How to Soul Slide into Magic Slide on inline skates: Lazer coaching tutorial with Richard in Glasgow

[@RichHayterSkater]

Yeas! This is Awesome! Just watching this back reminds me of what a brilliant day this was!👏👏 I’ve said it before, I learn something every time I watch one of your lessons, but this one was very special! Thank you so much, Asha! 🙏😁

[@SkatefreshVideos]

It was fun wasnt it? This was just polishing and you were very close already. Hopefully the lessons learned on those skills will spill over into other skills. But your knee bend is pretty excellent with everything you do. Just new skills the slight “up” happens and it’s so slight we don’t catch it. Look forward to another one of these with you next time in Glasgow.

[@nigelbrown2274]

Well done Rich! I’m struggling with the soul slide, but nice to see your progress

[@ianhaslett2403]

Good job Rich! I can do a soul slide so this is next on my buck'ates list. You made it look easy thanks to Asha. looking forward to seeing you doing this more on your channel

[@RichHayterSkater]

@@SkatefreshVideos Oh yeas! Count me in! 😁

[@RichHayterSkater]

@@nigelbrown2274 check out Asha’s soul slide video, it really helped me.👌

[@darren6762]

Well done Asha!!! great teaching! I would love to go skating with you every day!!! just imagine how fast I could progress, I'm only 52 and absolutely loving blading now and your tutorials helped me heaps with the basics to get to where I am now and I'm still learning so much from your videos, keep up the fantastic work you do!!! If only everyone knew how good and how much fun skating is, the whole world would be doing it for exercise!!!

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Hahahah I agree. My mission is to get more people skating because it's such a great, fun and effective form of all round exercise as you say. Know that you and your skating inspire others to wish and then one day to try. I love sharing students' success because I know it's so powerful at connecting skaters to each other and their learning process, which is so gratifying. The smiles on me and Richard's faces say it all.

[@RichHayterSkater]

I couldn’t agree more. Skating is great for exercise but it’s also just a ton of fun. Learning new skills like this is a huge part of that. I was genuinely buzzing feeling my skates slide! 😁

[@maloneycraig]

Those of us who’ve seen Rich’s videos know he’s a powerful skater. I hope this isn’t setting us all up with unrealistic goals of getting magic down in one session. But I’m still gonna go try again. ;)

[@RichHayterSkater]

Thanks Craig! 👍 It’s important to note that I had a fairly decent grasp of the Soul slide here, which Asha helped me improve. But when I first began messing around with the Magic (a while ago!), I really struggled, and it wasn’t until I watched Asha’s Soul slide video, where she explains that the Soul is the entry into the Magic, that I began to drill it. I’d defo start with the Soul first. 👍

[@SkatefreshVideos]

I don’t think anyone shoukd aim for a new slide in one session. It takes time to get the weight distribution up to 90% on the non sliding leg and each slide has different specific exercises to train that before you slide. Then sliding is a lot less risky and success more probable. Richard already had a soul slide (I just helped him get rid of the pronation and make it safer). The magic he’d already need trying and drilling but probably repeating the same mistake (the small coming up I identified). He fixed that and it slid! I always say “a little technique can go a long way”.

[@MrRomanoLeChauve]

@@SkatefreshVideos Hi Asha, first thanks for your precious advices and videos ! Do you have any suggestion to improve the weight distribution and what do you mean by "90%"?

[@SkatefreshVideos]

@@MrRomanoLeChauve Hi. This is Sergio from Team Skatefresh. 90% means your non sliding leg (support leg) should bear 90% of your body weight leaving 10% for the sliding leg. That is a requirement for many slides such as the power slide, the soul slide, the acid slide, the pornstar slide, the royal slide, etc... even the T-stop. Easier said that done I know but it's absolutely essential. Obviously certain surfaces are not suitable, wheel hardness has something to do as well; but if you don't slide is most of the time due to the lack of proper weight distribution. To get to that 90/10 you can practice scooter, half lemons, and toe-wheel, always keeping a center edge for the support skate. Besides, you really need quite a bit of strength in that support leg. You can build strength with those exercises bit by bit, but some squats every other day will help.

[@MrRomanoLeChauve]

@@SkatefreshVideos thanks a lot for your very complete answer Sergio ! Informations like that are very precious to improve 👏🏼

[@TheusBrasil2008]

I went from beginner to comfortable skater within a year. That was possible mostly thanks to Skatefresh video tutorials. Thank you Asha and everyone involved in creating the videos, for sharing your experience in such a clear and fun way.

