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Before the age of youtube I was a fun of munobal videos (now you can find them on youtube anyway). It was very useful since it gives you different camera angles you you can learn trics stright from videos, as I do. It is good however to learn tricks on similar level of difficulty – it allows you to build necessary skills for next levels, and gives satisfaction of successful exercises, so crucial factor to keep learning going.

After some time I found movies of Skali, French professional skater, who is somehow close to Seba, creator of Seba inline skates series. Skali offers trainings and advertises on its own www.kompakombo.com site, where you can find all well-known tricks sorted into different levels. At the moment it is a baseline for me, it allows me to measure where I am and how fast I make a progress.

Two years ago I started at level 1, now I am still lame being somewhere at level 3,5 (most tricks L3 and some of L4 and L5) while local top slalomers circulating somewhere between levels 6-7. Bright side is, such distance is inspiring and makes more pressure. My motto is “at least one level up per season” and I am going to turn it into reality this year, too.

Usually in March we have here snow mud, gray sky and temperatures below zero. It means no skating outside. Well… fluctuation of climate changes what is usual. For last couple days we have almost spring here: +15 degrees celsius, dry ground and sunny sky. I could not resist jumping into skate boots even though there is a lot of dust. Pahtwalks are still very sandy but I took up a challange and on last Saturday I did first freeride through the old town. Without good condition I was tired but happy. Yesterday I got to my slalom training place which is cleaner because it is private property. I swept off dirt with brush, set up line of cones and … recalled that is is beginning of season 🙂 Less power in legs I already notices, but I also forgotten the initial moves for advanced trics. Fortunatelly memory of movements is bless; with help of movies recorded on cellphone it took me one hour to recall and get up to speed. This evening I am going to get there too. I am in a hurry, forecast is about weather breakdown in day or two, cold temperatures, rain with snow and other stoppers.