How to Roller Skate : How to Stop on Roller Skates

Learn about how to stop on roller skates, by dragging the stopper on the front of the skate, slightly behind you; learn more stopping tips from expert roller skater in this free video on how to roller skate.

Expert: Rahel Cook
Bio: Rahel Cook has been roller skating for over 20 years.
Filmmaker: Jay Windland

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• skating
• skate
• roller
• rollerskates
• rink

[XxsolorockstarxX]

my favourite way is to grab onto a tree

[ihazdrumkit]

thank the lord, i can stop finding walls to crash into to stop.

[Qaasim830]

If you stop to quickly you will fall like peter griffin off of family guy :D

[kraziturtle]

@XxsolorockstarxX Your comment cracked me up... lol. I've had those moments!

[CupcakePixies]

@mathsru thanks

[BansyHansy]

use protection... you said in one video that is very important...

[padelman11]

i spin real fast to stop sad i have no stopers

[manlo0004]

you lied you said left in the last vid.

[mathsru]

@mathsru (continue) at that point you have to release pressure on your boots and move your weight a little bit up, so it is like car ABS, your wheels should never be blocked. Any form of sliding on roller-skates is unacceptable. So that way of breaking is equivalent to slides she shows but combined with non-stop wheels rotation. Of course you cannot stop immediately, but it is really good way especially when you roll downhill and lose control of your speed.

[mathsru]

It is wrong technique. All these is only applicable at low speed. If you go 20Km/h and higher the only way to stop is like on downhill skies: First of all your body must be symmetrical otherwise you would fall. So you place your boots a little bit wider then your shoulders and aim them a little bit inside and then you start to work as spring, you move your weight a little bit down to the point when your start feeling your wheels blocked ...

[TheJMAN12365]

Thanks A lot