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Lunge Turns and Crossovers Workshop

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Albert Memorial

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They are two really great skills for any skater especially if you do any of London's street skates or use your skate to go pretty much anywhere, they are also two really great skills for hockey players.

The Lunge turn is essentially a Parallel Turn but you don't have to slow down so much to do it. In-fact it's exactly that, a speed turn.

Crossovers are a speed maintaining turn and if done correctly you can also increase you speed whilst doing a crossover. There's nothing worse than having to slow down on a turn, with a crossover you can actually speed up. This skill is learnt by going round in circles and we teach this in seven different parts, one of which is the under-push which provides extra power to this awesome skill.