Magic Slide: A Technical Tutorial For Inline Skaters

[@joynez1]

This is exactly what the community needed! A very passionate skater that takes the time to actually teach and grow the community and you do it very well! I cant wait for all the other videos and I hope more and more people from the few other popular skating channels will join in. On a sidenote. Im practicing the magic slide a little differently. Im starting with a stable soul slide and from there I turn into a magic slide. This means my arms are on the opposite sides but I dont know which is better.

[@DeezSkates]

Johannes, Thanks so much! I'm glad you enjoy it! I think that is perfectly fine. The only thing I foresee is that once you finally have your entry to the MS down and have to get super low at higher speeds, the back arm may have a tendency to tip you off balance. If this is not a problem for you then no harm done! -Cheers!

[@FabiusPyromanus]

A tutorial on the soul slide would be awesome!

[@1AndreasKendu]

Awesome break down. 37 year old here and haven’t skated for 15 years. I never learned this move. Practicing daily. Thanks dude!

[@DeezSkates]

It may surprise you to learn that I myself am 34. Age ain’t nothing but a thang. 😁 Keep skating, my friend.

[@Zer0IN28]

Man, so, I wasn't sure... Your vids have been popping up in my feed. Watched a few, there's some good stuff! This one hit me though. I am 38, learning new moves, seems to take me a lil longer. And I have to dedicate to it. I have a good handful of other bladers that I subscribed to for tutorials. But, when there all like... 10min later and drilling it like 4 times, I nailed it down. Ugh!!! I love the honest "Do it a 1000 times." Cause that seems to be the dedication I have to have doing new moves, then add them to the the bag of tricks that I'd say I can do. Subscribed! Keep it rollin!

[@DeezSkates]

I appreciate your perspective here. In my personal opinion, it’s not possible to nail a move in a few tries. I’ve been skating my whole life and I’m in my mid 30s now. And I STILL have to repeat any new move to master it. Again, just my opinion, but if someone tells you they mastered a move in four tries, their standards aren’t high enough.. thanks for your kind words and for checking out my channel! I have more coming soon! Cheers!

[@tomboonen1322]

I really like when you guys analize these things completely. It makes it all make sense. Nice tutorial man, thanks.

[@kriscanmanifest]

I am a new subscriber and obsessed!! It's very rare you see someone who rollerskates, blades, and ice skates and does all 3 fairly well. Great job on your channel and PLEASE KEEP TEACHING!!!!

[@mathurinbeatzman]

This stop looks so smooth when you nail it!

[@joliter7906]

I would like to try this now! Really good explanation. Hoping to land my first magic slide 😊

[@FabiusPyromanus]

The slightly higher pacing in this video was perfect!

[@kchappelle]

Thanks David, good timing with this one.

[@adamscotera2378]

Nicely documented progress! Some of those later ones look really smooth. I noticed that it looks like when the skill is still fairly new, each slightly different surface requires a period of adjustment. I've been frustrated by this technique for awhile and it's nice to get another perspective on how to learn it. I've been having somewhat better luck lately with parallel slides, but I'm inspired to take this up again because when mastered, this is really the fastest and most foolproof way to stop quickly. Even a master will bail on a parallel slide sometimes, but not the magic due to the stability of being on both inside edges.

[@Alex-kr7zr]

This one is really easy and effective on ice skates. Looking forward to try it on inline skates.

[@22ryanoc]

Magic slide looks great. It’s my first technical slide. I want to learn backwards and other variations. I find rough services working good with my luminous wheels. I enjoy using this to slow down but not to stop yet. My back foot just stays straight so I liked how you explained how to drag the Back foot.

[@tolitspadilla7708]

Nice breakdown david!! I hope you can do more tutorial..

[@jeanlopez659]

Dude your 6point edge theory is so fire. Thank you so much for that, its been very helpful for me, and has deffinetly improved my skating! Cheers !\

[@JakeyDill]

Thanks for sharing, my skating mates are going to dig this. :D

[@DeezSkates]

Hope to see you all doing the Magic Slide in future videos!

[@RichHayterSkater]

This is the next skill on my list. Great tutorial! I'll let you know how I get on.

[@heigolepla]

Yeah!!! I’m gonna be on it soon.

