50-year-old skater from Seoul, Korea here. Love your channel, loved this video, and particularly loved your subtitles! (your wife seems delightful^^) For some (I'm sure good!) reason, I couldn't stop watching this video. Among your videos, I LOVED the "how to stop" piece - must have watched it 3 dozen times. In fact it's how I conquered the hockey stop -- still working on the powerslide though so I'll probably watch it another 3 dozen times. I'm very impressed to learn that you took 30 hours of your time to make it. Thank you, no wonder it's terrific. Would LOVE more tutorials -- your tutorial is different and very helpful, because it is very very practical (e.g. the suggestions for exercises) and amateur-friendly -- if you can find the time to shoot more, that is :) Congrats on your first 2 years -- best wishes for another 20!!!
Thank you so much for watching my videos. It's great to hear my 'how to stop' video has been helping you. The tutorial videos do take quite a long time to put together but if people find them useful it's all worth it.
I rarely comment on YT. But this time I just wanted to say: thank you for the effort you put in all those videos. They really entertaining and inspire me to skate more often. Your stopping tutorial really helped me to improve my skating. Congratulations for 2 years of YT. I'm really looking forward to your future content.
I want to tell you that I believe my skating around the neighborhood has at least partially caused a new generation of skaters. Before I started skating (May of 2019) I did not see anyone on skates ever. Last evening I passed 6 or so new young skaters probably (6 to 10 years old). I always smile and wave to them as I pass them and I can see they return the smile to me.
I am doing the same in my small local town most people in about 8km around my home & a few people downtown or around the trail areas also recognize me, it's a great feeling seeing more & more people trying out inline skating
I very much so enjoyed this, loved the "Hello world" compilation a ton. Remembering first seeing your sloppy but promising skating in that car park, to now your quite formed skating style with your own laid-back but adventurous twist on the terrain. I figured I'd keep it short but sweet, Cheers!
I started inline skating only 2 months ago as I couldn't continue ice skating due to quarantine and I totally fell in love with it. I really like how wisely you approach skating. You seem very patient and consistent which is great. I'd love a friend like you around. Thank you for inspiring me/us. Maybe when I'm around Cheltenham or Gloucester, I'll roll into you. :-)
I really enjoy your videos and you are an inspiration. Im 47 and picked up inline skating. Its difficult but great fun. Hope to be just half as skilled as you in a couple of years 😊 Keep up your great videos 🙏😎👍
I'm from bulgaria i've told you in anaother comment that i like very much inline skating and ice skating at winter. You make great videos! This one is awseome! I'm 31 years old and i skate from 8 months i was thinking that is late but now i see that is on time. Some of your videos are very helpful. I have to learn a lot of things but i think that i have made progress. At first i was skating only on rings but now i skate across my town. I've learnd power stop off your tutorials. Thanks!
Thanks for the videos, in lockdown and aged 53 you inspired me to take up skating. The day after my skates arrived I fell and broke my wrist (scaphoid fracture) but was back out the next day and am getting better one month in! Totally addicted and loving it. Keep the videos coming, especially for beginners!
After 25 years I'm back on inlines to play with my kids. Especially after seeing your videos and dedication I'm extra inspired to set the bar higher and train for improvement. Grown man trying 180s and jumps... I'm loving it. thanks!
Hey man! Your videos have been a huge inspiration! I thought I was too old to start at 35yo and now I feel a lot more confident that I will get there! :D Thanks for sharing! Regards from Brazil!
New viewer here. Had one lesson and am awaiting delivery of my first skates so I can go out on my own. You have really inspired me to make skating a success. I hope one day I can skate confidently and safely up here in my beloved Scotland and around the world. Keep rolling.
Another great video and as I've said before love watching a UK skater on RUclips, doing the stuff and going the places any one of us could go. I've not been skating enough but just recently headed out again but at night and literally just ordered some safety gear to be seen so I can get out more when I've finished moving.
I'm 39 and picked up skating recently after many years out. Got a pair of FR1 based on your reviews, amazing skates! I love the workout I get and my knees thank me everyday that i go skating instead of run 😂 I still can't decide if I like 110 wheel setup better than four.
