I’ve only been skating twice in my life and both times I just fell on my ass trying to even stand up.

How do you do flips and shit while balancing on razor blades against a near frictionless surface? I don’t think humans were meant to do that shit.

  • knifestealingcrow [any]
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    3 years ago

    Skates gotta be tight as hell, tighter than you think. You'll have leftover lace, wrap them around the ankle part of the skates for more security. If you don't do it right you'll roll your ankle, but if you do it should be really hard to even get it to bend

    Practice with a chair, put most of your weight on your lead foot, turn your back foot slightly out and push with it. Switch the weight to the foot you pushed with, and repeat. You should get a rhythm going.

    Don't be afraid to fall, as long as you have a helmet and maybe some pads you'll be fine. Try to sort of collapse if you do, rather than kick your legs to regain balance which will only result in flopping on your back, try to land basically sitting. When you feel like you're about to fall, buckle your knees and slide. That's not a great description so I hope it makes sense.

    Source: :kkkanada: