Publicidad
Idiomas disponibles
Idiomas disponibles
4. Push off when you start feeling comfortable.
When you take a step forward with one foot, push off with the other and glide forward on your set foot. Bring your
push-off foot forward after the step and shift your weight to it. Then pushing off with your other foot. Keep alternating
feet. You're skating.
- Learn to balance on each leg as you glide. Transfer the weight from your back foot to your front foot as you do the
push and glide movement. Do this really slowly to begin with, until it begins to feel normal.
- Practice skating on one foot only after a while. The more comfortable you are on each foot independently, the
better a skater you'll be. Glide on the left foot, then on the right foot, in turns, and have the non-gliding foot off the
ground to get extra comfortable.
5. Learn to stop using the brake pad.
While some beginners like to stop by crashing into something, there are a variety of different ways to stop once you've
gotten started that don't involve slamming into a wall. You'll become more comfortable on your skates if you can learn to
stop comfortably.
- Most inline skates are fitted with brake pads at the back. To stop, put one foot in front of the other and lift the toe
of the front foot while leaning backward, to help the heel brake rub on the ground to slow you down. Go slowly to
practice.
- When you get more comfortable on your skates, you can turn your ankles in or out to form a V shape, or putting
one skate perpendicular to the other to make a T-shape. This is a technique commonly used on ice skates,
allowing you to use the wheels like brakes that slow you down.
- Lean forward, shifting the weight to the forward foot by bending your forward knee.
Place the back foot such that the knee is straightened out and the skate wheels are sliding against the ground,
almost flat on the ground.
- Increase the pressure on the back foot by flicking it and locking the foot firmly in that position to make a
smooth stop
Start practicing this method once you are an intermediate skater. Practice by keeping the foot without the
braking pad as the back foot and once you master this brake, the braking pad can be removed and you can
practice with the other foot too.
- Use brake pads after slowing down using other methods if you were going at very high speeds. Otherwise
the pads could get damaged very easily.
3/18
Publicidad
