Yes we have a great community. I texted Tiago to tell him I’d referenced him in this video and he told me he’s working on an update to this theme. We all know how challenging stopping is for everyone on wheels.
@@jsev607 I'd also love that and hope one day to go to Canada to at least skate with Bill and Shaun. Lino is a legend and closer here in Europe, but with travelling so tricky these days who knows when this can all happen. Until then we salute each other.
@@SkatefreshVideos That's awesome to hear! I found Tiago about a month ago through YT recommendations and today you popped up - and since it's about the powerstop I couldn't NOT watch it, haha! I'm 26 y/o myself, from northern Germany, inline skated (aggressively at that, at least tried) from about 13-18, sometimes 7-8 hours a day on school vacations, just roaming the streets of our village. Special occasions were visiting skate parks via a mom that's driving (rare) or when we had our first motorized scooters at 16. Maybe 2-8 times a year on average throughout. Then stopped completely. But the pandemic has me rolling again and I'm pleased to make the experience that I know most of the stuff from earlier years, that's so much work "saved"! But stopping was never elegant and I had never seen anybody do a powerstop (nobody really inline skated anyways back in 2008-2013 in rural Germany, apparently). I'm keen on training hard on the powerstop as it feels so valuable in skating in a city. Thanks for the content and for connecting with fellow inline content creators :)) Greetings from Hamburg
Omg, I love how you’re teaching and explaining the technique. Every other video I found was just like “all you do is this and this” but you, you’re saying “what you do is and here’s how and why”. I think I just found my new favorite skating channel 😊
Im deeply sad that youtubers tutorial wasn't on the 90s when i was a kid skater. This is so nice to return to skate and have good videos. In our time we have to figurate everything by ourselves.
Yes we did! RU-vid is a great resource but it can also be overwhelming and confusing. I'm told repeatedly that watching 25 videos doesn't mean you know what to practice or how to do it. I see a lot of "demo+description" videos calling themselves 'tutorials'. I try to share at least one progression in my videos but I can't share my full teaching pathways for each skill here. I think there are no short cuts available in skating....just a progression of steps to take on your way to the goal. Enjoy the process.
this is really helpful...at 67 I gave up on learning to stop and use rollerblades with the rear brake....I will try this out...simple instructions, smooth video thanks!!
Asha, you are the coolest skater lady ever. I loved skating before (iceskater here who switched to inline skates due to Covid) - but you made me realise that anything is possible even for an adult, and you've become my skating role model. I admire your skill, your style (love the pink! :D) , the way you explain/teach things! One day I want to be like you, a total badass on skates :D Also, thanks sooo much for this tutorial on stopping. I try to heavily work on my stops to be a more responsible and safe skater but don't want to rely on the heelbrake so this is just what I needed!
Well done you for discovering wheels and taking responsibility for your stops and your safety. So many don’t and then complain when they fall. Keep up the good work!
Many thanks Asha! I've just had a huge 'penny drop' moment regarding use of the arms. I've been trying to do it all from the legs... I can get away with that on the ice. That's tomorrow's practice session sorted! :-)
Well done. Most skaters get stuck because they are focussing on just the skates. It’s a whole body activity and every technique need specific things from every part of the body. Makes more sense now what creates a Akong’s stop and what turns it into the Powerstop. Small differences but they make all the difference
I took up skating about two and a half months ago and have been wondering why I always just keep turning when trying to do the Powerstop. The arm motion backward makes so much sense and I can't wait to play with it on the next dry day! For now it's the walking lemons and static turning practice I've picked up from your videos, in my tiny (but big enough to practice) living room. Best wishes from rainy Ireland.
I've been rollerblading and ice skating for years - I even played ice hockey throughout high school - but stopping on rollerblades has always stumped me. Now I can't wait to learn how to powerslide!
If the Powerslide is your goal then PLEASE use this free Powerslide training video from my Online course series "How to Stop". This first lesson is FREE and will give you ALL the tips and progressions to get your sliding. Just click Free Trial on this page and you'll have lifetime access. skatefresh.com/product/how-to-stop-advanced-level/ Let me know how it goes.
