Outdoor Roller Skating Tips for New Street Skaters Part 2

Today we're going to be outdoor street skating in downtown Los Angeles. Can anyone tell me what this building is right here? Has anyone guessed it right? The Walt Disney Concert Hall. Walt Disney's one of my favorite people. I love that he started cryogenically freezing. All right, I brought this flower all the way from Long Beach. I'm feeling so super good today. Today is, even though I started the day off walking through a pile of ants, today is a beautiful, gorgeous, lovely day. Today we're going to be outdoor street skating in downtown Los Angeles, and we're leaving the Walt Disney Concert Hall. I used to think this architecture was really special to Los Angeles, but I've seen it in South Korea, in Dongdaemun, and I've seen it in Barcelona, and it is still very special, but it's not unique to Los Angeles. So you'll see I have my hand sanitizer here. The city is opening back up, and just in case we have to tie our laces back up or hit a crosswalk sign, I want to make sure that I can sanitize afterwards. We're going to be taking all the crosswalks. Today I'm going to show you a bunch of familiar spots that I've made. I don't know, different roller skating posters and content out of. Does anyone recognize this spot? Anyone know FX Mixer, Marshall? He made some really cool photographs of me here. I love these bumps. These bumps represent my brain on quarantine. All right, we are going to wait for the crosswalk person. How's everybody feeling today? Yeah, so-so. Today we're going to be outdoor street skating in downtown Los Angeles, and showing you how to skate safely in the streets. All right, taking any suggestions though. We are live, so some good ways that I like to slow down are just by spreading my feet and going to my inside wheels, pointing my toes inward, and putting the pressure on my heels to slow down and stop. Looks like this. I stick my butt out so that I can dig into my heels even faster. I'm always using my toe stops for a little lift too. Out here on the streets, you want to do whatever you can to establish control, especially if we're going to go down a big hill, which we're about to do. In part one of street skating, we talked about these cheese grater grates. On these cheese graters, you want to kind of avoid those, and then we're going to take our skills from our outdoor hill bomb and take this hill very slowly. We're going to bend our knees, look over our shoulder, and lead with the foot that's highest on the hill when we take the turns. If I get too scared about the speed that I'm taking, I'm just going to go straight up. There's a car coming, so I'm going to go to the sidewalk now. A lot of people have asked how you take hills down narrow streets, so I'm just going to show you how to do little slaloms, which is the happy face technique that's on the hill bombing tutorial. We're going to be going from... Look, he wants me to catch up to him. Can you hear me, Miguel? No, can you hear me though? Oh, because I was teaching a technique, so I understand. So Miguel cut that one short, but when you're going down a narrower hill, you want to take the slaloms. Okay, we'll go back up. It's much more easy to control yourself, I believe, on quad skates. So you're going to do the happy face technique, but in a smaller area, and the lower you get, the more stable and the more control you feel. If I wasn't able to control myself this way, I would turn around and hit the brakes. All right, let's wait until it's green. Can I see? Wow. All right. Okay, it's time to go. I'm going to try and follow all the laws. All right, so on bumps like this, I just bend my knees, stagger my stance, and hop over where it's not smooth. Speed is your friend when you're going over cracks. So cracks like this, I just roll over. Cracks like that, I avoid. Hi. So this is a big crack here. So I'm just going to walk on my toe stops around really big, crusty stuff that I can't roll over. And on the opposite side, it's smoother. I don't want to go fast down this giant hill on all those little crack, on all those little acorns. We're going to go the sidewalk, but we're going to wait for the light to turn green. How are you feeling today, Miguel? Good? Thumbs up? Here we go. I bend my knees and I go up over this candy cap. Wow. You can't see, but Miguel is grinding this curve here. Huh? Okay. So I'm going to control my speed by putting my weight into one side. And then on the opposite side, I'm going to point my toe, almost like I did in the moonwalk tutorial yesterday. I'm going to flatten the front of my foot and drag my other toe stop. So all my weight's in this side and I've got a weightless foot back here. Hello. This is one way to slow yourself down. I've got a micro bend in both knees, but my left foot is flat and straight. This is going to give me control. Nick the medic. This is amazing. Oh my God. It's totally not unbelievable. Oh my God. How crazy cool is this? I love you Nick the medic. Oh my gosh. That was magic. I love life. I love life on roller skates. Okay. It's green. He made me so happy. I miss friends so bad. Okay. Tell me in the comments what your favorite kind of floor is. Mine is marble or smooth concrete like this. I just love the feeling of smoothness. You know what? I think we should show them how to go down the stairs. Sorry, Miguel. Oh, these flowers here. I'll tell you about those some other time. They smell great, but I don't want to have to touch these railings. All right. You're trying not to touch a bunch of