Today is the end of my 3rd week of learning to skate. I can carve, drag stop, plow stop, jump up & down curbs, do slightly clumsy crossovers, backwards lemon and kinda backwards half lemon. By next sunday I want to learn front-back transitions and maybe the powerslide? As I get ready I usually stick one of your flow videos on in the background which helps me get into the mood of trying new things so thanks for that! Oh, and I agree with your wife about the colour co-ordinating, but I'm diggin' the sunglasses you should wear them more!
I tell you that after 1 year and over 1000 miles (1609 km) of skating (which ends up being 3 to 6 times a week every week including winter where I had to work around the snow) I am not that good. However I started when I was 47 years old with absolutely no inline skating experience and also the place I live in does not have a lot of flat land ( I live on top of a hill).
@@drescherjm I'm 29 and started as a complete beginner as well. But I'm lucky! About 800m from my house is a smooth, flat lane with curbs, a left and right turn with a bridge at the end. In a 300m stretch I can go up and down curbs, do crossovers on both sides, practice backwards skating and use the hill to learn stopping on a slope... it's literally perfect!
@@moopylicious9426 , I'm asking because I'm 42, started about two mounts ago (from scratch) and progressed a lot, however, still have to work on my stopping technique and no cross over yet. (too afraid to do it on my new longer frames with a brake :) I've been transitioning from a FR1 80 mm to SEBA CJ and NR90 wizards...long but more stable and extremely fast. I have to go back to 80 to try cross-overs otherwise is too scary. drescherjm: I do live in a place with steep hills so that's the reason I do not ditch the rear brake as yet...
69 year old from Almeria, south Spain. I also love your videos. A wonderful way to encourage me to go on skating in spite of my age. Anyway if I may give you a tip, I find it difficult to read the subtitles and watch the images at the same time. I would rather listen to your speaking. Thanks for all the work you have done. Never give up and thanks for sharing your skating experience with us
Hey mate...great video. I am your new subscriber and fan from yesterday. I really like and admire you, it is so nice when a person finds something that can do on it's own, few times a week or when it can, doing some something that helps them lose their negativity, stress, all the bad stuff...you just roll away from all that. So nice. And don't listen to your wife sooo much, you are a cool dude by doing what you like, that does makes you cool :) Sunglasses are ok, remember the song Sunglasses at night? You must, you are my age...cool song...:) Believe in yourself and stay happy on wheels :)
I really enjoyed this video, I know it was just clips but I've not seen all of your videos as I only started watching in February, I liked the subtitles too. My biggest influences for starting skating again are you and Ricardo Lino, you were the first youtuber I found. I took my children to Rollerworld in Colchester (skate rink where I live) which I use to visit frequently as a child, I enjoyed it so much that when I got home I looked up rollerblading, which led me to your channel, a few days later I purchased my FRX 80s, I got out on them few times in-between the terrible weather and then the lock down happened. I can't wait to get out and practice, I've got a gopro hero 7 to record everything from my beginnings and onwards. I must have watched your how to stop video at least 10times and I'm sure I will watch it more when learning the 3 stopping techniques that you teach.
Thanks alot for watching my videos. Appreciate the support buddy. It's awesome to hear you are enjoying to skate. Hopefully see you sometime soon on RUclips! Filming yourself is a good way to learn actually. Before I started RUclips I still filmed myself as a ways to see what I was doing wrong.
Well done Buddy, this is a really great video, and despite being over 25mins in length - 25mins, are you freakin' kidding me!!? - I watched it all to the end ; ) Well done on your skate journey, it's been a genuine success story.
Cheers buddy. All the music in this video were my favourites I have found on the RUclips music library. It has a mass of good tunes on there for all tastes of music.
Nice video, aside from your flows, love how linked it all together with questions and answers! I guess you moved as well with your editing and storytwlling skills... Keep it up
@@whittyskater I don't remember if I asked you if you mentioned in your videos but do you prefer the 4 wheels over the 3-wheels? I see you skate on a lot of different surfaces. Just wondering your preference?
Ever skated Bristol? That's a city!😉 Not so far away, and I know some guys who skate it regularly. I've skated Worcester, which has some great riverside paths, and Cardiff (where I live) is pretty good too in places.
Congratualtions on 2 years for the channel. The sunglasses. you have have told your wife "cool is trying too hard to look like me!" hah. Looking forward to the Endless frames (i hope you were sent them as a gift. you deserve it,the work you have put in) Got my first edit coming in the next couple of days. look out for it. Shot some video this morning, just doing the edit. not looking forward to adding a voice over though. how did you feel doing your first "Hello world" and posting your first video. all the best for the future. good show mate.
