Sliding on Roller Skates

All right skaters, I'm Dirty Deborah Harry with the Dirty School of Skate and Sure Grip Roller Skates and I'm here again another late night at the Fountain Valley Skating Center with Xavier who's working the camera. We're here to talk to you about a very specific kind of wheels and something pretty cool you can do on them all right. We're going to talk about the Sure Grip phenolic wheel. This is a wheel that was invented in 1937 and literally started the entire company. You get a tight shot on these wheels right down there. These wheels are made of compressed resin and fiber and they are made to slide hence the nickname sliders or fibers all right. The only reason I'm talking about these wheels today is I've gotten so many comments when I've worn them in previous videos. People are like what are those tiny little crazy loud wheels you're wearing, why are you wearing them, what can you do, where can I get them, etc. etc. I'm going to try to answer as many of these questions as I can okay. So again they're made of compressed resin and fiber so they're super super slick. It also makes them incredibly loud so sometimes when you be skating at session you'll hear someone coming up and you're like what is that train coming up behind me and it's literally just one person just grooving behind you with these super loud wheels and then when they're kind of slip sliding in through the crowd they don't really have to stop because you can turn your wheels sideways turn your skate sideways and just slide. We can also do nice long slides with them. Tonight we're going to talk about the most basic of sliding, what I just call like a basic lunge slide. So that's what we're going to work on tonight but just a little disclaimer you can only do this with these wheels. So if you're wearing your typical urethane wheel it does not work okay. You really need slider wheels in order to do this and literally the only place you can get them is SureGrip okay. SureGrip Original Phenolic Wheels okay because I don't want you hurting yourself. Alright so we're going to take a little trip around the rink. I'm going to demonstrate it then we're going to go through it in detail so come along. Alright we're skating around and up. Alright it looks fairly easy. I think it looks fairly easy but of course like everything there's a ton going on with it so we're going to break it down step by step. Alright now first thing is you got to do a mohawk turn. So I've got another video on mohawk turns but the basic for mohawk is that you've got weight on one foot you transfer the weight to the back foot. Again your weight is on the front foot look over your shoulder transfer your weight to the back. It's forward inside edge meaning weight is on your foot going forward your knee is slightly pressed over your big toe you look over your shoulder open up your hip drop your back foot and now you're backwards. So that's what you saw me doing is a little mohawk turn now I'm backwards. Once I'm backwards I've got weight equally on both feet and then I transfer the weight to the foot the skating leg the leg that's attached to the ground and it's going to stay to the ground for me it's going to be my left. Take my center line of balance push it over my left leg so now I've got my weight firmly here and I'm going to open up this hip and this foot turn it like this sideways and I'm going to push. Let's go around and show that part it's real simple. I'm going to simply show down here weight is on the left I start opening up this hip to turn this sideways and push. Again this is why you need the right wheels you try this with any other wheels they're going to bump up up up like that you can possibly hurt yourself so it's down shift your body weight open up your hip and push back. One other thing I like to do especially when you're first learning this is to counterbalance with your arms that means when we drop our body weight down and we open up our hip and we start to push this leg extending push your arms out front so then that way you can counterbalance all right so that you don't fall. Your goal is to just have just enough weight on this back foot to make this skate glide so the vast majority of your weight has to be on the front. Let's also think about it this way when I put the weight on my left leg and over here my chest squared out right here needs to be right over my knee so my shoulders push straight over chest straight over the knee the knee is pushed over the top of my skate tons of weight here so I can be super stable once I do that I can turn this hip out and then push and slide one more time for you okay again we're staying around coming at it up turn up and push all right it's actually super fun it was all different you guys don't know this but Xavier almost just fell don't break my camera bring it on it this just means that we've been here so late we've been trying to knock out this video I don't know for like two hours we're just getting stupid tonight but listen thank you guys so much for watching I don't know if some of you know this but we just hit over the 10 000 subscribers and uh we are so grateful that you're watching because I've said it a hundred times I thought we're gonna make these videos and nobody's gonna watch but apparently there's enough crazy people out there that want to learn this kind of stuff and I'm so grateful you're watching so I hope you found this video um at the very least somewhat entertaining and if you want to get those wheels you can basically go to any roller skating rink and say hey I need sure grip original phenolic wheels or you can get them online all right um they're fun put a little uh pizzazz in your skating and you'll have a good time okay if you guys have any comments or questions please put them down I answer all of them and I am greatly entertained by the vast majority of your comments are just hilarious so thank you so much for brightening my day every single day all right you guys we got to go obviously because Xavier is checking out all right we'll see you film me all bent over