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Thank you that’s sweet. In the hands of the right students they do indeed work and people like you gain confidence and mastery. I’m honoured to be part of your process.

[@TheRollingRaptor]

Wonderful! Well done, Richard! 🙌🔥

[@RichHayterSkater]

Thanks Tim, this was Awesome!

[@iberjames]

Great work, Asha. You are an inspiration for beginners. Congratulations! 🤩🤩🤩

[@SkatefreshVideos]

My pleasure 😊

[@whattheactual4546]

She is fantastic!

[@luchobarrios]

Great Asha's explanation and great job of him!!!

[@RichHayterSkater]

I could not agree more! 👍😁

[@Luso___]

Amazing tutorial as always!

[@SkatefreshVideos]

I like the Lazer coaching tutorials and I’ll try and do these every time I travel to new cities.

[@twistfire74]

Rich Hayter has some great help videos of his own. I have got some excellent help from his isntruction. Help me poweslide.Very good guy and quick to reach out.

[@RichHayterSkater]

Thanks Vance, I really appreciate this! But I still consider myself a leaner in this game, and on this day, I learned from the Jedi Master of Skating! 😁👍

[@SkatefreshVideos]

I agree. Richard was an easy student being so advanced which is why the small tweaks had such good effects.

[@twistfire74]

@Rich Hayter Skater I absolutely adore Asha. Watching her on YT and her SkateFresh program videos I have accelerated my learning a lot faster than I expected. She is truly a lovely lady in every way. A true gem . Thanks Rich. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@twistfire74]

@SkatefreshAsha well Asha you've taught me more already in short inline skating journey than anyone out there. You are truly the foundation everyone needs guidance to becoming a proficient skater. I am grateful we have you in this sport. ❤️ Thank you so much.

[@stephmo371]

Yes this is def a vid I've been waiting for

[@briansparks1632]

Unlike any other magic slide tutorial I’ve seen, completely different cues. Can’t wait to try these, thanks!

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Probably 23 years worth of teaching experience, gives me a different perspective to most teachers..... glad this helped.

[@Bunbun21000]

Really good breakdown and instructions!

[@Belleza07]

OMG!! Woman, I´ve just found your channel and you´re making me buy a pair of skates and start all over. It´s been years, maybe a decade since I last skated. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge!

[@SkatefreshVideos]

That’s the spirit. The skater in you wants to come out and shine. Grab by free beginner starter lessons on my site check description for links. That’ll really help you start correctly. X

[@aztecterp]

I love your videos. They helped me realize everything I was doing wrong. Still, though, I make dumb mistakes. I ordered a brake so I can skate narrow trails the way I did 30 years ago. Unfortunately, I didn't wait for my brakes, and although you warned your viewers in your videos about three-wheel speed and braking, I lost confidence on a trail fell backwards and had a bad radial fracture. Up to that point I was progressing well. Sad because I was having the time of my life. I won't give up!

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Hi. This is Sergio from Skatefresh Team. I'm sorry for your accident, so is Asha. She's always worried about skaters not being able to stop, and that's why most of her videos in KZbin are about stopping methods. Too many accidents with people without brake and without any other way to stop. There are skaters who don't even have the intention to slow down and they put everyone around in danger, not only themselves. Besides, city authorities take note about this and ban our sport because of reckless skaters. Asha even created a whole series of online courses especially for stopping, it can be found here skatefresh.com/learn-to-skate-online/

[@aztecterp]

@@SkatefreshVideos well, I learned my lesson. I have a brake now but I need recover first. Thanks to you both for the message 🙂

[@urbanskatinginindia2068]

Magic slide யை இதைவிட யாரும் எளிமையாக கற்றுத் தந்துவிட முடியாது. I am your student madam. Very proud of you

[@divisionoflabor3070]

Awesome tutorial. Texted it to myself for my next practice session!!! :) Thanks, Asha and Richard and friends

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Let us know how it went.

[@divisionoflabor3070]

@@SkatefreshVideos Forgot my phone!!! But I find myself turning on the soul slide part instead of sliding :)

[@SkatefreshVideos]

You are turning and not sliding because your sliding skate is still too heavy…..

[@lukemwill99]

Ayyy Rich and Asha!

[@claytonlopes1654]

Great. I really wanted to learn this brake. Glad you made a video teaching it step by step.

