Your videos are great. They offer the reality, rather than the perceived instruction and the way forward for people to understand whats going on. I find that those who can skate are oblivious to the fundamentals, as they see them as not important as they have learnt them already and cannot relay or articulate them to new skaters as you do. Your tutorials are perfect. Well done and happy skatie..................
Thank you so much. I completely understand what you’re saying. Often a skater will ask me where should my weight be or what’s the split of weight in each foot and I have to actually do the move to feel it as it’s something I just do. So glad the videos are helping 💕⭐️😎🌟🛼
I saw my daughter doing heel manuals a few months ago and yelled "when did you learn that?!" In typical teen fashion I got an answer of "I don't know." 😂 She's never skating without me so I don't know I didn't notice her doing them. Going to send her this so she can try something new next session.
Your videos are always SO informative and well made. I also appreciate you wear safety gear in your videos. I have had a history of ditching it to “look” more experienced, but these days I realized it took away my confidence to explore new things and ultimately slowed my progress. 😢 I watch your videos and think “serious skaters practice with gear on!”
That’s a really good question. I’m going to need to put my skates on to answer that! 😂 Mostly on the foot doing the inside edge but I’ll need to check the ratios split when I go skating next 😂
I've been practicing this is my second day and I've gotten better already but the only thing I'm having problems with is marching I don't understand how to push my foot using skates it's been really hard and I've been scared of falling your video is helping alot but marching is still hard
This might sound a bit weird, but bend your knees, and keep them bent. Doing so will help your body even out the in-balance that you most likely experience when you are starting out. If you take a look at Skatie doing just about any trick, you will notice that her knees are always bent (and when they are not, the muscles in her legs are in a dynamic mode, where they are primed and ready to react at a moments notice). Next thing to do is keep your body balanced in specifically the forward and backwards directions (having your knees bent will help with this), what this will do for you, is enable you to press down on/into your skates, without them rolling away from you. After that, start marching :)
Hi. Although we’d love a trip to Vegas unfortunately it seems Roll Con is mainly focused on Derby skating. Sadly not a discipline of the sport I’ve spent time doing (yet). I definitely need to have a go at some point.
Thanks Coach...these are sooooo important for Jam skating. Question...should I do these with high grip wheels or harder wheels? Recently I've loosened my trucks quite a bit and I'm dealing with those adjustments and so I was wondering if the durometer makes a difference for stability. Thanks in advance.
my experience has been that a harder wheel makes it easier to predict how much flex you will feel from the wheel. But it makes the motion (potentially) faster as well.
@@Harleywayne Best of luck, remember to have patience with manuals, they can be hard on the muscles and joints, especially when you are new to them. There is not really any motion that you do, in regular skating, that prepares you for the strain/use of your muscles and joints
