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This is the place for beginning skaters to ask questions and share their stories. We would love to hear about your experiences learning to skate. No question is too dumb!

  1. Inline Skating Tip and Tactic: Branches and Leaves

    It's always a good idea when you're out trail skating, especially in the spring and fall, to look ahead at all times for debris in your...

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  2. Inline Skating Tip and Tactic: Curbs

    Sometimes you may be skating on a road and you need to go from the road to the sidewalk in a hurry. In this case, you need to step up and over...

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    03-24-2010 01:34 AM Go to last post
  3. Inline Skating Tip and Tactic: Bends

    Sometimes you may encounter wide curves or sweeping bends in the trail. Most inline skaters would simply keep their skates together and coast...

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    12-16-2009 12:35 PM Go to last post
  4. Inline Skating Tip and Tactic: Surface Cracks

    Surface cracks, like road snakes, can run either horizontally or vertically to your direction of travel. You can consider a crack in the...

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  5. Inline Skating Tip and Tactic: Fast Cyclists

    Cyclists on the trails can be a problem because of the limited space available on most trails for both cyclists and skaters. The faster...

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  6. Inline Skating Tip and Tactic: Gates

    Some trails contain metal gates that act as safety barriers to reduce the speed of cyclists and skaters when they approach cross walks that are ...

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  7. Inline Skating Tip and Tactic: Tree Veins

    Sooner or later on the trails, you'll encounter tree veins. The roots of nearby trees can cause the pavement on some trails to heave upward,...

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  8. Inline Skating Tip and Tactic: Manways and Potholes

    Sooner or later on the trails, you'll encounter manways and potholes, especially on roads in residential and/or industrial areas that you...

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  9. Inline Skating Tip and Tactic: Turning on Steep Hills

    Let us borrow a maneuver from alpine skiing called the short radius parallel turn and adapt it to inline skating. A tight, turn radius is...

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  10. Inline Skating Tip and Tactic: Braking on Steep Hills

    When you are out trail skating, the terrain can change and become steeper at a moments notice. You need to relax and not tense up or the...

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