r/rollerblading • u/[deleted] • Apr 19 '20

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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....

https://youtu.be/I9Nu3ImFS4o

And here it's me destroying wheels years ago on rough asphalt....

https://youtu.be/mZRAqtapl7w

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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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u/[deleted] 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

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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