For those who are still unsure what wizard skating is aiming for, it is Flow. It uses the foundation and techniques of figure skating, sliding and slalom, and aims to achieve a continuous flow without losing roll/momentum like in aggressive skating but not losing the essence of urban skating. To make it short, its uniting all the genres of inlineskating into one concept.
Great video. We need more videos like that on youtube explaning the fundamentals and where to start. Theres a bunch of people just doing stuff but not enough people explaning things not even the terminology.
Thank you for this! I've been wanting to get into wizard skating but all the info is so scattered. I've watched like all of mushroom bladings videos but I still didn't know the terms. This was very helpful!
I'm a longtime urban skater who moved out to the country. Since city skating is no longer an option for me, I am trying to learn wizard style. I am super comfortable on skates, doing jumps, etc, but I am realizing that I've got holes in my fundamentals. For instance, Gazelles are easy for me on my right side, but not my left... and It's because my powerstops are much more developed on my right. I never bothered to get them on my left side because they stopped me fine. But my edge awareness is much better on my right turns because of that. I quickly realized it would be a far better use of my time to learn to powerstop well on my left before trying to learn to gazelle on that side. In other words, to get better at fundamentals before trying out the fancier stuff. It's really, really nice to see wizard skills broken down like this. It gives me a checklist to work on before I actually move on to harder tricks. I'm heading to the rink tomorrow and will be taking notes on what I have down, and what I need to work. Thank you for making this!
I'm so glad you found this helpful... I generally try to go through all of this to warm up... A lot of it i am still trying to master but its all really good to get limbered up
Thanks for making this video. I’ve read that fundamentals page on the wizard skating site several times and dismissed a lot of it because “I know how to skate”. Then I wonder why I struggle to flow 😅 Back to the basics with me!
great video 👏 i think you forgot to mention that those transitions are 3 turns and that they are essentially carving the number 3 on the ground. This makes it easier to transition than simply going straight. Simply transitioning in a straight line might be just a swivel.
you are 100% correct and the 3 turn is a great way to think about it... I tried to make it clear that the gazelle was two parallels put together rather than just going straight.
I'm really trying to be more open minded when it comes to the Wizard stuff as I'm seeing a lot of Wizard elements cross over into aggressive but every time I watch Wizard content creators sessioning a spot the aggressive blader in me ends up screaming at the screen, "how do you skate that spot & not want to grind the living shyt out of that ledge!"
Wait till you hit your 40’s and it’ll make even more sense. At a certain age you gotta give it up or find something less taxing on your body. Giving up sucks, which leaves…
Leon (the originator) and Mushroom Blading (friends and early testers) do incorporate lots of aggressive with wizarding in some of their edits. I think some of it comes down to skate tech. When you're at a high level like the afore mentioned, you choose the best skate setup for the task - carbon fiber skates with big wheels in a long frame or your more standard plastic aggressive skate with tiny wheels and H-block. Trying to do both well with one setup will always be a compromise. But there are folks like Michael Witzeman who are skating PR80s on USD Sways with soulplate. I've yet to see him get aggressive on wizard frames but it might happen eventually. I think aggressive skaters who are taking up wizard are learning to love flowing and pure skating instead of just intensely sessioning a spot or obstacle. Wizard skating also majorly improves style, flourish, and chaining tricks into longer lines. That said, there's always been more creative skaters who work way outside the box and have been doing some of these moves. It just wasn't systematically canonized into a specific style.
Interessing I quit agressiv skating in the early 2000 I didnt understand why Inlineskating is mostly about jumping on leges and rails with plastic parts of skates and slide on it. The best feeling of skating for me was rolling und controll it, and using the speed to fly and land with the skates. Wizard Skating bring me back to skating. I realy like if very good skaters grind in skateparks but I hate watching people grind over boring boxes and rails with antirocker and giant soleplates with different foot positions. The feeling of rolling small wheels and antirocker is so much worse comparing to the smoth roll of big wheels I litarly can feel it if I see it. And who says, that you cant grind with wizrd style frames? You even put wax on everything so if you a grind lover combine it, there a a lot videos wich shows that its possible. But noone says erverybody has to skate wizard if you love to jump, grind, land, repeat, just do it.
I would suggest starting with something on the less expensive side to make sure it is something you want to commit to... a set of FR1's with some endless or NN frames would be my suggestion
I recommend a rockered 4x90 as a good all-rounder or 5x80 if you are really into flatland tricks. You have great feel and control on 5 with the extra stability of the length. Of course it can still be used to great effect for urban/aggressive bombing as demonstrated by Shaun Unwin (Flow Skate). It's just a little more effort than with bigger wheels.
