Is Wizard Skating A Scam? 

Yooo!!! Really enjoying seeing you do wizard/freestyle moves Bill! 😎🔥 looking great!!

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.

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.

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. 🙂

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!

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

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!! 🤘

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.

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

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.

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).

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!

I really enjoy all the videos you are sharing.

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!

Love seeing your skating progression!! Also doggo section was a welcome edition. Here's to making it a reoccurring bit in the videos.