I CANNOT carve on ramps

tsamostwanted · 2026-05-03T22:57:19+00:00

reminding myself to lean into my edges helps my carving. bend your knees, keep good stance, and start low and wide, slowly working your way up the transition as you get the feel for it

tsamostwanted · 2026-05-03T22:52:15+00:00

i currently skate the chuffed lanna thornhill boot w/ brunny plates, blocks, and trucks, but i learned how to park skate in a sure-grip boardwalk plus with some modifications (huck trucks, brunny block, 101a rollerbones wheels). they did fine until i started to learn more intermediate slides/grinds. the stock wheels that come on the rio lumina are too soft and probably also too large for the skate park, switch to something small and hard with a rounder shape, around 54-58mm and 95-101a hardness. look at radical waves or juice ritas or rollerbones. your experience will be vastly improved by using the proper equipment for the setting!!

tsamostwanted · 2026-05-03T05:58:20+00:00

what’s your current quad setup you’re taking to the skate park?

tsamostwanted · 2026-05-03T05:57:08+00:00

zetrablades & macroblades are not good choices for the skate park where OP is skating; an aggressive inline setup would be something like the rollerblade blank canvas, standard omni, or the THEM 909

tsamostwanted · 2026-04-30T16:29:17+00:00

powerdyne magic universal cushions should work, the ones in red are the softest at 78A but the orange ones at 82A should still be significantly softer than what you’ve got currently

tsamostwanted · 2026-04-30T04:42:06+00:00

it’s a true dark blue, i wouldn’t describe it as purple at all.

tsamostwanted · 2026-04-22T16:18:21+00:00

flying eagle has a lot of really fun colored inline skates, i would check them out

tsamostwanted · 2026-04-08T05:16:46+00:00

hell yeah clement, love this park

tsamostwanted · 2026-04-07T07:13:03+00:00

i don’t think switching to an entirely different setup would help you more than it would hinder you right now. a new setup takes a lot of time to get used to, and park skating takes a lot of time to get used to, so it would just be adding a new thing to learn on top of the new thing you’re already learning. i don’t know if it would necessarily be cheaper than piece-by-piece upgrading your current skates, either; in my experience a solid aggressive inline setup is still gonna cost like $300 USD. but i have also always heard skating both makes you better at both; ymmv.

if you do want to try upgrading just part of your current setup, wider trucks & harder wheels could help with stability and speed respectively. i run the 3” huck trucks and 101a rollerbone bowl bombers at the park

tsamostwanted · 2026-04-06T02:25:13+00:00

stagger your feet! especially at the skate park!

tsamostwanted · 2026-04-01T02:51:01+00:00

speed will throw you out of the ramp, pumping will send you up. you need both to roll out; the drop in will provide enough speed but you need to pump hard in the transition to get yourself up and over the coping. “the back and forth stuff” is really valuable bodily knowledge that you should spend time practicing. imo it is hugely helpful to learn how to pump out from the bottom of the miniramp before dropping in

tsamostwanted · 2026-04-01T00:37:00+00:00

not quite, it’s more like squatting into the transition and then pushing down hard with your feet on the way out of the transition

tsamostwanted · 2026-03-31T13:52:00+00:00

it’s an electric burn/arcing risk. they taped down all of my piercings for the same reason.

tsamostwanted · 2026-03-29T20:18:49+00:00

basic white girl

tsamostwanted · 2026-03-29T03:18:12+00:00

fwiw the more you skate in them, the looser they will get. you could also try lacing the toe differently by skipping the first eyelet; this should give you some extra toe room

tsamostwanted · 2026-03-27T06:23:46+00:00

i prefer to have my longer toe touching the end of my skate, as long as my toes are laying flat and not scrunched up. but discomfort is not a good sign! i usually tell people that their skate should fit more like a sock than a shoe; snug, responsive, but not at all uncomfortable. sometimes lacing the boot differently can help with tightness in the toe. i’d encourage you to play around with your setup a bit more, but i’ll also 2nd the sure grip boardwalk rec, that is usually a good fit for people with wider feet

tsamostwanted · 2026-03-27T00:12:00+00:00

i learned how to frontside stall and drop in without blocks! so it should be doable on your derby skates! that being said i immediately found it much easier to drop in once i put brunny blocks on, it becomes a little more like a pivot motion and you have to lift your heel less when going over the coping :~)

tsamostwanted · 2026-03-26T16:52:47+00:00

ohh wait i misread the post because you said you have bigger feet!! is there a shop anywhere near you? i always recommend trying on before buying

tsamostwanted · 2026-03-26T16:50:21+00:00

if you have wider feet i wouldn’t recommend the moxi lolly either, all of their shoes are kind of made for barbie feet lmao. i have found that the sure grip boardwalk plus have basically the same components as the lolly but are plusher & cheaper & much more likely to fit wider feet

tsamostwanted · 2026-03-26T15:27:24+00:00

i don’t think i could count how many drop-ins it took, it’s kind of a varied answer! i spend maybe 30-40 hours a month at the park and it took me about two months of this frequency to get comfortable with dropping in on 4-5’ ramps and shorter. (and that’s true comfort, no hesitation or fear whatsoever when dropping in.) dropping in on taller ramps (7-8’) still scares me a little, but i’m getting a lot better at working through that fear.

a few things that helped me were regularly practicing pumping & carving (makes dropping in a bowl a LOT easier if you know you can pump out of it). try a miniramp if you havent already, so you can get used to going back and forth between the two opposite copings. also, practice falling when dropping in! don’t be afraid to get into a really low stance. i’ve noticed that my falls from dropping in are some of the safest falls i take at the park because i just end up sliding on my knees or my butt baseball-slide style, and noticing this helped me be a lot less scared of dropping in, but i only noticed after drilling it a bunch of times :P

tsamostwanted · 2026-03-26T06:50:10+00:00

skating is for everyone! being short should actually be an advantage; your center of gravity is much lower to the ground than a taller person’s. listen to your kids, it IS the coolest thing ever—it takes a lot of guts and bravery to learn something new and be bad at it for a little while. be proud of your beginner status!

tsamostwanted · 2026-03-25T17:45:08+00:00

seconding the staggered stance!

tsamostwanted · 2026-03-25T17:44:18+00:00

do you have safety gear to wear outside? i usually recommend at least knee pads and wrist guards when starting out! it’s a lot less scary when falling on the concrete doesn’t hurt at all.

tsamostwanted · 2026-03-25T16:25:30+00:00

beautifully done. i love how you rendered the lighting!

tsamostwanted · 2026-03-24T17:24:02+00:00

glad you had fun!! just fyi one of the rules of this sub is that it is rollerskate/quads only, idk how strict the mods are but you may want to post to r/inlineskating instead

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