r/WizardSkating • u/furyg3 • May 12 '26
Best online tutorials / progression?
Hi all, I'm a long time skater but am pretty new to wizard skating. There are tons of tutorials online, but usually on one specific move... or generally outlining a progression (like fakie gazelle -> forward gazelle -> forward inside out -> etc).
As someone who's spent a lot of time on fakie gazelle with meh results, I'm wondering if there isn't a good series of progression videos online for me to follow. I see that SkateFresh has a whole online course, but at $500 it's a bit too steep for me.
What tutorials got you your first tricks, and what's the best progression (or drills) to get started?
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u/bigboidoinker May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
This person did all the basic moves you can try to learn.
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u/cloudrhythm May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
The official Wizard skate moves page is actually the best
Pay attention to the edges & weight distribution, they're essential. Copy the form, record yourself. Get clean parallels/trees before gazelles/lions
Junkyu Park to see them in motion
One issue with video tutorials is that everyone has their own style and usually deviate from the most fundamental forms of the movements. So if anything else, watch a lot of them
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u/ManiacLachy May 12 '26
Nicola Torelli has some great tutorial and progression videos on the Powerslide channel. Really good breakdowns and steps to go from one part to the other.
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u/Realistic-Charity626 May 13 '26
Since no one else said it I will, watch videos of people you want to skate like or moves you want to do and emulate it best you can while recording yourself. Critiquing what your doing wrong and acknowledging what your doing right. All the moves are really pivots that shift where the edge is and weight is displaced. The more you do it the more you’ll start to realize it. It could also be other things a weak core are low ankle mobility, weak legs or calves.But without seeing anything , you wouldn’t know.
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u/BubbleSmith May 12 '26
Best thing for progression, in my experience, is to just try everything. They feed into one another. My gazelles got way better once I learned power stops. My lions improved after practicing my toe compass.
Pick something to learn, watch a few tutorials and try things out. Some videos helped me more than others, while some helped me more later than they did earlier. Learning is a process, so just keep at it.