5 Easy Inline Skating Tips To Make Any Level Of Skater Better Instantly by Pro Joey Mantia

The second episode of my series SKATE TIPS covers 5 tips that will make any inline skater better instantly and make skating more fun. From absolute beginner to fitness guru to World Champion inline speed skater, whether you have rollerblades, top of the line custom inline speed skates, or something in between, these tips are applicable and work at any skill level and on any equipment.

0:00 Start
0:21 Tip 1 - Keep Your Belly Button Over The Center Of Your Skates
1:47 Tip 2 - Push Your Ankles & Hips Backward From Your Knees
2:59 Tip 3 - Keep Your Pushes Directly To The Side Of You
4:44 Tip 4 - Keep Your Feet Pointed Straight
6:11 Tip 5 - Roll Your Recovery Foot Smoothly Into The Set Down

If you have thoughts on what you liked/didn't like about this inline skating tutorial or any further questions that I didn't cover, leave a comment and I'll try my best to answer. Keep in mind I am training full time while writing, shooting, and editing these skate tutorial projects myself, so it could take me some time to get the next episodes out. Thanks for the patience and thanks for watching.

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[johannesspreekt]

With tip 1 you say bring your weight over the center of the skates, but do you keep it there during the corners or do you bring it more to the back? Because I thought your skates would steer better when you are more on your back wheels when you are on a 200m track?

[vannavanilla]

Anyone gonna talk about the cameraman following him, probably learning to skate properly, while he carries the camera and films Joey at the same time?

[jimnotman]

57 years old. Haven’t been on inline skates in 20+ years. Bought a pair to get some much needed exercise. Grew up on hockey skates but never really got proficient on inlines. This video made SO MUCH SENSE and helped me to visualize how to inline skate better. Will be checking out your other videos as I get my skating-legs back in action. Thanks!!!

[skaterkingbhaskara]

hai sir my name is bhaskar and I am from india and actually am 46 years old and it was my dream to become skater in my teen age but due to my financial crisis i couldnot even afford skates and now at this age i am back to fulfill my dream and now i have purchased both roller and liner and now already i am practising roller skates your suggestions needed

[schraderty]

Wow unlike a lot of beginner skate videos this was extremely helpful. I'll be watching this a few more times.

[PrakashmKubyal]

Anyone see this video because tomorrow is your skating competition

[NotBotMoment]

IGNORE EVERYTHING
BUT

HIS *CALVES*

[erwinvandenberg]

great explanations! And also showing the wrongs way...very confronting

[jesss.]

Dude, you LEGS are INSANE. That's hard work to get them looking like that.

[AnzoYeh]

Thanks for these useful tips!
My son is a junior inline skater. We're your big fans.
He watches all your videos that inspired him to do more skills and physical training.
He's so glad to watch this new video. It's very helpful, thanks a lot!!

[DawsonH]

Thanks for the tips. My comments are 1. For city skating, put weight on heals are much safer since you never know where the cracks are, and 2 pushing to the sides depending on speed since I can not possibly skate up big hill by pushing to the side.

[awkwardblkgirl]

I was wondering why I felt off while skating after it had been YEARS since I skated. Watching this made me realize I had been doing wrong to begin with lol

[Omara]

im a 34 years old newbie and your video do helped alot, thanks for great explanation.

[elysefairchild]

This was helpful. Got rollerblades, went 100 ft, shins killing me. Found this video stood up and tried it, went 50 ft without any pain. Then my muscles came screaming back. Haha. Thanks I’ll keep at it.

[raszelast]

Man, thank you so much. Been skating for a year and just taking one session keeping these things in mind has greatly improved my skating. Its improved my speed and endurance a lot, but I didn't expect it to also help with balance and concentrating weight between legs. I'm finally able to start using my heel brake and t-stop. They still need a lot of work, but I just didn't have the balance to even start them before. Your tips about coming down softly with the other skate and about pushing to the side particularly helped with the balance issue.

[BeckyMsouza]

What an amazing and informative video you did! You are the first person I see saying clearly that the goal is to have a lateral push. That's what I could see the pros doing differently, but I couldn't quite understand what were they doing to be moving like that. Thanks for the whole video! It's all great tips!

This is exactly the tutorial I've been looking for. It's a bit hard to judge whether the bellybutton is in the right place, but other tips are just great! Thank you so much Joey.

[HighbornHero]

I’m not sure about the mechanics behind it, but tip 4 combined with arm swings naturally made me transition onto the outside edges of my recovering foot. On the right track, I hope? All great tips, thanks for the video!

[KaweerMonger]

The last tip and first tip are the only ones that made sense to me as a self taught person lol. I hope i'm doing ti correctly!.

[DrRussell]

Simply brilliant! Learned how to skate but also how to teach! Thank you.