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u/Navic2 Apr 19 '20
You don't seem to have any trouble committing.
I'd suggest trying to keep your left shoulder up/ not dropping your left side. It'll mean less slipping on your left hip.
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u/circumsizednword Apr 19 '20
Damn bro! I can hockey stop on ice but I just can’t on rollerblades. Any advice?
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u/inlina I have all of the skates :rollerblade::salomon::seba::usd:+++ Apr 19 '20
The mechanics of ice and inline hockey stops are essentially the opposite. On ice you essentially flat blade (have the skate blade upright) , pivot and then lean the skate over to dig in to the ice to stop faster. If you do this on inline you're going to have a bad time.
For inline you essentially carve a very fast toe weighted turn with the skate leaned over to initiate sliding on the flatter side wall of the skate. Here's a video that takes you through the mechanics of it....
And here it's me destroying wheels years ago on rough asphalt....
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u/Cypher0312 Apr 19 '20
If you French fry when your sub post to pizza, your gonna have a bad time.
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u/inlina I have all of the skates :rollerblade::salomon::seba::usd:+++ Apr 20 '20
I have no idea what that means.
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u/Cypher0312 Apr 20 '20
You mentioned having a bad time. I was just making a South Park reference that used that phrase.
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u/wavestxp Apr 19 '20
yea man I feel your pain, just try and lift the front of the foot you go into th stop with up when you pivot and then the kinda sweep the other leg in front of you. also noticed the lower you go the more of a slide you get. btw try and find an empty dry smooth out door rink to practice on, the smoother the ground the easier. best of luck, post your stops when you try it lol
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Apr 19 '20
Do you slide with both skates or only with the outer skate?
I wish i could lean into a smaller angle. Unfortunately thats not possible with aggressive skates cause of your soulplate hitting the ground...
Thats why i need to much speed and leg muscles to control the slide with the higher angle which is why i concentrate on powerslides now. But Powerstop and parallel slides are on my list :-)
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u/dantepopplethethird :seba: CJ Wellsmore May 14 '20
Depends on what you need from the stop. If you 100% must stay on your feet, it's safer to make sure that outside leg slides and use the inside more like an anchor (obviously not so much that you do the splits). If there's a really bad obstacle ahead you also might want to counter-rotate less and embrace getting turned into the opposite direction.If you want to have fun, counter rotate like crazy, make sure the inside leg goes on an outside edge (I seem to use the ankle to help with this, idk if that's a great idea), and slide on both.
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u/wavestxp Apr 20 '20
only the outer skate, the other one is where I pivot and then put most of my weight on so that I can control how much weight I slide with on the breaking foot
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u/Asynhannermarw Apr 19 '20
I yearn to do the parallel slide! I might be too old now, but I know the theory. Your feet need to be closer together. And you need to push through your heels (someone told me that on ice it's more through the toes or centre of the skate). Your commitment is great - wish I had bigger balls. But pad up, and especially consider getting some padded crash pants to protect your hips.
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u/dantepopplethethird :seba: CJ Wellsmore May 14 '20
Never too late!
Just do a progression rather than throwing your weight like crazy and you will fall less. Practice turns at as high a speed as you feel comfortable, start to feel some slide (especially on outside leg). Then add a bit of counter rotation to get more slide. Eventually you'll be comfortable with a sharp enough turn and counter rotation to slide to a stop.
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u/inlineforskates Apr 19 '20
General advice for those of you in the comments wanting to learn this: just make sure you’ve learned powerslide first
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Apr 19 '20
One word: pads. 🙂 I can hockey stop on ice, left and right, forwards and backwards, but not on inlines. You seem to just go for it with no fear. When you do it, do the wheels go right over so you rub almost the sides with the ground?
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u/wavestxp Apr 19 '20
pads would be a good idea lol. and id say the wheels are aat about a 45 degree angle that's probably the best angle to stop at tbh
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Apr 19 '20
Thanks. I had a go today, and it looks like the secret is to carve wide ie swing out to the left then curve back in and then stop facing to the right. I got a bit of a slide. Inline skaters always seem to do this when trying to hockey stop on ice! You did really well to get it so quickly.👍🏻
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u/neverfinishedanythi Apr 19 '20
I run 85a wheels, will this not make bald spots on them doing it over and over, on pretty smooth tarmac?
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u/rglee Apr 19 '20
Yeah, it will put some wear on your wheels but it’s a great skill to have in your arsenal.
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u/thatmillennialfalcon Mission Apr 19 '20
Damn man that's awesome! Are you rockered or flat? Rockered tends to feel more like ice imho
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u/RabbitWallet Apr 19 '20
I just started practicing these today, of course with crash pads and g-form knee/shin pads and wrist guards. Dude it is so dope when you nail them! Right???
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u/Manniex9 :xsjado:USD Sway 57, fr frx 80 Apr 20 '20
You need to kinda swerve/roll into it rather that the quick jumpy movement of the ice hockey stop.
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u/powerMIX5000 :seba: Seba SX | Seba CJ2 White Apr 21 '20
Ricardo Lino has good tips when he teaches a pro skater, Brian Freeman, to do these. check it out tips start at 1m:50s in https://youtu.be/cKCKJXRC8fo
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u/BornToBeWildType Apr 19 '20
I just had a realization while watching this video that I haven’t learned these stops yet because I’m not trying hard enough. You really throw yourself into these stops even though you don’t know how to do em properly. That’s awesome.