Rollerblading and Inline Skating Tricks: Barrel Roll

Rollerblading Trick Barrel Roll Sequence Footwork

What is a Barrel Roll?

Components

A Barrel Roll has 3 main components:

Variants

You can vary about everything... but mainly that's

Learning a Barrel Roll variant

Prerequisites:
The following skills will come handy when learning any of the Barrel Roll variants below:
Learning sequence:
Learn the parts of any Barrel Roll variant below in the following order - the explanations follow the Variant #1, which is also the one pictures above:
rollerblading tricks barrel roll step sequence
 rollerblading tricks barrel roll body rotation
rollerblading tricks barrel roll ground figure

A few comments on Barrel Rolls



List of Barrel Roll Variants

OK, here's a complete list of all 24 variants I'm aware of and (mostly...) can perform, too. All the categories are explained above, please refer to the learning sequence for ideas of what to learn next! If you know of variants that are missing here, or have any other comments I'd be happy to hear from you - contact me on !

Category
co/counter
rotation
invert?
step sequence
body
rotation
ground
figure
learning
sequence
comments
1
4 step
(classic)
counter

LF-RF-LB-RB
counter
rotate 1
'vanilla' barrel roll
2

co

LF-RF-LB-RB counter counter 3

3

co invert
LF-RF-LB-RB rotate rotate 7

4

counter invert LF-RF-LB-RB rotate counter 4
body rotation not constant!
5

counter
RF-LF-RB-LB rotate counter 1
'vanilla' barrel roll
6

co
RF-LF-RB-LB rotate rotate 3

7

co invert RF-LF-RB-LB counter counter 7

8

counter invert RF-LF-RB-LB counter rotate 4
body rotation not constant!
9
2 step
(aka fast)
counter
LF-RB
rotate counter 3
'classic' 2 step variant
10

co
LF-RB rotate rotate 5

11

co invert LF-RB counter counter 8

12

counter invert LF-RB counter rotate 2
easiest 2 step variant
13

counter
RF-LB
counter rotate 3
'classic' 2 step variant
14

co
RF-LB counter counter 5

15

co invert RF-LB rotate rotate 8

16

counter invert RF-LB rotate counter 2
easiest 2 step variant
17
1 foot
counter
RF-RB
counter rotate 6

18

co
RF-RB counter counter 9

19

co
RF-RB rotate rotate 9

20

counter
RF-RB rotate counter 6

21

co
LF-LB
rotate counter 6

22

co
LF-LB rotate rotate 9

23

co
LF-LB counter counter 9

24

counter
LF-LB counter rotate 6


Disclaimer

Skating is a dangerous sport. Be careful. Protect yourself. Take responsibility for yourself when you try the techniques described above, because I can't (and won't). What is described here works for me and the people I've been teaching. It might not work for you. Your mileage will vary. Good luck!


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