[@JunVanMars]

Thank you so much for this. I realy wanted to learn this slide for a year and could not get the positioning right. But to start with a powerslide... Did not think of that, really should make the entry easier 🙏 i'll try tomorrow :D

[@candrink]

reversing your cap definitely helped, no doubt about it big improvement see 13:28

[@margeauxmcclelland3338]

Cool! I really like the compilation at the end.

[@nigelbrown2274]

thanks for this excellent tutorial!

[@lifeinnorwayKremen]

you explain very good thanks mann!

[@Snifffski]

Great explanation - thanks for posting. I've got a decent powerslide and T-stop so I need to give magic a go. Time to pad up, nut up and practise - when it actually stops raining here in the UK. Great tutorial. Subscribed, and bell hit.

[@CityBlades]

Whelp, there goes your rocker 😂. Great tutorial man, keep it up

[@DeezSkates]

Ahh well. I've got a brand new set of Street Invaders ready to throw on them! lol! Thanks bro. Looking forward to trying your double rocker!

[@robsthedon]

Nicely explained!

[@tomvander6254]

Very nice ! Thanks for it!

[@abdallah2892]

Congratulations from Brasil 🇧🇷🤙

[@patinespeludos]

Hi buddy!! your tutorial is super cool, and I really thank you to explained detail; and I have a question, do you recommend to train it with reckered frame or flat? I'm struggling so much with this slide, yo have no idea how

[@bmw335hdk2]

This is the coolest slide after pararel stop

[@Spock0987]

Just awesome!

[@psychosn4ke]

I love the Bruce Lee way at the end with the arms ;)

[@romandyrdua5489]

Great job

[@edwafaza5643]

Really excellent tutorial!!! Like,like.like!!!

[@NikZvi]

so you've learnt it in two days? that's cool

[@funwheels3307]

Thanks for the cool tutorial David, very detailed breakdown of the magic slide. I’m looking forward to more tutorials. Perhaps you can do one on Bill Stoppard’s power stop? It’s also very effective in stopping.

[@DeezSkates]

Hey Fun Wheels! I actually have a tutorial on my channel titled “Getting Started and How to Stop” that covers the T-stop and Hockey Stop. Bill Stoppard’s power stop is a t-stop, finished with a hockey stop, which he calls “drag to power stop!” Thanks for watching!

[@funwheels3307]

Greg has very nice magic slides, perhaps you can fine-tune yours using his advice? kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2KzqHiana6fos0

[@funwheels3307]

Greg is a professional 😄

[@natsudraganeelyt2305]

This move irritates me way more then the parallel slide ever could. At least with the parallel slide it's a commitment issue but, this slide just straight destroys me. I understand how it works and get what to do yet ever time I go for it I have the hardest stop that's super unstable. After rewatching this I really need to go grind out all my problems with this slide today or it's going to haunt me for the rest of my life lol.

[@circusemployee]

Cross Ern sui slide tutorial PLEASE

[@LeticiaADiaz]

Could you teach a different way of doing the magic, starting with the soul slide? I've been trying for a couple of days now and I can't get it right, I start to turn to the side and on rougher surfaces I can't even get the soul slide right :c Thank you for your tutorials!

[@optimuslebron]

i feel like soul slide is a better half way step toward magic slide than power slide. secondly from you progression of improvement, upper body counter rotation seems to be a key focal point. your earlier wobbly attempts all had no counter rotations and in many cases over rotations. as soon as you counter rotated the shoulders, you stability improved markedly. interestingly some later attempts with less pronounced counter rotations appeared less stable even if they are supposedly more confident attempts.

[@Johro66]

Cool stuff I'll try it That intro tho 😜

[@XxMaximus10xX]

What type of stop u guys recomend me if most of the streets in my city are full of scratches, little holes, some dirt and little rocks

[@alejandropisetta2730]

This kind of videos are garte, but if you don't mather my request, please add videos larger than the current uploads, because the explanation is great but the videos withthe examples are too short. Great work indeed, kip posting more.

[@asphyxxiant]

Given the arms movement I think this should be renamed to "dab slide" xD

[@sergeykornienko9882]

Thanks David, nice breakdown, one of the best! I've a few questions. Have you tried other wheel setups with magic slide, like triskate? Are you sliding on full rocker? And why on 84A and not 88? Aren't these wheels too soft for sliding (even though it obviously worked for you:))?

