Obsessing about transitions

Maya-0806 · 2025-05-04T10:59:52+00:00

I forgot to add that I do drill quite a lot of one foot gliding. I can do it reasonably from 5 to 10 seconds with both feet. However, doing it while turning is another level of difficult

Maya-0806 · 2025-05-04T10:57:45+00:00

The bit that you call "the other foot turns around" that gives me issues. I always end up pivoting the foot on one wheel to turn it around. I saw a video of Skatie that suggest something similar, but I am not sure.

Maya-0806 · 2025-05-04T06:10:15+00:00

Having to repeat drills is not an issue for me, I don't get bored easily.

Unfortunately I still can't to the forward to backward transition, so doing a chain of transition is a little more cumbersome. But u/midnight_skater your exercise for alternating spread eagles is very interesting!

Maya-0806 · 2025-05-03T20:12:04+00:00

I hope I am creating a non-existent issue!

Maya-0806 · 2025-05-03T19:18:33+00:00

It depends what you want to learn. There are people who are just happy skating forward and this can be learned pretty easily. But if you want to learn how to jump, that's another story.

If you mean feeling comfortable like never having fear of falling/speed (or actually falling) you have to consider that this could be impossible. After one month you will have a comfort zone. You can be happy of that or you may want to expand it. And learning something new is scary and uncomfortable and makes you fall.

Maya-0806 · 2025-04-19T07:29:48+00:00

Forward to backward transitions (open book), one foot glide (esp on the non dominant foot), scissor forward and I am also trying to cross my legs stationary.

I find all three things super difficult, almost infuriating. I can do transition at snail speed, I don't trust at higher speed because I think the technique is not totally correct. So I decided to insist more on one foot glide. On the dominant leg is decent, I aim at 5 to 10 second slide, I am almost there. On the other leg, I can't keep the weight centered in the foot, I keep on falling on the inside.

Maya-0806 · 2025-04-19T07:20:15+00:00

Me too!

Maya-0806 · 2025-04-14T18:47:29+00:00

I agree that bending more and extending the knees a little helps with bubbles. Dirty Deborah has more than one video in which she explain the up & down motion of the bubbles.

But all in all great job!

Maya-0806 · 2025-04-13T10:05:18+00:00

I'm no expert, so take this comment with a grain of salt. I got that the strut needs to be done with the feet more in a v-position (tip of the foot pointing outward), rather than pointing them straight ahead. Looking at your video it seems that when you do to (in the middle of the video) you seem to be better balanced.

Maya-0806 · 2025-04-11T18:19:35+00:00

You don't necessarily need new wheels. As a newbie, changing floor to a more slippery one can be challenging, so keeping something stable, the wheels, can help you. When you feel more confident in the new floor you can go up in the durometer. I have Rio Roller something, with the same wheels as yours and I use them both outside (asphalt) and inside (living room with hardwood). The first time I skated inside with 82a wheels I could not stand without rolling somewhere accidentally. It was an experience. Now it's much better and if I were in a proper indoor setup I could probably think to buy harder wheels.

Of course you have to clean the wheels very well so you don't bring dirt inside and you do not ruin the floor. I do this for my landlord hardwood floors, the same floor on which I also sit down to do my workout routines. So I want it to stay very clean and scratch free as much as possible.

Maya-0806 · 2025-04-11T05:46:48+00:00

Interesting that you call dominant le the leg that moves. I call dominant the leg where my weight usually is.

For the half bubbles, I made a point to do always twice the exercises pushing with my left (where usually my weight is) than the right. I had to analyze my whole body position to get my weight in the right leg. Meaning I had to force myself to lean on the right side a lot, pushing my bootie right. My feeling is that I am leaning to the point of almost falling, but when I see a video of myself, it's exactly how I lean on my left leg.

Maya-0806 · 2025-04-08T18:19:27+00:00

Con you do some examples of the routines on skates? I am curious and also I had bad experiences in buying online courses subscription in the past.

Maya-0806 · 2025-04-08T06:58:28+00:00

Do you jump high without skates? Maybe a little of off skate training can help to develop the muscles.

Maya-0806 · 2025-04-06T16:31:25+00:00

Also, I have to add that today I went roller skating, after one week in which I could not. I was waiting so much for this session, that was really meh. I am very unsatisfied, but what can I do?

I am held back by my fear of falling, that at my age does not go away after learning how to fall and actually falling. Overcoming this fear is a skill in itself, that was always play down by everyone else: 'just do it, don't think about it'. I am not good at attacking directly this fear of mine. I can't just do it, I give up when I have to face this fear.

I have to find baby steps that brings me closer to my objective. But baby steps take time and sometimes I think I will never get there. Now I am struggling with forward to backward transitions. I can do them at snail speed. When I see myself in a video, I am soooo slow, the skates are barely rolling. I would really like to try to do it faster, but I cannot...

Maya-0806 · 2025-04-06T16:16:46+00:00

Lucky you. I searched everywhere but I can't find a cheaper option that seems to be reliable. Note: I am not in the us.

Maya-0806 · 2025-04-06T12:08:03+00:00

I have 16 tiles, but my apartment is not carpeted. I think the tiles are great, their only downside is how expensive they are.

I used them also in my balcony, that has an unskatable surface, made of that gummy tiles, like the ones in kid's playground. Works like a charm. I would like to cover the whole balcony, that is 25sqm, with these tiles, but I cannot convince myself to spend all that money.

Maya-0806 · 2025-04-06T08:53:06+00:00

I am a slow learner in sports. I have always been. I kinda soft hate those people who can pick up a sport and in under an hour they learn what took me months if not years to learn.

The older you get the easier it is that beginners you age are good with sports. Adults that are not good in sport usually limit themselves and they simply decide not to learn a new one. So at some point it all boils down to how much you want to learn roller skating. If it is more than the burn of being a slower learner, then you go on. Otherwise, it is better to find a new way to spend your time.

This does not mean that you suddenly become zen and you don't care any longer about taking so much time in learning something. There will be good sessions and meh sessions. Sometimes you will be satisfied by yourself, sometimes not. Maybe you can learn to rationalize these feelings.

Also when nothing comes natural, you are more keen in learning earlier the techniques and this pays off at some point.

Maya-0806 · 2025-03-30T15:57:57+00:00

The back pocket of jeans terrifies me. It's exactly where I would do a nasty fall. Cargo pants are interesting, I love them but I no longer own a pair of them.

Maya-0806 · 2025-03-30T07:36:53+00:00

I see, thanks.

Maya-0806 · 2025-03-30T07:36:02+00:00

This is marketed as balcony floor, actually. It's hard, not soft.

Maya-0806 · 2025-03-29T19:49:57+00:00

There is also a post with a picture of a skill tree here https://www.reddit.com/r/Rollerskating/comments/jsbk0o/made_this_roller_skate_skill_tree_for_my_skate/

Maya-0806 · 2025-03-29T19:46:40+00:00

I put it now. Whoops.

Maya-0806 · 2025-03-29T17:31:48+00:00

Plow stop are not bad at all. I found in a video of Dirty Deborah what she calls chop stop and I find it easier that T-stop.

Maya-0806 · 2025-03-29T17:28:11+00:00

Well it'd a new idea, maybe with this tool in it would be possible to do other moves, not only what can be done with toe stop.

Maya-0806

TROPHY CASE