Yeah I was pretty nervous when I put out that first video. Hearing my own voice was quite weird to start with. I didn't know I sounded like I do! My endless frames are on the way but stuck somewhere in transit. I paid for them by the way though.
@@whittyskater Those frames could turn up at any time. My Zooms were 12 days earlier than expected (ordered from Holland due to unavailability in UK, excpet size 6) The box they turned up in (not the Powerslide box, the box outside the box) was massive. Thinking of converting it into a garage.haha. could have easily fit 6 Powerslide boxes into it. all the best.
Congrats! 10k is close. Keep doing your awesome content. Well, I want to give myself a challenge to hit 1k before you will hit 10k. But I guess it's almost impossible:D. I'm very sloooow...
My skating improved a lot since i picked up your channel. Currently working transitions and backward crossovers. Do you have any tips on riding stairs? Twister edge 80mm natural rocker
Great to see a UK skater. :) I love your channel and it has helped me with my return to inline skating to watch your progress and not get downhearted when I do not feel like I am making progress. Watched until the end! ;) I find I have problems with being slightly knock-kneed. I put this down to years of sitting on my ass behind a screen. Did you suffer from this at all when you first started? I am doing exercises to loosen my abductors, which I understand can help.
I've had a few knee problems in the past but thankfully nothing too bad. I try to be careful though what I do on skates so as not to aggrevate my knees too much.
@@whittyskater Thanks for replying. I looked into it further and it seems to be an issue with weak quads, glutes and rotators at the hips. Managed to find some basic exercises that can help and hopefully it will help improve my skating posture. Keep uploading videos - it is great to see your progress.
Cool vid. I used to skate not a lot, but last year wanted to get fit without heavy weights and running cos I’ve always suffered with lower back issues. So I bought a pair or Seba E3’s and randomly went to a local roller disco which resulted in couple of cool dudes asking me if wanted to join their skate club ( fu@k yah ) . Got my feet working and it felt amazing, then received my hospital date for spinal surgery to repair a bulging disc that had caused sciatic pain in both legs for 18 months. Surgery 23/03/2020 yeh day of UK lockdown but all going well, I’m walking 2.5 miles every day building core strength before I get back on my skates. Cannot emphasis enough how lower back and inner core muscles need to be top of the list. It’s now week 9 of lockdown and I’m itching to get back on wheels. Whitty appeals to me I’m a UK skater and a bit older than most in the skating world but I know I’ll be on wheels soon and hitting some tarmac. So well done Whitty shame your up country, it’s a bit too far to skate. So from Portsmouth late night skating club I wish you all well 👍👍
What was your actual age when you started skating in your 30s? I love your channel. Really inspirational! I need to push past the mental block of worrying what people think and start skating 😎
I have such an urge to skate at the moment, but live in a pretty rural village and I don't think driving to town to skate counts as "necessary travel". Any tips for someone without much space or concrete/tarmac nearby during these times?
I am trying to find the correct boot fit. I was wanting to buy the FRX 80 free skate. Not sure ? I wear a 9 1/2 Nike running shoe. Should I get a smaller or bigger size then actual size?
How about going to store and trying to put them on? Also, mostly everyone recommends going 1 size up from "normal shoes" which is kinda very personal thing that might work for ones and be totally wrong for others. This is why it's best to go to store and try skates on.