stuff. So you're going to put a weightless foot down and then you're going to put your other foot behind it or in front of it, depending on what's more comfortable. Then you dip your toe back down. Like you were testing the water in a pool and then you put the other foot in front or behind whatever's comfortable. Dip, step, dip, step, dip, step, dip, step, dip, step. Try not to go too fast. If you go too fast, then you might lose your balance. You really have to think about it. Sometimes I like to switch the way that I'm facing. All right. One more. Not touching the railings. All righty. So we are about to enter the Bones Bearing Video territory. We're about one block away. I should have given Nick this. Oh, it's green. And we're going to cross because there's more room over there too. Sometimes you'll notice that I'll just put my toe step down to step up. All right. Make sure no one's turning while I cross. Whoa, we gotta go fast. Avoid this cheese gritter. Who knows what this move's called? The grapevine. So this is a nice popular wall ride. You see these skaters are blowing this off right now. And these are some stairs. This is a popular street skating spot in downtown LA. I'm not going to do street skating. Not during this time. You know, like tricks on ledges and walls right now. But I am going to be really careful of other people doing it. I just really don't want to get hurt or be sent to the hospital right now. Good luck is as lucky as lucky can be. So I'm going to do the slaloming technique to slow myself down. All right, sewer grates you just avoid. I like to straddle over them sometimes. Here's another part from the Bones Bearing Video right here. I lost my flower. So let's talk about ledges. We're not going to do any tricks on them. But I used to think that I had to jump up this high in order to hit a ledge. Totally not the case. Like you can just step up to it. Right? Or you can just bend your knees to get up to it faster. I don't like to mix the two though. But you bend your knees, you don't have to be able to jump all the way up to it. They're waxed right here and there and there. There's a lot of skate stoppers at this spot. All right, should we keep going a little to Tokyo? But usually, well, the skate stoppers are here for a reason. Let's roll. It's so pretty out. Thank you. I like to look behind myself when I'm skating backwards. It's fun to dance at a stoplight. I'm not going to push any buttons. I'm just going to be patient. I don't want to get my hands dirty. And now we're in little Tokyo. Skating in Tokyo is actually illegal. I've been there before. You can get fined if you're skating on the streets in Tokyo. What? All right. Tokyo is such a beautiful, clean city though. You can pretty much marvel at buildings at every stop of like any walkway. There's gorgeous buildings in Tokyo. But skating is illegal there. It's a pretty, it feels really safe. If you like, well, the story is if you like leave a piece of jewelry at a bus stop, people will leave it be there so that you can find it again. I love this one. If you push it, which I'm not going to, it moves around. It's a giant Rubik's cube with a bunch of different people's faces on it. Hey, Miguel, come here. All right. Are there any skills that they want us to go over? Okay. Can I see? All right. Everyone in the chat. Whoa. Okay. If there was an emergency stop or bail, I first wouldn't put myself in the situation that I couldn't, whoa, that I couldn't bail from. So first learn, turn around 180 toe stops. So like jumping to the toe stops. I moved it, Bobby. We're making a new purple. That's right. I love you back, Corey Jacobs. Hey, Sia. Hi, Ashley. Yes, Jana. Hi, Aura. Stopping. Okay. I really like this different method of doing a T-stop. Oh, thank you so much, Watami. Any other skills you want me to roll over? I mean, roll through? Nighttime skating. All right, AVP. Okay. I'm going to go over this other way of stopping. This was in the way. No, I didn't switch it. Okay. This is another way to do a T-stop. Rather than doing the outside wheels like a lot of teachers will teach, I like to do just the ball of the foot. So you transfer your weight from the front foot to the back foot by really dragging the back outside front wheel. So you push off all the weights in the front wheel, micro-bend in the... So I've got all my weight in my left leg. Micro-bend in the left leg. And then I lightly curl the ball of my foot up so that I'm dragging the front outside wheel. My feet are in an L. And my shoulders are drawing a diagonal line between my right and my left toe. Looks like this. That's one way to stop too. Another way to stop is to just point the toe in the opposite direction of the knee. So you drag your back foot, really balancing all your weight into the front foot. Your back foot, you let drop behind you, you flatten that front foot, and then you turn your toe stop in the opposite direction on the back foot that your knee is facing. So toe, knee. And you transfer the weight on the drag from the front foot to the back foot as you do it, scooping your hips forward and under. Okay. On the parking lot? Okay. Oh, you know what is a really good one? So stopping on rough surfaces. I wouldn't say anything is too much different. Okay. Okay. So you always want to stagger your stance. Your knees are your shock absorbers. So you want to bend your knees when you're going over rough surfaces like this. If you want to slow down, you can use that ball of the foot T-stop technique or the toe stop drag. But you really want to get