And just plain easier! I have a broken hip so the forces involved in the Powerstop and Hockey Stop are quite intense and I feel it afterwards. I was limping the day after this tutorial shoot because I did way more Powerstops than I would usually. Powerslide is pain free and effective.
I love this tutorial and the stepwise approach. It has been extremely helpful over the past week or so. Just started inline skating again and want to try to gradually phase out the heel brake while learning these new techniques. Thank you so much Asha!
Glad it was helpful! This was a very simplistic video in that I didn't share all the progressions for each skill. It's more of a description video. If you get stuck and need more actual progressions then check out the Stops & Slides available in video course format here. skatefresh.com/stops-slides/
Wow, what a well made and professional instructional video. The logical explanation and then multiple slow motion demos was really effective. I also appreciated putting in a few bloopers in the end... Thank you very much
Very good explanations of the different stops. In your comparisons with tiago and bill stoppard you realy nail it. Very insightful comments! Although i´m skating on ice for 40 years, i´m still learning a lot from your videos on inlines. Excellent teaching!
Finnally I got a tips for power stop I ve followed tiago and bill stoppard to unveil the secret of power stop But everytime i tried it I end up rolling on the ground with shame and pain. But you mention hands twist to counter the body tourque.. I think I finnaly found the secreet.. thanks i will try next and inform the result..
My go-to stop used to be the 'bail out into grass' with a "Look-out" yell. Then I advanced to the Butt-drag on tarmac. Then the heel stop. Now T-stop and lunge stop. One day...one of these days...lunge to power slide.
And that's about the right progression sequence! Well done. Keep going in that direction. Learning (and perfecting) new stops should be a skater's constant companion. Put in 15-20mins of every skate session into your stops alone and you'll become a way better skater than those who plough up and down and never train skills. You got this.
Asha, may I know your wheels' hardness? Mine is 85A, and I found it to be difficult to do a powerslide. I have to run a bit faster (like sprinting) in order to do it.
Asha, you are a great teacher. Today and yesterday I practiced Power slides and realized that my wheels transformed into hexagons. I did 50 slides in total. They look crappy now. I have 84mm with 80A. Is this too soft??? The slides already started to eat the hard plastic below the rubber and the frame. What should I do?
Hi. This is Sergio from Skatefresh Team. If the plastic is being "eaten" you will need to change those wheels with new ones. 80A is quite soft, so it's normal that they wear out quicker than harder wheels. Even though the powerslide can be performed riding soft wheels most skaters who do slides will choose 85A and up instead, because they last longer and also because hard wheels on a hard surface will slide better (it's physics, there is less grip). Another thing you need to know is that the trick to wear out the wheels the less as possible is to keep the sliding skate very light. That way the wheels will suffer less friction and therefore there will be less polyurethane wasted.
@@SkatefreshVideos Sergio thank you for your quick and detailed response. I really appreciate it. What skates and wheels would you suggest for urban areas and for skate parks (but without sliding), just using half and quarter pipes. My current setup is a K2 Moto (Ilo7 frame) , two front wheels are 80mm and the ones on the heal are 84mm. It feels like ski boots. I want to be more agile when skating. Should I use smaller wheels but harder then?
Hi. This is Sergio from Skatefresh Team. The K2 Moto is a fitness skate, not for skate parks. For aggressive skating you need aggressive boots with aggressive frames attached. Wheels are ideally smaller and hard, to avoid bouncing. On the other hand, small and hard wheels are not made for streets and they are slow, so if you want to do streets with some mild aggressive stuff mixed in such as a mini ramp or a pump track then you need a freeskate/urban boot such as the Rollerblade Fusion X3, FR FR1, K2 Uptown, Powerslide Zoom or Flying Eagle Falcon. Which one of them? The one that will feel comfortable. Agility is related mostly with your skill level, boot type, frame setup and wheels diameter/hardness so it's a combination, but at the end of the day the main factor is your skating. Nevertheless, the bigger the wheel the harder it is to perform tricks or go into skate parks so I wouldn't go over 80mm.
