Inline skating is a fun outdoor activity and everyone who knows skating can do inline skating as well. However, when it comes to aggressive inline skating it will require strength, stamina and regular practice. Following some step-by-step processes and regular practice, one can easily start the journey of aggressive inline skating.

So, if you are also a skater or a beginner and want to know how to start aggressive inline skating then this article will help you. Below I am going to describe the full step-by-step process so let’s jump into it without any further talk.

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Step By Step Process Of Learning To Aggressive Inline Skate

Get A Pair Of Inline Skates:

Get yourself a good pair of inline skates if you don’t have any. There are lots of brands that sell good quality inline skates. Depending on your budget, buy a good pair for yourself from the market. If you already have one then make sure it’s not broken and supports your body properly.

Never start doing aggressive inline skating with a broken pair because it is very risky and can give serious injury.

While buying inline skates a few things you should consider are,

• The right size of skating pair
• Comfort
• Good brand

Learn How To Do Skating First:

Before starting aggressive inline skating you have to learn basic skating. So, if you are a beginner you cannot start aggressive inline skating without learning skating first. Skating can easily be learned if one practices regularly for some time.

You can skate in the roads, park or in your garage if it’s empty. If you learn skating first, then slowly you can start aggressive inline skating tricks.

Start With Basic Tricks:

As a newbie to aggressive inline skating, you should start with some basic tricks first. If you have someone who is going to help you learn the tricks, then it will get easier for you.

However, if you don’t have anyone you can search aggressive skates online and you will find so many tricks. You can follow those steps to learn the basic tricks first. It will get easier for you to learn aggressive inline skates if you know the basic tricks.

How To Start Aggressive Inline Skating?

There are a couple of tricks with which you can start doing aggressive inline skating. You can go to any park near your house for practicing the tricks. Now let’s see how one can start doing aggressive skating one by one!

Practice skating backward:

The first trick to start aggressive inline skating can be with learning to skate backward. Skating backward may seem hard and it will require some time to learn. But if you practice for a long time you will be able to skate backward easily.

Learn jumping:

Learn to jump while skating over small objects. If you are in a park you will find many small objects to jump over. If you learn to jump over small objects, try to gradually move to bigger objects which will give you more fun.

Try grinds:

As a beginner in aggressive inline skating, you can try to do some grinds. You can grind on-ramps, handrails or any protruding surface that seems like you can easily balance on. You can start with front side grinds, backside grinds, crooked grinds and backside 50/50.

The tricks I mentioned above are the basic aggressive inline skating tricks. One can start his/ her journey of aggressive inline skating with these tricks.

If the basic tricks of aggressive inline skating are learned one can then do the difficult ones. But if the easy ones are not practiced properly one will not be able to do the difficult tricks.

Read: Aggressive skates vs Rollerblades

Conclusion…

As we are at the end of the article, I am hoping you got to know how to start aggressive inline skating. I have mentioned the basic tricks of aggressive inline skating and I believe these are enough to start with.

Inline skating is fun but aggressive inline skating will give you a whole new experience. Besides giving experience, it will also help to increase your strength and stamina as well.

So, if you really want to learn aggressive inline skating practice the tricks on a daily basis.

Skating is always fun. Being a joyful physical exercise, skating has won millions of peoples’ hearts over the ages. It is used for professional acts, sports and mostly for casual time pass or activity. Now the big question remains regarding the starting of the journey of skating. How to begin with? Where to begin with and with whom, to begin with?

In this article, we are going to discuss some very basic Skating tips & tricks. So, if you are an absolute beginner, this is the right place to be acknowledged about the basics of skating. So, let’s have a look at these skating tips for beginners.

Rollerblading & Roller Skating Tips For Beginners

1. Get a perfect pair of skates

In the market, you will see a very wide variety of skates. Each of them has its special features and skills. So better surf the market a little bit, gather some common information of the varieties, then choose the desired one, which will fulfill your requirements perfectly. If you are just a beginner, then stick to the very basic skates.

Otherwise, you might face some trouble regarding the management of the advanced skates. Regardless of roller blades or roller skates, choose one according to your preference and of a classic design.

2. Get proper safety armors

Safety armors are designed to protect your body parts. Because in the initial stages of skating it’s very natural to lose balance and fall. In those situations, the safety armor will come really handy as they will protect your most vulnerable and exposed body parts. The minimum set of safety gears requires a proper helmet, knee & elbow pads and a pair of hand gloves.

Because as you fall, you will mostly land on your knees, elbows or hands. So these are very much needed. Never ever practice without armors, especially not in the training or learning stages at all.

3. Assume the right posture

The perfect posture is very much important for safe skating. So before doing anything else, obtain the right posture. Place your feet shoulder apart, then bend your knees a bit, it’s like crouching a little bit. Then lean your lower body a bit backward and keep your face forward.

Balance is the key factor of skating and this stance will provide you with that.

Read: How to choose roller blades size?

4. Maintain the posture

When you hit the rink, maintaining this posture might seem quite difficult for you. Because of the wheels, you won’t be able to stand still for a certain duration in the starting days. But gather your courage and try to maintain this posture all the way. You might stumble a couple of times, loose balance and even fall several times.

But regardless of any of these, stay tight and maintain the posture. If you do so, we give you our words that you will learn the most accurate way of skating.

