from How To Inline Skate on 16 May 2019
When you skate at a high speed … and a kid jump out in front of you. 3 techniques to save you and your surroundings #1 Grass RollThis one is quite easy. Just roll onto the grass. Lean a bit backward, one skate in front, lift your toes, and you will come to a safe stop. I highly recommend you practice it. At first do it a low speed. Sometimes your skates will get stuck, but at a low to a medium speed you – no problem – you can just run. At a high speed you risk getting your skates stuck and fall … but in 99% of the situations even a grass roll gone bad is better than the alternative…2# JumpOkay, so what happens here. I’m at a high speed, there’s suddenly a container in front of me. I could try to stop but there’s sand on the ground … not good. Thankfully I can make a sharp left turn.Now another problem. Rubber mats. Quite tricky. You can try to roll them, but trust me, sometimes wheels kind get stuck to rubber and you risk falling forward. The solution … jump.Jumping on inline skates is a bit counterintuitive. What I mean … you should NOT try to leap forward as you would with shoes. Instead, jump straight up. Use both legs, side by side or one foot a little bit in front. But not too much. As with the grass roll, practice jumping in a safe enviornment. It’s not that difficult once you get over that urge to leap forward. #3 Toe LiftHere the ashphalt is totally ruined. I cannot get around it and my speed is too high to stop, There are two dangers now. 1) If my front wheels get stuck, I will do a nose dive. Not good! And 2) really rough asphalt means a really rough deceleration. In the worst case, again, a nose dive. The solution is, in lack of a better word, the “toe lift”. As with the grass roll, lean a bit back, lift your toes, one skate in front … then pray … you may also do some small jumps to get over the worst spots. ..Alright, these are maybe not the most difficult techniques, but they are, trust me, good to know. Practice them, get used to them, and when you really need them, they are there to save you.