If you want a complete setup: either FR ufr 90 intuition, PS next charcoal 90 or Iqon CL15... Personally I love the Powerslide Combat frame as it is a bit longer and you have nice edge control and low ride height with the Trinity mounting 😎 With the UFR you get the best liner and you could use the boot for agressive skating... The Iqon has the best price for what you get (3x110 possible) but you have to like the weird color and sizing is a bit strange too I think...
@@uu3903 here some action from Eugen: th-cam.com/video/0hEON_yI4JI/w-d-xo.html You get used to the system quickly, for rotating the wheels just hold the spacer on the underside with one finger to prevent it from falling out and it's almost like any single axle system... If you want to change the rocker it just takes a bit of time as you have to rotate the skates many times and be careful not to let spacers fall to the floor, crawling under furniture takes additional time 😜 precision is nice the spacers fit without moving around or getting stuck... It has torx axles so no worry about switching wheels or rocker after every session...
With flat frames, rotate your wheels 1-1 and you'll develop that same natural rocker after 3-4 rotations. So keep the wheels in the same position and just swap them left to right making sure the more worn edge is facing toward the outside of the foot. Dig the channel by the way!!
For those who are still unsure what wizard skating is aiming for, it is Flow.
It uses the foundation and techniques of figure skating, sliding and slalom, and aims to achieve a continuous flow without losing roll/momentum like in aggressive skating but not losing the essence of urban skating.
To make it short, its uniting all the genres of inlineskating into one concept.
Thanks for the clarity. I have watched all Wiz vids and this is the clearest explanation I have seen
Glad it was helpful!
Great video. We need more videos like that on youtube explaning the fundamentals and where to start. Theres a bunch of people just doing stuff but not enough people explaning things not even the terminology.
Thank you so much for breaking it down, started skating a couple months ago and this is greatly appreciated
I'm really glad you found it helpful
thank you for sharing! wizard skating is so fast & smooth i struggle to even work out the basics of what’s going on. this really helps!
I glad it helps... I am working on more videos to explain other moves... let me know if there is anything you wish to know more about
Thanks for explaining what open/close actually means. 👍
Great video! Thank you for sharing
awesome! more break downs please. This was easy to follow and not over the top with explanations, keep it up
🙏🙏🙏... I was actually a little worried I said open / closed a few too many times 🤣
@@OlderBladers na, I thought it was all good ✌🏽
@@OlderBladers No,it features so much,that is unavoidable.
Thank you for this! I've been wanting to get into wizard skating but all the info is so scattered. I've watched like all of mushroom bladings videos but I still didn't know the terms. This was very helpful!
heading out to practice! Thanks for the info!
So clear and helpful, thank you so much
Glad it was helpful!
I'm a longtime urban skater who moved out to the country. Since city skating is no longer an option for me, I am trying to learn wizard style.
I am super comfortable on skates, doing jumps, etc, but I am realizing that I've got holes in my fundamentals. For instance, Gazelles are easy for me on my right side, but not my left... and It's because my powerstops are much more developed on my right. I never bothered to get them on my left side because they stopped me fine. But my edge awareness is much better on my right turns because of that.
I quickly realized it would be a far better use of my time to learn to powerstop well on my left before trying to learn to gazelle on that side. In other words, to get better at fundamentals before trying out the fancier stuff.
It's really, really nice to see wizard skills broken down like this. It gives me a checklist to work on before I actually move on to harder tricks. I'm heading to the rink tomorrow and will be taking notes on what I have down, and what I need to work.
Thank you for making this!
I'm so glad you found this helpful... I generally try to go through all of this to warm up... A lot of it i am still trying to master but its all really good to get limbered up
Thank you for doing this
Thanks for making this video. I’ve read that fundamentals page on the wizard skating site several times and dismissed a lot of it because “I know how to skate”. Then I wonder why I struggle to flow 😅
Back to the basics with me!
I generally use the basics as my warm up routine... its a great way to get in the groove
Grato por nos motivar, tua didática simples e honesta muito nos encoraja.....🇧🇷🙏👏👏👏
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Super informative!👍
Glad it was helpful!
great video 👏
i think you forgot to mention that those transitions are 3 turns and that they are essentially carving the number 3 on the ground. This makes it easier to transition than simply going straight.
Simply transitioning in a straight line might be just a swivel.
you are 100% correct and the 3 turn is a great way to think about it... I tried to make it clear that the gazelle was two parallels put together rather than just going straight.
More wizard tutorials please!
I'm really trying to be more open minded when it comes to the Wizard stuff as I'm seeing a lot of Wizard elements cross over into aggressive but every time I watch Wizard content creators sessioning a spot the aggressive blader in me ends up screaming at the screen, "how do you skate that spot & not want to grind the living shyt out of that ledge!"
