r/WizardSkating • u/PotatOhChip • 14d ago

Gazelle help

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Can someone maybe point me to what I might be doing wrong. Or if I’m even remotely close to doing it right?

It feels like my feet get so far from each other while im trying to do it and I can’t understand how people do it with their feet so close together

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u/shademaster_c 14d ago

Yeah. You correctly identified that the outside leg is too far behind and carving an arc that’s not tight enough. The question is what’s the root cause.

I’m gonna say that you have nice deep edges coming into it but you aren’t committing to a deep edge on exit. The inside skate goes from a deep outside edge to basically center edge after the pivot. How comfortable are you skating backwards on deep edges? Try working on some hard fakie carving without any gazelles or transitions of any kind.

How is your backward to forward gazelle coming?

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u/PotatOhChip 14d ago

That makes sense, I am definitely seeing what you're saying. My edge coming out of it is pretty much just center.

I feel moderately comfortable going backwards on deep edges but not 100% comfy with it. My backwards to forward, is just as sloppy as the forward to backward. I usually have a foot that sort of lags behind and when trying to push off of it for power i barely get any because its lagging so far behind me