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the rush.
Okay, sleep Mia, sleep
Good times last night. Skateboarding I will never leave you again promise <3
Leo Valls - Minuit.
I'm so tired... I don't wanna even type right now!!
...But I will because I need to keep this thing updated and whatnot. :D Short and sweet though.
League practice on sunday ended up being pretty awesome. (Minus the opposing team being buttholes in our rink for scrimmaging) Newbies were off in the corner doing skills. So I can do SO MANY MORE THINGS NOW. A few pieces of information that turned out to be very vital to my understanding of some moves. Sow now I can do moehawks at high speeds, hockey stops, power slides, and duckwalks.
moehawks: add a little hop when you do it. my right foot tended to drag on the floor because of a kind of mental block. it was just hard for me to pick it up, and as a result i kind of carouseled, and strained my groin at high speeds. adding that little jump eliminated that mental block and you clearly have your two steps! I WAS LIEK WOAH WTF THIS IS THE BEST PEICE OF ADVICE EVER.
hockey stops: i found myself spinning around and kind of doing a 180 like the power slides. turns out if you just keep your torso facing forward when you do the stop, you can actually DO THE STOP. i coudnt do hockey stops before this peice of info, and now i totally can. WHAT!?! it helped me to remember to keep my arms kind of still and not waving all around and facing forward.
power slides: your feet are ending up pretty much like a T. your front foot facing forward, and the other in a duck walk angle. go into a moehawk first then cut your edge hard with your back foot.
duckwalks: i literally just went through a few different ways that people start them from a standstill, and found one that worked for me. i always started differently, and once the start is off its hard to come back from it. my left foot tends to be straight and my right is angled. by starting with my left foot back in a t stop position, my foot didnt go into the duckwalks like that, and i could do it.
on another note. We did newbie scrimmage today and I ended up jamming quite a bit and that was pretty cool. I like dodging the people. But I'm also crazy and stayed after our 2 hour practice for another 1.5 hours of speed practice. I'm dead and icing my knee that i fell on hard twice. Vegging out: commence.
Working with my big sister
So I was assigned a big sister / mentor to help me through all my assessments. I didn't really know what to ask her, besides what do I do for my number / name because I don't have one. But, after league practice Thursday, I had gotten feedback that I still looked pretty green on my moves. That I scrappy - while that's good to have that 'cause you can't really teach someone to be scrappy... it is also a downfall when it comes to learning techniques. It takes longer to learn them, because I tend to just go for it not really knowing how to do it. That pretty much explains my fucked up knee / shin area that I got back in January.
ANYWAY. It was suggested that I go talk to my big sister and have her work through some stuff with me, for some one on one. So I approached her after that practice and she was totally willing to come the next day to speed and work with me after that practice.
I was exhausted as SHIT after speed. OMG. There were hardly any people there, and so the newbies (all two of us that were there) were worked way harder than usual. I felt like I was going to throw up. EITHER WAY. This is all just word vomiting... THE POINT IS I worked with her after and it helped TREMENDOUSLY.
Things I learned:
When performing moves that involve you to get up..
It involves A LOT of core muscle strength. As a general rule your abs need to be engaged at all times when skating, but especially making sure that you check that they are engaged before you are about to go down into a fall, scrape, etc.
If your abs are pretty weak (like mine apparently are) then you can compensate for that with gaining more speed before performing the move. So with more speed you are able to use more momentum to help you get back up. With slower speeds, your abs need to be stronger to compensate for the lack of momentum.
You can tell if your abs are weak if your arms are kind of flailing around you when you get yourself up. If you remember to tuck your arms in and try to get up and its harder (or you just can't get up) then you are relying on your arms, and not your abs.
One of the biggest things I keep hearing is DON'T PREPARE FOR YOUR FALL. A lot of people will sprint out and gain speed, but then slow down and have their skates right beside each other right before they attempt the fall. Not only do you lose momentum, but your skates are not aligned as if you were actually in a bout skating (staggered), AND you are mentally blocking yourself and as a result usually get more nervous. And from what I hear derby is VERY MUCH an mental game. My advice here was to (in a sense) distract yourself from it mentally. Don't focus too much on it. Just DO.
Even if you have hard times getting up from falls, try to make it less apparent! If the assessors see flailing arms and wobblyness, then they can tell you are having a hard time. Try to keep the arms in check at your sides, or as little flail as possible. And if wobbly when standing up, or just stood up, immediately revert to "skater stance". AKA GET LOW. It is SUPER HARD to train yourself when you feel wobbly / about to fall to squat into skater stance and not stand up... but it works. It's just muscle memory.
One knee scrapes
Do them nonchalantly! A tip she gave me was to talk to her while I was performing them. Just as if its no big deal. That you can talk to someone, or be thinking about something else, and still be able to just go down on a knee scrape at any time. This actually helped me a lot.
I was confused where my foot would go on the knee that is going down. I always kind of felt like it was awkward and cumbersome when I tried to get back up, and that it slowed my momentum. So! You are not grazing your toe, but instead the outside of your boot / foot. Once I got that it became MUCH easier.
Two knee fall
It's WAY MORE FLUID THAN YOU THINK IT IS. I was looking at it like ONE, TWO, attempt to get up. I would lose all my momentum and not be able to get up. I'm finding this hard to explain, but.. the right after the first knee goes down, the second follows immediately, fluidly. Instead of [BAM] [BAM] [GET] [UP]... its like [BAMbam] [getUP]. That makes sense in my head / when I say it... Hopefully that makes some sense to you O_O. It is more like two fluid motions, rather than 4 more choppy ones.
