Yooo!!! Really enjoying seeing you do wizard/freestyle moves Bill! 😎🔥 looking great!! And about what you said in the end, you can follow your own path, no need to fit into a specific category! You can make your own skating style while picking things from pretty much every category! As for some moves, I'd suggest you: the Compass & the Gazelle!

@blackyraypatrick9041

Жыл бұрын

hey my friend. Miss your content!

@jokerrfox354

Жыл бұрын

Preach! I hate how we feel the need to choose a category. Like a "skating major" of some sorts.

@lebowski_dude

Жыл бұрын

Make some videos Tiago! Would love to see more content from you.

@muhammadfiqih6929

Жыл бұрын

Long time no see your content

@Th3Unf0rg1v3n95

11 ай бұрын

Good to see you around, brother ♥

I like wizard skating, but I don't care for the idea that you need to buy certain equipment in order to do it properly/participate in it. I'm a very short skater with a women's size 6 (US) skate. So the idea of strapping an abnormally long rockered frame onto my tiny boots just wouldn't work the same for me as say a taller/larger footed skater. If I were to get any fancy frames I would consider the Endless 80's as the wheelbase is 255mm, which isn't too far off from my 243mm frames. I find rockering my 243mm frames works just fine for me when I want to play around with wizard moves and I don't have to break the bank to have some fun doing some twirly whirlies :)

Glad to see you finding new ways to enjoy skating! Gotta rock that rocker. Any kind of deviation from what you’re used to/most proficient at will no doubt make you a better overall skater. Especially those that test different edges and weight distribution like wizard or slalom moves would.

This is good shit, Bill. Guaranteed that at some point you'll be in a weird position and instead of an "oh shit" fall, your new wizard skills will allow you to take edges and steps you wouldn't have thought to take without this practice. It's all skating, and that means it's all good.

Love watching you evolve. Looking forward to your progress.

Learning wizard tricks is a means to an end, and hopefully it's not the actual end, because then it's no more than a set of prescribed poses. The foundational moves are helpful for enabling improvisation, and I've got a matrix/chart of those fundamentals if you're interested, as long as you promise to move beyond them! :D Specifically I'm seeing some nice forward open gazelles and forward closed lions. I'd recommend learning the back open gazelle and the back closed lion next.

@billyarlew

Жыл бұрын

Oh and it's totally possible to wizard skate through the streets. All wizard skating is essentially just creative ways of transferring between forward and backward.

@rodrigo9500

Жыл бұрын

Could you make this chart public? For those of us trying to get there. You're a hell of a wizard skater

@skip1978

Жыл бұрын

I also would be interested in that chart of all those fundamentals. I like your style of wizard skating

@GameConnoisseur69

Жыл бұрын

If you did a 2 hour seminar on your chart I'd watch the whole thing you're seriously talented

Wonderful to see you swivelling, Bill! Already bringing some badass attitude into wizard skating with your moves. 🤘 Now I'm hoping one day we'll see you hitting the streets on a five-wheel setup, like the Endless Arc or the NN Dragon+. I guess we'd witness the next level of assault skating. 🙂

Just started looking into wizard skating myself and it looks like a lot of twists and twirls flowing in forever-changing directions. definitely looks like fun!

Your channel is AMAZING. It is literally lacking nothing! The sequence of importance and the flow of watching for us is perfect: your content comes first with both the physical and mental engagement as well as gear and tools and then your followers’ comments is content too as they are of such high quality. I have been encouraged and learned from both. And your video work with all that it entails is on par with the pros of the trade. (ie the mirror frames) And for all this, all I can say is - Thank You Bill. Thank you for caring by using all that you have in you. And as you mention here, it is for life.

I love the fact that you got into wizard skating! When I was getting into skating, I used to watch your videos daily. You were one of the first people on youtube who inspired me, taught me how to stop, roll stairs and stuff like that. So, big thanks for that! 🙏 Later I started to explore the more arty side of skating and didn't feel the need to watch city skating anymore (I still kept doing it tho, just added more tricks in). Now I am doing aggressive skating for 5 years. You popped up in my youtube feed and it's amazing to see you started exploring new areas of skating and that you want to learn wizard tricks 🔥

Love seeing these new moves, I can’t imagine the flows you’ll be getting.

