Beginner roller skating
Getting Up: Turn Over, One Knee, One Skate
Getting back up has a shape, and flailing is not it. Roll over onto your knees, plant one skate flat on the floor in front of you, then push up off that leg while your hands press down on the knee to help. It is the position a knight takes to kneel. Slow, repeatable, and it works when you are tired, which is exactly when you will need it. Quad technique, from Najete Kada, a French champion in artistic roller skating.
Getting back up has a shape, and flailing is not it. The shape is the one a knight takes to kneel: one knee down, one skate flat on the floor in front of you.
In order: roll over onto your knees so you are facing the floor. Plant one skate flat in front of you. Then push up off that front leg while your hands press down on the knee to help. The hands are not decoration — they turn a leg press into something your arms share.
The skate goes down flat, all wheels touching. On a toe it rolls out from under you; on a heel it does the same in the other direction. Flat is the only position that stays where you put it while you load it.
It works when you are tired, which is exactly when you will need it. That is the whole argument for learning a slow, repeatable method instead of scrambling: scrambling works on the first fall of the session and not on the sixth. Quad technique, from Najete Kada's Tuto roller series. She teaches quad skating and skates it herself; nothing on this page is a claim about inline skates.
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