good putting your weight on one side. If you just let this one hang, go lazy, it's going to bounce around and it's not going to feel good. So you really want to point the toe and flatten this front foot so that you're pointing the toe in the opposite direction of your knee. You always want to stagger your feet. So you've got one foot going over the cracks and the rumble while the other foot is more stable. And if something doesn't work out, you can always go to the opposite side. So if like you trip on the right foot, you can find your balance on the left. Hopefully that makes sense. What I think is really cool about parking lots is you can learn how to jump and get used to how far you can jump by judging the distance. So what I like to do is measure how many skates it takes to go from one side to the other. So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, almost eight, seven and a half. So each parking block is seven and a half of my roller skates. So if there were ever a gap or a crack or a sewage drain or something that I really wasn't sure that I could jump over, what I would do is first practice and determine how far I can jump just naturally with no gap at all. The way that you do this, so I'm going to teach you how to jump now. When you jump, you want to leave and land with a very heavy knee bend. So your knees are deeply bent and you leave and you leave. I'm an influencer in the wild. So you're leaving and landing in a heavy knee bend, almost like you're a spring. You never want to land with straightened knees because there's no shock absorbing there. You want to be very absorbent leaving and landing in a springy knee bend so that you find stability. For the leaving, you want a heavy knee bend so that you've got a lot of power. So the more bent you are, then the more you can take off into the air. And then the more bent you are on the landing, the more stable you're going to feel on the landing. So I like to measure my feet so that I can get used to, this is like, you know, this is a standard, you know, parking space. And then if there were something else like a gap or a hole in the street that I really wanted to jump over and challenge myself, I would first measure out how big it is and then know, oh well I can jump seven and a half of my skate so I probably can jump three if the hole was three. So bend and bend. So bend. When you're jumping, you want to look at the landing. You don't want to look right in front of you because you're gonna go wherever your eyes are going, wherever your eyes are looking. What else do we want to learn today? Yeah, I land with staggered feet. They might not be very dramatic, staggered feet, but the more surface area you cover, the more stable you're going to feel. If you land like this, then it's not going to feel as stable. You can slip out and onto your heels. You want to leave and land in a deep knee bend. Keep going. The wind feels so good. Oh, it's rough. So it's rough and it's bumpy. So I'm going to stagger my stance and when I stride, I'm not just going to rely on my wheels. I'm going to push on my toe stops to push through the rumble because when there's a lot of rumble I'm not going to be touching any trash cans today. I forget what these are called. Don't drive overs. We also don't want to skate over them. What a beautiful day. Thanks, Miguel. I still haven't touched anything. Oh, let's cross. I'm so mindful if I touch anything. Don't want to be touching anything outside in the wild. So when I go up a curb, I put a weightless foot forward and then I push off the ground to get up. Oh, stairs you can firecracker. You think? So these are some pretty shallow stairs. Should I try? Yeah. Easy for you. Stay in your back wheel. All right. Well, I'll try, but it might look really rough. Um, we didn't practice this. So when you, if you've seen like inline skaters, they can go over stairs really well because they don't have so many lines of wheels. We have twice the amount of lines. Yeah. Here, we'll let Miguel demonstrate. But why? The reason why I'm stopping at these stairs is because they're shallow. So they're not a very high stair. Nice. His feet are staggered when he's doing it. Okay. Now I'm going to try. Oh, so fun. So I'll go at an angle if I'm really not sure, like I did the first time. And now Miguel is trying to get me to go straight for it. But my feet are staggered when I'm doing it. Should we do them all? Backwards? Whoa. I don't know if I've ever done backwards. No, no. I'm afraid I'm going to hit the stops. Here, let's go up here, Miguel. You might be asking yourself, um, how do I know how high I can go? And cones are a really good way to figure out how high you can go. Cones come in all different shapes. There's like smaller ones and big ones. Normally the cone is over something though. So you want to check. When you're going over a cone or anything high, I would just, um, first jump next to it. So like there's a white line. There's that first white line. I'm just going to kind of eyeball it. Miguel, do you think I can get over it? Okay. You can also ask your friend. And before these security guards stop me. Did I cheat it? I had a feeling I cheated it. You want to go downstairs? Anything else up here you think we can show them? All right. Let's see. Let's see if they have any questions. I'll show them. All right. What do you think of this spot? Everyone 180 toe stop. They want to see Miguel's moves. Yeah. Haley, if you become advanced at hell bombing, you can, but you definitely want to learn how to slalom comfortably and turn around 180 jam on the brakes in a staggered stance. All right. 