1:56 - man when this beat dropped and you started turning around my legs started moving out to skate! cool video, keep posting, that inspires me to try new things ;)

What I’ve learned in life is some of the biggest revolutions are the most subtle, almost unnoticeable tweaks on existing ideas. Sometimes you have big revolutions like iPhone. Sometimes it’s like: blogs - isn’t that just a website? Isn’t a podcast just an mp3? Sometimes big changes come in small packages and are easy to miss. I’m with you Bill I didn’t get wizard until I got wizard. Now I’m obsessed.

I'm glad that you stuck to your guns when you did - not that i think you exploring wizardry now is bad at all, but the wizards always had their representatives; the journey you took exploring "regular" skating, I haven't really seen elsewhere - at least not to the standard you've produced. The only other people i can think of would be Todd and Joey, but of course, they're also from a different genre (not including their wizardry).

Awesome, Bill. I really love both as well. There's so much room for having fun when we don't box ourselves into a single style.

@simongloutnez589

Жыл бұрын

We get so much better !

I'm glad to hear Assault Skating hasn't been completely abolished from your skate lifestyle. I do enjoy your city skater skate flow videos. I don't see any reason why you can't do different types of forms of skating. If anything, it'll help enhance your skating skills even more so. Keep on rolling, you rock!! 🤘

You always nail the soundtrack in your videos Bill😁😊🤘

Great discussion! It's like any artistry - every style always come out in your own language!

Very nice sir. I just started skating 3months ago. Practicing to be an intermediate slalom, advanced wizard and advanced aggressive and urban skater in the future.

Id like to see some Wizard/mushroom skating a little more, mix some more aggressive in with the wizard skating!

I really enjoy all the videos you are sharing. You have a nice cool vibe

Love this, didn’t know it was called “wizard skating”.

Great video Bill! I know of a great video by Rollerbalding featuring a breakdown of some of the fundamental movements. Shaun Unwin from Flow Skate also has some great tutorials on moves like the open and closed gazelles which I think are some of the first moves to build from. Can't wait to see you explore wizard skating more!

@hirevi8294

Жыл бұрын

Shaun, Alex and their videos are fantastic, it's been 7 months since they last uploaded anything when they always had a pretty high rate, I wish they would come back, but they have their reasons to stop. They are an inspiration and I hope everything goes well for them. 🙏

@paul_k_7351

Жыл бұрын

Rollerbalding is amazing, I wish he had more videos.

I'm getting old and I started skating a year ago. My long term goal is wizard skating because I'm not sure I have too much power in my poor old muscles. Also I think it's so beautiful and mesmerizing! By the way, you should learn the heel toe press and the lion X.

Thnx for sharing. Nice video, awesome music choices. Greetings from holland✌️

A maneuver that I think is really cool is the Heel Compass. You do the turn to one side, and then the sequence to the opposite side.

Two achievable moves: power pull, sweep. Power pull when you are on 1 foot, sweep when you are crossed over, heading backward.

for me freeskating / streetskating is about having freedom to skate wherever you like to while wizard skating is the freedom of expressing things, to have the ultimate flow and getting perfect technique just without the focus on grinds and jumps for what you would need a skatepark for. wizard skating is more minimalistic than aggressive skating. Give me a flat ground is all I'd need. besides that. Any Type of skating is great. There are to many elitists in any sport. I get showen some comments of a couple dancing where people always complain about "the couple not dancing the traditional style of *insert random country* " ... its so annoying that people are always so negative about things other people like to do. Gladly most people in our bubble are extremely positive, which is, why I like this hobby even more!

