Loving the vids! Got my MF900’s arriving in the next few days, been rolling the MF500’s for the past year and now I’m gaining some confidence thought it was time to give the big wheels a go.
Thanks, man! 🙏 If you liked the MF500s, you’ll certainly love the MF900s. Larger, but equally agile wheelbase, faster setup and better buckles: the MF900 is an upgrade and you’ll know it. Have fun with your skates! 👍
Haha.....I like the way you comment your own video's! You seem to have a lot of on those MF 900. Mine are still waiting to hit the road. Hopefully on Friday if it is not raining !
The best tip I can give you: look for a very gentle slope with some smooth asphalt or polished concrete. That way, you can use gravity to your advantage. Let yourself roll backwards and try somethings. Like a powerslide - bend the knee of your supporting leg as deep as possible! Or a reversed T-stop: roll backwards on one leg and then let your other foot drag. A very fast transition to forwards skating ending in a powerstop is also something I like, but that takes some confidence and experience. 🙂 The most important thing is: get comfortable with rolling backwards. And then, keep on practising several braking techniques.
@@TheRollingRaptor me siento más cómodo hacia atrás me gusta más pero me es difícil frenar pero mirando tus vídeos espero poder superar el miedo gracias por responderme
Hey fellow Tim, I love fakie but do your legs get tired quickly skating backwards? I noticed mine do and I wonder if it's a norm or more of a matter of different muscle groups that arent strong enough yet? Why I ask about this is because when I transition from back to front because of the soreness in the legs the control and quality of my transition falls dramatically and trips me sometimes. Great video, keep rolling
Thank you, Tim! 🙂 I haven't experienced my legs getting tired yet during fakie rides. Could be that's indeed a matter of practice? I've leant riding fakie mostly on ice. By the time I felt comfortable skating fakie, those muscle groups had maybe already adapted? In any case, I can now skate fakie around and around the ice rink without getting tired. It feels equally comfortable on inline skates. For me, transitioning from fakie to forwards always feels far easier than the other way around. Maybe it helps to just do a 180 instead of a 'real' transition: just a tiny little hop and then landing in the right position for skating forwards.
You mean if you can do all the possible stops with the MF900? Well, yes, of course: powerstop, T-stop, powerslide, soul slide, parallel slide, magic slide, they're all perfectly possible.
You’ve got a point, but one-foot balance is like absolute basics, isn’t? The first thing you have to master before you can do anything else, like the T-stop, transitioning, and so on. My 5 tips were beyond that stage.
The stopping thing is not correct. Skaters don’t avoid emergency collisions by stopping, we do it by changing direction and velocity multiple times in short time.
Thanks for your comment! At first sight, I don't think I agree, but on second thought, maybe we're just saying the same thing. Changing direction and velocity certainly come in handy, but every inline skater I know, agrees that being able to stop is _the most important skill_ to master. 'The stopping thing is not correct' is not an adequate statement itself. If you can't stop, you shouldn't go inline skating between traffic. There are lots of situations where changing direction or velocity won't save you. You don't avoid a red light by changing speed or direction: you just stop. When you're rolling down a narrow slope, between two walls or hedges or whatever, and there's a group of cyclists happily chatting away at the bottom of the slope and no way for you to skate past them, then you just have to be able to stop to avoid a collision. It's as simple as that. Now, of course, slowing down _is_ a change of velocity and stopping is a very abrupt way of killing velocity, so maybe we can agree after all. 😊
Red traffic lights are not a surprise. So you prepare yourself with plenty of time to change weight position in order to execute the stop. Then you stop. It’s not an emergency. Neither is your example of rolling between whatever with people at the bottom. You know when you start that it is narrow you see the cyclist and prepare to stop. The likelihood that you will be pre loaded like a spring ready to fire off a stop is close to 0 in a real situation. There’s a pretty good video on RUclips showing how long it really takes to do a sliding stop, including the set up. If you are moving at a decent velocity it is so so far. Even a well executed rubber heel stop works faster than a slide to get you stationary from high speed… for skaters that have one installed. If the person you are about to pass by suddenly turns and steps across your current trajectory and you are travelling at a reasonable speed, you will do a whole bunch of things in less than a second that you do not decide to do and none of that will result in you doing a straight line stop and not colliding with the person. You’ll either leap to your side, or turn sharply maybe end up going backwards, there may be a little T drag but just as likely is that you will accelerate out of it. If you try straight line stop, you’ll hit the person. I’ve never stopped in a straight line in any emergency and I don’t think anyone else has either. Certainly not Bill Stoppard. Watch his videos, every time he does that stop it is by choice never by necessity. No one skated the way he pretends to skate on video, not even him. It’s gross. Of course, you have a lot of video up. If I’m wrong, link me to a bunch of the points where you have done that in all those hours of skating you have up. A straight line stop to being fully stationary in an unexpected situation… I’ve never seen it in anyone’s skating video, it’s always seen early and a choice is made to do a fancy looking stop… or even a simple T it’s a choice made because there is time to make it. It is not a necessity.