Would you say you need to be in good shape to start out and would you say it definitely kept you in shape overall? Loving this video haha, esp. the wife's comments and the shrunk T-Shirt, and the candidness of it all. 😂😂
- Your wife is just jealous that you are actually naturally cool without even trying, maybe she's afraid that someone might fall in your love ;) - I started dreaming about owning and trying out a skate in March 2018, but back then, I had been with my girlfriend for 1 year without a formal engagement (which is an issue in Egypt); so, I spared the money I got for the engagement expenses. And I forced myself to forget about skating, without realizing that it's going to be temporarily. - When we were out taking a stroll downtown January this year (right after I finished my obligatory military service), we encountered a bunch of inline-skaters passing by, and my eyes immediately emitted a blinding-amount-of-light that was impossible to be dismissed by everyone in the street, my GF included. So she told me: "go pal, talk to them". - After getting some details from the guys, and their contact-details, I headed the next day to a skate-shop, which had a ridiculous policy of delivering the order after full 90 days, and I accepted, for me not to take the risk of ordering a pair of skates online (I have never ordered anything online before) and not getting it (I wanted to get a skate so badly that I didn't want to risk anything. (26 Feb 2020 || Powerslide Megacruiser Pro 125) - After that, like "inception" movie, I seeded the idea of the whole skating thing in my sister's head, and we decided to order her a pair of "Powerslide imperial one 80" online, which we have done, and to our surprise: it got DELIVERED 19-days-after! and I still have to wait (90 - 19 days) more. [[Though about getting my money from the shop, and cancel the order, and get mine online as well, but decided to honor the contract I agreed to, to wait 90 days, and not to dispute]]. - 2 days ago, the shop informed me that they've had a problem with customs, and they'll have to send the skate back again to Germany, and to ship it into a different portal! That's when I had enough, I got my money back, and ordered online "FR1 325 Black", since I wanted to start skating with a 125mm skate, and since my size (46 eur) of the Megacruiser was sold out, as well as the Navy 125. - It will be delivered 10th of June, which is only 15 days more, and then, I will start my RUclips inline skating channel (or at least that's the plan), and will start showing you random parts and suburbs of Egypt. - I dunno why I have written my life-story in a RUclips comment, but, that's what I felt to do! If you have read till this part, thanks for your courtesy to do so, really appreciate it, and your channel is awesome!
Hope you have fun on your new skates. It would be cool if you post your experience to RUclips. Thanks for the comment, it was very interesting to hear your experience. 👊👍
50-year-old skater from Seoul, Korea here. Love your channel, loved this video, and particularly loved your subtitles! (your wife seems delightful^^) For some (I'm sure good!) reason, I couldn't stop watching this video.
Among your videos, I LOVED the "how to stop" piece - must have watched it 3 dozen times. In fact it's how I conquered the hockey stop -- still working on the powerslide though so I'll probably watch it another 3 dozen times. I'm very impressed to learn that you took 30 hours of your time to make it. Thank you, no wonder it's terrific. Would LOVE more tutorials -- your tutorial is different and very helpful, because it is very very practical (e.g. the suggestions for exercises) and amateur-friendly -- if you can find the time to shoot more, that is :)
Congrats on your first 2 years -- best wishes for another 20!!!
Thank you so much for watching my videos. It's great to hear my 'how to stop' video has been helping you. The tutorial videos do take quite a long time to put together but if people find them useful it's all worth it.
I rarely comment on YT. But this time I just wanted to say: thank you for the effort you put in all those videos. They really entertaining and inspire me to skate more often. Your stopping tutorial really helped me to improve my skating. Congratulations for 2 years of YT. I'm really looking forward to your future content.
Cheers buddy. Appreciate you taking the time to comment.
@ Tony meyer @WHITTYskater Well said I could not agree more.
I want to tell you that I believe my skating around the neighborhood has at least partially caused a new generation of skaters. Before I started skating (May of 2019) I did not see anyone on skates ever. Last evening I passed 6 or so new young skaters probably (6 to 10 years old). I always smile and wave to them as I pass them and I can see they return the smile to me.
This is so good to hear. It's all about inspiring the next generation
I am doing the same in my small local town most people in about 8km around my home & a few people downtown or around the trail areas also recognize me, it's a great feeling seeing more & more people trying out inline skating
Love your 'Bill Stoppard' stops! #staylow
Thanks!
I very much so enjoyed this, loved the "Hello world" compilation a ton. Remembering first seeing your sloppy but promising skating in that car park, to now your quite formed skating style with your own laid-back but adventurous twist on the terrain. I figured I'd keep it short but sweet, Cheers!
Cheers buddy. Appreciate your support.
I started inline skating only 2 months ago as I couldn't continue ice skating due to quarantine and I totally fell in love with it. I really like how wisely you approach skating. You seem very patient and consistent which is great. I'd love a friend like you around. Thank you for inspiring me/us. Maybe when I'm around Cheltenham or Gloucester, I'll roll into you. :-)
Cool to hear you have taken up inline skating.
Amazing how far you've come in that time. I really need to get in the routine of skating more and polish my skills.
Watching you skate gives me a sense of joy. I'm looking forward to learning soon!
Thank you!