Wait till you hit your 40’s and it’ll make even more sense. At a certain age you gotta give it up or find something less taxing on your body. Giving up sucks, which leaves…
Leon (the originator) and Mushroom Blading (friends and early testers) do incorporate lots of aggressive with wizarding in some of their edits. I think some of it comes down to skate tech. When you're at a high level like the afore mentioned, you choose the best skate setup for the task - carbon fiber skates with big wheels in a long frame or your more standard plastic aggressive skate with tiny wheels and H-block. Trying to do both well with one setup will always be a compromise. But there are folks like Michael Witzeman who are skating PR80s on USD Sways with soulplate. I've yet to see him get aggressive on wizard frames but it might happen eventually. I think aggressive skaters who are taking up wizard are learning to love flowing and pure skating instead of just intensely sessioning a spot or obstacle. Wizard skating also majorly improves style, flourish, and chaining tricks into longer lines. That said, there's always been more creative skaters who work way outside the box and have been doing some of these moves. It just wasn't systematically canonized into a specific style.
Interessing I quit agressiv skating in the early 2000 I didnt understand why Inlineskating is mostly about jumping on leges and rails with plastic parts of skates and slide on it. The best feeling of skating for me was rolling und controll it, and using the speed to fly and land with the skates. Wizard Skating bring me back to skating. I realy like if very good skaters grind in skateparks but I hate watching people grind over boring boxes and rails with antirocker and giant soleplates with different foot positions. The feeling of rolling small wheels and antirocker is so much worse comparing to the smoth roll of big wheels I litarly can feel it if I see it. And who says, that you cant grind with wizrd style frames? You even put wax on everything so if you a grind lover combine it, there a a lot videos wich shows that its possible. But noone says erverybody has to skate wizard if you love to jump, grind, land, repeat, just do it.
Do what you like, there’s room for everyone
So good! Thank you! Can you please tell me what your set up is
Thank you... In this video I am using the Wizard Carbon boot with NR100
great explanations, thank you
Awesome,much needed👍
🙏🙏🙏🙏
Wizard in training, i'm not sure if I'm dancing or wizzing. I get lots of hollers and fist bumps but I have no idea what I'm doing, lol.
so long as you're having fun, that's all that really matters
Have u got to have the Wizard sisters for this or can u do it with regular skates?
you can absolutely do this with any skate... wizard frames and others like them just make it easier
Too much talking while not actually showing...... Talk & *demo simultaneously is better...
What is some good skate for this?
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Is a Gazalle and a 3 turn the same thing?
yeah... but for whatever reason, the Wizard founders named it something else
Why wizard skating use 90 mm rather than 80 mm wheels?
wizard frames actually use a wide variety of weel sizes from 76mm up to 110mm
Hey man. Im in my 30s. Havent skated in years and years. Im super interested in wizard skating and want to give it a go. Whats a good setup?
I would suggest starting with something on the less expensive side to make sure it is something you want to commit to... a set of FR1's with some endless or NN frames would be my suggestion
I recommend a rockered 4x90 as a good all-rounder or 5x80 if you are really into flatland tricks. You have great feel and control on 5 with the extra stability of the length. Of course it can still be used to great effect for urban/aggressive bombing as demonstrated by Shaun Unwin (Flow Skate). It's just a little more effort than with bigger wheels.
If you want a complete setup: either FR ufr 90 intuition, PS next charcoal 90 or Iqon CL15...
Personally I love the Powerslide Combat frame as it is a bit longer and you have nice edge control and low ride height with the Trinity mounting 😎
With the UFR you get the best liner and you could use the boot for agressive skating...
The Iqon has the best price for what you get (3x110 possible) but you have to like the weird color and sizing is a bit strange too I think...
@@ericbernardi8116 You have the Combat frames? I've yet to really see them in action. How fussy is the rockering system?
@@uu3903 here some action from Eugen:
th-cam.com/video/0hEON_yI4JI/w-d-xo.html
You get used to the system quickly, for rotating the wheels just hold the spacer on the underside with one finger to prevent it from falling out and it's almost like any single axle system... If you want to change the rocker it just takes a bit of time as you have to rotate the skates many times and be careful not to let spacers fall to the floor, crawling under furniture takes additional time 😜 precision is nice the spacers fit without moving around or getting stuck... It has torx axles so no worry about switching wheels or rocker after every session...
Is it necessary to run rockered for wizarding? I'm new!
I wouldn't exactly say that its 100% necessary... but it certainly helps and some of the tricks may not work correctly
With flat frames, rotate your wheels 1-1 and you'll develop that same natural rocker after 3-4 rotations. So keep the wheels in the same position and just swap them left to right making sure the more worn edge is facing toward the outside of the foot. Dig the channel by the way!!
your gazelle looks like a 3-turn
open - your knees are running away from each other, closed- your knees are going towards each other