ONE TIP To Become A BETTER Rollerblader FAST 

Im gonna follow you and continue watching the rest of your videos

Big thanks! 🤘 This was one of my most relaxed voiceovers so far, I’ve sped up my delivery quite a bit lately. 😉 Cool that you’re loving rollerblading so much. With your passion and commitment, you’ll sure be able to do some awesome tricks soon! Keep rolling. 💪

Keep at it, draw buddies into it, have fun!

I feel pretty good rolling around the city streets. There are those moments though that I do feel like Ahhhh what do I do? how do I manage this one?😂

@@BuDu-ms2qe Totally. I find it's when several challenges happen at once. I'm fine with: downhills, bad surfaces, crowds, narrow sections, crossings. I'm ok when you combine any two of them. It's when four or five come together the trouble starts 😅😅😅

@@Snifffski Every new situation you survive, is a new lesson learned. 🙂

​@@Snifffskialways keep in mind that stoping and walking is a possibility 😂 I do it when there is too much traffic for sketchy hills 😊

Yeah! 🤘

You already are a great rollerblader, _don't_ get any better! Just don't.

Thank you! 🤘

Cool! Are you already a member of Inlineskater Negenduust on Facebook? Works really well to meet other skaters from Ghent. And believe me: if you know your way around, you'll soon discover lots of roads with great asphalt. 🙂

@@MrStrikemasterice Thank you! It’s not necessarily the settings, but also how you reframe the 360 footage. I don’t want my reframed footage to look like 360 footage, so I avoid super wide angles and try to incorporate intentional camera moves. For the record: I stopped using my 360 camera half a year ago and started using the DJI Osmo Action 4, which has way better image quality and a much more cinematic look.

@@TheRollingRaptor ahhh that makes sense. Thanks for the info!!

Yeah! 🤘

Haha, wonderful! Very cool of you. 👍

@@pit9623 They’re certainly not too tight! My Next is a 42-43, while my Zoom is 41-42. The Zoom took a little bit of breaking in before it was really comfortable. My Spins are 42 as well. I probably could’ve fit in the 41 too, the size of my SL Freeride, but 42 leaves just enough room in the toe box for jumping and stair riding painlessly. And I’m not planning on doing any slalom skating, so I don’t need the tightest fit possible. :-)

Thank you! 3 times a week is still cool. 🤘

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Thanks a lot! I just filmed my daily morning routine and only afterwards did I think: hey, I can turn this into a kind of tutorial / motivational video. Kind of seems to work. 🙂

Big thanks to you! 🤘

And that just happens more often. An extra incentive to just keep my skates on, because hearing the same message over and over again gets tiring. 😀

Cool! 💪 Even very talented rollerbladers know that repetition is the one thing helps you progress. Indeed, your body has to know how to do a trick, not your mind. You’ve got to feel it to do it right. 🤘

Thank you! Yeah, you can definitely mount them on the Oxelo MF500! (As long as you order the 165mm version.) In this video, you can see the frames up close: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KiEreiMTv0U.html

Ghent, Belgium. My part of town indeed is pretty skateable, with lots of smooth asphalt and some great skating spots too. Watching Stephen Johnstone's and Si Coburn's videos, I reckon the UK has got loads of awesome spots too, but I guess London's the place to be.

Big thanks! 🤘 And thank you for your proposal for helping me edit my videos, but I'm having too much fun editing myself and figuring out how to do things. 😉

thank you. best luck brother@@TheRollingRaptor

Sometimes, I'm very happy when SAD: Skating All Day. 😉

Thanks a lot! 👍

Doop skates are great when I haven't got a lot of time or when I've got to take the train. But for my daily ride, I prefer "regular" skates. 🙂

Five wheels are great for more stability, while you're still close to the ground. Thanks to the rocker, such a setup's very manoeuvrable. The combination of stability and manoeuvrability results in a very flowy feel, kind of like ice skating, but on asphalt. Does that answer your question?

@@TheRollingRaptor Yes, thank you, I thought it was like this, but they tell me the same about the 4x100 endless, you should try it to understand what I like best.

@@Skatafossy I've got the Endless 100 (and a couple of other 4x100 frames), but I like 5-wheel frames better. The reason's that a 5-wheel frame is lower and more swivelly. 100mm wheels are faster, but for stair riding and wizard skating, 5-wheel frames are more fun. I also like a rockered 4x90 better than 4x100. Those are more swivelly too.

​​@@TheRollingRaptorI feel 4x90 rocketed frame is the holy grail for me. It's good at everything and when I put great 80mm wheels (I feel 80s are much structurally stronger than bigger wheels) on it they become fearless beasts that can take anything on. Liked 5x80 too but they are too long for my liking and my love for kizer element 90 + 80mm cosmic roche wheels prevents me from further experimentation xD I just want to ride instead of scrolling through stuff on the internet.

Difficult to say. For some people it takes several months, but I didn't feel any effects on my legs when I started skating almost four years ago. Maybe my enthusiasm overruled the exhaustion? 😉 I'll say: just keep rolling, without overdoing yourself, and your legs will soon _miss_ rollerblading when a day went by with no skating.

Everyone's biorhythm is different. Accept what your body tells and discover how you can develop together from that point. (Also age plays an important role and I would not recommend anyone 40+ to do sports daily. The body will need more time to recover.)