On days I can't skate, I tune in because I can vicariously skate thru you! 😃
Glad my vids can help fill the void.
I really enjoy your videos and you are an inspiration. Im 47 and picked up inline skating. Its difficult but great fun. Hope to be just half as skilled as you in a couple of years 😊 Keep up your great videos 🙏😎👍
Hey buddy. Glad you are enjoying inline skating. Thanks for watching my vids. 👊
I'm from bulgaria i've told you in anaother comment that i like very much inline skating and ice skating at winter. You make great videos! This one is awseome! I'm 31 years old and i skate from 8 months i was thinking that is late but now i see that is on time. Some of your videos are very helpful. I have to learn a lot of things but i think that i have made progress. At first i was skating only on rings but now i skate across my town. I've learnd power stop off your tutorials. Thanks!
Thanks for watching. Good luck skating
Thanks for the videos, in lockdown and aged 53 you inspired me to take up skating. The day after my skates arrived I fell and broke my wrist (scaphoid fracture) but was back out the next day and am getting better one month in! Totally addicted and loving it. Keep the videos coming, especially for beginners!
Sorry to hear about the wrist. But awesome you are back out skating.
After 25 years I'm back on inlines to play with my kids. Especially after seeing your videos and dedication I'm extra inspired to set the bar higher and train for improvement. Grown man trying 180s and jumps... I'm loving it. thanks!
That's awesome. Welcome back to skating.
Great progress. I always enjoy watching your videos👍
Thanks alot
Hey man! Your videos have been a huge inspiration! I thought I was too old to start at 35yo and now I feel a lot more confident that I will get there! :D Thanks for sharing! Regards from Brazil!
Thanks for watching. It's never too late to learn to skate!
New viewer here. Had one lesson and am awaiting delivery of my first skates so I can go out on my own. You have really inspired me to make skating a success. I hope one day I can skate confidently and safely up here in my beloved Scotland and around the world. Keep rolling.
Welcome to skating! Enjoy.
Thanks. For all the great vids. Music is spot on too.
Thank you!
Yo man, your flows are my favorite, and are motivating me to push harder. Keep it up.
That's great to hear thank you! 👊
Loving your video's! Got the fr1's in red today after watching your review. They feel great 😎
Cool! Hope you like them
Fantastic compilation, thanks for all of it.
Cheers buddy.
Qué grande! Me encanta tus videos y la disposición que tienes. Enhorabuena.
He vuelto a patinar con 34 años. Tengo unos AEON 80
Gracias por ver. Diviértete con el Aeon 80 (used google translate)
Another great video and as I've said before love watching a UK skater on RUclips, doing the stuff and going the places any one of us could go. I've not been skating enough but just recently headed out again but at night and literally just ordered some safety gear to be seen so I can get out more when I've finished moving.
Cheers buddy. I love skating at night. Adds an extra dimension to skating somehow.
Got the same orange Seba model as you... LIT!!!
Cool!
I'm 39 and picked up skating recently after many years out. Got a pair of FR1 based on your reviews, amazing skates! I love the workout I get and my knees thank me everyday that i go skating instead of run 😂 I still can't decide if I like 110 wheel setup better than four.
That's great. Glad you like the FR1s. They are awesome skates.
Today is the end of my 3rd week of learning to skate. I can carve, drag stop, plow stop, jump up & down curbs, do slightly clumsy crossovers, backwards lemon and kinda backwards half lemon. By next sunday I want to learn front-back transitions and maybe the powerslide?
As I get ready I usually stick one of your flow videos on in the background which helps me get into the mood of trying new things so thanks for that!
Oh, and I agree with your wife about the colour co-ordinating, but I'm diggin' the sunglasses you should wear them more!
Just curious, how old are you?
I tell you that after 1 year and over 1000 miles (1609 km) of skating (which ends up being 3 to 6 times a week every week including winter where I had to work around the snow) I am not that good. However I started when I was 47 years old with absolutely no inline skating experience and also the place I live in does not have a lot of flat land ( I live on top of a hill).
@@swi2009ca I'm 29. Why do you ask?
@@drescherjm I'm 29 and started as a complete beginner as well. But I'm lucky!
About 800m from my house is a smooth, flat lane with curbs, a left and right turn with a bridge at the end. In a 300m stretch I can go up and down curbs, do crossovers on both sides, practice backwards skating and use the hill to learn stopping on a slope... it's literally perfect!