I like that you do not resist a fall, I too do so, because resisting the fall does more damage to the knees than the fall itself

Love seeing your skating progression!! Also doggo section was a welcome edition. Here's to making it a reoccurring bit in the videos. Seeing you grow is a reminder to me that everyone's skating journey is different and will take us places we didn't expect on going. For me that meant back on the ice in the summer!! You mention the edges on ice and my journey brought me to freestyle ice skating. In freestyle there's a move called a grapevine. I don't think it's an official wizard skating trick, but it's great to add in as a combo connector. So my vote is for you to learn the grapevine - on inline and then on ice. And maybe you'll become a freestyle skater in the winter as well 😁

Awesome Bill, I think your wizard skating is great already, what about the S move (Forward open lion (inside edge to outside edge) followed by fakie closed lion (inside edge to outside edge)

¿Question?: •Best bet on rocker frames? •Endless, Powerslide or Wizard? I’m consider myself a beginner. -Haven’t been rollerblading for 10+ yrs. Have been doing it for about 2 weeks now-tough! (Also got the wrong size,to small) Gained so much weight, feet feel like their gonna burst into flames. Except all tips/hacks/tricks PLZ!!

@ericbernardi8116

Жыл бұрын

Frame choice also depends on your boot... Wizard is only available for UFS and PS Combat only for Trinity... Can't go wrong with Endless but all are good frames (I use the PS Combat 90 mostly). Really important, choose the frame size according to your foot size, eu 42 is about the border between 4x90/4x100 or 5x76/5x80... I have size 42 and the longer 4x90 (290mm) works best. Personally I love PS Trinitiy, helps with edge control a lot imo, it limits your boot choice though... Endless has a 3 wheel flat option, while the Combat frames can go 4 wheel flat as an option... What type of feet you have? If you think your problem is from weight, def try a good insole like Superfeet to support your feet (but you need a little space in the boot for that)... If your boot is small, either a thinner liner (you want an Intuition for that type of skating anyway) or you need to buy a size up, or if you have wide feet a wider fitting boot... Hack? If you get a USD Sway you can either use it with Soulplate for UFS Wizard frame or buy aftermarket Trinity adapter, drill a few holes, and use it with Combat frames (that's what I did) 🤓

Interesting to see your ice wizardry being so much more fluid/smooth… Both worlds are great, roll your own style. Who's there to tell you what you should and shouldn't do! I'm in the same spot… only some 1000 levels lower :D

"...street skating can be hard on me... and it's nice to have a gentler side of the sport to retreat to." Amen to that. I personally got into the wizard stuff after a nasty fall that I'm still partly recovering from.

Lookin good Bill! I love Wizard because it is creative like Aggressive but a bit more chill like Bigwheel.

@aimran85

Жыл бұрын

Shouldn't aggresive skating be called artistic skating then? 😊

Hey mate, greetings from Australia. Damn you are a good skater, love watching your videos. Are you still dabbling in the world of wizard?

Third. I'm a new fan ^^ Wizard skating kinda gets my attention, even tho I just started skating this March. I kinda like the flow of it, and wishing I kinda do it myself. Also, became really curious about wizard frames (no matter the brand) and what's the difference between normal frames (like my 100mm triskate) and wizard setups and how they feel. If only these frames and wheels aren't expensive.

I guess wizard skating was what i was trying to accomplish with my bladerunners (4x76) in the 90s...

Great video as always. Keep the good work. You should team up with Shawn Unwin for a session one day. His wizard knowledge is pretty good too.

Awesome as always.

Shit!! I felt that fall at '4.24'! Did my ACL at the end of a bunch of long shifts with a simple backwards to forwards transition (one of millions) and 'bought it'! At 56yo I hope I never stop! Hope you sustained no serious injury, bud! Keep skating! Peace

looks awesome 🔥🔥🔥

After more than 10 years I'm back at skating.

@B0K1T0

Жыл бұрын

It's amazing right? My break was 20 years and I have no clue why given how hooked I am to it since I went back to it.

@claudeJUNIOR

Жыл бұрын

@@B0K1T0 Thanks a lot, now I just have to buy a pair of skates 'cause I'm depending on a friend.

