What to Practice This Month
May 2025
April showers bring May flowers 🌺
If you’re new here, hello! My name is Nicole Fiore and I am a 4-time World Champion artistic roller skater, coach, and choreographer. I have been skating for my entire life and teaching for about 15 years. I created the Roll With Me Membership in 2020 and have been growing it ever since. It now has hundreds of videos to learn from, for all levels, from anywhere in the world…
Because there are so many videos to choose from, each month I give you a few things to focus on to help guide your practice! If you don’t have access already, you can get a membership at ThatNicoleFiore.com or on my YouTube Channel. Although both Memberships contain the same content, they are separate. With the Site Membership, everything is displayed on its own page and you can track your progress throughout each section! You can check out all of the drills here, skills here, and choreography here! Keep reading to see what I recommend for this month…Happy Skating ♥️
Drills, skills, choreography, and so much more!! This membership contains over 200 Tutorials with more added regularly. Drills are created to strengthen specific muscles for skating and skills are labeled by level to make learning accessible for all levels. Choreography is available in Beginner/ Intermediate as well as Advanced and can be done on or off skates!
Drill: Transferring Weight
Our drill is going to be working on transferring weight. We will go through a few different exercises on our skates for a few reps. This helps in everything you will do on your skates. If you don’t already know this, you will learn very quickly that skating is mostly about transferring weight from one foot to the other and understanding where to even put your weight. This drills video will tighten everything up and make it possible to transfer your weight effortlessly every single time. That’s the goal!
Video length: 16 minutes, 32 seconds
Go to the video: Drills Page (on-skate workouts) [Link: Website, YouTube]
Skill: Footwork
I love footwork sequences and I know that a lot of you do too!
This footwork sequence has a bunch of different skills in it with a few different options. No matter what option you want to do, it will involve backward cross pulls, back crosses, and heel to heel transitions or spread eagles/ Ina Bauers (on both sides). I’ll link the skills videos for each of these below in the Additional Skills.
If you want to briefly breeze through the skills, go ahead and go straight for the footwork sequence. But if you want to spend some time working on each skill specifically, go ahead and look each of those up in the skills videos.
Footwork sequences can start small and technical before you take them into a larger pace and add speed. I always start in my little room and then I take it out to a larger studio, skating rink, or park. I encourage you to work on all different surfaces if you can. Different spaces and different surfaces will make you a well-rounded skater.
Video length: 11 minutes, 38 seconds
Go to the video: Skills Page (Footwork Section) [Link: Website, YouTube]
Extra Skills used in Footwork:
Backward Cross Pulls: Skills Page (Backward Skating Section) [Link: Website, YouTube]
Back Crosses: Skills Page (Forward Skating Section) [Link: Website, YouTube]
Inner Forward Heel to Heel Transition: Skills Page (Transitions Section) [Link: Website, YouTube]
Spread Eagle/ Ina Bauer: Skills Page (Artistic Skating Section) [Link: Website, YouTube]
Rolling Pivot (Two-Foot Turn): Skills Page (Transitions Section) [Link: Website, YouTube]
Choreography: Flowers
There are A LOT of songs to choose from in the Membership, but I like to focus on at least one every month. We always have a Beginner/ Intermediate as well as an Advanced option and I highly recommend starting with the Beginner/ Intermediate no matter what level you’re at. Work your way to the Advanced when you feel ready and you’ll have a full routine!
Since April showers bring May flowers, we will be doing “Flowers” by Miley Cyrus. We do a heel-toe manual and a dribble in this choreography! We have skills videos for both of those skills, so check those out for further instruction.
Beginner/ Intermediate video length: 28 minutes, 47 seconds [Link: Website, YouTube]
Advanced video length: 31 minutes, 17 seconds [Link: Website, YouTube]
Extra Skills used in Choreography:
Heel-Toe Manual: Skills Page (Heel-Toe Section) [Link: Website, YouTube]
Dribble/ Slingshot: Skills Page (Dance Section) [Link: Website, YouTube]
Workshops, Lessons & Progress:
May’s workshop on Dance Moves may be sold out, but… tickets for June and July are available and we have a lot of fun things to work on together!!! Check out the workshop options here!
Make sure you send your progress to me throughout the month and especially throughout the year. I know that recording yourself can be a little scary, but I promise you that when you look back at your videos six months, a year, five years later, you are going to be amazed at how far you've come. All of the little things add up over time!
If you would like to submit your progress for our Community Progress Videos, submit your vertical video here.
If you are practicing on Instagram, please tag me and #quadsociety! I love to see and share your progress! Lastly, don’t forget about the wonderful community on Discord. Everything is better with friends!
Please don’t hesitate to reach out and let me know if you would like more help. You can book in-person private lessons or online private lessons here!