@@LeekowalskiWalker Ha, my last powerstop out of necessity was only two days ago. 😊 You see, in my street, there's a kind of small private hospital where people with mostly big cars come. When those people leave the parking lot, they tend to use the bike lane for watching the 'real' traffic, regardless of any bikers and skaters nearing. So, I was skating there, with parked cars to my left and a hedge to my right, when suddenly a huge Range Rover appeared and parked itself in front of me with no way to avoid it. The lady behind the steering wheel saw me coming and just didn't give a shit she was blocking my way. Well, in those kinds of situations, I'm very happy to be able to stop real fast. Which I did. The day before, another car used the bike lane to make a U-turn. I avoided that one in a quick change of direction. Indeed, there's no need to stop if you've got other options. But it's a good thing to know you can pull it off. Stopping doesn't even have to be an emergency. But when you're going down a slope, you've got to be able to come to a controlled halt. It doesn't matter how, but you need to be able to slow down and stop. In Ghent, there's a rather steep street with a crossroads at the bottom end. So, when the light turns red, you've got to be able to stop, or you'll end up between speeding cars. That's just a basic skill. It doesn't have to be fancy, it doesn't have to look cool, but you've got to be able to keep your velocity in check and kill it when the need arises. I know some skaters who haven't mastered a decent stop yet and they're scared shitless every time they go down a slope. Often, they panic and fall. (I think they should work harder on mastering going down a slope.) That's what a good stopping technique offers you: security. Mental rest. I'm very happy my own kids know how to slow down and stop. It makes them feel secure when they roll down a slope. That's a good thing, don't you think?
A good T drag is essential. Yes. That is about speed control, not stopping. You don’t have to stop at the bottom of that hill. You could skate around in circles. You stopped out of choice and you had a lot of time and preparation. You could have done other things in that time and space. You are bringing in all these other irrelevant situations. When you had options and time and space. You could simply not go down the hill. I am talking about “oh hell, something suddenly happened right in front of me and u need to react and avoid collision. I don’t believe anyone has ever done a slide stop for that. 1 from personal experience skating for about 10 years and 2 from watching thousands of hours of other skaters. Never done it and never seen it. Is there video of your real life emergency straight line slide stop? I think this is a fascinating topic. Like you I’ve heard so many skaters talk about slide stop is good for emergencies but there’s no evidence of it. With all the skating videos on line, if it were a good way to avoid collisions there’d be thousands of examples. People would make compilation videos to show how useful it is in all those injury saving moments in all those videos. But that doesn’t exist. Stoppard is the worst for perpetuating this lie. In comments someone asked why he never does a power stop on his other leg, because he’s such an ego driven liar he replied “would you use your weak foot in a real situation” I told him as well. That’s such a weak response. What if you are on the other foot? Do real situations only arise when you are on your good foot? Do you have time to change feet? No. The whole thing is ridiculous. I told him too evidence OGTFO. He has none. No one does. I don’t know you but you sound like an intelligent chap from your commentary. So hopefully you see the statistical improbability of something being useful in real situations and their being thousands of hours of video of real situations without a swath of examples of it’s use that we’d all be looking at saying “oh my God, look how a straight line slide stop saved all these skaters lives. I must learn how to do that.” but really people learn it because it looks cool. Every time I didn’t get seriously injured on skates it was because I changed direction and velocity multiple times within a second. I have never done it by making decisions and I have never did it with any sliding and I did not come to a complete halt stopped before arriving at the thing I was trying to svoid. Often those velocity changes were accelerations not decelerations. Really think about this. It’s quite a groundbreaking realisation because, as you say, all skaters insist that it is useful. And they are all demonstrably wrong about that, by the statistical unlikelihood of the absence of examples.
