Some basic
roller skating techniques for beginners.
Roller skating
technique number1.
When you put the roller skates sneaker on
for the first time to learn how to skate, it is essential that you
also wear helmets, elbow guards, wrist guards, hand gloves, knee
guards and long stockings. The reason is simple, you will fall very
often and these protectives will reduce injuries to a minimum. Thus
when you don't injure yourself, you will tend to continue skating
and not give up as easily.
2. Get the correct posture for
your body.
As you can see in our posture diagram below, your
back should be slightly tilted forward, your knees should be
slightly bent, your feet should form a V-shape forward facing, and
your arms should be extended forward for better balancing.When you
begin, you should put your right foot forward first, then follow by
your left foot(if you are right handed).Do it slowly at first, only
lifting your foot slightly off the ground.3.When you
start your skating exercise, go to a place with smooth pavements to
begin roller skating.
Skating at a parking lot with no
vehicle traffic should do. When you start, falling down is normal,
and when you really feel that you are loosing your balance, bent
even more of your knees so that your body's center of gravity is
lowered. This will reduce the impact of your fall. And when you
fall, stretch your palms forward and touch the ground with it and
slide on the pavement, so that your gloves will take the brunt of
falling. With all those gears that you are wearing, you should not
be injured.
And don't forget, the more you fall, the more
confident you will get until you can practically get rid off the
fear of falling and start to really enjoy the thrills of roller
skates. Unlike the normal quad, the aircoaster skates will not hurt
your feet that much because they are made of soft leather with thick
padding, and better still, you can even flex your shoe soles!
Skating with the aircoaster is very much safer due to the fact that
it has a very much lower center of gravity.
More roller skating techniques-braking.
It is
not enough that you can move forward with the skates. Like all fast
cars, you should be able to STOP in time to avert any
untoward accidents! The most essential method is called
T-Stop. Basically, what you do is to bring your two feet into
perpendicular( 90 degrees ) to each other. As shown in our T-stop
graphic below, you can see that as the right leg is still moving
forward, tuck your left foot backwards, heel first, so that it will
form a 90 degrees angle to that of your skating right foot. Master
this stopping technique with more practice, starting slowly, then
increase your skating speed when you are more confident. Before you
can enjoy skating, you should master the T-stop first, in order that
you can come to a complete stop and not knock into something
unpleasant.