@@SkatefreshVideos Sergio, thanks a lot again for your help !!! My conclusion from your last comment is to buy a urban/freestyle skate 80mm (85A). Also thanks for the recommendations, but I will have to go to Pro Inliner Shop and try the skates in place, cause they have to fit really well. My current skates I have gotten from my father, but he has bigger feet than me. My heel has play inside of the boot and I have about 1cm of free space in-front of my foot, I guess this makes it much more complicated, if your foot wobbles inside the boot while skating. I will progress much better, when I find the right boot/skates for me. I dont know who buys skates online, but I will for sure have to go to a local shop and try them there. Thanks again for the recommendations. Wish you all the best!
Since yesterday I have started skating again. But at the moment, I still don't skate fresh, but rather skate trash. It still doesn't work the way I want.
It's only been a week, of course you're going to be trash! That's how it works. I've been skating for months and I'm still trash lmao. Just put your gear on and keep practising.
None of the stops can be used on very high speed. I mean 18 mile/h speed with uneven pavement. I use half sole slide. Safe with speed control, and you see where you are going. i.e. use it to slow down to full stop depending on how much force you want to put on front sliding skate. It is like a half plow stop. I put large weight on traveling back skate and less force on front sliding skate at very high speed or uneven pavement, push my front skate hard gradually for full stop.
Hi Asha! I have an important question for you but first let me thank you for your videos! I just started skating and I love watching them. They helped getting on my wheels and heel brake tips made me learn much faster and gave me courage to go more and more often on my skates. Now I need these new stopping techniques if I want to feel even safer when going faster but I cannot help seeing that you explain and perform them always clockwise. So here comes THE QUESTION: do we need to learn them in both directions or we should focus on one and make it perfect? I also feel mor comfortable going to the right on the turns therefore my instinct would be to try these stops only clockwise and forget the other direction. What is your opinion about this??? Thank you again and I hope you will answer!!! You are lovely and beautiful, I had to tell you :-D Byeeee Zeudi :-)
Hi. This is Sergio from Team Skatefresh. I'm not Asha but we share the same opinion on this technical stuff. Asha can and does perform on both sides (as any respectable instructor should!) however, she also has a preferred side like everyone else, plus she has a permanent hip injury that makes things more difficult for her in certain maneuvres like these in the video. On the streets she will always use her preferred side for stops because you can't really be "playing" around vehicles. The answer to your question is yes. Ideally, you have to practice both sides, doubling the time for the "unfriendly" side. I assure you that if you do it that way there is a moment you can't really choose which side goes better and that's fantastic! Of course this practice should be done in a safe place, not in the street. That said, if you don't have the time it's obviously better to have one side good than both sides wrong. So practice your dominant side until it's great, then start the other, but don't ever forget the other side exists! Why? Because every technique involves certain muscles, if you don't practice both sides there will be a physical imbalance you don't want to have. Besides, if one day you get hurt or something you want to be good with your other side to take lead. Another reason is that wheels wear out different for each side if you rely just on one of them, especially with stops. The powerslide and the T-stop, for example, wears wheels out quite a bit.
Ooohh my God this lady am in bed watch this n in my head n body am Alrdy doing this but whn it comes legs oin the skate it ain't easy but am gonna try... its humanly possibly so i wont give up
Really love the tutorials Asha, even if this is probably a little too advanced for me. Explanations are always clear. I love that you give the weight distribution on each leg for each maneuver. Really helpful when learning a new technique. Still using the drag & slide to break, I mostly do city/street skating, but I recently went from 4x80mm to 4x90mm and I'm still getting used to that new speed while keeping control. So I'm looking at new ways to stop.