Some supermarkets apparently still need some education. 😀

Am I allowed to find this comment a bit silly? Or plain unnecessary? 😇 The so-called "recreational" rollerblading is the basis for every other type of rollerblading, be it urban skating, aggressive rollerblading, wizard skating or even off-road skating. Since it's the most general kind of rollerblading, there's no need to specify it as "recreational". By no means can "rollerblading" be a synonym for, say, "aggressive rollerblading". Aggressive rollerblading is what it is: aggressive rollerblading. A very cool and important niche within the sport, but still: a niche. Even so, my fellow aggressive skaters fully agreed with the central message of this video: skate every day to get better. Get yourself to the skatepark and work those grinds, practise those spins. But first get the basics down. 🤘

Oh, yeah, 20km is indeed a lot to swallow. And my T-shirt already is soaked after barely 5km of skating. 😀

Aw damn, seriously? I've only once received a (friendly) remark from a security guy. In most stores, staff may look a bit surprised, but they let me pass. I think it helps, though, that I always take a trolley. Looks less aggressive and wild, I guess. 🙂

@@TheRollingRaptor your lucky mate, here I get ask to remove them or leave... pretty much everywhere.

@@simongloutnez589 Oh man, that's awful. I mean, why?! It's not that we're going to grind the freezers or trying to throw 540s...

@@TheRollingRaptor Idk, I think at some point they forgot to live and let live

One of my friends had the bad habit to drink alcohol to lessen his fear. The result? Five months ago he fell on his head when trying to bomb down a slope fakie. He went into a coma for several weeks and now is still recovering. He's been on skates a couple of times already, but he's right back at the beginner level. He's lost 20 years of experience in one single instant. I can understand you have the feeling alcohol helps, but I wouldn't recommend it to _anyone._ If you're afraid, then you're trying to do things that are beyond your skill level. The solution is not to dampen the fear through intoxication, but to slowly build up and let your brain get used to the new skill you're trying to acquire. That's precisely the point of skating every day: train your mind to believe in its abilities. 😊 Now, I don't want to talk down your method to skate only sparingly. If it works for you, it _works_ and that's great. 👍 But I'd be very, very careful with the alcohol. Drinking to progress, doesn't feel entirely right, does it? Of course, I've got it easy: I don't feel fear, not really. Sometimes I feel adrenaline pumping through my veins and I hate it. What I love most of all, is feeling confidence when trying something new: _knowing_ I can do it because I've built up towards it. If I'm going for a new trick and feel totally relaxed, then I know I'll make it. That's the danger of alcohol: it makes you _think_ you can do it, but if you haven't prepared yourself properly, that belief can turn into a big disappointment-or worse. When you don't feel confident stair riding when sober, alcohol won't help you. It'll give you the illusion you can do it, but a pretty nasty reality check is on the way. If you use alcohol, you _certainly_ should wear full protection. But I'd advise you to go easy on the beer and look for an another approach. Rather grab a bottle to _celebrate_ landing a new trick. 🤘

@@TheRollingRaptor I don’t use alcohol as a tool every time. It is only occasional and as I stated there is no intoxication, and alcohol doesn’t cause me to go irrational therefore I would never attempt to do what your friend did, even under the influence if it goes way over the limit of my abilities. It only helps me to go beyond of fear, to progress, not to do the impossible at the level of skills I’m currently at or go into extremes. Your friend must be the type of people I described before, who shouldn’t be drinking because his focus is blunted and common sense is switched off. He overestimated his abilities, possibly even doing tricks that require a protection but having none again due to lack of common sense while under the influence.

@@RUS38All true. ;-) And since a _lot_ of people can't define the fine line between just enough and way too much, I discourage everyone from using alcohol as a way to lessen their fear. If you know yourself and your limits: cool! But unfortunately, most people don't as soon as the first beer has made it to their brain. 😕

Haha, okay, at least always buy these things: apples, kombucha, dried figs, granola, kefir, alcohol free beer and sparkling water. :-)

Sometimes I wear a helmet, oftentimes I don't. That's my own decision. I've included my personal safety rules in the video's description. Those are more important than wearing or not wearing a helmet.

Thank you! All the people who've expressed their appreciation for my storytelling and narration the last couple of years are obviously wrong or deluded. 😉🤘

@@TheRollingRaptor never said such a thing. Majortiy opinion does not invalidate anyone elses though. i am entitled to mine. You should not get so defensive. Story telling is fine. My point was, i accept i did not put it in as a detail, your accent, the way you talk so slow, and elongate the ending spell of the sentences.

@@TheReaper569 Oh, didn’t you notice I was only making a good-hearted joke? That’s what smileys are for, aren’t they? Don’t you worry, no offence taken. (But I find it rather condescending to tell people not to get defensive when they weren’t being defensive in the first place. 🤔) Of course, you’re entitled to your opinion, never said you weren’t. 👍 Then again: you stated your opinion as a fact, “your presentation needs work,” and I merely wanted to point out: _Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man…_ With that out of the way: thanks for clarifying what you mean! Too bad you don’t like my accent, but it is what it is, _I_ like it and I’m gonna stick to it. You’re totally right, though, that my delivery is slow. Talking fast just doesn’t work for me - I guess I’m too old for that. I tried speeding up my speech in the past and it felt unnatural. Out of character, if you get my drift. I also want as many people as possible to understand me. Talking faster will not help that. I always work on my narration until I like it, but I’m totally fine with it when people say they _don’t_ like it. I just hope those people can take a little joke as well when I write a reply. 😉

@@TheRollingRaptor Well speaking of condecending.. that was you being reflective. Somethings off about you mate, you are wearing a persona that isnt natural to you. anyway not my problem. cheers.

@@TheReaper569 I think you mean you _suspect_ I’m wearing a persona that isn’t natural to me. But that’s just my view. 😇 Cheers, mate. And keep rolling! 🤘