@@moopylicious9426 , I'm asking because I'm 42, started about two mounts ago (from scratch) and progressed a lot, however, still have to work on my stopping technique and no cross over yet. (too afraid to do it on my new longer frames with a brake :) I've been transitioning from a FR1 80 mm to SEBA CJ and NR90 wizards...long but more stable and extremely fast. I have to go back to 80 to try cross-overs otherwise is too scary. drescherjm: I do live in a place with steep hills so that's the reason I do not ditch the rear brake as yet...
great video! awesome to see your progress with the channel and of course with skating in general :D
Thanks buddy
Keep up the great work!
Cheers buddy.
I loved this video it was great to see eveything you have done. Always enjoy watching your videos.
Cheers Epic. I appreciate you watching my vids. I see your own channel is starting to grow. 👊
69 year old from Almeria, south Spain. I also love your videos. A wonderful way to encourage me to go on skating in spite of my age. Anyway if I may give you a tip, I find it difficult to read the subtitles and watch the images at the same time. I would rather listen to your speaking.
Thanks for all the work you have done. Never give up and thanks for sharing your skating experience with us
Sorry, not 69 but 60 just a few days ago. Oh my goodness!
Thanks for watching and for the feedback.
No, thank you.
As always best.
Thank you
Nice trip !!!
Hey mate...great video. I am your new subscriber and fan from yesterday. I really like and admire you, it is so nice when a person finds something that can do on it's own, few times a week or when it can, doing some something that helps them lose their negativity, stress, all the bad stuff...you just roll away from all that. So nice. And don't listen to your wife sooo much, you are a cool dude by doing what you like, that does makes you cool :) Sunglasses are ok, remember the song Sunglasses at night? You must, you are my age...cool song...:) Believe in yourself and stay happy on wheels :)
Thanks for you nice comment. I appreciate it. I should point out my wife is very supportive of my skating. We just like to make fun of each other!
@@whittyskater i know, I know... I was just being funny a joking too 😉
I really enjoyed this video, I know it was just clips but I've not seen all of your videos as I only started watching in February, I liked the subtitles too.
My biggest influences for starting skating again are you and Ricardo Lino, you were the first youtuber I found. I took my children to Rollerworld in Colchester (skate rink where I live) which I use to visit frequently as a child, I enjoyed it so much that when I got home I looked up rollerblading, which led me to your channel, a few days later I purchased my FRX 80s, I got out on them few times in-between the terrible weather and then the lock down happened. I can't wait to get out and practice, I've got a gopro hero 7 to record everything from my beginnings and onwards.
I must have watched your how to stop video at least 10times and I'm sure I will watch it more when learning the 3 stopping techniques that you teach.
Thanks alot for watching my videos. Appreciate the support buddy. It's awesome to hear you are enjoying to skate. Hopefully see you sometime soon on RUclips! Filming yourself is a good way to learn actually. Before I started RUclips I still filmed myself as a ways to see what I was doing wrong.
Well done Buddy, this is a really great video, and despite being over 25mins in length - 25mins, are you freakin' kidding me!!? - I watched it all to the end ; ) Well done on your skate journey, it's been a genuine success story.
Congrats on making it to the end. Appreciate it!
i like all these videos, and i remember them. But my favorite music is the one that starts @12.16
Cheers buddy. All the music in this video were my favourites I have found on the RUclips music library. It has a mass of good tunes on there for all tastes of music.
Nice video, aside from your flows, love how linked it all together with questions and answers! I guess you moved as well with your editing and storytwlling skills... Keep it up
Thanks alot for watching
Love your channel !
Thank you!
@@whittyskater I don't remember if I asked you if you mentioned in your videos but do you prefer the 4 wheels over the 3-wheels? I see you skate on a lot of different surfaces. Just wondering your preference?
Prefer 4 wheels for the most part. I do like 3x110 but 4x80 is my favourite
Keep the nice videos coming Richard :)
Will do!
SUBSCRIBED !!!! I started 3 weeks ago.
Thank you.welcome to inline skating!
The sky's the limit enjoy your Sk8ing!
❤️
Ever skated Bristol? That's a city!😉 Not so far away, and I know some guys who skate it regularly. I've skated Worcester, which has some great riverside paths, and Cardiff (where I live) is pretty good too in places.
