Beginner roller skating
Flow Is Moves You Already Own, in Sequence
Flow skating looks like one continuous move. ICP-certified coach Asha Kirkby says it is only a smooth, skilful stringing together of skills that creates a continuous glide. The first step is to master each skill separately on inline skates: crossovers forwards and backwards, transitions both ways, backwards slides, crossunders and pivots. Only then do you link them.
Flow skating looks like one continuous move, and it is easy to assume it is a skill of its own. A certified coach says it is not.
Flow skating is only a smooth, skilful stringing together of skills that creates a continuous glide. Nothing in it is new. What is new is the absence of a stop between one move and the next.
The first step is to learn and master each skill separately. Her list: crossovers forwards and backwards, transitions from forwards to backwards and from backwards to forwards, backwards slides, crossunders and pivots. Each one is its own lesson, and several of them have their own page on this site.
Only then do you start linking them. Flow is the sequence, not a new trick, and the order matters: a move that is not yet owned on its own will not become owned by being put in a chain. It will become the place where the chain breaks.
Technique from Asha Kirkby of Skatefresh, an instructor certified by the Inline Certification Program. She teaches inline skating, and that is the discipline this page is about.
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