The fear is not that I won’t stop but that I’ll catch an edge while transition to the stop or during the stop. It would be helpful to hear where you put the weight in your feet during the stop and do you “unload” your weight to turn the skates before stopping. Thanks
Something my instructor had me do to get used to the feeling was to just take one or two smaller pushes, glide with your feet about shoulder width apart, knees bent (my feet were straddling the blue line) and then you do a "hop" and turn 90 degrees, keeping your feet next to each other, and just rotating left or right, starting at your head, then shoulders, then hips, then your legs and skates. After that turn, you sink back into your knee bend. The hop isn't really a jump or anything like that, you're just wanting to lighten the weight on your blades so you can pivot without digging in. The "hop" was what really got my brain to work with it. Previously I was just trying to keep too much weight in my skates, not really bending my knees much, and I was just skidding and falling all over. Doing that little lightening "hop" on my skates really helped to get the idea in my brain that I need to take a little weight off, before adding it back in and sinking down a bit in the knees. Still working on doing it to the left, though I've progressed further in about 3 weeks of working with an instructor than I did by myself, watching countless videos, and the right is getting a lot more comfortable. Good luck!