If you have a hard time getting up, then see if your skate that your using to get up with is straight. If it is, that's an issue. It needs to be pointed outward, like in your duckwalks. It's hard to train it to do that, but the more pointed out you can go, the easier it is to get up (especially when using the momentum). It is not necessarily frowned upon to use toe stops to help you get up, but when I tried to do that it was very hard. I couldn't do it without getting in an awkward position and overextending. Duckwalk sprinting out of it is the best option it seems.
Baseball slides
To make sure your skate falls under the back of your knee (and not the back of your thigh / butt) you need to start as if you are doing a one knee scrape. Once down in that your turn your leg under. Then your foot should be in the right place because before you turned your leg it was perpendicular to that area under your knee.
MOMENTUM AND SPEED SUPER IMPORTANT IN THIS. OF ALL FALLS, ESP THIS ONE.
Do stationaries of this one to get a muscle memory of what your body needs to do. And to also build muscle cause this one is HARD. At least for me...
Unlike the other falls, this one doesn't have the duckwalk foot that's in front of you... Your skate is straight... Part of the reason why it is harder. You can also use your toestop to help you get up, but it still may be harder with that.
Pulling BOTH legs up at the same time. Often focusing on just the leg that is extended to get up, you forget about that leg under you that can help you get up.
Make sure to lean forward quickly to add momentum to your abs to help you get up. But don't fall so far back that you can't do that.
Unfortunately, for a proper baseball slide, your butt has to hit the ground. So make sure it does that. (I was doing some weird knee scrape thing before)
4 pt fall / superman
Be low as possible before you do it. A lot of people seem to kind of stand up before they go down for the fall.. and that's not good. Squat down as far as possible and put your elbows BETWEEN your knees. She explained it like teaching a little kid how to dive. Then you have NO CHOICE but you have your wristguards hit the ground first, because in that position your body has to. So you "dive" into the floor. Wristguards hit first, and elbows / knees.
The way that this works in reducing impact it that your knees slide along the floor when they hit. The way that this works is that your body has to flatten out. She said she thinks of it as her stomach has to graze the floor in the fall. That way your body elongates.
OK, so you've fallen.. now getting back up? It is like an inchworm... But while a lot of the work comes from your abs.. it also comes from the lower back muscles, and also from your legs. The inchworm idea didn't work so well in my brain. She said she focuses on curling up into a ball. Once in a ball, you can sit your torso up, and then its just like you are getting up from a two knee fall!
The more you let your body spread out, the less impact on the knees.
Taller people tend to froggy their legs out more. It's not good, or bad, but just personal preference. I personally don't like it, for I feel it risks pulling a groin muscle. (I would also consider myself tall ~5'9")
one knee fall w/ 180 turn
Whatever knee you are falling on, do the turn towards the outside of that leg. So if you fall on your right knee, turn clockwise. If you fall on your left knee, turn counter-clockwise.
Keep your core engaged, and your arms in check.
I had the tendency to lean too far back. Making sure to keep your skating stance (back leaned forward) helps a lot. If your back is straight, then because of the force while spinning, you will probably be pushed into leaning back a bit, which in turn makes it hard to get up. Keeping my back angle in check was the most helpful in getting me back up.
moehawks
STRETCH YOUR HIPS. If you still can't skate (like me) where your feet are both pointed out in moehawk stance.. then apparently the key is to stretch your hips out. The froggy / stripper stretch helps. But also, so does just standing around with your hips open as much as you can (like while brushing your teeth or looking in the mirror in the morning). BUT work into it over time. Don't put too much stress on your knees. Meaning.. your feet can turn more than your knees, so make sure your knees are pointing in the same direction as your feet. Be able to squat in that position. Doing squatting repetitions helps open up hips. THIS IS APPARENTLY THE SECRET TO MOEHAWKS. (And it especially hard for tall people.)
If you have not stretchy open hips like me, then a key to moehawks as you learn to stretch out, is (guess what?) GETTING LOW.
You have to COMMIT to the stop. If you don't you spin out / fall.
Power slides
It is like going into a moehawk where your feet are both pointed out, and then the foot you DIDN'T turn outwards is the one that you push out to stop yourself. Ok, so skating forwards. Your left foot turns outwards to make your feet in the moehawk position. Then your right foot turns the heel out like a one legged plow stop. You usually end up turned 180.
Hockey Stop
Gah, power slides and hockey stops are such a grey area.. but I will share with you what makes me understand it that she told me. It's more about muscle memory than technicality. Unlike powerslides.. where it helps me to know to go into moehawk first, and then essentially plow... here she told me this: Pick a spot on the floor. Skate as FAST as you can to that spot, and skate as fast as you can back to me. THIS WAY you are NOT focusing on how to do a hockey stop, but do it INHERENTLY because you are just focusing on fast there and fast back. It totally worked for me. And in trying it about 10 times she said I was already pretty close to a hockey stop. And the more you do that drill, the more you become controlled, and understand the maneuver. At first you start out with wider turns, but eventually it compresses.
You have to COMMIT to the stop. If you don't you spin out / fall.
WOW THAT WAS A LOT. That kind of took me forever. I HOPE IT HELPS. That's about all I got for now!