Roller Skating Beginner Skills - Put Your Hands On Your Knees! 

YESSS!!! This helped me turn my transitions from a terrifying wobbly mess to smooth and beautiful! Thanks Dirty!

I just started roller skating a week ago at the age of 47. Always feel fearful to try a new move but your videos are so encouraging! Thank you so much! - your new fan from Singapore in LA :)

I'm a tall lanky thing with a high center of gravity, and I definitely feel 10× more secure and balanced when I bend my knees and hunker down a bit. Great advice!

Yessss I am 50 and got my new skates yesterday...laced those bad boys up and am delighted to say I can skate pretty smoothly and remember how to flip around and skate backwards! I am so overjoyed to have revived my lost passion for skating, and with your help I am teaching my young daughter in law, too! Thank you eternally! 💕🙏🏼

Love your videos! “Snack area” and “fun zone” are definitely expressions I need to take with me into my first language :D

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Yay. This is all I repeat in my head “gotta bend your knees. Gotta bend your knees”. I will get there.... at some point.😛

I’ve been skating for 30 years but I’m not a fancy skater. I’m just a “get up and go” kinda roller. I came here to learn how to get fancier with spins and shit like that. Anywho, I’m glad I came here because not only are you informative, but you remind me so much of a good friend that passed away last February. Contagious, bubbly personality just like yours! It’s very comforting and I love ya lol ❤️

Thanks for all these helpful videos ❤❤❤

Yahoo !! Always look forward to your videos !! Dirty #1 !!!

Thank u for insipiring me and so many people to skate! I love it so much! I have a lot to go but I’m enjoying every bit of it 💕

This video is so awesome! I especially love the part where you show skating backwards. I've been watching a lot of how-to videos lately, and even in ones that say they're for beginners, it's tough because the instructor still makes it look easy. I love that you broke it down and did the moves in a way a beginner would. This makes it easier for me to understand exactly what needs to be done at my level, but I can also see how it will progress as I become more skilled. Thank you!!!

Woohoo!! What an awesome video! Thank you for sharing friend! I love you!

This is really helpful! I feel like I've been progressing super slowly at skating, but these videos where you really break down the basics and how to overcome things has helped me in my journey a lot. A lot of tutorials are very general and don't cover things you encounter when you're an absolute beginner. Thanks Deb!

Thank you so much,now my granddaughter is up and about on skates,she’s following you and enjoying your lessons so so much in my kitchen... absolute legend.. we love you from 🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💎😇

How does that song go...🤔 Your title reminded me of it... 🎶Hands on your knees!🎵 🎶Hands on your knees!🎵 🎶Everybody, Charlie Brown!🎵 🤣🤣🤣 Now, I will sing that song and do those moves when I'm practicing rollerskating! Thank you for another great video, Deborah! YOU ROCK!! 🥰 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LkzR1GSLcHM.html

Dirty, can I say that I love the fact you are teaching this SO similarily to how we do in figure skating for doing a 2-foot turn in teaching people. Thats how I do my skating is transfer my figure skills over to rollers and it helps so much.

Thank you Debra! This video is so helpful. I didn’t know that you have to bend your knees... I’ll try it again tomorrow.

Hi Im 49 and just starting skating again!! The last time I skated I was 14. my feet hurt like crazy, is that normal?

Its Xmas morning when you drop a new video! THANK YOU! All the things I need help on rn!

Hey thanks for all your videos. I live in an area with a lot of mini hills, bumps and lumps. Could you do a video on an effective way for a beginner to deal with unexpected declines and how to fall onto my knees safely.

just picking up the heels right? I’m so bad at picking up my whole skate haha

OMG i love your brain bucket….totally awesome

Plasmics music is so great! Loved how you played it in the intro

Every Boomer's I've been to I dream about skating those fountains lol

Just - Love And Light From Norway! ;-)

Love it.

Thanks, Dirty! It really does make me feel safer to get as low as possible. I realized this when I started practicing transitions or if I have to go over uneven terrain.

Fountain Valley boomers love that place,

I'm so sad that "secret location" is closed now 😭 even though I haven't been there in years

Thank you for another super helpful video!!! 💜💚I was wondering if you could make a tutorial on how much trucks should be loosened, like how loose or tight they should be for ramp/park skating, street/outdoor skating, and dance skating, or is it all the same? Ive tried looking for videos on this and cant seem to find the answer. Thanks tons and tons!!!

