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How to Turn on Roller Skates

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Summary: So you want to learn to turn on roller skates, expert roller skater will teach you tips and techniques about turning on roller skates in this free skating video on how to roller skate.

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By Rahel Cook
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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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sidh1 said

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on 4/16/2009 HAI RAHEL COOK,IAM A GUY WHO IS GOIN TO BUY SKATE SHOE AFTER SEEING THIS VIDEOS...DEY..ARE..REALLY..COOL

bigcrock said

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on 3/30/2009 I thought you would speak on the crossover for the turn. Is that for more advanced skaters?

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"Hi, I'm Rachel Cook, on behalf of Expert Village, and today I'm here to talk about how to roller skate, more specifically, turning. As we all know, turning is often difficult and can result in you meeting the ground and not in a very friendly way. So, the first thing to note about turning, is that you needs to be at a comfortable speed and in a comfortable stance. So, the most comfortable stance is to have your body relaxed, your knees not locked, be very confident on your skates. The first thing you need to do is slow down, often people make the biggest mistake of trying to turn while going too fast. So, first slow down and you can use variety of methods of slowing down, it's similar to stopping. You can drag your toe stop to slow you down, or you can do a T stop. The T stop will help you control you speed so that you're not going too slow, but that you're also not going too fast. Then what you're going to do is you need to slowly turn your body into the proper stance to be able to turn. You can either turn around completely or you can you can just turn as if going around a corner. To turn as if going around a corner you need to position your body, look into the direction that you're trying to turn, this will help you. Don't look in the opposite direction, as you could fall. Bring your shoulders also into the turn as well that will help you control your whole turn without falling. Then you'll need to bring your dominant leg, similar to your right hand or left hand, bring your dominant leg around, ever so slightly. You can sort of form your legs into a U shape, bring your dominate leg around, ever so slightly, and then pick up your skate and drop it, gently into the direction you're trying to turn. To turn around completely it's much easier to actually form a U with your skates and, ever so slightly, just using your hips and your momentum to turn yourself, and that is how you turn."

eHow Article: How to Turn on Roller Skates

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