This book is intended for absolute beginner skaters. Its most important aim is simply to help beginner skaters have fun on their skates. If you're familiar with freestyle slalom skating, you'll recognize many of the moves in this book as precursors to slalom tricks. But this book is really not about slalom skating. It's about having fun on skates, and wanting to skate more and more. Yes, the tricks in this book do lead toward slalom skills, but they stand on their own as well...as tools to help you have fun with your skates.