How to improve your landing - Powerslide Technical Tips

Hello, welcome in the Powerslide Technical Tips video. Today I'm with Tamino, one of the Powerslide Ambassadors in Germany, actually natural talent for sprint. He is already a medalist at Junior World Championships and today he will help me to demonstrate some technical tips and we will speak about the landing on the skate in this video. The first tip for this video, for the landing, what is for me super important is the moment where the skate is touching the ground. I really want that you get like a soft landing, I always say soft landing, it's because I don't want that your skate is like hitting the ground very hard. You want that the landing is very soft so you can really control how much pressure you will put on your skate. Okay, most important is that we have a soft landing and especially that we have to make the four wheels at the same time on the ground. So after this soft landing, what is important is at the same time you don't want to land directly on the outside edge and of course for sure not on the inside edge. You want to land your skate almost straight, maybe a little bit on the outside edge and then take a nice smooth outside edge on your skate. A soft flat landing, a little bit straight, almost a little outside edge. So we have three edge positions, we have the outside edge, we have the natural edge and the inside edge. And the outside edge, it's really good for the rolling, the natural edge is really good for landing and the inside edge is good for the push. The last tip for this video on the landing is when you land your skate, you also want to land it a little bit in a closed position. So you want the front part of your frame has to point a little bit inside, it will help you a lot to keep your skate in the under push for a longer moment. You don't want to land the skate too much straight and for sure you don't want to land the skate in an open position because if you land your skate in an open position, the ground will grip with the wheels and it will push back your skate super fast so you will have no time to make the push. If you want to enjoy the rolling moment, try to make sure that the landing of your skate is a little bit pointing inside and that you have a nice under push moment. So we have three positions to landing the skate. We have the closed position, so it means that the first roll is getting inside. So we have the straight position, it means our foot is straight to the straight line. And we have the open position, it means that the first roll is getting outside. Make sure you want to make a soft flat landing. Make sure you land neutral with a tiny outside edge and make sure you land your skate pointing a little bit inside in a closed position. Thanks for watching the Powerslide Technical Tips video and see you in the next video.