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Well that wasn't step by step. That was just a. few polishing points for someone who already had the slide. If you don't have the soul slide then start with half lemons exercise (watch the video again of the group learning the soul slide while Richard did his thing). Half lemons moving the weight more and more to one skate from 60/40% to 80/20 and eventually 90/10% with very "curvy" lemoning leg getting a good internal rotation on the half lemon. While other skate is straight line, slight outside edge. That exercise progression will get you to soul sliding.

[@rey-ke5ls]

Teachin to richard😂😂👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Asha is the top, unreachable

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Bless you, thanks. I've been at this teaching game 21 years and still love it for that feeling of excitement and joy I feel when they finally get a skill for the first time. I enjoy all the smaller 'wins' along the way, each exercise in a. progression is a mini hurdle and they all add up to success. That's why I teach (and teach people to teach skating), because it's sooo fun and rewarding. I so appreciate that amongst the many struggles of running a business.

[@RichHayterSkater]

I wholeheartedly agree! 👏👏👏😁

[@bladeworks5012]

Wonderful technique, I’ll try it this way next time I skate! I still can’t make a proper magic slide and more and more I understand that this is an essential skill for city skating not just a fancy trick that you can slide on your wheels

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Yes it's a really useful stopping and slowing method. You see it a lot with the downhill skaters as it also works very well around corners, but you do need a certain about of internal hip flexibility (which I don't with my hip). But really worth training. The others in the class were doing the preparatory exercises for Soul Slide which are half lemons, aiming for 95/5% weight distribution..... not easy. Hoe that helps.

[@bladeworks5012]

@@SkatefreshVideos Thanks a lot for extra tips Asha, you are the best 😁🙌

[@catedoge3206]

amazing teacher!!!

[@9007]

OMG awesome, i was so excited at the end hahaha

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Me too as you can see. I live through my students' successes.

[@nigelbrown2274]

Excellent video! Well done indeed

[@edgar1013]

Oh NO! you suffered a broken hip? I wish you a speedy recovery. 🙏 Awesome tutorial Asha can't wait to practice this technique!

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Hi. This is Sergio from Team Skatefresh. Thank you very much on her behalf. The injury happened years ago and is permanent. However, she can skate and be awesome but she has to avoid certain moves as she explained.

[@ajidarmaka218]

And practice is easy to understand..thank to both of you..keep wheeling...

[@SkatefreshVideos]

It’s so good to see the practice bringing results. And it does if the practice is correct.

[@ajidarmaka218]

You always correct...thank you

[@johnlee2326]

This is amazing! I wish I could do that....

[@RichHayterSkater]

Check out Asha’s Soul slide video too, it was a game-changer for me! 👍

[@rickyriki1985]

great tutorial, i will try that next time

[@arrobatemporaria]

best magic slide tutorial ever

[@SkatefreshVideos]

It's a good way to go about learning the Magic slide, to have the Soul slide first well versed. Sometimes inflexibility can prevent the Soul slide from happening but flexibility comes with repeated exposure to the positions.... Richard did amazingly well and was almost there on his own. I do a good polishing job.

[@PlantbasedRunners]

Quickest lesson ever 😂😂 next slide!

[@AlejandroHernandez-uz5pi]

Brilliant! I’m going to try it! Thanks Asha 😂

[@monicamarcelasalazarzapata3530]

Me encantaria alguna vez ir a clases con Asha!!🤩😍

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Espero en 2023 volver a España. Barcelona, Madrid o Valencia????

[@richardfleming7271]

Also called Rich, also not nailing the magic transition, timing on this video appearing is impeccable. Great work - testing it later 👏

[@SkatefreshVideos]

OOhhhh I love it when something comes along at JUST the right time. I the flow! Let us know how these corrections worked for you and your soul slide....

[@richardfleming7271]

@@SkatefreshVideos unfortunately I have that older skater flexibility issue, not having the sliding front foot at 90 degrees to the back foot means when your back foot switches you just spin :-( The looking to the side & dropping when the back foot switches is a great tip, love soul sliding to check speed when bombing about empty skate parks. Keep up the good work your a legend !

[@CrazyMindss]

Awesome! I learned soul slide but I have to improve it until start with magic slide 😅

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Yes get your Sul Slide super fluent and comfy and sliding for several metres before progressing onto the Magic.

[@sth86]

awesome!

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Glad you think so! I think he did brilliantly and that was well over a year ago so now his Magic slide is off the charts good!

[@sth86]

@@SkatefreshVideos how's your hip ma'am?

