#inline speed

[mistajayant]

Another reason to love skating

That’s the best feeling. When you’re hooking up with the floor, gripping. You’re on your edges just right as centrifugal force pulls you through the turn. Arms are swinging, body is low, and crossovers are in the power box. Legs are pumping out serious power with each push lurching the body forward like a super-charged muscle car. All the work mental and physical coalesces to make moments like this happen. It’s one of many reasons I love this sport.

[mistajayant]

Skating As Composition

Skating is lot like creating something- art, writing, music, what have you (and many other sports no doubt).

The end goal is speed, but it isn’t complete without form, mechanics. My art teacher said the other week, “art is about seeing”. Skating is about seeing, feeling and listening- all around awareness. Learning the nuances in form how small changes effect outcome in how the body- unified with skates handles is fascinating. Like shading can produce an effect on a picture, tweaking a part in the overall form can feel like a turbo charger kicking in out there on the floor. The feeling of getting it right is exhilarating and the craving to make it happen more only gets more intense and intriguing.

[sumasiapa]

video documentation for PERSEROSI Balikpapan - Regional Inline Speed Competition at Balikpapan Tennis indoor stadium, East Borneo

[cutelittletimebomb-blog]

sweat pants, hair tied, chillin' with no make up on.

sweat pants, hair tied, chillin' in a sports bra :D I'm feeling really ambitious tonight. I want to work, do school, speedskate, party, and model all at once. SGJBHFBHFHH. Might not be ambitious to you, but thats more than I ever really want to do. I have to motivate myself to be motivated, its not easy for me.