Beginner roller skating
Add One Position at a Time, Then String Them Into a Short Routine
A dance routine on quads is not learned as a routine. A certified coach adds positions slowly, one at a time, each with its weight placement, and only then sequences them into a short routine. The order is the method: a position you own links to the next; one you are still finding cannot. Short sequences first, long ones later. Technique from ICP-certified coach Asha Kirkby.
A dance routine on quads looks like one continuous thing, and beginners try to learn it as one continuous thing: the whole sequence, at tempo, from the first attempt. It does not work, and it is not how a certified coach builds it.
She adds positions slowly, one at a time, each with its weight placement, and only then shows how to sequence them into a short routine. The routine is the last step, not the first, and it is short on purpose.
The order is the method. A position you own can be linked to the next one, because your weight already knows where to go. A position you are still finding cannot be linked to anything: the join is where it falls apart, and no amount of repeating the join fixes a position that was never stable on its own.
Short sequences first, long ones later. Two positions that flow into each other are a routine. Add a third when the first two need no thought. That is how a long routine is eventually made — never by starting long.
Technique from Asha Kirkby of Skatefresh, an instructor certified by the Inline Certification Program who also teaches quad skating. This page is about QUAD skates first: it comes from her roller-skate and quad tutorial, and the site's own skater does not practise quads, so nothing here is vouched for by her.
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