Asha, I love your work and such passion for teaching. I find your guidance clear and easy to follow. For me, having an understanding of the weight distribution and overall body position have been a game changer. Like many others, I stopped skating a lifetime ago and COVID has been the perfect excuse to get back into it and also to get my little one to enjoy it. By the way, he also loves watching your videos and then going out to practice and to make sure I improve MY technique hehe. Watching You, Thiago and others make me feel more confident to enjoy this journey. I’m really hoping you come to Melbourne soon. Gracias :)
Agree 100% in my online PowerStop training (that you don’t need of course) I begin with a full Lunge Stop lesson as it is indeed the bridge (or prerequisite move) for the PowerStop. It does however cause quite a few issues for many ppl. Not as easy as it looks….
4:23 this is a lot harder than I anticipated. I had to take a day off to rest after trying one day and putting my right leg under the 80/20 weight split instead of the left. Today has been a bit better. Fear of falling keeps me from full commits, though. Tucking my body in was crucial as you pointed out.
I would recommend reducing your speed and seeing if the fear of falling reduces with less speed (it should do). Most people attempt new stuff far too fast (even if it doesn't feel too fast), so try that and see if it makes things more comfortable and less tense. Also the Powerstop online training course and Powerslide online course provide ALL the prerequisite skills needed and that's often the source of getting stuck or not succeeding. Hundreds of people have got these stops from using the course format as it lays things out in a progressive format that you build on week by week. skatefresh.com/stops-slides/
Hi. This is Sergio from Team Skatefresh. Probably too much weight on the sliding leg. You really need to be low in order to place your weight on the support leg and to let the sliding skate be in a sharp angle. This video will also help you ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fBUPABsKT1Y.html
Great video, Asha. I totally agree, you can't power stop at high speeds and I'm also a fan of the drag to power stop, aka, the B-stop. The lunge stop look like a good beginner step; being lower adds an element of safety while getting the movement down. I prefer the power slide in wet conditions. I make the forward to backward transition more like a hop than a turn, to avoid losing my skates beneath me, and I feel much safer doing this than a power stop in wet or slippery conditions.
I totally agree. Powrslide in the wet or damp is fairly risk free as you just ride the slide for longer. Much harder to powerstop in the wet as every surface will respond with your wheels in a different way, too many variables.....
So i got my first roller skate from my roommate (he moved out and just left it and his foot size is the same). Since i can't stop I skate at night when traffic is low. I was trying to learn to stop watching some videos but it seems like small wheels give more control over skates and they turn very easy, so powerstop was explained like a narrow 180 turn. With 3 wheeler however i can't really turn (maybe its because i am a beginner) easy and "Lunge" is the only thing i can do (not successfully though). Couldn't control rotation and depending on speed i do 180, 360 and even 720 rotations. At least i got first fall for week of training. I was wondering how much time i will last without falling once. Tomorrow I will try again. This video seem to explain why I couldn't control rotation (answer: wrong weight distribution). Other thing that bother me (even more than stopping techniques) is the way to "not roll" on downhill. Here in Warsaw (at least in my area) all crossroads has a little downhill leading me to the road, so when it is red light i am forced to stay far from crossroad, constantly slowly moving backwards or holding something.
Hi. This is Sergio from Team Skatefresh. The stopping techniques explained in this video are advanced, that's why you find the lunge stop easier than the others, but it's still not easy for you. If you have a heel brake, that is your easiet method to slow down and stop, even to stay still while waiting for the green light. If your skates don't have a brake you should actually aim at stops such as the snowplow (AKA plough) or the stepping plough. And yes, small wheels give you more control than big ones. If you can't stop I suggest that you don't skate on streets and that you avoid slopes at all costs, you should practice in a safe place instead. The heel brake can save you even on slopes if you know how to use it but if you don't have it and can't stop at all you could suffer an accident. Asha has made an online course for beginners here skatefresh.com/product/how-to-skate-beginner-level-full-course/ and one specific for beginner's stops here skatefresh.com/product/how-to-stop-beginner-level/
Oh, you are just the best Asha! I've been struggling with pulling consistent stops and this really gave me some lightbulb moments. I feel so much more confident as a young woman getting into urban skating with your instruction! Thank you!
@skatefreshasha Hi Asha, could you recommend some nice, non-crowded, smooth surfaced places to skate around Brighton? We have a car so could travel, just struggling to find nice places to skate and find seafront and Hove park too crowded. Thanks!
