5 Common Slide Board Mistakes Skaters Make & How To Fix Them By Olympian Joey Mantia

In this episode of skate tips I cover the 5 most common mistakes I see when skaters are using a slide board. It really doesn’t matter what type of skating you do, the slide board is an excellent tool to strengthen your technique and build your fundamentals, but only if you are working on the correct things. 5 Common Slide Board Mistakes Skaters Make & How To Fix Them By Olympian Joey Mantia: 0:00 Intro 0:46 1. Opening The Hip / Foot Direction 2:20 2. Twisting Shoulders & Hips 3:26 3. Tilting Shoulders & Hips 4:53 4. Pushing Off The Ball Of The Foot 6:33 5. Bouncing Up & Down Remember, there are many different ways to workout on a slide board, the skills presented here are specific for skating technique, but can be useful for many other applications such as body awareness, muscle isolation, and isostatic control. If an instructor teaches you different ways to slide, they might not necessarily be wrong for general fitness, depending on your end goal.