All 3 are on my list to skate. Once we are out of lockdown hopefully get to at least one of them!
Oh my god when I will.. Do this
Really nice
Thank you
Congratualtions on 2 years for the channel. The sunglasses. you have have told your wife "cool is trying too hard to look like me!" hah. Looking forward to the Endless frames (i hope you were sent them as a gift. you deserve it,the work you have put in)
Got my first edit coming in the next couple of days. look out for it. Shot some video this morning, just doing the edit. not looking forward to adding a voice over though. how did you feel doing your first "Hello world" and posting your first video.
all the best for the future. good show mate.
My wife would be the opposite. She would be complaining why I did not wear the sunglasses..
Yeah I was pretty nervous when I put out that first video. Hearing my own voice was quite weird to start with. I didn't know I sounded like I do!
My endless frames are on the way but stuck somewhere in transit. I paid for them by the way though.
@@whittyskater Those frames could turn up at any time. My Zooms were 12 days earlier than expected (ordered from Holland due to unavailability in UK, excpet size 6) The box they turned up in (not the Powerslide box, the box outside the box) was massive. Thinking of converting it into a garage.haha. could have easily fit 6 Powerslide boxes into it.
all the best.
Nice comp man!
Cheers buddy
I ordered my Twister X after watching your review. Thanks for you work.
Hope you like them
@@whittyskater They are so good, I have 2 pairs -- one in white, one in black :)
@@iljunjang awesome
Nice video 🔥
Thank you
Congrats! 10k is close. Keep doing your awesome content.
Well, I want to give myself a challenge to hit 1k before you will hit 10k. But I guess it's almost impossible:D. I'm very sloooow...
Cheers buddy. I appreciate your support. You'll soon hit 1K!
My skating improved a lot since i picked up your channel. Currently working transitions and backward crossovers. Do you have any tips on riding stairs? Twister edge 80mm natural rocker
If you want some good tips I recommend watching Bill Stoppards tutorial. He did one a couple if years ago which is really good.
Great to see a UK skater. :) I love your channel and it has helped me with my return to inline skating to watch your progress and not get downhearted when I do not feel like I am making progress. Watched until the end! ;) I find I have problems with being slightly knock-kneed. I put this down to years of sitting on my ass behind a screen. Did you suffer from this at all when you first started? I am doing exercises to loosen my abductors, which I understand can help.
I've had a few knee problems in the past but thankfully nothing too bad. I try to be careful though what I do on skates so as not to aggrevate my knees too much.
@@whittyskater Thanks for replying. I looked into it further and it seems to be an issue with weak quads, glutes and rotators at the hips. Managed to find some basic exercises that can help and hopefully it will help improve my skating posture. Keep uploading videos - it is great to see your progress.
Cool vid. I used to skate not a lot, but last year wanted to get fit without heavy weights and running cos I’ve always suffered with lower back issues. So I bought a pair or Seba E3’s and randomly went to a local roller disco which resulted in couple of cool dudes asking me if wanted to join their skate club ( fu@k yah ) . Got my feet working and it felt amazing, then received my hospital date for spinal surgery to repair a bulging disc that had caused sciatic pain in both legs for 18 months. Surgery 23/03/2020 yeh day of UK lockdown but all going well, I’m walking 2.5 miles every day building core strength before I get back on my skates. Cannot emphasis enough how lower back and inner core muscles need to be top of the list. It’s now week 9 of lockdown and I’m itching to get back on wheels. Whitty appeals to me I’m a UK skater and a bit older than most in the skating world but I know I’ll be on wheels soon and hitting some tarmac. So well done Whitty shame your up country, it’s a bit too far to skate. So from Portsmouth late night skating club I wish you all well 👍👍
Hey buddy. Thanks for watching. Hope you can get back on your skates soon.
What was your actual age when you started skating in your 30s? I love your channel. Really inspirational! I need to push past the mental block of worrying what people think and start skating 😎
Started on my 37th birthday. Don't worry what others think. Just get out and skate.👊
I have such an urge to skate at the moment, but live in a pretty rural village and I don't think driving to town to skate counts as "necessary travel". Any tips for someone without much space or concrete/tarmac nearby during these times?
Maybe get some cones (or similar) and practice some slalom moves. You can do this in quite small spaces. Loads of good tutorials on RUclips.
