Okay, flying might be an exaggeration! (I kept on the weird skates things). Today my friends Li Chuan and Ben let me use their freeline skates in this paved area with a slight gradient. It was enough of a decline to keep me moving so I could just concentrate on just keeping upright. My arms were probably flapping about like crazy but staying on the freelines was a nice feeling. Especially doing these swooping carves which I can imagine is similar to snowboarding. (not snowboarded before). Self propulsion is still a mystery though.
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Too much food was bought for our group trip to Le Mans. (You can never have too much food). So we had picnic the following week to help use everything up. Best idea ever.
It was so nice to get everyone together, especially those who couldn't make the trip to France. We had plenty of entertainment that day: - This was my second time on the freeline skates, but still with little progress. - A great skate instructor, Mike Van Erp also gave us a brief introductory on roller hockey before we got stuck into a friendly game. This was my first time playing hockey on skates, it was really fun but I can imagine the likelihood of injuries would be quite high when you start to get more competitive! - I had my second day on speed skates too. Loving the oomph of my new toys. I stretched my legs around Hyde Park. Going up South Carriage Drive was particularly good with noticeably less effort and strides. My friend Richard who is an experienced speed skater gave me a lot of pointers, particularly that my technique is too 'street.' So whilst I can thrash around with bursts of energy, I wasn't exactly efficient for longer sessions. Another skater Gib very kindly let me practice some speed skating drills with him. I think I've underestimated the technicality of the whole speed thing… Overall it was a fantastic day out in the sun with good people and lots of different ways of rolling! The inventor of the Freeline skate wanted recreate the feeling of surfing and snowboarding in an urban environment. In the case of today we tried to get the feeling in a domestic environment. The picture is of the party host Bonnie showing us how it's done. It's really difficult and I didn't sway too far away from the worktop table.. |
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