Only the skate patch atHove Lawns. Very in crowded at 5:30am on a Sunday morning when we filmed this video! Public spaces where we skate are always and everywhere a fight for space. Early and late are best. The cycle track from the pier to the marina is also divinely smooth and not crowded weekdays and afternoons.
Shes teaching how it needs to feel when is done correctly (loving this)not just the moves and i think this helps a lot, how shes saying practice makes permanent ...if you get to feel where,when you do well or wrong its an advantage...im 6 months skateing i can do plenty of things though i want to focus on correct skating first (im basic scooting as much as i can) and stopping methods.i really need to polish all but i think its a short period of time 6 months and not full time(far from it)...im very pleased though ,i want more and i think is because i get to understand how it feels when is correct wich helps to see the bad habits and change.This,i think has a lot to do with the teaching methods...i consider ASHA brilliant not just for the smooth way of skateing (wich i love) is that she actually menage to transmit to others in order to improve...not all the teachers can do that
Hi. This is Sergio from Team Skatefresh. Thanks for your kind words. I suggest that you take a look at the online courses Asha has made for all levels. They are full of little details nobody mentions in RU-vid including the common mistakes and how to fix them. Please check here skatefresh.com/learn-to-skate-online/
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Gracias por las tomas falsas. Me siento mejor cuando pienso que las diosas también erran. Abrazos!
This is the best intro to stopping in the whole Internet. My stops are dragging into abrupt "block" with the front foot if I need to stop quickly. So it's kind of reverse, lame version of powerslide :)
Glad you like it! Is the stop you described actually a Soul Slide? If that front skate doesn't slide them it's not a soul slide and if so sounds like it might only work from slow speeds. I hope therefore these other stops in this video are enticing you to learn them. If you are struggling to get these stops from just watching this tutorial, then I suggest you check out my full stops lessons which contain all the progression exercises needed to learn a bunch of stops. Check them out here; skatefresh.com/stops-slides/
That's an interesting opinion. Perhaps women are more patient? Sometimes I know my male students struggle with me being so direct, telling them what to do (even if they don't actually want to do it). Basically I'm asking them to trust my ideas for the duration of a class. It can be an interesting process..... but instructing is about understanding both the mechanics or skating and the mechanics of people's minds and emotions. Fear does weird things to the body. Teaching is a skill that's different from the skill being taught. Not all good skaters can teach. Not all instructors teach well. Like all things, finding the person who works for you is the way to go.
Hi! I have a question: can I make these stops on my figure skates? Asha is always sliding on bigger wheels and I'm curious if I can do the same on 72mm wheels or even smaller ones.
Hi. This is Sergio from Team Skatefresh. Yes, you can do it with smaller wheels. At some point, for example with 60mm wheels the frame may start to slide instead of the wheels, and that damage the frame (it happens in aggressive skating), but with 72mm wheels there will be no problems. However, it's definitely not advisable to do this stuff with artistic skates, I mean with boots like Edea, Risport, etc. using Snow White frames and such. That kind of skates is very delicate and too expensive to be endangered like this. Freeskate/freeride skates are sturdy and can take a hit once in a while, but scratches in leather boots or dents in those pristine metal frames is catastrophic in my opinion.
These 3 stopping methods are by no means the easiest to start with. If you can find good instruction near you then go ahead and have some lessons. But if not then do check out my online course series on stopping methods and choose exactly which methods you like (in order of difficulty) here. You'll succeed much more if you learn skills in the right chronological order. skatefresh.com/stops-slides/ Hope something there works for you.
@skatefreshAsha I think it would really help your videos if you got a wearable microphone, love your videos but all the latest ones are very hard to hear.
I agree. An iPhone mic is on its way to me.... will all be better soon. If I can make it work. Wheels are my perfect level of "technology", but I'll get there. Thanks for the feedback. It's true
Imádom! Én a filmjeimen "íves" fékezésnek nevezem ezt a fékezés technikát. :D Igen a legvégén jól mutatja, hogy oda kell figyelni a helyes tartásra... Szuper!
