Learn how to roller skate DOWNHILL *aka HILLBOMB*

Man, I love bombing hills, Pigeon. You do? You want to go somewhere? Capital of planet roller skate. Cool, let's go skate. Show us how to bomb some hills, Pigeon. Alright. 5, 4, 3, 2, let's roll. This is how we roll. This is how we roll. Let's roll. Yes! Hey guys! So here we are in Santa Cruz at Pigeon's old stomping grounds. This is the ocean right there. You can see it in the background. And we're going to teach you how to skate downhill. You seem to ruin, you seem to ruin everything. Oh, I see your face through them. And it went twisted well. I see you've got those things to push in. And we see through you with your... You need to get the memo. Please don't exaggerate. We all know that you've got nothing. You've got nothing on your plate. I can't mind and try to wake you to get up, get up, stop sleeping. You've got it coming till you stop your dreaming. Before you start going downhill, knee pads are always good because if you get going too fast, you can just take a knee. First, we're going to show you the safest way to get downhill, whether you're a brand new skater or an advanced skater. Number one, the most reliable and safest way to go downhill is actually backwards. Big toe stops. Your toe stops are going to they're going to be worn down when you toe stop backwards. Make sure it's either a new one or you have one of the big dense toe stops. And you want to make sure they're nice and screwed in. If they're loose, get them tightened down. You want to go in a lunge backwards. A lunge is where you have the front foot bent. On the back leg, I'm on my toe stop. However much pressure I put on the back leg is how much I'm going to stop. Right now, I have a lot of pressure on the back leg so I'm stopped. If I let loose a little bit, I'm going to roll. So you're able to control your speed going backwards. Look over your shoulder and go for it. Let up a little bit and put more pressure on the back leg. If you want to go faster, don't put any weight on the back leg. You just want to be sure whenever you're first starting to do this that you're not leaning back. Keep your shoulders forward. You're really lunging into this leg like Bridget was saying. This one's also great because you can go in a straight line down the hill. If there are cars or if you're just on a sidewalk and you don't have room to carve, you can go backwards straight down any hill, any steepness and you'll be fine. If this is your first time, a handrail is really useful to get comfortable lunging deep and gradually applying pressure to your toe stop so that you don't topple backwards. Now, let's do it. A really important thing, like if you go down and carve, if you lose control, you're going too fast. You can turn around and toe stop. Watch me do it super quick and I'm stopped. In the future, really breaking down how to do the turn around toe stop. Right now, since this is an advanced tutorial for people that are ready to bomb hills, we're just going to keep on with it. You're ready to learn how to carve. Carving is going forward and using your edges to control your speed. You want to start on an easy hill without any cars. The less traffic, the better. The wider, the better. The more mellow the hill, the better. Whenever you approach the hill, you never want to go straight down. You want to carve back and forth perpendicular to the slope of the hill. When you want to start carving, if you're going to start turning to the right, you put your right foot forward and when you turn to the left, you put your left foot forward. But that's not it. Your back leg plays a big role in carving. When you are carving, you're going to push out with your back leg and that's going to create friction that causes you to slow down a little bit to control your speed. It's important to move your shoulders and look. If you're keeping your body facing forward and you're just trying to move your feet to turn, it's way more difficult than if you steer. Where your head and shoulders go, your body This is where I feel the weight on my skates. And then when I'm turning this way, I feel the weight on these edges. The wheels, I'm just showing you where the weight would be distributed. Hey! In the forest, on the beach, the best university within reach, UC Santa Cruz. Go banana slugs! Okay, so where are we, Bidgen? We are at UC Santa Cruz, my alma mater, University of California school. We're at school. My stats, when I left Santa Cruz to move to Long Beach, I had 33 worn down toe stop butts. I thought I'd save them for an art project. I had over $1000 in roller skating tickets. You're not supposed to skate on campus. And one set of really worn down outdoor wheels. Love it! What wheels do you recommend for outdoor skating on rough surfaces? A good rough surface wheel would be a softer wheel. It absorbs all the bumps and a smoother ride. Less likely that you'll fall. You'll go a little bit slower. On the flip side, if you have a really smooth surface, you want a harder wheel. That'll give you more speed and control over a softer wheel. These roads are really good to learn on because they're super shallow, they're not too steep of hills. They're smooth, they're wide, and there's not a lot of traffic. This is for advanced skaters only. Do not try this unless you've been skating for a minute. Thank you! She wants them to give us a ticket. And that cop was like, you can't skate on campus. And that professor was like, cop, you should give them a ticket. That was crazy. Oh, that was so good. I was like crying. Y'all good, Enzo? Yay! Thank you guys so much for watching this episode of Planet Roller Skate. We hope you are now prepared to go downhills. If you have any questions, just ask us in the comments. We'll do our best to answer them. Until then, later skaters! Oh my gosh! That was so much fun! Wasn't it? Yeah, let's teach our friends how to bomb down Junipero Hill now. Yeah, let's do it! Oh, I see your face through them Drive me any way Twist and whirl I see you've got those things to push in We see through you with your dance You need to get the memo Please don't exaggerate We all know that you've got nothing You've got nothing on your plate I came by and tried to wake you So get up, get up Stop sleeping We have cars coming right now, so we want to pull to the side and let them pass so that we are safe all the time, and then we can start shredding again, like right now! Drive me any way Twist and whirl I see you've got those things to push in We see through you with your dance