180, 180. Okay. Speed bumps. You can check out the speed bumps. Um, we teach how to go over speed bumps in our first beginner street skating lesson. So check that out. Yeah. When you're going over a speed bump, you just want to make sure that you're really easy in your knees. So you want to like, you want to bend your knees, but not in a harsh way. You want to make it so that they're like able and willing to like go over stuff, just like you would take the stairs. Um, I'll show you how to 180. Okay. Miguel, come back. All right. They want to see stair bash. They want to see firecrackers stairs. And then when we get to the bottom, yeah, all of them. And I'll film you. And then when we get to the bottom, we're going to, um, teach them how to 180. So Eileen as a beginner, is it tough to get confident when skating outdoors? Whoa. Like that confident. Okay. Oh, it's so fun. It's so much fun. Okay. Confidence comes with practice. So if you feel any fear, then you just want to do the easier stuff because with practice, you'll get more confident. And like you start to really fall in love with skating in a way that you don't care what anybody else thinks of you. And then you feel free. All right. When you're doing the 180, you want to, um, you want to first practice one eighties. And I would suggest practicing jumping one eighties. So don't really worry so much about whether the right foot should be in front of the left. If you're looking over the right shoulder or the left shoulder, like the feet are going to adjust themselves. You want to make sure that your knees are bent and you're turning your eyes behind you and your butt in front in the new direction. And as soon as you start to roll backwards, you jam on the toe stops. That's where the one 80 turnaround to stop. So you look behind you and then you turn your butt and go to your toe stops. And when you get really comfortable with that, with the role, you can actually like, if you get really used to walking on your toe stops, you can start to turn around and go right to the toe stops and run backwards on the toes or take the stairs backwards on the toe stops. So you just get really comfortable in a space like this where nobody is. Any other questions before we take it up? All right. Oops. Okay. What's the question? Downtown LA is gorgeous at night. It really is. We'll come back. Oh, thank you so much, Nest. I know I got this from a thrift store. My pants are not fitters. All my skate accessories and my socks are moxieskates.com. My earrings on Etsy. I like to buy from, from local artists on Etsy.com because I used to sell earrings on Etsy before I had a roller ski company. Flower ones. You're the best Eva. All right. Well, thank you so much for coming and joining us. Moxie face mask. That's a beautiful idea. What did you say? Oh, okay. The security guards are sniffing all our fun. When I skate fast, sometimes I feel like my wheels are slipping. I'm using the gummy wheels. Ms. Molly 909. Hmm. You may be on a really smooth surface. The gummy wheels are made for really rough surfaces. The gummy wheels are like, so if the floor was music and you had earmuffs on and you were trying to listen to music, that's how the gummy wheels are for the floor. So if you are going fast, you probably don't need earmuffs to hear the floor. And you could go to a harder wheel, like the funding wheel, which is made for all surfaces. You're so welcome, Sarah. Thank you so much, Ricardo. I don't know that term. The fun bags are being made right now. Made in USA in Monterey, California. I like healed skates. That's because they take the weight out of the, they take the weight out of the heels and into the balls of the feet to, so that you feel more comfortable and more balanced. Like when you're skating forwards, when you're rolling forwards, your weight has a propensity to go back into the heels. So if the heels are lifted, it's much easier to just bend your knees and find stability in the balls. I love you back, Ashley. All right. Oh, Sage, if you're looking for tips on how to loosen your trucks, go to Legs' unboxing video in our YouTube. All right. Thank you so much. If you like this video, please like it right now. Give it a thumbs up. And if you have any more questions that we didn't answer, put them in the comments after the video. And please, please subscribe to our channel. It makes us feel so good to know that we're growing the community and that they're interested in hearing from us. We're going to keep these videos coming. And also hit the notifications bell so that you get reminders. Because just because you subscribe doesn't mean that you'll get all the reminders about the videos. Way to go, everyone. Thank you so much for liking this video. Thanks for joining us. Thank you very much, Bubble Cat. Stay safe. Love you all. In the words of Miggy. Thank you. You're awesome. Bye, everyone. Have a lovely, lovely day. Whoa, 185 likes. Should I wave until we have 15 more? You don't want it to end, Laura. Laura, I don't want it to end either. Bye. 10 more likes and we go to 200. Oh, they said happy belated birthday, Miguel. Thank you. Thanks for the birthday wishes. Almost. Five more likes and we're at 200. Four, three, two. If we get to 200, I'll do a backflip in the next live video that we do. All right, 200. Next live video, I'm going to give you a back handspring on roller skates. So be sure to tune in. See you, everyone. I love you so much. Thank you. Thank you for roller skating.