*ALSO WATCH THIS!* _How To Survive The City_ ruclips.net/video/CxBae5YlvoI/видео.html
Gracias por ayudarme tengo mucho que aprender
@@skatebackwards Take it easy and just keep rolling! 🤘
Great tutorial, thanks dude
Bug thanks, Christian! But I need to update it, so it seems. Filmed with an old camera, and with my old skills. 😅 But I'm glad it's still of help. 👍
I love Youre cimmentary style 🤣
Haha, thank you. 🙏 Recording those voiceovers is a fun thing to do, something I look forward to every time. 😄
Loving the vids! Got my MF900’s arriving in the next few days, been rolling the MF500’s for the past year and now I’m gaining some confidence thought it was time to give the big wheels a go.
Thanks, man! 🙏
If you liked the MF500s, you’ll certainly love the MF900s. Larger, but equally agile wheelbase, faster setup and better buckles: the MF900 is an upgrade and you’ll know it. Have fun with your skates! 👍
Haha.....I like the way you comment your own video's! You seem to have a lot of on those MF 900. Mine are still waiting to hit the road. Hopefully on Friday if it is not raining !
Adding voiceovers is part of the fun of making these videos. 😁 Glad you appreciate them. 🙏
Great tips! 👍
Thank you! 🤘
Useful tips! You even might consider renaming yourself by now...” not so clumsy skater” ;)
Thank you! 🙏
But I’ve got to be honest: a skater who falls as mush as I do has but one choice and that’s to admit his own clumsiness. 😉😇
Amazing video brother thank you for sharing, new sub here
Thank you! 🙏👍 I’m planning on making more videos like that one this year. 😊
@@TheRollingRaptor very original, you got the sauce my friend, keep up the good work!!!
hello you can do all types of braking when you skate backwards can you help me it would be a pleasure
The best tip I can give you: look for a very gentle slope with some smooth asphalt or polished concrete. That way, you can use gravity to your advantage. Let yourself roll backwards and try somethings. Like a powerslide - bend the knee of your supporting leg as deep as possible! Or a reversed T-stop: roll backwards on one leg and then let your other foot drag. A very fast transition to forwards skating ending in a powerstop is also something I like, but that takes some confidence and experience. 🙂 The most important thing is: get comfortable with rolling backwards. And then, keep on practising several braking techniques.
@@TheRollingRaptor me siento más cómodo hacia atrás me gusta más pero me es difícil frenar pero mirando tus vídeos espero poder superar el miedo gracias por responderme
What GoPro are you using? Thanks
Well, I wasn't using a GoPro or a similar camera. 🙂 I was filming with the original Insta360 One. (Nowadays, I'm using the Insta360 One X2).
Hey fellow Tim, I love fakie but do your legs get tired quickly skating backwards? I noticed mine do and I wonder if it's a norm or more of a matter of different muscle groups that arent strong enough yet? Why I ask about this is because when I transition from back to front because of the soreness in the legs the control and quality of my transition falls dramatically and trips me sometimes. Great video, keep rolling
Thank you, Tim! 🙂
I haven't experienced my legs getting tired yet during fakie rides. Could be that's indeed a matter of practice? I've leant riding fakie mostly on ice. By the time I felt comfortable skating fakie, those muscle groups had maybe already adapted? In any case, I can now skate fakie around and around the ice rink without getting tired. It feels equally comfortable on inline skates.
