Roller Skating Lessons

What you will learn

Based on your skating skill progression training for skaters with little or no experience on quad roller skates will focus on:

Gear: Checking trucks, wheels and toe stops to make sure they are secure and adjust equipment as needed. Brief overview of how loosening the trucks will allow for more agility and faster speeds.

BALANCE, AGILITY, AND PROPULSION

Proper Skating Stance – balance your weight on your skate by having your knees bent, boobs out, look ahead to where you are going.

Sticky Skating – Without lifting up your skates skate across one end of the track back and forth using the watermelon/bubble sticky skating and the serpentine sticky skating techniques. 

Balancing On One Leg – Skate across the track balancing only on one leg. Move your body to find your center of gravity and balance. Pick whatever leg comes more natural for you. At first lift your leg slightly then as you get better lift leg higher. Once you are able to skate balancing on one leg then learn to do it for the other leg.

Figure Skaters – Once balancing on one leg is mastered for both legs progress to figure skaters.

Shifting the Weight From Skate to Skate – put all your weight onto one leg the push off, glide then shift all your weight to the other leg, glide then push off. Keep repeating.

Hopping from Skate to Skate – get some speed then while gliding hop from one skate to the other skate.

Hop Over A Water Bottle Challenge – After 2 months of roller skating training you should have the skills to jump over a water bottle, even if you never skated before. With practice YOU WILL BE ABLE TO JUMP A WATER BOTTLE!

FALLING AND STOPPING SAFELY

Try to control your falls by always falling forward onto your padding.
Do not flail arms or put them out for balance.

TROUBLE! – when in trouble take a knee whether standing still on skates or in motion. This is the fastest way to come to a stop and get your body where you can regain control.

Rolling single knee fall- is a slow way to stop. While skating put all the weight onto one leg the drag the top of the skate on the other leg and go into a rolling lunge coming to a stop on the knee pad. 

Rolling double knee fall- this is slow way to stop but looks cool as hell! Once the single knee fall is mastered you need to get up a bit more speed and when you drop to your knee the follow with the 2nd knee. You must keep your chest out and look forward while doing this.

T-Stop– place all your weight on one leg and then take the other leg without any weight on it and turn it sideways using the outside 2 wheels to lightly scrape against the ground and slow you down. This is a slow stop.

Plow Stop – with legs wide put pressure on the outsides of the skates though the side and heel of both feet. Do not let both legs come back together.