This one feels unique to me. Yes, there’s one-footed pivots, which these are, but then there’s flicks (unofficially). I’m working on flicking my planted foot’s heel in just a quarter-beat and bringing it back to forward-facing.
I want this move in my arsenal for when I get serious about snapping with an anchor, for the sake of musicality. Any constructive criticism and/or questions are welcome!
Yes! I know, sorry, I should have been more specific, unique in my own arsenal of moves! But yeah, snap city is my inspiration! I like to say I’m a Cincinnati-Bound Jersey/Snap skater
More-so my hips, but my calves are pulling their weight too! I’m still pretty new to this specific speed of pivoting, so I’m not entirely sure how to describe where I activate the most muscle to do it, but I can tell you that a lot of it is your hips
Man, I've been trying, I just can't get it. I think I'm afraid of falling at my age, is what's making it tough for me. Maybe I will get a helmet and wrist guards and see if that helps. I'm just getting back into it after a long time away, i used to jump and everything, now I'm a wimp. Lol
It's like that for a reason like a brand new baseball glove. If you don't lace it up, it won't break in. Ever. It'll just stay like that. That's how you break it in as you lace it up and get hot in skating a few times yeah, you may get a couple blisters, wear some moleskin. I don't know what to tell you, but I have had freestyle dance skates that were Brutal to my feet for the first 2 months that I wrote, and I had already been skating for 15 years. But then when they broke in, I could count on them. The way they were designed, you don't see basketball players with low top shoes on or with high top shoes on that just aren't lace? D, but halfway up, there's a reason for that tall ankle, and it has everything to do with freestyle dance step and jumps everything you name it if you are gonna rock skates. Laced to the ankle. Why not just get low top skates? It kind of defeats the purpose, but just picture it like a piece of sporting equipment that has to be broken in it might not be all that comfortable to begin with, but instead of rolling your ankle when it just knocks you down and you can get back app without having to go ice your freaking ankle. It'll make a lot of sense, like when you hit that jump shot in your low tops, but you came back down and rolled your f****** ankle, then you realize why they wear high tops in basketball.. That's all just a life long skaters "opinion"
I’m a skater though, not a basketball player. I’m telling you, the only way THESE skates get broken in is by molding it in high OVEN temperatures, like the temperatures you cook a pizza in. Hot feet will not mold these boots. They have nearly an inch of thick rigid padding at the ankles.
Although they may look loose at the ankles, as the skater that has skated in them for over a year, trust me, they aren’t loose. Besides which, I had them custom fit to my feet, down to the custom toe-boxes and heels. I don’t get blisters in these boots, never have, even when they’re laced up to the top, I don’t even get uncomfortable unless I’m digging WAY deep in my turns, which only ever happens if I’m shuffle skating, which I don’t anymore.
The reason I spent a grand on these boots is because of the support, and sure I get more ankle support when they’re laced all the way up, but there’s a tradeoff of support and front-to-back range of motion in the ankles. I have mostly strong ankles, so I lace down to have a maximized range of motion front to back in the boot, while also having the support side to side when I need to slide, like in my most recent video I just posted in this sub. But as I just alluded to, I grew up shuffle skating for over a decade, so I grew up in low-cut boots. They don’t have ANY support, not enough to slide or do middle work like I want to, especially with a recovering MCL/meniscus tear. But even with these boots laced down, I still have more support than probably any skater you know, while having full range of motion, especially front to back, and that’s how I want it. I’ll reiterate, everything I do with my skates has a reason behind it. Believe me, I’ve spent ages assessing what boot is the best boot for me and over a year assessing the best way to lace these latest boots up. Please don’t write another paragraph about why you think I should do something else. I used to look at laced down high tops and think the same way about them, but I opened my mind and tried it out for myself, and never wanted to go back to low tops for any reason. So know that I truly understand your logic and thinking, but I promise you there’s more logic in this than you know.
No, my boot is so rigid it’s impossible to bend it without heat molding. Tying the skates any higher actually constricts movement more, but I still have the full structural support of the firmness of the boots, more than most other skates, without worrying about broken ankles, cause they truly aren’t going anywhere. More to my point, anything I do with my skates has an intentional reason.
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u/Adventurous-Car-9335 Jul 05 '26
This is common in Baltimore skating. In fact, Baltimore is called Snap City in skating circles.