[@davidb4979]

How do you like the Endless frames compared to the NNskates frames?

[@SkatefreshVideos]

I really like them both. The NNs have 2mm rise on the back wheel and Endless have 1mm so that's the main difference (but it's subtle. The rocker of both these frames makes it easier to create the curves you need for god wizard skating. The Endless have the ability to put 3 wheels flat for distance and street skating which is useful but I usually just use them with 4x90s. Whichever I have on I really like. I just change from one to the other every few months. No preference, really. Compared to 3x110 flat which I was riding before, they are both sooooo mnaouverable.

[@Raiyan800]

Hey there! 🎥 First of all, thanks for the great video! 👍 I really enjoyed it. However, I've noticed that when I try to do the magic slide, it automatically becomes a power slide. 😕 Can you please help me out and let me know what the problem might be

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Are you entering the Magic slide from the Soul slide as indicated in this video? If yes, then you are creating the powerslide by 'flipping' the skate that will become the trailing leg in the magic slide (so not the leading leg) too far around from forwards to backwards, so you're flipping it 180 degrees so it then rolls backwards and that's the powerslide. You need instead to flip it by just 90 degrees so it rolls from forwards to sideways. The difficulty is that the magic slide is so much harder than the powerslide that the body will want to choose that easier option. 2 skates sliding is 1000x more challenging than just 1 skate sliding, 1 skate rolling. So you need to build up to this very slowly by doing this flipping movement right at the end of the soul slide when you've almost stopped. The body will be more likely to accept this if there isn't a load of speed. Once you have a tiny "baby slide" of a few kms you can then slowly work at increasing the speed very very very slowly. Hope this makes sense. Good luck.

[@Raiyan800]

@@SkatefreshVideos Yeah, thanks a lot! I'll give it a try. I really appreciate you taking the time to reply and help me out. You've earned a new subscriber! I'll let you know how it goes in a month or two.

[@billB101]

Nice. How you finding the 4 x 90 Endless Trinity? I'm a week in on mine and kind of getting used to them, stability is amazing though.

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Yes I'm really loving them. Took me a few weeks to change over from the NNs which I also loved. They're such a great idea.

[@billB101]

​@@SkatefreshVideos Will we be seeing wizard tutorials from you then?

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Yes I filmed one this week on some of the prerequisites needed for wizard skating. It needs some trimming etc. I’ve worked non stop since good Friday so a day off appearing on mo day after weekend lessons. I’m always behind on the social media and KZbin stuff. Something next week I promise.

[@thysamnang3248]

So next video can you do about backslide?

[@ahmeeeeeeeeeeeed]

I was like wow he learned the magic slide so fast but then I realized he isn't just some random beginner, that's Rich Hayter skater lol

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Hahaha, love this reply. He's an awesome skater. Check out his Instagram channel. He accelerates like Bill Stoppard and has so much speed and power. I got lost in his IG channel one evening. Worth following. He's got such all round skills.

[@RichHayterSkater]

🙏Thanks, this made me chuckle too! 😂👍

[@embethzoozoo5976]

Hi Asha I see when I skate or when I stride my feet go in My ankles bend so my feet go in How do I fix that because I think it makes me loose balance and hurt my feet more Example this is the front of my skates when I stride \ / goes in

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Hi. This is Sergio from Team Skatefresh. Ankles rocking in or out is totally wrong. It's more noticeable with big wheels. To avoid that you need skates with good ankle support, to lace them up properly and to adjust their buckles firmly. Even if you do that sometimes the ankles bend either because the skates have soft boots, or they are too worn out, or they are very bad quality. You also need to control this from your head, with concentration and proper technique keeping the wheels perpendicular to the floor, because you can rock ankles in or out even with hard boot skates. So it's not only a skate problem. Please check this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/oH2WiHifZdVoiqM to see an exercise to get used to the proper position. If you have medical feet issues you should wear orthotics on and off skates.

[@embethzoozoo5976]

@@SkatefreshVideos Thank you I will train this

[@iliasiosifidis2631]

question: Can u do that with any roller skates or just these ? and does it work on a flat street?

[@SkatefreshVideos]

That's a really good question...... I don't know if I've ever seen anyone do a magic slide on quad skates? Mmmmm I'm going to ask on my Instagram channel and see if anyone has seen this before. Just because I haven't doesn't mean it doesn't exist. However, sliding 8 flat roller skate wheels is wayyyyyy more difficult than sliding tilted, rounded inline wheels (and the Magic slide is not one of the easier slides), so in terms of difficulty this is way, way up there (which explains why not many can do it). I'll get back to you here when I have some feedback to that questions on IG.....

