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Old Inline Skating Wheel Stickers

inlina — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:51:44 +0000

I found a bunch of old inline skating wheel stickers from the early to mid 90′s when I was going through some boxes. Some classics in here…

Jean-Yves Blondeau – Rollerman

inlina — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:15:10 +0000

I need one of these suits.

No Heel Brake Stopping – Luc Bourdin’s Cess Slide Tutorial (Video of the Week)

inlina — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:22:50 +0000

I first came across this video a few years ago on cskroller.com (which appears to now be defunct). It is a great guide by skater Luc ‘Bitum Walker’ Bourdin on how to initiate a slide. You start with a good tight turn whilst getting over on the fat part of your wheels. From this, you start tightening up the turn until it essentially become a quarter flick turn that you slide with.

The only thing this video doesn’t show is how to make it a quick stop like a hockey stop. To do this, you need to transition to stopping more towards the pointy top part of your wheels rather than on the flatter sides. You can start out by transitioning from the flat side to the point in the stop to get an understanding for the dynamic of a faster stop.

No Heel Brake Stopping – Cess Slide/Hockey Stop

inlina — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:00:16 +0000

Doing a Cess Slide/Hockey Stop on inline skates is truly for the advanced skater, especially outdoors. This technique for stopping on inline skates is very hard on your wheels, and I use it sparingly (or sometimes for something fun to do!). I will use it as an emergency stop, but more out of habit from my days of playing inline hockey.

Note that the term ‘Cess Slide’ is used more in reference to a trick done on inline skates that is similar, but is still valid when talking about stopping.

No Heel Brakes Stopping – Powerslide

inlina — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:00:55 +0000

The powerslide stopping technique for inline skating is hard on your wheels. It relies entirely on the friction from your wheels to stop you, and that equals wheel wear. You will also need solid one foot balance and the ability to turn from skating forwards to backwards to do a powerslide.

No Heel Brakes Stopping – Stepping Stop

inlina — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:00:48 +0000

Here is a video of the stepping stop on inline skates. It is essentially the only stopping technique that, if done properly, has no impact on wheel wear.

No Heel Brakes Stopping – Slalom Stop

inlina — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:09:57 +0000

Here is the first of four videos (or five if I get around to doing a T-stop video) on ways to stop on inline skates without a heel brake. This is the slalom stop.

It is not as hard on your wheels and most other non-heel brake stops, but also not as effective. Your kinetic energy is mainly absorbed through bending the knees in each turn, and partly through some wheels scrub.

Video of the week

inlina — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:23:45 +0000

OK…let me see if I can get a video of the week thing going here. Odds are I won’t get past this week.

I’m going with some aggressive inline for my first one ever, with a clip from AV Media out of New York featuring Anthony Velez. As it turns out, you can royale a tree. Enjoy…

Inline Skating on TV – Inline Plus and Know Rolling

inlina — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:54:32 +0000

There is a group putting together a couple of TV shows to be aired on Channel 31 (free-to-air community TV) in Melbourne and other community stations around Australia. Check out their website:

http://www.inlineplus.tv/index2.html

It is set to start airing regularly in December, but they have run the pilot already….and it is available for download here (warning, it is a 30mb file):

http://www.inlineplus.tv/videos/inlineplus-wmv2.wmv

The Know Rolling (the aggressive specific show) pilot should be available soon.