How to slow down on rollers?

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How to slow down on rollers?

Buy videos and learn to ride them - it'sonly half the battle, it is still necessary to learn how to slow down correctly on them, in order to keep their knees, and sometimes even life intact and safe. So let's talk about how to slow down on rollers.

Keep in mind that no matter what videos youbuy - with or without brake, you still have to learn to brake. The brake presented in the complete set with rollers, for the most part fiction, does not give strong guarantees for good braking.

Methods of braking

Brake on rollers can be "unprofessional" and"professionally". The first method is all that creates a natural obstacle for skating - grass, walls, trees. This method is good for beginners, the first to stand on the rollers. Just something you need to go out on the grass, drive up to the wall or to a tree and grab hold of the barrier. You can also just stop moving your legs, and the frictional force that arises between the roller wheels and the asphalt, will stop you. This is the easiest way for beginners. Also, some newcomers are trying to land on the "fifth point". The method is, of course, effective, but the priest can suffer.

But not always these methods are effective, and with the growth of the experience of roller skating, I want to learn how to brake properly. So here are a few options for how to properly brake on rollers:

1. Braking with a "plow". To slow down this way, you need to spread your legs widely apart and begin to slowly reduce foot socks to each other. To learn how to use this method, you need to have strong leg muscles.
2. Pull one leg forward and make the rear wheel of the front leg come into contact with the front wheel of the second leg. But this, as you understand, we must learn.
3. Deceleration by turning and turning. Help reduce the speed of sharp small turns on the rollers, while gradually extinguishing speed. The turn is made as follows: the supporting leg continues to move, the hip of the other leg is placed on the front wheel and unfolded by the heel to the supporting leg. An obtuse angle arises, as a result of which braking takes place. Let the inertia itself stop you after the reversal. It is necessary to have a good balance for such a method of inhibition.
4. T-stop - you need to put the skate of one legPerpendicular to the movement of the other leg. Thus, the friction force will increase dramatically and braking will occur. You also need to have a good balance and use this method less often, if you want the wheels of the rollers not to get worn out quickly.
5. Ways of hockey. They are good for experienced skaters. The first method is Power Stop. It is necessary to deploy the supporting skate so that it rolls the rear wheel, at this time the second leg should describe the arc, straighten and be across the line of motion. The second method is Parallel-stop. To perform braking with this method, you need to make a sharp turn with both feet perpendicular to the line of motion. For stability, you can sit down.

In addition, in different situations can be usefuldifferent ways of braking, so choose the situation. Sometimes to land on the grass or grab for a tree is the most reliable way of braking, well and there where there are no "assistants" and naked asphalt space, it is necessary to apply already special techniques of braking.

For a better understanding of how to brake on the rollers, the video on our page will be very useful: look and practice, and then the problem of braking on the rollers will disappear once and for all!