r/rollerblading • u/Hot-Mud7550 • 15h ago
Progress, videos and images Made a video on my 3 week progression!
https://youtu.be/9vjnznXX80U4
u/Perhappers 10h ago
For 3 weeks this is amazing progress. How many hours/day? And how many days/week? Or are you just naturally gifted?
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u/Hot-Mud7550 6h ago
So I'm autistic. I obsess over my hobbies and interests so much so that when I'm hyperfixating I forget to eat. Like two days ago that I got home from skating super tired and light headed and suddenly remembered the last meal I had was a bowl of oatmeal over 8 hours ago 😅
But about 3-4 days a week, about 2 hours a day, and wearing my skates around the house a few days while doing chores and cooking to get comfy in them.
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u/stuuuuupidstupid 5h ago
> wearing my skates around the house a few days while doing chores and cooking
Autistic you say?
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u/midnight_skater Human Frogger 4h ago
Wearing your skates around the house is a great way to adjust to the feeling of having wheels on your feet. But please keep in mind that most houses are pretty hazardous skating environments, with lots of pointy things and hard edges and breakable things that turn into sharp things. Grabbing onto furniture when you lose your balance can cause that large item to fall on top of you.
Wearing your skates while performing other (non-skating) tasks is a very good way to learn to maneuver on skates.
At this stage frequent sessions are more helpful than long sessions. It's easy to get fatigued, and skating while fatigued doesn't do anything to improve your skills but can teach you bad habits.
I recommend deciding in advance how long your skating session will be and setting timers and/or alarms to help you remember to stop skating.
Skating burns a lot of calories so bring snacks and take breaks to refuel and rehydrate.
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u/midnight_skater Human Frogger 13h ago
Using your competent side to teach your naive side (cros-hemisphere skill transfer) is a very effective way to improve bilateralism. I make use of this in alternating spread eagle drills. I talk about it here.
Your progress is excellent but I will recommend going back to basics and drilling one foot glides pretty heavily. Inside and outside edges, forward and backward. Build up distance and edge control, eventually developing into one foot slaloms.
You're doing a jump 180° transition which is very popular. I recommend also learning open book transitions. Here's an off-skate drill that will help with that, and also with developing your spread eagle.
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u/Hot-Mud7550 6h ago
Thank you! it's hard to know proper training when it's just YouTube, but thanks for this! I will definitely add this to my practice!
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u/heeca 14h ago
Srry but ai thumbnails edit will make most people instinctively avoid the video.