EASY Way to SCISSOR Inline Skates 

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It means a lot that this series is helping my fellow beginners 🤗 hey let me know how it goes! The one foot glide is so hard to achieve but once you got it, you'll feel unstoppable! Maybe I'll do an in depth vid on the one foot glide 💪🏼

I would *love that*. It's kind of wild that the brake is a beginner skill, but the prerequisite of the one foot glide is so hard!

This means a lot to me, thank you 🥰 Glad my little diagrams are helping!

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@@wandering_ari thank you for watching ❤️

@@littleripper312 this is so important! I remember my first time on wheels like it was yesterday, I thought I'd never get the hang of it. Persistence is crucial. Thanks for sharing:-)

Wow 10 yr break! Well....welcome back! Happy you're finding the vids helpful :D

Yes! It's a huge stepping stone for skaters!

when cruising down hill or in the middle of the night its a life saver scissoring as well. if your front foot gets stuck on a stick or pebble or gap in the road you can pickup your back foot and step it over the obstacle. its like an automatic failsafe. i mean if your front foot gets stuck because of the momentum, your backfoot will automatically be propellend forward and saves the day.

Wow thank you so much 🙏🏼 this made my day Hahaha I'm cracking up about how you describe the street outside your house 🙀😅 More to come. Happy Rollerblading to you, too!

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Super!! 😊👍🏼

Sweet! Thanks for the feedback ☺️ 💝

Hey that's great progress! Love that you're taking baby steps, it's the safest way to get there 😃 hope you see some 🌞🌞 soon!

I wish this was my neighborhood, sooo smooth. I just park my car at my friend's house to skate there 🤭

@@CarmenRodriguez-un7ki gracias ❤️😊

Oh hey!! thanks!! 🙏🏼🤗💕

Parallel turns at 3-4 weeks is making incredible progress IMO! You got this. Let me know how it goes!

Hi😃 Feels like I'm on a rollercoaster when parallel turning. It's such a rush...feeling my skates "sweep" me into a turn.🤩 BUT going from an A-frame turn to parallel turning felt impossible for me at first-my legs kept wanting to get into an "A" bc that felt stable. The parallel turn is more balance-focused⚖️, so your legs, feet, AND ankles will be more tense, as opposed to just bearing down when A-frame turning. ⭐If you feel like you're just doing an A-frame turn while in scissor position with minimal edging/leaning when trying to parallel turn, try to: 1) SQUEEZE your adductor muscles and calves more to get your feet/legs closer together (while still keeping the scissor position). +Strong ankles! PEEK at your feet and make sure that one foot is in front of the other at a comfortable distance vertically (+knees bent), and just a few inches apart horizontally; your turn will be smoother. 2) *Slightly* lean your torso into the direction you're turning, and follow the foot placement chart in the video. It really does feel like I'm channeling the Leaning Tower of Pisa. To take it back a few steps, practice edging statically(in place, without rolling) to get used to leaning on your edges. It is hard. But sounds like you're on your way. Hey LMK how it goes! p.s. thanks for watching!

@@shannon.skates Thanks! I'll give it a try.

I think it's fascinating that you learned crossovers first. These are really good pointers, appreciate you sharing this! 🤙🏼

@@shannon.skates No problem :) with me I think it was a combination with lack of balance, lack of flexibility and lack of leg strength. So my learning process was: lemon drops, balancing on one leg foot, slow spin stop 180 and later 360. this was my main brake for months. then crossovers and later parallel turns and only after was I able to do t-brake. i was missing strength in my left leg to fully commit leaning into it and having my right foot as the brake. so it took a while. now working on backwards skating and doing some ramps in the skate park. i want to be able to do the power slide but i can only transition to backwards skating at low speeds at the moment. so maybe in a few months :) its a fun adventure. been seriously skating for about 3 years now i think.

@@kingpinda2 You are so dedicated. You sound like an overall great skater. 3 years in and you have all of that under your belt! I hope I can do those things at 3 years too, especially crossovers. 😃

@@shannon.skates Thanks :) its so much fun! Not hard to be dedicated when its fun :) kids in the skatepark often ask me: WHY ARE YOU ON SKATES!!! (I'm 45). Because its fun :) Even my kids started skating 2 years ago because of me. They saw dad skating and wanted skates on their own. They are now 9 and 7 and much rather go on their stunt scooter with me to the skatepark but i figure they will go skating with me again in a few years. concerning crossovers the video which helped me the most was by flowskate and the youtube clip can be found under "flowskate lesson: crossover". Its really weird. learning new stuff is HARD until its not. its HARD HARD HARD but you keep practicing or you take a break from it and then suddenly a couple days later or a week or a month you are like.. HUH i can do it! why did i think this was difficult? just have fun and keep practicing the hard stuff but maybe not 3 hours straight wanting to tackle it no matter what this instance. just 10 minutes each session or more if you like doing it and gradually it will become easier . Good luck!

@@kingpinda2 Hahaha! Yes, it's SO fun! Doesn't even feel like a workout sometimes

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