For me, transitioning from fakie to forwards always feels far easier than the other way around. Maybe it helps to just do a 180 instead of a 'real' transition: just a tiny little hop and then landing in the right position for skating forwards.
@@TheRollingRaptor I see, thanks. I think I'll try doing more fakies for now, most likely just a matter of practice and muscle strength.
Hola puedes hacer todos los frenos con el mf900 oxelo
You mean if you can do all the possible stops with the MF900? Well, yes, of course: powerstop, T-stop, powerslide, soul slide, parallel slide, magic slide, they're all perfectly possible.
@@TheRollingRaptor it will be possible to make videos with. the different brakes but with the mf900 skates
I have the same bad habit
Damm it bill 😂
Haha, wonderful! 😊 It's a bad habit that I love doing.
hello watching your videos has helped me a lot I can add your name in my videos you give me permission
Hey, great to hear that! Of course you can mention me in your videos, I'd be honoured. 👍
@@TheRollingRaptor Thank you very much for giving me permission. I am very grateful to you.
Missed "one-foot balance" as #1
You’ve got a point, but one-foot balance is like absolute basics, isn’t? The first thing you have to master before you can do anything else, like the T-stop, transitioning, and so on. My 5 tips were beyond that stage.
So handsome
The stopping thing is not correct. Skaters don’t avoid emergency collisions by stopping, we do it by changing direction and velocity multiple times in short time.
Thanks for your comment! At first sight, I don't think I agree, but on second thought, maybe we're just saying the same thing.
Changing direction and velocity certainly come in handy, but every inline skater I know, agrees that being able to stop is _the most important skill_ to master. 'The stopping thing is not correct' is not an adequate statement itself. If you can't stop, you shouldn't go inline skating between traffic. There are lots of situations where changing direction or velocity won't save you. You don't avoid a red light by changing speed or direction: you just stop. When you're rolling down a narrow slope, between two walls or hedges or whatever, and there's a group of cyclists happily chatting away at the bottom of the slope and no way for you to skate past them, then you just have to be able to stop to avoid a collision. It's as simple as that.
Now, of course, slowing down _is_ a change of velocity and stopping is a very abrupt way of killing velocity, so maybe we can agree after all. 😊
Red traffic lights are not a surprise. So you prepare yourself with plenty of time to change weight position in order to execute the stop. Then you stop. It’s not an emergency.
Neither is your example of rolling between whatever with people at the bottom. You know when you start that it is narrow you see the cyclist and prepare to stop.
The likelihood that you will be pre loaded like a spring ready to fire off a stop is close to 0 in a real situation.
There’s a pretty good video on RUclips showing how long it really takes to do a sliding stop, including the set up. If you are moving at a decent velocity it is so so far. Even a well executed rubber heel stop works faster than a slide to get you stationary from high speed… for skaters that have one installed.
If the person you are about to pass by suddenly turns and steps across your current trajectory and you are travelling at a reasonable speed, you will do a whole bunch of things in less than a second that you do not decide to do and none of that will result in you doing a straight line stop and not colliding with the person. You’ll either leap to your side, or turn sharply maybe end up going backwards, there may be a little T drag but just as likely is that you will accelerate out of it. If you try straight line stop, you’ll hit the person.
I’ve never stopped in a straight line in any emergency and I don’t think anyone else has either.
Certainly not Bill Stoppard. Watch his videos, every time he does that stop it is by choice never by necessity. No one skated the way he pretends to skate on video, not even him. It’s gross.
