How To Rollerskate - SLOLAM (EDGES) ON 1 FOOT AND 2 ! From a USA ROLLER SPORTS Certified Coach

I'm Appaloosa and this is your intermediate instructional video for balance slalom edges for you one foot and two. So what that means is we're gonna be learning how to edge on two feet around what I've set up is some condiments in a rink. You'd be doing this around cones. You can grab anything that might be helpful for you to visualize going around a remote control, a packet of ketchup and we're gonna be doing that on two feet. Then we're gonna be doing a figure eight just really holding your edge and we're gonna try everything on one foot. That's the challenge. So just to start go ahead and put both feet planted on the ground. Put your hands on your hips. Rotate your hips as far as you can and your shoulders and then I want you to press on the outside edge of your left foot and the inside edge of your right foot. If I took a picture of my feet and my boots they would be doing this. I'm lifting up the inner arch of my left foot and the outside edge of my right foot. I'm not lifting up my wheels just my actual feet are pressing that hard on the outside and inside edge and I'm rotating my hips. I'm more or less keeping a center alignment for the head in between the feet maybe a little lean towards the outside edge of the left foot and keep those hips rotated. Now I'm also making sure my knees are bent and I'm actually lifting my toenails to the top of my boot. That's ensuring that I'm not putting weight and cramping down my toes. That's pretty typical for more beginner intermediate skaters is to cramp down those toes. So try to try to loosen them and lift them up as much as possible. Now let's rotate to the other side and do the same thing. So my knees are gonna even press a little bit the direction that I'm rotating. My knees are bent, my belly is in and there we go. Also one more thing is my toes are isometrically pulling towards the direction I'm going. So as if I'm pulling my toes but they're not actually doing that they're just they're isometrically pulling. So let's give that a try. So you're probably gonna need more speed but I could I could pretty much get going from nothing. So just start rotating your hips and pressing on the edges of your feet. Okay let's try that again. Outside edge and inside edge, outside edge and inside edge. So there is a little bit of a lean, a slight lean towards the center of your slalom or towards the condiment. There's definitely a rotation of the hips and shoulders, a bend of the knees, a press press press and a lift of the toenails. So I would drill that for about 10 to 15 minutes just working on the slalom. If you have enough space like in a street or a roller skating rink you could really take some strong pushes and then practice doing the slalom like you're making a snake shape or a big S and see how far you can go and try to make it big and narrow. Let's talk about your action on the bottom of your skates, your trucks or your plates. You want to loosen them to what feels good for you. So depending on your manufacturer's instructions you want to you know check that out before you start messing with your plates with your tools. Typically all you have to do is loosen the nut on the bottom but it really really depends on what type of skates you have. So look that up before you try it. But you want to do a quarter turn or a half turn lefty loosey righty tighty and then check them by doing the slalom and see how that feels. You want to loosen the front and the back. Typically the front will be a little bit looser than the back but everyone's different. Do what feels good for you. You will know what's too loose and you should know what's too tight. So just find the just right. So this time I'd like you to try a figure eight. So we're just going to be holding our roll around each condiment and leaning more towards it with your hip. So my hip is almost going right over it as I'm doing that same press and rotation that I showed you earlier and the same pull of the toes around. It will be easier to do this with some speed and with them spread apart but in quarantine what do you want? One tip for caution I have is never to take the weight all the way off the toes so that you're only on the heel. Your foot can slip out from underneath you so always keep the weight center to the back never just all the way back. Don't ever take the weight all the way off the toes. You can lift the toenails but you can still put pressure on the ball of your foot. You can also put one foot slightly in front of the other. Makes it a little bit more stylized and my weight is kind of to the more to the back and outside and to the back and inside. Always keep your knees bent. Rotate your hips. Really turn them. It doesn't look like I am but I'm really turning them as far as I can. That's what helps you get around the cone. Okay that's that's for another class. All right so let's move on and again that's something you can drill for a good 10-15 minutes. So let's move on to outside edges. I'm gonna put my left foot in front and start in a T position. You can start already rolling. Now when I open my right toe to do a T it's gonna open my hip but you don't want that. We want to turn the hips the direction we want to go. So if I want to be your left I need to turn my hips to the left, press that knee to the outside edge of my left foot. My knee is bent of course and I'm gonna push off and I can leave my free leg behind me. Now I always use my arms when I'm balancing so it's probably a good idea for you to also do that and make sure you're lifting up your core. You can also challenge yourself by putting the free leg in front. Let's try the other foot. It's the same thing. I'm gonna rotate my hips, I'm gonna press my knee to the outside edge, push off and hold. And same thing I'm gonna turn my hips, make sure I'm pressing over the outside edge. I might be lifting up my arch slightly. Now to do an inside edge this is a tricky one. My recommendation would be to try to get the hips over the foot so where the foot is in between the hips. So the hips slide over and then you're going to press on the inside edge of your standing foot without moving your hips and without moving your knee to the inside. You're always trying to do that and you can never hold your foot up that's why. You want to slide your hips over, find your balance and just gently press on the inside of your foot without letting anything else move. That's all you need to do. So let's give that a try from a push or from an already rolling and I'm just gonna press on the inside. It takes a lot of practice to do that. Okay so now let's try to do a slalom on one foot. This is the big challenge. Let me get my condiments. I'm gonna start with an outside edge and then I'm gonna lean and rotate my hips towards the first condiment and I'm gonna try not to move my hips and lean towards the second condiment. Outside edge, inside edge. So you'll notice I'm putting my free leg right tucked in by my ankle. Other foot, outside edge, inside edge. Thanks for checking out this tutorial. If this was a little difficult for you, you might want to check out some of the beginner level instructional videos that I have and if you did like this video please subscribe and like.