crossovers Archives | https://rollerderbyathletics.com/tag/crossovers/ Thu, 13 Sep 2018 16:40:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.9 https://i0.wp.com/rollerderbyathletics.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-RDA-logo-square-512-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 crossovers Archives | https://rollerderbyathletics.com/tag/crossovers/ 32 32 41369847 The Biggest Crossover Mistakes – Part 2 https://rollerderbyathletics.com/crossover-mistakes-2/ https://rollerderbyathletics.com/crossover-mistakes-2/#respond Thu, 13 Sep 2018 16:40:59 +0000 https://rollerderbyathletics.com/?p=43131 You’re probably making at least one of these 4 big crossover mistakes. But they’re easy to correct if you know what to change. So let’s learn how to crossover more comfortably and confidently! In this video I identify the four biggest crossover mistakes I see skaters – AT ALL LEVELS – making, that cause their […]

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]]> https://rollerderbyathletics.com/crossover-mistakes-1/feed/ 2 42954 How to Improve at Derby’s 27 Laps Test https://rollerderbyathletics.com/27-laps-test/ https://rollerderbyathletics.com/27-laps-test/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:41:31 +0000 http://rollerderbyathletics.com/?p=3979 Photo courtesy of my favourite skate shop, www.Rollergirl.ca One of the biggest challenges that haunts all new derby athletes is their minimum skills testing, and particularly the endurance skill – the ol’ “25 in 5” as it used to be called, now the much-less-catchy 27-in-5 laps test, used by the WFTDA as a benchmark for […]

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]]> https://rollerderbyathletics.com/27-laps-test/feed/ 88 3979 They’re New But Are They Improved? https://rollerderbyathletics.com/minimum-skills/ https://rollerderbyathletics.com/minimum-skills/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 06:35:45 +0000 http://www.rollerderbyathletics.com/?p=1035 Ask yourself these two very important questions: 1. when is the last time you performed a baseball slide in game play? And, 2. how many times per bout do you turn around 180 degrees and quickly skate in the opposite direction? Did you say “uh, never ever ever?” and “I don’t have that many fingers […]

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]]> https://rollerderbyathletics.com/minimum-skills/feed/ 1 1035 The secret to easy crossovers: Crossunders https://rollerderbyathletics.com/the-secret-to-easy-crossovers-crossunders/ https://rollerderbyathletics.com/the-secret-to-easy-crossovers-crossunders/#comments Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:12:44 +0000 http://rollerderbyathletics.wordpress.com/?p=60 Attention new skaters! You look ridiculous trying to reach your outside skate out in front of you to cross it over your inside skate because someone told you you needed to do crossovers in the corners but damn if this doesn’t seem like a waste of energy and really really awkward and unstable and slow…. […]

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]]> https://rollerderbyathletics.com/the-secret-to-easy-crossovers-crossunders/feed/ 2 60 The other direction… https://rollerderbyathletics.com/the-other-direction/ https://rollerderbyathletics.com/the-other-direction/#respond Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:47:42 +0000 http://rollerderbyathletics.wordpress.com/?p=46 Ever notice that shorts don’t fit your left cheek the same as they do the right? That one side rides up your inner thigh more than the other? Please try to find ways to incorporate skating in the opposite direction wherever you can in practice. Your massive right bum cheek will thank you. Bonus: you […]

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