Tutorials · Wizard Style Skating
Wizard Skating moves & tutorials
The moves of Wizard Skating, from the Predator to the Lions, explained step by step with video, common mistakes, and frequently asked questions. Start with the fundamentals and continue with the combos.
This is the complete video route for learning Wizard Style Skating: start with the five base fundamentals in order, continue with the guided courses, and then explore the moves and combos.
Every tutorial includes a clear explanation, steps, and perspectives from other creators. The section grows over time as a starting point for anyone searching online for how to learn these moves.
Official fundamentals
Base fundamentals — the 5 moves
The five official Wizard Skating moves (nomenclature from wizardskates.com). Learn them in this order — each step depends on the previous one.
- 01—Beginner
Predator
Your 'ready position' while rolling. 8 variations that are the foundation of the entire style.
- 02—Beginner
Parallels
The first real turn of the base fundamentals: both feet on the ground, 8 variations (open/closed × forward/backward × left/right).
- 03—Intermediate
Trees
The same turn as the Parallel, executed on a single leg. Much more demanding on balance.
- 04—Intermediate
Gazelles
The four combinations of two consecutive Parallel Turns. This is where the wizard flow begins.
- 05—Advanced
Lions
The one-foot version of the Gazelles. The peak of the base fundamentals.
Courses
Guided learning processes. Each course documents a specific goal with findings, concepts, exercises and audiovisual evidence.
Course · Beginner
Wizard Skating Initiation
The 5 base fundamentals as a guided process: principles of the style, unified concepts with video clips and practice routines per stage. The starting point if you are new to Wizard Skating.
Series · Intermediate
Combos of the Week
A new combo every week, in blocks that explore one concept: structure, fusion, long lines. The ALS open series: findings and concepts that accumulate and interrelate.
Course · Intermediate
Proyecto Águila
Coaching on the Eagle (Spread Eagle) with Carolina Miranda. It is not a foundation of Wizard Skating, but it builds body capacities that support your skating in general.
Beyond the base
Moves and combos
Variations, bonus moves and combinations that live on top of the base fundamentals. Warm-up, backward skating, fakie gazelle, S move, toe press spin and more.
Skating warm-up routine
Prepare your body, lower injury risk and get more out of every session.
How to skate backwards
Posture, push, transitions and how to stop — one of the most searched skills in inline skating.
How to jump on inline skates
Posture, mechanics and progressions — from a forward hop to a full 360° spin.
Fakie Gazelle
The transition from skating backward to forward, step by step.
S Move
Tips, drills and details to train one of the iconic moves of the style.
Fakie Toe Press 360 Spin
Weight placement, edges, rotation and carving to build a spin in toe press.
Billy Arlew's line
Front Closed Lion, one-foot 360, compass and toe spin — my real process to break down and train a combo.
Improve your jumps
Bringing knees to chest for more height, more air time, and smoother 180 and 360 spins.
Weekly series
Combo of the week
A new combo every week, and each block of episodes explores one concept for training combos — Arco's way of approaching Wizard. Each episode's findings and concepts accumulate in the series' course.
Block 3 · Episodes 9–12
Long lines
Longer, more complex lines: the entry can be a fused movement, so can the development, and the exit a movement or just the roll out.
Back Open Gazelle + Lions + Fakie Toe Press + 180
Opens the series' third block: longer, more complex lines, assembled with movements you've already internalized. Back open gazelle → front closed lion → back open lion → open tree → 180 → fakie toe press → pop 180.
Back Swivel + 360 + Front Open Lion + 360
Second combo of the long-lines block: the swivel into a 360 from combo #7, inverted. Back swivel → front 360 jump landed on one foot → front open lion → exit 360 jump. It sounds complex and it isn't that much: it's a combo that flows.
Front Open Tree + Back Closed Parallel + Swivel + Heel Press 180
Third combo of the long-lines block: you enter with a kick into a front open tree, collapse it into the back closed parallel position, throw the swivel and exit straight into the heel press 180. A combo that invites flow: the moment of the collapse and the rhythm are yours to decide.
Back Closed Parallel + Gazelle Swivel + Front Closed Lion + Full Cab + Back Open Gazelle
Fourth and last combo of the long-lines block: you enter in a back closed parallel, turn the gazelle into a swivel with an extra half turn to come out facing forward, chain a front closed lion and a full cab —fakie to fakie— and exit in a back open gazelle. The key: the torso starts the turns and the legs unwind to catch up with it.
Block 2 · Episodes 5–8
Fusion
Two movements with a natural continuity, practiced until you internalize them as a single one and feel comfortable with the execution.
Front Open Lion + Fakie Toe Press
The second block of the series begins: two-movement combos that fuse into the feeling of a single one. The first: a front open Lion whose exit is already the entry of the fakie toe press.
Front Closed Lion + Back Open Lion
A front closed Lion straight into a back open Lion switching feet: the momentum of the first generates the second — and unlocks the Lion many of us struggled the most to learn.
Front Swivel + Fakie 360 Jump
A front swivel straight into a fakie 360 jump: the swivel produces momentum at the entry and you reuse it in the jump's rotation — if you continue the turn of the shoulders, everything is ready to take off.
Back Closed Parallel + Swivel 360
Closing the two-movement block: a back closed parallel into a swivel 360, from Junkyu Park's tutorials (Seoul Skaters), with an extra point to untangle it — the back snake as an impulse to find the position.
Block 1 · Episodes 1–4
Combo structure
Entry, development and exit. Three movements per combo as the example, not as a rule.
Fakie Gazelle + Heel Press + 180
Three movements, one sustained curve: entry, development and exit.
180 Jump + Front Open Lion + Front Closed Lion
Two Lions chained on one curve: a jump entry, a foot change and a clean roll out.
180 Jump + Back Closed Lion + Open Tree
Last combo's entry, inverted: a 180 from front to fakie that lands on the outer edge and chains a back closed Lion with an open Tree exit.
360 Jump + Grapevine + Back Open Gazelle
A new movement joins the series: the grapevine, from freestyle, between a 360 jump and a back open Gazelle exit — plus the concept that threads it all: flow.
Tips
Skating tips
Shorts grouped by topic: learn how to stop, what rockering is and more, in short videos.
9 tips
How to stop on skates: from the lemon close to the parallel slide
2 tips
Rockering: what it is and why rockered skates turn better
5 tips
Fakie on inline skates: backward skating drills and 3 transitions
7 tips
Jumps on inline skates: drills for the 360, the 540 and the heel pop
6 tips
Turns on inline skates: from the crossover to the one-foot spin
9 tips
Wizard Skating moves: basics, lions, presses and S move
5 tips
Inline skating drills: lemon, cross and footwork
5 tips
Inline skate tricks: moonwalk, grapevine and combos with flow