HOW TO SKATE FORWARD - Beginner's Guide #4
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
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The forward stride is the most common move in skating.
It exists of three parts; the push, the glide and the recovery.
Here I'll explain the basics
#1 THE PUSH
The push must be sideways
Stay low and fully extend your pushing leg
The push ends with a toe flick
#2 THE GLIDE
Your balance now shifts over to the gliding skate
and you can keep on gliding for as long as feels natural
#3 THE RECOVERY
While one skate is gliding,
move the other skate back to its initial position
Put it down close to the gliding skate and a little bit behind
As you put one skate down, you push with the other one
And so the cycle all repeats
COMMON MISTAKES
#1 THE PUSH
Your natural instinct is to push backward as when you walk or run
For skating, that's wrong!
As you see, this does not work with inline skates
Make sure that your push is sideways so no energy is wasted
#2 THE GLIDE
If you cannot balance on one skate, the glide is cut short
and you'll waste energy and not gain any speed
Try to balance over one skate
Even if you keep it for half a second, that's a good start
Gradually you'll be able to balance for one full second, then two seconds and so on
If you cannot do it all, check if your skate is leaning inward
If it is, try to straighten your ancle
If it seems impossible, don't worry. I think it's an instinct to bend your skates inward
since it makes you feel safer and you're not yet that comfortable on skates
Just take your time, don't stress and before you know you'll get it
#3 THE RECOVERY
A very common beginner mistake is to keep the skates too far apart
Or lifting a skate too high
Or put it down in front of the other skate
Or maybe a combination of all three
Basically you want a long glide and that's
why you want to put the skate down close to the other and a little bit behind
so you can get that long smooth glide
COMMENTS
There's no such thing as a perfect stride
Even pros need to work on their strides
As you improve you'll learn the entire body is involved and almost all your muscle must work together
But that's not the scope of this video
I just want you to make you aware of the basic push, the glide and the recovery
Once you get it right, especially when you're able to keep the glide for longer
your skating will improve like tenfold
You'll be able to go as far and as fast and as efficient as with a bicycle
But then a new problem will occur. How to stop?
A good beginning tip too is to make sure ur skates are tight enough . I went skating my first time and noticed my right leg kept going inwards no matter how hard I tried to keep it balanced .. then I realized my skate was as tight as it should’ve been ! So make sure u lace up well !!
Helo ... can u teach me better ?????
Then I'm gonna drop my number its better i think
Me, watching this after trying to walk and run with skates: pfft, what idiot would run in skates?
Perfect, I tend to bend my feet inwards, I have to work on that because it really makes me skate worse
are you sure? it may actually be agood thing, see "double push technique" :)
Same here how’d u fix it ? 🤣
How’d u fix it!!!
Ohhhh... So that was what I was doing wrong! Thank you so much 💜 Now I will try to practice doing this! I didn't push sideways.
Remember this, the leg which supports your weight push. I don't know if it is correctly said - a french profesional speed inline skater said it and I always think about it while i'm skating, very useful
I like to know more about physics, inline skating teaches a lot about kinetic energy I like how you made this explanation in one of your videos. Very nice I enjoy this UA-cam channel
Thanks for the video! It really helps me to just watch someone skate smoothly down to see what I should do
**Scrapes and bruises has entered the chat**
lol fr
THANK YOU! Helped me fix my problem
I didn’t watch any videos when I first started skating but when I got to roller blades I never put my foot of the ground and used my upper body to push myself. Because of this mistake I had to relearn everything.
Question, on the stride. Where do I push, where am I directing my power to? Should I be pushing and balancing on my Heel, Ball of my foot or Toes?
Push ends with leg and foot fully extended, i.e. with toe. During the glide, keep balance centered.
Brilliant and very helpful 👏 thanks
Instructions not clear, cruising at 30kmh through the city without breaking techniques. Waiting for next video, please don't take too long!
This helped me so much thank you !
Nice. If I were being picky, I don't think many "beginners" wil be skating like that, but it's good to let them know what they should be aiming for. (And personally, I have been trying to get rid of the toe flick for years, and despite what you said, you didn't actually seem to be doing it yourself)
Lol I’ve been trying to do karate with roller blades
Hi, first of all thanks for the series :) Could you please support on or make a video about supination and inline skating. As most of the start level inline skates does not provide any adjustability for supination, what could be the best way to skate with supination? Thanks.
I just got mine today, i manage to stand up but i can't move because my floor is marble,, im afraid to go outside
How are you doing now?
what knee pads are those?? they look so slick and nice :)
What is a toe flick? How do I do it?
Great channel man! I have a question that maybe other newbies have... I can turn really sharp, fast and well controlled but only when I go right. When I go left it just goes completely to peices and I'm lucky if I can manage a gentle curve and even that is wobbly. So I just turn right all the time! I have been practicing slalom techniques a bit which I'm getting better at but doesn't seem to be helping my turns yet... Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Keep up the good work and don't worry if you don't have time to respond :)
Most of your weight should be on the outside skate when you turn. Since it's completely normal to have a dominant and a weak side, it's more difficult to turn when the weak side in on the outside.
You mention you can turn well only when you go right. Are you left handed? I'm asking since a right turn should require more control of the left skate. If you are indeed left handed, just practice left turns more. Eventually you'll turn (almost) equally good both ways.
If you are right handed, it can be that you put weight over the inner skate when you turn. If this is the case, try to shift more weight over the outside skate more.
It's an interesting topic. Shall try to make time to shoot a video about this.
Thanks man. Right handed, I'll go and practice more lol
Ok so weight on outside foot is the key. I was putting my weight on the inside leg. Much better now. Thanks again :)
Same for me... I think I'm putting most of my weight on the right leg when turning right... It should be the opposite then?
FINALLY!
What speed can you maintain on your Twisters over a decent distance?
I keep normal bike pace. Not sure the exact speed. Never got GPS to work on my phone.
yes, you said as much in the video - but I don't know what "normal bike pace" is. You could time a known distance and use division, no GPS required.
I just measured an exact 500m stretch with the bike computer. Gonna measure time and calculate speed finally. Thanks for the tip.
I tried doing this and broke my wrist
I can't inside edge I don't know why, it might be my skates
Yes. Inside edge not outside
Bro are you from Latvia
I was doing it wrong all along. No wonder I never looked as good or as cool as the intermediate skaters 😅😂
@Anonymous lol 😂
Look like easy but you perform it's hard I'm inline skates firstimer
How are you doing now?
I quit I sell my inline skates because it's not easy for me and the area I belong is limited space only😁
are you pushing with your back foot? because I push with my glide foot
Yeah a half second and 1 second and 2 and yep I'm a 100 years old now
When you can't stop and they say in the next video I'll teach you how to stop while you crash into a car.
*me standing still rolling backwards*