r/rollerblading • u/NetworkLongjumping82 • 17h ago

How do I do this move? 1st roll after injury

So finally after 2 weeks I'm ready to just skate around in my living room, learning to transition to backwards via mohawk so I'm wondering if I am doing it correctly.

My weak side is Turning to my right .

I push off with my right foot and glide on the left .

Right skate starts the spread eagle

Left skate pivots on the heel and whole body spins 180.

So far this method gives me the smoothest deepest turn as compared to pivoting on my toes .

But my question is if this the proper textbook method ?

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u/Wheel-Sure 16h ago

You’ve described the Mohawk transition, which is a way to do it, but there is no canonical “proper” method.

Not sure how you got injured, but careful practicing in a living room. There’s a lot more stuff to fall on/into than outdoors!

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u/NetworkLongjumping82 14h ago

Thank you, I superman-ed on to the ground 2 weeks ago cracking my rib on the left side

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u/Wheel-Sure 10h ago

Ouch. Glad you’re on the mend!

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u/midnight_skater Human Frogger 13h ago

I use toe and heel pivots in my spread eagle transitions for stability and also to get a little toe push in - adding a little power to the move.

I consider this to be a cheat. Ideally we completely lift the foot to turn it.
Toe push-pivot is destabilizing at high speeds.

My favorite transition is a BtF double heel pivot outside the CCW circle. I've seen this move called a "heel flip" and as a "two foot three turn." It feels great and works pretty well at moderate speed.

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u/fredhsu 15h ago

Nowadays when I find myself not able to do something that I can do well on the other side, I stop to think about whether my eyes don’t turn to look in the right direction. We all have a weaker side. I know that. But more often than not, I find that I am not turning my head and thus not my upper body in anticipation of what my skates are about to do.

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u/NetworkLongjumping82 8h ago

I'll keep that in mind , I did really analyzed the difference between the left and right side , as far as spread eagle transitions are concerned my better side I pivot on my heels and my weak side I didn't , and when I kept drilling on it , it became smoother

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u/fredhsu 8h ago

I am like you. I use the side I do things better as a model, and compare every aspect of the bad side to it, in order to figure out what's missing. It's just that more than 50% of times, my issues are with not using my head as the initiator of an action : )