I'm not sure why wheeled skates are so scary. I'm dusting off the inlines in hopes of wearing them to a con next week for cosplay reasons. This is probably the only time I'll be able to get away with doing so since it's student-run, relatively small, I know the organizers, and people get away with skateboarding in the building all the time. Anyhow, it took putting on padded jumping shorts to convince myself to let go of the car and do half-swizzle circles in the concrete parking lot, because there is a /slope/ and /cracks/. I would like to be able to at least do a waltz jump in inlines just to be Like That. It might be possible since I was doing bunny hops in them during Covid, and that was when I was only doing standstill waltz jumps on ice. However, there's no properly flat space to even practice going backward without worrying about tripping.
Oh, and I'm breaking in new boots.
Honestly inlines are a wholly different thing thsn ice, really. I find I have to balance much further back than on ice to not slip off the front wheel, and the toe pick feels quite far from the wheels, which means I fall forward whenever I try to engage in my bad habit of stopping from backward via toe pick drag. Turns and spins are wholly out of consideration. I don't feel comfortable working on edges or crossovers without a proper flat space, and by flat, I mean no slope whatsoever, like ice (well...like ice everywhere except the Galleria), because skates that want to roll of their own volition are just terrifying. My living room is alright for some things, but is also a bit cramped.
