Cross Side Step - Full narrated tutorial by Brian from Soulful Fitness Roller Skate Training.

You may or may not be wondering how to change sloppy and clunky stepping on your roller skates, almost killing yourself with each step you manage to take.
If you are, then you might want to consider the following fairly effective suggestion, to funk up your stepping game and save your teeth in the process.
The main focus of the seemingly not so complicated basic Cross Side Step, is the little tweak added to it, namely a shift on the backwheels.

This little adjustment has a big impact on not only the look & feel of the whole movement, but also in the joint and general injury saving department, it can make a world of difference.
Torque action in the knee for instance is unfortunately a very common issue and repetitive movements such as cross stepping can do a lot of damage over time, when not executed properly and mindfully.

Driving the shift from the hips, gives this basic move an immediate change of character and on top of that, cross stepping behind the pivot leg turns out to be a whole lot easier with this funky little tweak.

It takes some getting used to, if you are not familiar with having your center of bodyweight (almost constantly) on your heels (thus, backwheels).
But once you understand the effect and experience the feel of backwheel shifting, some awesome skate moves are coming to you!

Main focus:
1. Diagonal foot placement
2. Backwheel shift.

Variations:
1. Cross Over
2. Cross Back
3. Leg Lifts/ Kicks

What to do with it?
Drill it till you kill it!

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