@@SkatefreshVideos Yess! Thank You! I love it! I call this braking technique "curved" braking in my films. : D Yes, at the very end it shows well that you have to pay attention to the right posture ... Super film, Super ! Super movie, super lady, super, super, super.
If a road is a bit rough - is a power slide still an option? How smooth is needed, like concrete ok vs asphalt too rough usually? Thanks for the video!
Mmmmm that's a good question. Any slide with the sliding skate ahead of you like Powerslide is vulnerable to not sliding on some un-smooth surface and the consequences can be a serious tripping over the non-sliding skate. The rougher the surface the lighter the sliding skate has to be. One becomes an expert at judging this over the years. It's one of the reasons I don't like rough surfaces because I know it compromises my slides so much and I rely on the Powerslide a lot. Concrete can also be rough so it's not the actual surface, it what's state it's in. Keep your eyes peeled and experiment slowly.
Ah ok so at mega high speeds you can T stop a little (T-drag) before a powerslide. Would like to see that transition and other ways to slow down a little (a little slaloming to bleed speed?) before a powerslide, in a video :)
Noted! I'm going to put a "Stopping combos" video on the list as really using stops in combination is THE strategy most fast/advanced skaters use unconsciously when needing to stop. I always slow down a bit (using T-slide or turns) before a Powerslide just to increase the success rate and reduce the risks. Good suggestion thanks.
What kind of skates are those??? I’m normally skating on 4 wheel inline skates but never ever skated on the 3 wheels. What are those kind of skates called? I think I’ll enjoy skating on these types of skates than the ones I normally use.
Hi. This is Sergio from Team Skatefresh. The 3-wheeled skates are usually called "triskates" and have been in the market since 2016 approximately. They have their pros and cons.
Am LARYON LUCKY EDWARD from Uganda Kampala,am a baller but I also try to skate for luxury..... but I don't know any Skil that can surprise viewers.......I can travel anywhere by skating but I don't enjoy much just because of not knowing anything like a surprise skill, can you please be my teacher.....
You are welcome to use all and any of the tutorials here on the channel. But I would recommend that you contact Lumala Raegan in Kampala. He is a great skating coach and I've been mentoring him for several years. His school is @skating_club_of_kampala.
The video is great as usual, Asha. I also love how you connect the different techniques. However I am very skeptical when I hear that "Powerslide stops you at faster speeds" or the other way around. Most of the time it depends on two very arbitrary factors: 1) How used you are to stopping one particular way; 2) Your particular definition of what is a powerstop vs parallel vs lunge and so on. That is why the conclusions that each skater draws are so contradictory. Another example of this is how many skaters swear that the heel pad is a very weak stopping method, which is simply not true. As for the powerstop, to my mind, there is a family of turns that you can fine-tune to adapt to different circumstances. One extreme would be a full, 180º lunge turn, the other a full parallel stop. In between there is a whole spectrum of stops that are initiated and finished similarly but differ in terms of how much weight/angle you give to your inner foot, how closer the feet are, how much you press your heels and what you do with your upper body. Among the variations there are two "branches": In one of them you rotate your inner foot, that's the "Powerslide". In the other you invert the ankle of your inner foot: that's the powerstop/parallel branch. This one you can do closer to a lunge stop, by opening your feet, not inverting much the inner foot, ..., which results in more gradual, easy to control stops or closer to a parallel stop, by inverting more, closing your stance, counter-rotating more and really diggin in your heels. You stop much harder that way, harder than even with a powerslide but you lose control. Your example of powerstop was a rather mild one, which is all right, it's a nice variation for middle speeds or as a way to bleed speed before going for a harder stop. Bill Stoppard's version in contrast, is typically harder, not very far from a full parallel stop, although with a slightly less inverted inner foot than the outer one, which is why his powerstop stops harder than his powerslide btw, it's not true that Bill always drags before the final powerstop). I personally use powerstops of different types, going all the way to parallel stops, to control my speed, depending of circumstance and I combine them with each other and with the T-stop. For example, adding mild powerstops such as yours to slalom turns is possible to bleed speed easily and safely when going downhill, a final hard paralleel stop can be added if needed. You can stop in mostly any circumstance and at any speed like that. But I also practice my Powerslide, of course. Keep up the great work, Asha
I like your explanation of the verious turn stops flowing from one to the other in a kind of sequential arc. This is true. And you are right that the speed will depend on what your ability allows and is trained for and this is unique with each skater. Your comparison of my mild Powerstop and Bills more intense one is spot on! With my broken hip, the forces going through the body on two foot slides are so much stronger than one foot slides. That’s my personal reason for not using the Powerslide more and favouring the gentler Powerslide.
