I wanted to learn. I watched you. I practiced for an hour and GOT IT DOWN! THANK YOU, DEBORAH! This 52 year young woman is so proud of herself today. :D
I'm practicing!! Saw you dancing to Tipsy and My Girl at RollerCon and it reinforced my determination to dance. Thank you for yet another awesome tutorial. I swear, you've got me learning stuff I thought I was never going to figure out. You're inspirational, woman, and I'm sure I speak for many of us when I say I'm so thankful that you started doing these videos. From the bottom of my heart, all the way down to the wheels on my feet - I appreciate you, girl. ❤
Get some outdoor skates and do it on your driveway...or other smooth area in your neighborhood! Heck, do it in your kitchen or bathroom if they're big enough. You don't need a rink to skate. :) Just...don't forget a decent set of pads if you hit the outdoors.
Without a doubt ..I can see how much you love to roller skate !!!! Thank you so very much for all the Amazing skills and the passion that you share !!! I love to skate !!!!
I am amazed at how much my skating has improved by watching Dirty Debra Harry...She is simply awesome...NO ONE explains how to do what you want to do on skating as simple as she does. I try and watch ALL OF HER VIDEOS because I always learn something that makes me look like a pro on skates.
Hey Deb! Thank you so much for your videos. I get so excited when I see you pop up on my feed!! I’ve been skating for about a month and I’ve fallen IN LOVE. Your fantastic videos and teaching style got me rolling. Thank you for doing this and I promise I will practice my little skates off!! 💜 love from Philadelphia!
You never disappoint! Instructions were crystal clear, I just have to practice til my movements are as clean and precise as a swiss watch. Then I'll be ready to skate with the "Dirty Debra" crew...maybe 😉
I’m waiting on my Moxi’s next week and I’m gonna DO this dance because of YOU! I will LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and spread the word of the roll! Thank you for your groovy interpretation on this!
this video helps so much!! ive been working on this move for awhile but havent fully gotten it to flow explaining the weight shift i think is what i was missing thank you!
Yikes, who are you making fun of Deb?! 😆 Great tutorial! I hope no one out there is teaching it standing straight up and stiff like you mentioned! That’s dangerous and scary. 😱 Anywho, your channel is poppin, congrats!! You’re a great teacher! 🎊 I hope to skate with you soon.
My mom & I love your videos!!! Since we live in Canada, it's our winter goal to learn how to dance skate & these videos are awesome!!!!! Thank you for breaking it down & explaining everything in such good detail. 💕💕
Hey Dirty Debbie!! Your videos have helped me move from beginner to intermediate! I’m ready to go to Moonlight and show off everything you’ve taught me! Can you do a video on how to partner skate?? I’d be so appreciative!
Great video!🤗 Can you make more different types of dance videos on skates. I really like to learn more for fun. I like to dance when i skate. Also for any other skating technique videos can you start to explain how your feet are moving inside the skates? For example are you on the balls of your feet, heels, side etc. That would be helpful.
I love your skate dancing training. I want to practice so I can take my future dates to do skating dancing, but before I do I want to be good and confident about it. Thank you so much for all your help!
Love you gurl!!!! I’ve been practicing!! Can you please give us a video of you doing the downtown while skating around the rink? I’m having trouble figuring out how to do this while skating lol. ❤️
Can't wait to try this tomorrow! The sad thing is, the summer hours are over so no more Wednesday afternoons or Friday mornings when my local rink is dead. We currently only have Friday nights, Saturday afternoons and Saturday nights now...until next month when they start having Sunday hours again. This whole Saturday night to Friday night is killing me. ALMOST hit the adult skate last night, but it's so late, and with work in the morning, the hubby didn't want to go. :( Going from 15+ hours a week to less than10 sucks. Especially since it's been too rainy to go outside the last 2 weeks. My feet have officially rejected shoes. LOL Walked in the local Pride parade last Saturday, my girls and I were very tempted to skate it, but sadly, there are bricks and old cobblestone along the route and I'm still re-learning how to skate over such surfaces so we all decided not to take our skates at the last minute. Oh well...maybe next year! :)
Love your teaching style, so concise and clear. Please I would love to see another video with you and IndyJamma Jones with you guys just skating on the rink and/or outside to see the comparison/difference in both your styles. Skating isn’t really a thing in 🇬🇧 so I cannot really do “people watching” to see others do their thing. Love you x
Thanks for this video. I'm a year into my skate experience and am just starting to work on this. The weight transfer explanation is very helpful Thank you!
There’s a comment for you your videos are pretty damn good what you do is after you teach her everything or in the beginning or afterward get your whistle out and surprise all your viewers with a little dance and some whistleblowing kind a like a referee
Loooooove your videos!! Thank u!! Can you consider in future vids as a snipit of the dance tutorials facing away from the camera so we can see what it looks like from the back as if we were skating in a line?!
Sweetie, it sounds like you are saying sugar skates. It took me a long time to realize you are saying sure grip skates. I was actually googling sugar skates. Thanks again for another great video. Love ya girl 💙
ok, so I just found your videos. I LOVE LOVE them. It would be sooooooo awesome if you could teach in mirror, so we aren’t going opposite directions lol. It could be that I am confused between my feet doing what I want and what I see lol,!! thanks again
Love your videos!! Can you make one on how to skate slow?? If that makes sense lol. Like when a slow song comes on a lot of people are skating backwards or forwards, but in a very slowed pace to the beat of the song and then there's people like me still going fast lmao
Very well Déborah. You are fine? I have also been doing well. I've been watching your video in the car park where you teach how to climb hills. It is always good to learn more with each of your new classes. I will send you my training address this morning. m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=190044396211931&id=100056191140816
Long before the now generation starting calling this move the downtown I starting a movement in the 70's called Rollerdancing A Workout On Skates and in the original video the step they now call Downtown was called Long and today which is just of the 13 steps in my video #1. Long was not singled out as the premier step but it was the step that connected the dance. Now this move has been changed often and its only associated as The Downtown. . This video I'm showing( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vJpXvztZWMw.html) you is the completed dance that most know nothing about because it was 1981 I created these. Please research me and you will see the originality. Oh yes there are now many variations all because of the cross front cross back move. This is the program that I have now taught for almost 40 years and it continues to this day.
Also your amazing ty for all these videos ! I hope to someday get to roller con and meet u and take a class . My belly is forever known as my snack area!!!!! U rock