@user-hg9co3re5v

Жыл бұрын

I'm 42..haven't touched skates since the 80s..I still got it..and now "everything clicks"😮

@Ronjon86

11 ай бұрын

Just started a couple months ago after a 25 year break. It's like I never stopped

@user-hg9co3re5v

11 ай бұрын

I just brought a pair of blades at 42..I feel like a baby giraffe 😄

Always inspiring bill

caught a crack 😞I hit one hard last year so I changed a few things no sunglasses no headphones and I watch the road much more because I'll be damned if I'm going to wear pads and a helmet

If I would be ever in Toronto again, this place under that bridge will be my main attraction to see and try out

I come from 4x80mm flat urban and found 4x90mm rockered to be superfun for urban and wizarding shenenigans. As for moves, I don't know the names at all, I just do moves, so... do fun flowy moves and don't by shy to be a jumping wizard.

your wizard skating is gonna look so good a few months from now.

Now I want to go ice skating lol you look strong on them big Bill!

I didn't understand wizard skating much until my same sized foot homie got some wizard frames and let me try them out and guuurrrrllllll they onto something. I was apprehensive aswell because I'm more of a flow skater too and felt like tricks were sorta expected as a skater. But I guess to me, skating is just a thing for ME and not some sort of performance like I feel others expect from me.

Hello Bill, I have a question.... How far do you pull out the selfie stick from the insta360? And btw, I like your style of city skating! Very powerfull!!!

Speaking of Leon- If you can work on his three move transition at the 2 minute mark of Wizard of Wall Street…love that one. Acid slide- one footed spins (developed from Lions) - exiting with gazelle. Enjoy the journey.

Bill the video footage looks "Apple amazing". What camera did you use to record the opening scene?

I gotta know where I can find that metal version of Toy Flutes.

Hello Bill! Which boot do you use? I found her very comfortable just looking at it.

80x4 rockered or 100x5 etc…it’s all good fun. Feels a little figure skate meets street. Having a blast.

Great vid Bill! n00b wizard question here: are rocker frames necessary or highly recommended? Or am I just not making any turns stick or do I just really suck? (decades old Rollerblade boots with well worn, need of replacement, 4x80) & what happened to the skate shop in downtown Toronto?

@maritatas

Жыл бұрын

having at least a gentle rocker is necessary to execute the moves, whether or not the rocker comes from the frames, or a natural rocker after wearing in new wheels. what's highly recommended would be a rockered frame with a long wheelbase (4x90/4x100/5x76/5x80) which would give you tons more stability, and all the swivellyness :)

@DucatiKozak

Жыл бұрын

​@@maritatas thanks for your answer!👍

Hey Bill! New viewer here and this video caught my eye. I could not agree MORE with "No two skaters will flow the same" and I 100% agree with that. I've been working on wizard skating for the past year and it has been exhilarating and expressive in ever sense of the words. I posted a short on my page of my recent progression if you want to check it out. Great work and your words at the end of the video rang so true. Godspeed!

The girlie glance is too real!😂 4:29

@ryn_pail

Жыл бұрын

Could've ran into the back of a bus. But it's the sacrifices we make.

My skates (seba + nr100) are the coolest skates available. Mainly used to commute. Wouldn’t want anything else.

@photomorti

Жыл бұрын

Same for me. I only ride my Seba cj 2 primes + premium intuition liner with NR100 frame. Most fun setup ive ever skated.

@igorgoga7985

Жыл бұрын

@@photomorti try advanced frames too

@photomorti

Жыл бұрын

​@@igorgoga7985 They do look really fun aswell. Its so temping to also buy PR80 but it gets a bit expensive quickly haha

@igorbogdanoff4517

Жыл бұрын

@@photomorti I have PR80's and they don't get much usage - they're great on very smooth pavement but the 100's are killer even on rough ground - the magic of not having to care about the terrain starts at 100mm or bigger. The rocker makes four 100mm wheels responsive as if they are 80mm wheels

@photomorti

Жыл бұрын

@@igorbogdanoff4517 Yeah thats why i think i will stick to NR100 because i generally just cruise around in urban enviroments and i like to go fast. I find the NR100 very responsive even more so after the rocker wears in more. But i love the subtle rocker just as much when i put on new wheels.

Wizard skating reminds me of the early skateboarding style, I guess it was called freestyle? Where most of the tricks were basically in a 'dancing' kind of fashion, doing everything mostly standing on flat surface, walking on hands with the skatebaord walking on the skateboard, spinning etc... Dancing basically. I'm talking deep 80s.

