
The skills challenge – for all inline and quad skaters – offers you a step-by-step CHALLENGE to expand what is possible on skates
Currently offered in Skating / Artistic Skills, Slalom, and Tricks.
For Skaters Collapse- Get a step-by-step list of skills that build upon one another
- Discover new moves to learn, based on your level and interest, to expand your skating ability
- Take on the challenge to set a goal and then rise up to meet the challenge
- Receive stickers and patches to mark your achievement
- Get your name on our Hall of Fame
- Use the skills list as a curriculum to structure your classes by skill level
- Promote the challenge to keep students engaged
- Test your students up to any grade level you’ve achieved minus one (e.g. If you’re a Level 4 in Slalom, you can test students for Levels 1-3 for Slalom)
- Use this webpage or print out the booklets to keep track of skills you’ve mastered
- Watch the videos linked below or reach out to your SkateIA instructor to learn the next moves
- Get tested in person by your instructor or online by sending us videos of your skills (your tester may charge a small fee)
- Receive a sticker or patch to denote your achievement and have your name placed in our hall of fame

Skating / Artistic Skills
Level 1 ? Expand- Duck Walk
- Basic Stride
- Heel Stop 1
- A-Frame Turn
- One Foot Glide
- Swizzles
- Toe Rolls – Center
- Lemon Drops
- Backward Swizzles
- Alternating Swizzles
- Intermediate Stride A
- Intermediate Stride B
- Heel Stop 2
- Daffy
- Toe Rolls – Outside/Inside
- Toe Rolls – Carving
- Scooter Pushes
- 2 Foot Slalom
- Backwards Stroking
- Popcorn Jumps
- Forever Crossovers
- Hockey Stop
- Parallel Turns
- Check Stop (T-Stop)
- Pivots
- 1 Foot Glides – Outside
- Spiral
- Backwards Stoking
- Toe-Toe & Heel-Heel
- Spread Eagle
- Skaters Stride
- Alternating Swizzles
- 1 Foot Slalom
- Transitons on Center (side view) (front view)
- Cross Behinds – Forward
- Cross Behinds – Backwards
- 180 Jump (side view) (front view)
- Waltz Jump
- Lunge Turns (front view) (side view)
- Chasse’s
- Swing Rolls
- Crossovers in a Circle
- Transitions – Inside Edges
- Transitions – Outside Edges
- Draw
- 3 Turn – Outside to Inside
- 3 Turn – Inside to Outside
- Spiral – Backward
- Cross Behind – Front Transition
- Crossovers in a Circle – Backwards

Download printable booklet
Levels 1-3 Levels 3-5Slalom
Level 1 ? Expand- Fish
- Snake
- Backward Snake
- Crisscross
- Backward Crisscross
- Basket weave
- Nelson
- Back Nelson
- Sun (4 cone OR 5 cone version)
- Crazy
- Mabrouk
- Stroll (Double Crazy)
- Back Stroll (Back Double Crazy)
- Mega
- Crab
- 1 Foot
- Italian
- Mexican
- Crazy Sun
- 8
- Back 8
- X
- Jumping X
- 1 Foot Backward
- Toe Toe Snake
- Volte
- Grande Volte
- Eagle OR Eagle Cross
- Small Car
- J-Turn
- Reverse J-Turn
- Brush
- Backward Brush
- Special
- Heel Toe Back Snake
- 1 Cone Crazy
- 1 Cone Double Crazy
- 1 Cone Back Double Crazy
- Drift
- Wiper
- Fan Volte OR Total Cross
- Swan OR Screw
- Toe Wheeling (4 cones)
- Heel Wheeling (4 cones)
- Crazy Legs
- 1 of: Rekil / Reverse Rekil / Total Foot / Foot Shift
- Footgun OR Touch Down
- Other of: Swan OR Screw
- 2 more of: Rekil / Reverse Rekil / Total Foot / Foot Shift
- 1 of: Wheeling Eagle / Inverted Side Surf
- Jumping Special
- 1 of: Back Footgun / Bw Touchdown / Kasakchok / Christie / Deck Chair
- Back Heel wheeling OR Back Toe Wheeling (4 cones)
- Other of: Back Heel wheeling OR Back Toe Wheeling
- Sewing Machine (2 cones)
- Seven (2 cones)
- Wheeling Fw-Bw (4 fw – 4 bw)
- Cobra
- Chicken Leg (2 rotations)
- 1 other: Back Footgun / Bw Touchdown / Kasakchok / Christie / Deck Chair
- Seven (4 cones)
- Wheeling Shift (4 cones)
- Wheeling Rekil
- Chicken Toe (2 rotations)
- Backward Cobra
- Toe Inverted Eagle OR Butterfly
- 1 of: Bw Deckchair / Toe Christie / Bw Christie / Back Kazakchok / Footgun Foot Spin

Download printable booklet
Levels 1-3 Levels 4-6
Tricks
Level 1 ? Expand- Munchkin
- One of:
- Spin (2 footed)
- Toe-Toe-Heel-Heel
- Spread Eagle
- 180 Jump
- Daffy-Munchkin
- One of:
- Stair ride backwards (7 steps min.)
- Heel Roll (1 foot)
- Heel Spread Eagle
- 360 Jump
- Magic Slide
- Parallel Slide
- Jump Over Obstacle (or variation)
- Grapevine (or variation)

Download printable booklet
Levels 1-2