I am only just starting out rolllerskating - I haven’t done it since I was about 12. Your videos are so useful, thank you.

Hi beauties. What are the best outdoor wheels

I feel as if I was watching a boxing round with your introduction! So funny!! 🤣🤣🤣 I love it so much!! Your advices are great! Please, keep on posting more videos!!

The "bend your knees" thing made such a difference for me as i learn to skate better. Thanks!

Hey Dirty sorry I haven't been watching your video I have been extremely busy with stuff and busy with college I will try to keep up with your videos. Safe and healthy!

As I promised in recent comment, i got new (my first skates, i am 38) from right-ish zone of your counter (buying roller skates video),changed cushions(I am also densely packed in w.d.), swiss bearings, tunned nuts and bolts as you said in video (Maintenance video) and it rolls!, really it is simple to start when you do give attention!I am now in left-right weight movement category, having fun with my floor in my apt. Next level will be my huge basement area, which is second best place after any possible rink, gathering confidence to do so. Thank you for your beginer videos, it does help me! And please keep outtakes in videos, it is always lot of fun at end of educational part :-) Czech Republic, out.

Okay that works for me! I was doing the salsa of the hips from the previous video, but I guess I was not squatting deep enough. Now with my hands on my knees, I can actually roll back. Thank you

I also got a new tee that says I skate, because running sucks....🤗😁. My 16 yr old athlete son laughed! 😎 I love yours too and will order, am just needing to work out my size.

Hi Dirty, no skates yet (on order) but, I'm practicing and bending my knees...a nice wkout without skates. HA Thx much!

Yo I’m 15 and your videos really inspired me to take the leap and buy the roller skate! Your videos have helped me so much! Love from Australia❤️❤️❤️

Hey, "Dirty D" I'm so fasinated with u'r sk8'n adventures. I would very much like to join U in Fountain Valley, is this possible with 3.7 million acres burn'd uP in California & the Pandemic Restrictions I'll be coming in from Chicago to try and join you! Can you enter California and get around the "Apocalypse WiLdFireS"...?😈🔥🔥🔥 LEGACY aka 0Ld sKooL Sk8er 💜 👍

2 days ago I started roller skating but don't know what skates to get because I'm a male, can you help me with that ? And the tutorials help alot😊

Just started skating again at 50! Asphalt paths here have wooden areas over water. Could you show us how to skate wooden boardwalks!

Thank you so much this is mega helpful and so well explained! ❤️

Do you skate in anything other than derby skates? I love your videos but I see you in derby skates and was wondering if you had any non derby skates and what non derby skates you prefer.

I loveeee your videos and personality! Love from Mexico city

Oh I know this place! I went on my first date here 🤣🤣

Love seeing you there having fun. I notice that bent knees let your pushing leg drive further too.

I heard "bend your knees" said to me so many times during instruction and session that I am considering making that my last name. Great tips to finding a great level. Thank you!

What are your recommendations for wrist/hand protection?

HAHAHA like that end song ! BEND YOUR KNEES BABY !!!! gee this might help me with my three turn? Just can't get the courage to do the three turn on the floor or pavement. I can do it on carpet but when it hits that floor... UGH !!!! Gonna bend me knees and see if that makes a difference. Thank you for another great video!!!!

Hello:) your videos are great. I started skating this week (inline 3 wheel) can I practice your quad skate technics with my inline skate?

I think this is where my ballet background does not serve me well. Ballet is all about being straight and lifted...

Is this the abandoned boomers

Thanks Dirty, a day off work and I’m off to open netball courts on a windy day to challenge myself transitioning and to bend my knees ‘more’! Love your style Oh and I found similar Quay sunglasses you shared with me last week that sit well under my new S1 helmet.... no more bike helmet 😉. Safety pads I did need to order from the US but are due soon. Then I feel (at 48 😏) I will push myself a little more confidently. 👍🏻😘 Take Care!

Awesome training video as always. Love it! Thank you for sharing!

Hey! This is Stella from the El Dorado Skate Park, could you give me a suggestion on where to find some new skates? My skates right now are pretty basic and the wheels don’t really move like yours!!

Thank you ❤️❤️❤️ just started

Where is this, dirty???!?! 😭 you gotta tell us LA babies!!!!

Awesome🙏🙏

Noti! Noti!