Bill, you should carry first aid kit in cases like these, if you don't already. bleeding isn't fun :)

"Wizzaphile" 😂 im using that from now on.

B, your pants are too tight if you want to be a Wiz on the skates. Steal a pair of pants from Aladdin and start sporting a Starbucks coffee in hand. Maybe as a side note, cut back on the red meat intake and up the tofu. :)

Learn the Lion X, is quite a lot of fun and the transition backward->Forward is hard.

Why is it so funny when people fall? What evolutionary adaptation could that have? Maybe to take fear out of exploration? Yeah I think that’s it because after watching this I want to try it too!

Gazelles and Lions. Forward and backward. Then put in your creativity and apply to obstacles. GLHF

Cheers Bill!

"Wizard" originally wasn't "twirly whirly" but fakie transitions incorporated into street or park skating lines. I never really see you skate fakie that much, I think you could incorporate some of those moves into street skating. Skating fakie isn't really efficient at propelling you through a city, but it's fun and gives a "rush". It can also be dangerous, but it's one of the ways experienced urban skaters can show off their skills.

Aqui no Brasil ainda não vi ninguém patinando dessa forma. Serei eu o primeiro? 😅 Abraço, mestre!

B, I think that move at 2:13 was called a Swizzle shivk, or swizzle stick. Oh, no… sorry, that’s what’s in my vodka martini. Sorry I was looking at my drink and not my phone.

Hey Bill, or anyone else who can answer. I just moved to Toronto and want to get a pair of skates. Do you know of any good local inline skate shops?

Just figured it out. Bill 'Stoppard'- 'Stop hard' born to skate and carve

I can't find skates for my wide feet. I tried many skates but always my feet pain that much I can't even stand on skates... Really sad. 😢😢😢

Genuine question. Why no protective gear?

im on the tall side 6,3 big feet I found the 5 wheel trinity set up amazing for my stability wizard style for me..got me skates the work better proportionately for my size in general.

Thanks for the videos stay low

Man, and those arms? 💪

Liking the music. I was thinking skating needs its own genre; "concrete". It would be heavy like metal, but then come to abrupt and ugly stops 😅.

Nah but I like seeing skaters grow into a new style. It’s so much fun learning from everyone. Plz- if u feel comfortable, share ur wizard skating journey & reviews on ur sessions with me :)

I believe you should do what you're doing. Take it to Urban, Wizard Skating. I will always be an urban skater, and I'm using Wizard Skating for Urban. I lost maneuverability, but I certainly I gained more stability due to the long base. My idea is not to be a Wizard Skating skater, but to use Wizard Skating in urban skating. It will be very interesting to see your skills With Wizard Skating applied to Urban.

Damn man i felt every single one of those spills

@BillStoppard serious. What is the name of the headset you use while blading? Those look like they would make good gym headset, your ripping and jumping all over the place.

Try out using an acid slide as your stop after every sequence, swap sides of slide, and try cross acid alternating.

How about some traditional roller skates grooving down the rink???

Kinda reminded me of Nancy Kerrigan or tonya Harding. Have fun with that.

Anyone able to access the merchandise store?!

You should learn the Lion! Shaun has a tutorial on his channel.

I ve been skating since the 90s but am blown away by these bad ass skills! but also.. why is it too much just to wear wrist guards and a helmet? I don't get it. Protect your noggin dude. 😂

Real question: if you’re a bad dancer, are you going to have a harder time wizard skating? Haha

You should try to jump from the space needle. J k i wish some day I can skate lake you do it.🤟

why no protection?

It would be interesting to add a shooting point by attaching the camera to the shoe. Not the whole video, but small inserts.

Isn't it inspired by figure skating ? I got a friend went to Olympics he did those moves plus on inline skates way back

wizard skating is basically rockered skates, people been doing that like always lol, I remember seeing people skating like that 25 years ago.

the fucking soundtrack is awesome, everything fits!!!

4x80 or 4x90? Rockering?

I'm wondering what your thoughts might be on Dirt Skating?

Ooooh, clickbaitie! :) I really like that you're into adding this skill to your arsenal. A lot of people would dream to 'suck' in wizard skating this much as you do right now haha.

Beef was actually just bringing you your wand.