How To Stop On Rollerblades In One Session! Inline Skating's Most Important Stop 

I got lucky too! I was without a model to prove a point! 🤣

The hips twist is absolutely true. The other aspect is that the stronger your hip *adduction* (i.e. pulling your legs *closed*/together), the more you can open your hips and still be able to control it. Which will let you make it look more aesthetic but also allow you to employ more power (pressure on the braking foot). You really do need to actively tighten your adductors and keep your core tight to allow your skating leg to stay rigid and keep the stopping leg stable.

true!

Well said, many geniuses are very terrible teachers, they themselves would testify to this. Nicely spotted

Id slightly prefer soulslide and even the standard plow stance. Especially the plow stance is so great, it has not that much breaking power and on a reall steep hill you might not become slower at all. But when its enought its the only breaking methode which isn't eating your wheels that fast....

Nice! 2 days is good; it took me much longer!!

Thank you so much DW!!

Good point on understanding the stat of the wheels too!!

Use other leg... swap wheels...

So true! I can barely use a power stop in a group skate because of those behind me. Definitely not a glamour stop! I feel ready for everything from the drag position.

Also, how to climb a 1 km long plateau (the same plateau) without rolling backwards, noting that a hand stick was not used.

I was not a fan of symetrics bearings. I’ve replaced fairly new compromised symetrics bearings with very old Sonic bearings. Sonic has great build integrity.

@@BillStoppard thanks bro

After the third session I forgot I was wearing new skates!!

@@BillStoppard I think I definitely have a tighter fit then haha. Are you having issues with heel lift?

It’s great for some situations, but I’m never tempted to use this one in the city streets. It’s a bit of a kinetically vulnerable position.

Too much weight on your braking foot

@@floydthebarber71 I was thinking that too but even one wheel it hooks up just when I place it so can't be my weight alone. Maybe need to break in the wheels a bit more they are brand new only a couple handful on kilometres on them.

Try to just gently touch the ground at first. As u slow down u push down with some power. Weight still on the front leg

@@Reloaded44 sounds like still too much weight even when using one wheel. I’ve been through this too. Think of all your weight on the front foot, and hover your back leg at an angle without touching the ground. If you can hold that for 5sec, only then try barely make contact on the floor with the back leg while consciously thinking you’re still balancing fully on the front leg

I'll need to consciously try to keep my weight on that one foot solely. I like that hold for a few seconds idea I'm going to try that on my next skate.

Stopping using 4 to 8 points of contact instead of one (heel brake) will bring you to a halt at least two times faster than a heel brake. The heel brake will wear down very quickly when you learn how to use it with good power, the expense will be the same or worse than wheels. Until the wheels are worn down a little bit,you won’t be getting the combination of slide and stick that makes inline so special. I can’t stand riding on new wheels, but an hour later I love them.Heel brake is okay for beginner, but adding that prohibitive clunk at the end of skate that can get you caught on simple curbs or drop offs and make great cross overs impossible.

If you want to skate like Bill, don’t get attached to your wheels. I liked heel brakes for that reason back in the day-you could come to quite a fast stop and nuke your brake, but brakes were cheap so who cares?

@@joshcarter-com haha... I don't care for my wheels so much, I use a lot of slides... But not a full force drag usually... Nothing against heel breaks but 1. I hate the sound it makes 2. I'm afraid to trip over on backwards crossovers (still suck at these) 3. There are no breaks available for the frames I use mostly right now 😂

@@ericbernardi8116 yea I don’t use a brake anymore for the same reasons. Also I speed skate about half the time and a 320mm frame + 125mm wheels is plenty to trip over without adding a brake, too! (And the geometry wouldn’t work anyway.) So RIP wheels.

​@@ericbernardi8116if you angle your drag its not as kuch likely that ypur wheels will stop spinning and than you can break without becoming flat. Its like abs if you dont have a straight 90 degrees angle :D

​@@ericbernardi8116i like the sound. People are afraid if I break near them an so they go to the side for me to overtake them. Its like ringing a bell. Sometimes i make just a short break of 2 ms and its already enough to get the pedestrians attention.

Not with 88A hardness.... But yes. The wheels will always get used by any break which is not the heel break....