By trikke dancing I mean: staying in a small area, keeping the Trikke at "mostly low" speeds that you can maintain without stopping, and turning often in a free-form spontaneity.

What I'm finding is that I'm getting in some very good practice with

1. Deeper and harder carves
2. Pushing the envelope on surface-skidding
3. Trickier steering
4. Slope carving
5. Momentum awareness
6. Surface perception

My dancing area is slanted, so this adds a neat dynamic in that I get that freebie gravity pull on the down-slope, and if I'm using that momentum wisely, then on the up-slope I only need a couple of upper-body "steering snaps" and I'm back at the top of the slope. The slow speeds force me to put momentum conservation as a focus. As long as I am in this mind set (that I want to trikke eloquently without jerky-sudden-corrections) then the word "dancing" becomes evermore appropriate as the rhythmic motion, the precision of my momentum additions and the slow speed combine to create an illusion of an effortless and elegant athleticism.

Funnily enough, I think that slow speeds force me to use even more precise timing. Or, at least, "different" timing skills. It's just a different story altogether to me to trikke slowly. Skills I have at high speeds need more practice at slow speeds. It seems that every speed needs to be practiced, and that the slow speeds need as much or even more practice than the fast.

Trikke dancing gives me more info about trikking balance and about traction-friction on a wheel-by-wheel basis. I'm learning to pay attention to "which" wheel is slipping, which is grabbing, which is just rolling, etc. Creativity becomes a dynamic as you begin to "have time to" make aesthetic decisions as you visualize your dance's "needs of the moment." It will surprise you. Obviously, you just don't want to do small circles endlessly (although if done well, a couple quick circles followed by a neat "breakout" move can be beautiful,) and you will find yourself challenged to create sequences, patterns, and their linear progression over time that are artistic statements. It can be done.

Bonus: if people are watching you trikke dance, they will be more impressed than if you just trikke by at 10 MPH. Somewhere about the 30 second mark, they'll see that momentum is being "magically" conserved, and the creative "hit" one can get from the Trikke is a universe-of-depth that can be explored with a light but deeply playful sense of creative discovery.

Possible downside: DISCO TRIKKING!

Edg