques, and exciting tricks for all skill levels.
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SkaMiDan’s Recreational and Fitness Inline Skating Trick List
Your guide to general, recreational, and fitness inline skating
Recreational and fitness inline skating is the perfect way to start an active and sporty lifestyle.
Once you’ve mastered proper falling techniques, the basics, and your first tricks, you'll quickly gain confidence, joy of movement, and style. And the best part: the fun factor increases with every new move!
That’s exactly where our SkaMiDan Trick List comes in:
We’ve compiled the most important skating techniques, braking methods, falling techniques, tricks, and much more, including proper body posture and situational skating, all organized in our trick list, sorted by difficulty level and alphabetically.
Especially helpful: For many tricks, you’ll find additional images, videos, and even detailed video tutorials to help you get started right away.
You’ll not only discover new techniques and tricks, but you’ll also finally learn the correct names or the other way around: if you know the name, you can quickly find out what’s behind it.
The SkaMiDan Trick List is more than just a collection, it’s your personal training companion on the path to safer inline skating, greater control, and more confidence on your wheels.
And the best part: If you work through our trick list chronologically, it also serves as the perfect beginner’s guide to learning inline skating properly and successfully from the ground up.
Difficulty level
Basics – Your guide to getting started
In the basics of recreational and fitness inline skating, you’ll learn the fundamental skating posture, essential movement patterns, and skating techniques — including how to fall safely, brake properly, and more.
For our basics list, we’ve deliberately chosen not to sort it alphabetically.
Instead, we’ve structured it in a way that serves as the perfect guide for learning inline skating.
If you’re a beginner or just getting started, we recommend going through the following list of tricks from top to bottom — absorb the knowledge and learn the demonstrated techniques and tricks step by step.
Everything you need for a safe start!
- The right inline skates, shoe size, body posture, and life hacks
- The right protective gear – What you should know!
- Skating posture (body posture for inline skating)
- Car Slide (Learning how to fall safely with inline skates)
- V-Step – First steps and moving forward with inline skates (Learning to skate forward with inline skates)
- Pole Stop (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Wall Stop (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Meadow Stop (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Snow Plow (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Heel Brake (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
Braking with the brake pad - Jumping
Improve your balance and safety on inline skates - Parallel turn (Learn to turn on inline skates)
How to roll through turns easily and safely. - Crossover Turn (Learn to turn on inline skates)
Skating through turns and gaining speed.
Difficulty level
Beginner
You’ve mastered the basics? Then it’s time to start learning your first beginner-level techniques and tricks! How many? As many as possible!
The more of the following tricks you can check off, the more confident you’ll be on your inline skates, and the more free and comfortable you’ll feel on your wheels.
- A Stop (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Back Manual
- Duckwalk
- Eagle Spinout (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Front Manual
- Lemon (How to skate forward with inline skates)
- One Foot Rolling – How to roll on one foot
Proper body posture and balance - Shuffle (How to skate forward with inline skates)
- Side Step Stop (How to brake downhill on inline skates)
- Slalom (How to skate forward with inline skates)
- Slalom Stop (How to brake downhill on inline skates)
- Soul Stop (How to brake downhill on inline skates)
- T-Stop (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Waving (How to skate forward with inline skates)
Difficulty level
Intermediate
Welcome to the intermediate level — the techniques and tricks that will give you boundless freedom on your inline skates.
Once you’ve mastered several of the following techniques and tricks, you’ll be able to handle any situation on your skates.
You’ll no longer fear falling, and rough roads, potholes, small stones, or sticks will no longer worry you (at least not in terms of safety).
- 180° Turn / Jump
- Acid Slide (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Back Step Stop (How to brake downhill on inline skates)
- Back Turn
- Body Turn
- Boot Slide (How to fall with inline skates)
- Crossover Lemon (How to skate backward with inline skates)
- Crossover Lemon (How to skate forward with inline skates)
- Duck Spin
- Fakie V Stop (How to brake downhill on inline skates)
- Front Turn
- Knee Slide (How to fall with inline skates)
- Lemon (How to skate backward with inline skates)
- Obstacle Skating (skating over obstacles)
Have you always wondered how to stop getting stuck on small stones, sticks, train tracks, cobblestones, or other obstacles, and simply skate right over them?
Then Obstacle Skating is exactly what you’re looking for! - One Foot Skating – Skating on one foot (How to skate forward with inline skates)
Balance, technique, and acceleration - Porn Slide / P-Slide (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Power Slide (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Push & Glide (How to skate forward with inline skates)
No more V-Step skating. - Slalom (How to skate backward with inline skates)
- Soul Slide (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Sprinten (How to skate forward with inline skates)
- Stairs Ride – Downstairs (How to skate down stairs with inline skates)
- Stairs Ride – Upstairs (How to skate up stairs with inline skates)
- Waving (How to skate backward with inline skates)
Difficulty level
Advanced
It’s time for slides, the most effective braking techniques, and more.
The tricks in this category are already quite advanced and are mastered only by experienced skaters who train regularly.
- 360° Jump (How to do spin jumps with inline skates)
- Fakie 180° Jump (How to do spin jumps with inline skates)
- Fakie 360° Jump (How to do spin jumps with inline skates)
- Far Jump (Mastering long jumps on inline skates)
- High Jump (Mastering high jumps on inline skates)
- Hockey Stop / Parallel Slide (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Magic Slide (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- One Foot Jump (How to jump with inline skates)
- Zero Jump (How to jump backwards with inline skates)
Difficulty level – Learn to brake with inline skates
Braking techniques from A to Z
Learn a wide 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, no more fear in your everyday skating!
- A Stop (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Acid Slide (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Back Step Stop (How to brake downhill on inline skates)
- Eagle Spinout (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Fakie V Stop (How to brake downhill on inline skates)
- Heel Brake (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Hockey Stop / Parallel Slide (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Magic Slide (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Meadow Stop (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Pole Stop (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Porn Slide / P-Slide (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Power Slide (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Side Step Stop (How to brake downhill on inline skates)
- Slalom Stop (How to brake downhill on inline skates)
- Snow Plow (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Soul Slide (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Soul Stop (How to brake downhill on inline skates)
- T-Stop (Learning how to brake with inline skates)
- Wall Stop (Learning how to brake with inline skates)