@@whittyskater Not a style I've given much thought too, but could be fun to learn something new! Thanks for the idea!
Seba High Light Carbon is as confortable as fr1? Thanks and congratulations for you major evolution, dedication pays off!!
For me the highlight carbon are more comfortable.
I am trying to find the correct boot fit. I was wanting to buy the FRX 80 free skate. Not sure ? I wear a 9 1/2 Nike running shoe. Should I get a smaller or bigger size then actual size?
How about going to store and trying to put them on? Also, mostly everyone recommends going 1 size up from "normal shoes" which is kinda very personal thing that might work for ones and be totally wrong for others. This is why it's best to go to store and try skates on.
As Golem1988 has said try to go to a shop if you can. Personally I went for my regular shoe size.
Would you say you need to be in good shape to start out and would you say it definitely kept you in shape overall? Loving this video haha, esp. the wife's comments and the shrunk T-Shirt, and the candidness of it all. 😂😂
Being in shape will help I guess. But it doesn't really matter. Skating though will help with your fitness.
only thing stopping me is that my town is really hilly and doesn't have smooth / flat paths to skate on...
That's a shame. You can skate in hilly areas and non smooth paths but I guess it isn't ideal.
@@whittyskater yeah :\ Loved your video though!
18:08 subtitles lmao
What's the main difference you feel between 4 and 3 wheels?
Speed mainly. 3 big wheels tend to roll faster than 4 smaller ones.
Great Video man... I love your stuff... but please start wearing a helmet and some wrist guards.
bro what model you have in the first video
In my very first video? Seba highlight carbons
Sorry to spam but eager to learn ... Do you use special socks? Lol.
And is your skate size the same as your shoe size?
Nope. Just use walking/hiking type socks. I tend to by my regular shoe size in skates
@@whittyskater thank you!
Work on your left foot and keep having fun! Good work
Thanks
- Your wife is just jealous that you are actually naturally cool without even trying, maybe she's afraid that someone might fall in your love ;)
- I started dreaming about owning and trying out a skate in March 2018, but back then, I had been with my girlfriend for 1 year without a formal engagement (which is an issue in Egypt); so, I spared the money I got for the engagement expenses. And I forced myself to forget about skating, without realizing that it's going to be temporarily.
- When we were out taking a stroll downtown January this year (right after I finished my obligatory military service), we encountered a bunch of inline-skaters passing by, and my eyes immediately emitted a blinding-amount-of-light that was impossible to be dismissed by everyone in the street, my GF included. So she told me: "go pal, talk to them".
- After getting some details from the guys, and their contact-details, I headed the next day to a skate-shop, which had a ridiculous policy of delivering the order after full 90 days, and I accepted, for me not to take the risk of ordering a pair of skates online (I have never ordered anything online before) and not getting it (I wanted to get a skate so badly that I didn't want to risk anything. (26 Feb 2020 || Powerslide Megacruiser Pro 125)
- After that, like "inception" movie, I seeded the idea of the whole skating thing in my sister's head, and we decided to order her a pair of "Powerslide imperial one 80" online, which we have done, and to our surprise: it got DELIVERED 19-days-after! and I still have to wait (90 - 19 days) more. [[Though about getting my money from the shop, and cancel the order, and get mine online as well, but decided to honor the contract I agreed to, to wait 90 days, and not to dispute]].
- 2 days ago, the shop informed me that they've had a problem with customs, and they'll have to send the skate back again to Germany, and to ship it into a different portal! That's when I had enough, I got my money back, and ordered online "FR1 325 Black", since I wanted to start skating with a 125mm skate, and since my size (46 eur) of the Megacruiser was sold out, as well as the Navy 125.
- It will be delivered 10th of June, which is only 15 days more, and then, I will start my RUclips inline skating channel (or at least that's the plan), and will start showing you random parts and suburbs of Egypt.
- I dunno why I have written my life-story in a RUclips comment, but, that's what I felt to do! If you have read till this part, thanks for your courtesy to do so, really appreciate it, and your channel is awesome!
Hope you have fun on your new skates. It would be cool if you post your experience to RUclips. Thanks for the comment, it was very interesting to hear your experience. 👊👍
Do you ever wonder if people around town refer to you privately as “that skate guy”? As in “there’s THAT SKATE GUY again...”
I'm sure I'm called all sorts of names
Cherish your wife