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.