[@iliasiosifidis2631]

I have normal roller skates and the weels just don't wanna slide. Do I have to be in a really flat area to do that?

[@mohammadinlineskate]

♥️⚡♥️⚡♥️

[@tiganaofficiel1821]

J'aime ça

[@dadsfreetimeclassicgaming1220]

Yo I teach tennis for like a decade and a half. I had a hip surgery with about 1 week off. Covid hit and all anyone could play was tennis. HOW IN THE HELL are you managing to teach with a broken hip. Thats CRAZY

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Hi. This is Sergio from Skatefresh Team. Asha's injury actually involves cartilage, not bones; anyway, it's is indeed a miracle that she's still teaching, but yoga and being active helped her a lot.

[@bmprank7595]

Hello madam, the video written below is very difficult for us to see the skating, so I ask them to put it in the video

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Hi. This is Sergio from Skatefresh Team. Please don't put this same comment in every video, otherwise it's taken as spam. What you should do is to disable closed captions in your KZbin player.

[@robinblackman4509]

👍🥰

[@merlebump5328]

those right skate wheels are going to get ground down pretty quickly. how, and how often should wheels be rotated

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Hi. This is Sergio from Skatefresh Team. How often you rotate wheels depends on how much wear they get, and that depends on how often you skate and where. Besides, soft wheels wear away faster than hard ones. In general, when you notice the wheel inside edge is more worn out than the outside edge a rotation is needed. If you look up on the Internet you will find some diagrams on how to interchange wheels, from one skate to the other, etc. but in time you will see those diagrams are not a rule because how wheels wear away relies quite a bit on YOUR particular way to skate.

[@merlebump5328]

thanks for the reply@@SkatefreshVideos

[@skatingsabine]

Wow - love this move! I’m going to start practising that … ahead of my amazing wizard weekend in Belgium 😄😄😄

[@r.c.vincent6063]

how did you break your hip?

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Filming one of my online courses. 30 day shoot, last hour of the last day. Exhaustion. Was travelling next day, had to finish. Here's a video of it. Not very spectacular but nasty all the same. skatefresh.com/asha-falling-over/

[@mobileapps4406]

Hi teacher Asha you are enjoying your skate and your student cant skate anymore our skate destroyed here in Afghanistan I cant play skate here anymore

[@kenmastersmaster]

Broken hip??? From skating?

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Hi. This is Sergio from Team Skatefresh. Not the hip bone itself, she's got a permanent cartilage injury in the area. It happened while she was filming her online courses years ago and she was very tired after many hours in front of the camera. So yeah, it was while she was skating. Lesson learned: you should not skate if you are extremelly tired because you are prone to have an accident.

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Sergio put it very well. I’m extremely fortunate to still be skating and teaching and managing my injury so I can do that. I was filming when injured so have the fall on camera. I made a blog post about it years ago. Here’s a link if you’re interested. It doesn’t look bad. The twisty falls never do. But inside 😑 skatefresh.com/asha-falling-over/

[@kenmastersmaster]

@@SkatefreshVideos yes I'm reading it the video is private in the article. I'm dealing with a herniated disc myself so I'm careful not to do slides and stuff and just want to get basic stuff down. Also not interested in a surgery. Trying to build up back, glutes and core maybe things will get better for me....

[@capitankeita1423]

Ahora entiendo el soul xd

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Me alegro que te ayudo. Demasiado peso en la pierna que derrape (es siempre el primero problema de los derrapes). Suerte 👍🏽

[@copenhagen72]

What type of insurance this guy has? Learning new tricks with no protection, except helmet, is kind a Russian roulette. One day I fell back, on elbow... If I has no elbow protection, my elbow will shatter into pieces, so scary.

[@SkatefreshVideos]

That’s a risk he is willing to take. We all have different opinions about risk. You have very good reasons to favour full protection. I also advocate use of pads.

[@RichHayterSkater]

I actually do agree. At one stage I didn’t even wear a helmet and thought nothing of it, now I’m very aware of it when I see other skaters without one. Perhaps one day I’ll see sense and pad up more.

[@johntheripper9122]

Please your Instagram

[@SkatefreshVideos]

@richayter_skater. Go follow him!!!! He's like Bill Stoppard UK! Amazing fast style and great videos.