@@SkatefreshVideos Yes, that makes a lot of sense. The Powerslide does result in quite a powerful stop without too much tension on the joints. In that sense it is a particularly efficient stop. Thanks again for your wonderful teaching, Asha. You really are an inspiration
Hai Mam i am an ardent fan of your skating skill and also now i have purchased tri skates after 20 + years of struggling life now i want to fulfil my dreams and with all your blessings and support i will start my journey
Well done You!!! Welcome to your Skate Life! Please make use of all the FREE videos on my website as they are MUCH better than anything I share on RU-vid. Click Free Trial on these 3 pages and get instant lifetime access to these lessons, completely free of charge. I promise they will help you so much. skatefresh.com/product/how-to-skate-beginner-level-full-course/ skatefresh.com/product/how-to-skate-for-fitness-beginner-level-full-course/ skatefresh.com/product/how-to-stop-beginner-level/ You have my full blessings and best teachings here. Enjoy!
Hi. This is Sergio from Team Skatefresh. Good point! For the Lunge Stop you are supposed to rotate your head together with your body, maintaining a natural position, so you end up looking at the point you were coming from, because you rotate your whole body 180 degrees. For the Power Stop the rotation is 90 degrees so you end up either looking sideways or toward the direction of travelling (I don't see Asha looking backwards for this stop in the video). For the Powerslide she ends up looking backwards because she is using the Lunge Turn entry. Since this is a turn you rotate everything in a move very similar to the Lunge Stop, with the difference that the Lunge Turn is "interrupted" by the flipping heel. Naturally the head will be following the rotation so you end up looking backwards; however, if you concentrate you can keep looking toward the direction of travelling, and that's ideal if there is something on your way and you want to stop before hitting it. Asha just didn't do it in this video. There are other 3 ways to enter the Powerslide: a) Backwards entry: you skate backwards and stay backwards performing the Powerslide either looking backwards or forwards; b) Mohawk entry: this one allows you to keep looking in the direction of travelling in a very natural way, but you can look backwards if you want too; c) Hop entry: similar to the Mohawk entry but with a hop. Whichever Powerslide you do you can look in the direction you prefer, even sideways, because the head is independent.
Hi. This is Sergio from Skatefresh Team. The larger the wheel the harder it is to do any stuff on skates, except to keep speed for long distances. So, 4x90 will be easier.
Thanks for your great advice. I found myself that I can do it with clockwise direction (like what you are doing in the video). But the opposite direction, I found it more difficult. Is it just me or should I practice more to master both directions?
Hi. This is Sergio from Team Skatefresh. It's normal to have a favoured side. Even Asha does! So don't worry; but yeah, we always advice to practice both sides once you have the good one done. I'd say the 'unfriendly' side should be practiced double. In time I guarantee your sides will feel so equal that you will barely notice the difference. And that's great because the places where you skate changes so it's good to have options, also you will wear out your wheels more equally.
Glad it was helpful! If you still struggle with these techniques, check out the full video trainings here. This is just a summary video and doesn't contain all the progression exercises for each skill. In my opinion that's the only way to fully learn each stop. Unless you are extremely gifted. skatefresh.com/stops-slides/
You should! There's a skater inside you if you're watching skate videos without skates. Hope you can start soon. Check out my free lessons on my website skatefresh.com, much better than anything here on RU-vid. x
