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How to Pick Roller Skates
Roller Skating Safety Equipment Tips
How to Start Roller Skating
How to Stop on Roller Skates
How to Turn on Roller Skates
How to Roller Skate Backwards
How to Stop While Roller Skating Backwards
How to Do Roller Skating Crossovers
How to Roller Skate Downhill
How to Do a Front to Back Roller Skating Transition
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Summary: 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.
Rahel Cook has been roller skating for over 20 years. She has co-founded Rat City Roller Girls, the Northwest's largest roller derby league and personally competed as a part of the...read more
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"Hi, this is Rachel Cook, on behalf of Expert Village, and today I'm here to talk about roller skating, more specifically, how to stop. So, once you're moving forward, one of the scariest things is stopping, obviously. What you need to make sure, is again, that you're in this very comfortable stance, that you're not solid like a robot, your arms aren't straight to your side, make sure that you're comfortable, that your knees are not locked, that your arms are slightly to your sides, slightly bent at the elbow. Then, what you can do is, there are two ways of stopping. The first one is to drag the stopper that is on the front of your roller skate slightly behind you; this will slow you down, ever so slowly. You can chose to apply firmer pressure to the stopper to make you stop a little faster or a little less stopper to slow down instead of stopping immediately. Beware of stopping to quickly; you can often fall when stopping too fast. Another option of stopping, which is excellent, and I highly recommend this, it's called the T stop, and what that is, is you slowly drag your dominate foot, that being either your, if you're right handed or left handed, typically your leg is the same, your dominate leg would be whichever hand you normally use, so for me it's my right leg. So, what you would do is, using your feet, make a T shape, so you would bring your dominate foot behind your non-dominate foot, in the shape of a T and you would drag it ever so slightly, just the two inside wheels, and this will bring you to a nice gentle stop. It helps you slow down, it's more controlled and you are less likely to fall by using the T stop. It is the one that I highly recommend and roller bladers and roller skaters alike often use the T stop as the optimum method of stopping."
eHow Article: How to Stop on Roller Skates
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