5. Learn to walk with the skate

Now, this step is really important. Walking with skate shoes will make you more accustomed to the general behaviors of skates and will also provide more balance and confidence to you. To do that, “walk like a duck”. Place your feet in a V-shaped position, where you place your heels close and toes wide open.

Then, begin slowly to walk forward. Step right then left then again right and again left, in this manner. Don’t worry if you fall a couple of times. Just keep on walking.

6. Learn gliding with your skates

Stand with your skates in a straight or the above-mentioned posture. Relax your legs and lower body muscles. Then keep your foot straight, facing straight forward and push backward with the other foot. Now glide on that single foot until you lose momentum. Then try the same method with the opposite foot.

This practice will make you get used to the movement characteristics of roller skates or blades.

7. Practice stopping, braking and turning

As you have already mastered the very basic movement of skates, now it’s time to learn the controlling of it. First comes braking. Braking is in many considerations, the most major aspect of skating which has to be mastered. There are various techniques of braking, you can learn any of those.

Also, to start with, you can practice on grounds that have grasses. It will provide more traction to your skates, so you will be able to practice more easily.

But remember, whichever method you want to follow, follow that properly. After mastering the brakes, practice instant stopping, turning and cornering accordingly.

8. Learn to jump

So, after all these, you can gear up your game to add some more fun to it. Glide away for some time, bring your heels back together, get in a crouching position and make a hop. While landing from that hop, land on both feet at the same time.

As you practice and gain confidence, try to jump higher and turn yourself on the flight. This will help you to learn some fancy moves.

9. Try some advanced level tricks

Well, for attaining this particular step, you must master the previous 8 steps very much accurately. Once, you have done that, then look for some advanced level tricks of skating. You can get several instructions on the internet. Just find a reliable source and follow the instructions.

Read: Top 20 rollerblading tricks for beginners

10. Practice with a group.

Join a local club or group of skaters and practice in groups. It will help you to learn from other skaters and will also minimize the possibility of dealing with any unwanted situations. Moreover, practicing with groups will make you get rid of the monotonous solo practicing sessions.

Final Words…

Skating is no big deal, if it’s learned and practiced properly and regularly. In this article, we tried to provide Rollerblading tips for beginners as well as Roller skating tips for beginners.

By following these steps you will be able to learn the proper and effective ways of skating with very minimum risk factors. So why are you still waiting? Grab your skates and start the new journey with the help of these tips.         

Suppose, you want to lose weight for improving fitness. So which exercise should you select? Is rollerblading or walking better? You may go out and have a walk, which is completely right. But if you want to burn calories rapidly, you should select rollerblades for exercise. This article will describe you more about that.

Rollerblading can burn an average of 8.7 calories per minute. On the other hand, brisk walking can burn 6.2 calories per minute. If your purpose is getting cardiovascular fitness, rollerblade will allow you to rush and bring more effort. It engages several muscles in a fun but effective way. Now we will focus on the comparison.

A) Calories burned when rollerblading vs walking

So I have already mentioned above that rollerblading can burn more calories than walking. Because you will move faster, engaging more muscles, and maintaining balance during the rollerblading. But is this accurate all the time? And how substantial is the difference?

Now, we will focus on the calculation of calories burned during walking for 30 minutes-

If you walk a mile in only 17 minutes, then it will count as a 3.5 mph walk. If your body weight is 125 pounds, you can burn 120 calories in half an hour duration of walking. For a person of 155 pounds can burn 149 calories and 185 pounds person will burn 178 calories.

At the speed of 4 mph walk, if we calculate the same weight, then 135, 167, and 200 calories will burn out. And at a speed of 4.5 mph, 150, 186, and 222 calories will burn respectively for those weights. Although this is an average calculation and it may vary as well as depends on some factors like your age, sex, heat, fitness, fat to muscle ratio, etc.

Now for rollerblading: A person with 125 pounds of body weight will burn 210 calories in half an hour duration of rollerblading. For a person of 155 pounds person will burn 260 calories and 185 pounds of body weight person will burn 311 calories in the same amount of time by rollerblading.

So, if we compare rollerblading with walking in case of a person, body weight is 185 pounds as-

Rollerblading = 311 calories.

Walking = 222 calories.

We can see about 100 calories more which is almost 40% more calories burned during rollerblading within the same amount of time.

That is a big difference. If you rollerblade and walk for two hours- 

Rollerblading = 1,244 calories.

Walking = 888 calories.

At the duration of two hours, you will be able to burn 356 calories more. So, above this, it is clear on your eyes that you will be able to lose more weight if you rollerblade regularly.

Read: How to adjust size on rollerblades?

B) Muscles used in rollerblading vs walking

Both rollerblading and walking works on body muscles. But the major difference is all about the movement of the muscle. When you rollerblade, your body forces upward and downward movement which requires the hip flexors to an angle shifting, together with a portion of the muscles in the core to balance the body through the motion. This will strengthen your core muscles.

Besides this, rollerblading will work on your auxiliary muscle groups like anterior serratus and latissimus dorsi muscle. But if you walk, these muscles will not build up. That is the main difference. Although both rollerblading and walking are good for muscles like hamstring, quadriceps, gluteus maximus, the calf, upper abdominals, lower abdominals, and the biceps. Thus, you will get extra benefits from rollerblading.

So, this is a comparative article between rollerblading and walking. Above this discussion, it is clear that rollerblading is the perfect choice of exercise for you. Let’s have a great time with the ride!