[@DeezSkates]

Sergey, I haven’t tried the three wheels set up yet. I wanted to start low and stable. I am rockered. IMO it’s easy to slide in a rockered setup. And as far as durometer.. I’m a quad skater and I’m used to being able to put down way more power in quads due to more flat surface contact, so it’s easy for me to break loose any inline skate. Even with these softer wheels I only use 60% of the power I need to slide in my quads.

[@sergeykornienko9882]

Thanks for the answer. I got curious and googled what sliding looks like on quads... I've never seen it before somehow. Looks a bit unnatural to me because you slide on the flat surface of the wheel. But that's prob how it should be done on quads. Cheers and keep posting - love your vids! :-)

[@DeezSkates]

Oh yeah. Those people are using super slippery wheels. Very little power needed. I was thinking about hockey stops and Powerslide. Haha.

[@onlycorner5565]

that lock bad, like you gonna turn your back to the car you gonna hit try to start the sliding motion from behind the left leg (you use the right leg to stop) i learned it doing an powerslide half way with right leg(backwards powerslide) and pivoting on the right back wheel then turn my body and plant the left leg to stop the smoother you plant it more effective and fun it is

[@amarissimus29]

I love how you casually mention, at the end of the video, that you need hard wheels. Other than the need to commit, this is the most important thing about slides. Maybe I missed an earlier mention. If I did, sorry. Anyone learning: don't try and learn slides on 85a wheels! It's masochistic. Get the hardest wheels you can and get ready to laugh at how obvious it is.

[@DeezSkates]

Well.. I did this entire video on 85a wheels... so I didn’t really think about it.

[@lukasperez4654]

Imagine learning Magic from Ron Wesley

[@Golem1988]

How do wheels feel after this kind of excercises? I mean after getting from 0 to where you can actually do magic, are wheels still alive? :)

[@DeezSkates]

In fairness, I should have found a smoother place to learn it. I tried on some rough pavement during this video and they’re were pretty work out after a couple of days.

[@Golem1988]

@@DeezSkates Oh, I see. Thanks for reply, will try to find some smooth surface for learning this

[@dotmatrix6593]

@@DeezSkates But for learning the magic slide its worth of it 😃

[@JordannGeorge]

have you mastered both sides?

[@jackhasutooob]

Im gonna train this hard till its strong enough to use anywhere like Danny Aldridge

[@piotradamowicz1853]

As far as I can see on the video the main problem you have is bodyweight/balance. You should focus on controlling your center of gravity not legs, since you have that work out. On few first attempts where you marked them as Good, that's where you started to sifht body balance back just before the slide. Drag it even further.

[@DeezSkates]

Easier said than done while you’re learning a new move. I quickly figured that out, but being able to execute it takes time when you still have to think about every part of the body when executing such a scary move.

[@piotradamowicz1853]

Good luck ;)

[@kchappelle]

David, you look like a drunken sailor in some of your stops. Lol

[@robinblackman4509]

👍

[@monster_slayer1769]

At the beginning I thought this would be a French video

[@isabellafriends1239]

I just turn like that normally 😂

[@missmutification]

you're doing great video stuff for inline skaters, I really appreciate your content. But in the first part the music sounds like Apple FaceTime calls me (sounds like a ringtone) so this is a little bit annoying.

[@DeezSkates]

Yeah, After I published I noticed that I didn't pull the music down enough. Sorry about that!

[@missmutification]

@@DeezSkates Doesn't makes your content smaller. You re doing a great job. I have to say thanks for that.

[@Fatcheng]

相當好

[@caddycanton4273]

Men I need skate boots

[@hafsaaamer6612]

I thought you talking Arabic at the first minute 🤣😂

[@sfkid57]

i am sure you know what you are talking about, but for me too much talking and i can't remember you said and i get confused

[@thrakiamaria]

You forgot to say what kind of wheels do you use for slides.

[@patinespeludos]

Hi buddy!! your tutorial is super cool, and I really thank you to explained detail; and I have a question, do you recommend to train it with reckered frame or flat? I'm struggling so much with this slide, yo have no idea how