Of course, you have a lot of video up. If I’m wrong, link me to a bunch of the points where you have done that in all those hours of skating you have up. A straight line stop to being fully stationary in an unexpected situation… I’ve never seen it in anyone’s skating video, it’s always seen early and a choice is made to do a fancy looking stop… or even a simple T it’s a choice made because there is time to make it. It is not a necessity.
@@LeekowalskiWalker Ha, my last powerstop out of necessity was only two days ago. 😊 You see, in my street, there's a kind of small private hospital where people with mostly big cars come. When those people leave the parking lot, they tend to use the bike lane for watching the 'real' traffic, regardless of any bikers and skaters nearing. So, I was skating there, with parked cars to my left and a hedge to my right, when suddenly a huge Range Rover appeared and parked itself in front of me with no way to avoid it. The lady behind the steering wheel saw me coming and just didn't give a shit she was blocking my way. Well, in those kinds of situations, I'm very happy to be able to stop real fast. Which I did.
The day before, another car used the bike lane to make a U-turn. I avoided that one in a quick change of direction. Indeed, there's no need to stop if you've got other options. But it's a good thing to know you can pull it off.
Stopping doesn't even have to be an emergency. But when you're going down a slope, you've got to be able to come to a controlled halt. It doesn't matter how, but you need to be able to slow down and stop. In Ghent, there's a rather steep street with a crossroads at the bottom end. So, when the light turns red, you've got to be able to stop, or you'll end up between speeding cars. That's just a basic skill. It doesn't have to be fancy, it doesn't have to look cool, but you've got to be able to keep your velocity in check and kill it when the need arises.
I know some skaters who haven't mastered a decent stop yet and they're scared shitless every time they go down a slope. Often, they panic and fall. (I think they should work harder on mastering going down a slope.) That's what a good stopping technique offers you: security. Mental rest.
I'm very happy my own kids know how to slow down and stop. It makes them feel secure when they roll down a slope. That's a good thing, don't you think?
A good T drag is essential. Yes. That is about speed control, not stopping.
You don’t have to stop at the bottom of that hill. You could skate around in circles. You stopped out of choice and you had a lot of time and preparation. You could have done other things in that time and space.
You are bringing in all these other irrelevant situations. When you had options and time and space. You could simply not go down the hill.
I am talking about “oh hell, something suddenly happened right in front of me and u need to react and avoid collision.
I don’t believe anyone has ever done a slide stop for that. 1 from personal experience skating for about 10 years and 2 from watching thousands of hours of other skaters. Never done it and never seen it.
Is there video of your real life emergency straight line slide stop?
I think this is a fascinating topic.
Like you I’ve heard so many skaters talk about slide stop is good for emergencies but there’s no evidence of it. With all the skating videos on line, if it were a good way to avoid collisions there’d be thousands of examples. People would make compilation videos to show how useful it is in all those injury saving moments in all those videos.
But that doesn’t exist.
Stoppard is the worst for perpetuating this lie. In comments someone asked why he never does a power stop on his other leg, because he’s such an ego driven liar he replied “would you use your weak foot in a real situation” I told him as well. That’s such a weak response. What if you are on the other foot? Do real situations only arise when you are on your good foot? Do you have time to change feet? No. The whole thing is ridiculous. I told him too evidence OGTFO. He has none. No one does.
I don’t know you but you sound like an intelligent chap from your commentary. So hopefully you see the statistical improbability of something being useful in real situations and their being thousands of hours of video of real situations without a swath of examples of it’s use that we’d all be looking at saying “oh my God, look how a straight line slide stop saved all these skaters lives. I must learn how to do that.” but really people learn it because it looks cool.
Every time I didn’t get seriously injured on skates it was because I changed direction and velocity multiple times within a second. I have never done it by making decisions and I have never did it with any sliding and I did not come to a complete halt stopped before arriving at the thing I was trying to svoid. Often those velocity changes were accelerations not decelerations.
Really think about this. It’s quite a groundbreaking realisation because, as you say, all skaters insist that it is useful. And they are all demonstrably wrong about that, by the statistical unlikelihood of the absence of examples.