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    any rollerbladers out there?

    i'm looking for a place to find PBS brakes for my blades.. but i can't find them anywhere cuz they don't make this type anymore..

    but would u guys know any online place where i can find them? or any body have extras i can buy??

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    brakes.... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA thanks for the laugh man i needed that.....

    its called a hockey stop... canadians

    isnt this a need deals issue..

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    i hafta agree with xsiled. i have no use for the brakes on my blades.
    sorry that is of no help to you.

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    i don't know how to rollerblade, but i want to learn

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    Originally posted by lilbigblue
    i don't know how to rollerblade, but i want to learn
    do you know how to ice skate lilbigblue? rollerblading is very similar. one on ice the other on pavement.

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    Originally posted by nickelback


    do you know how to ice skate lilbigblue? rollerblading is very similar. one on ice the other on pavement.
    I was never good at ice skating, but it's been about 10 years since i did that :'(

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    ice skating is like swimming -- you never forget how
    buy some rollerblades. you'll love it, and um, get a helmet and pads

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    Originally posted by nickelback
    ice skating is like swimming -- you never forget how
    buy some rollerblades. you'll love it, and um, get a helmet and pads
    ooh, i just found my brother's old pair of blades. i guess he left em here. i think i should strap em on and try to go down the hill my parents live on. LMFAO

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    Originally posted by lilbigblue
    i think i should strap em on and try to go down the hill my parents live on. LMFAO
    i know youre sort of joking but if ur unsure of yourself on blades the last thing you wanna do is go down a hill, its fun until you have to stop and well its bad... that gave me a flash back of 5th grade...

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    hill + novice rollerblader = out of control, wipe out, bad-bery-bery- bad. i was rollerblading on the shoulder of the road and i kissed a guardrail because i got going too fast down a hill and couldn't slow up.

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    Speaking of blades, anyone have a good recommendation these days? I've been out of it for a few years. I have 2 skates, roces moscows circa 1996 which I LOVE but fear that they will fall apart soon. I also have some missions (circa 2000) for rollerhockey when I was a C-leauge scrub. Gotta sell those.

    Haven't skated ('cept for 1 time) since I got the puppy and now I'd like to get back into it.

    Any advice? I prefer straps/buckles over laces, at least up top.

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    straps and buckles are the only way to go. i have some Bauer blades myself. they are very comfortable, great ankle support.

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    Most comfortable skates EVER!!
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    i have two pairs

    k2 enemy, which are now sort of out though they are really solid skates


    and a pair of cheesy $40 hockey blades, which arnt all that bad and gave me a good season, ill be starting up again soon enough hopefully.

    as far as normal skates go, i have no idea, never did it, it was always hockey or agressive for me...

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    I need to get mine out and get out on them again. I used to love rollerskating as a kid. I bought me a pair, tried it out and put them away. (Yes, wrist pads, at least, are a must!) Just not the same as my 4 wheelers. Maybe I should try some of the newer 4 wheeler models out there instead...

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    how the hell do u do a hockey stop on blades???


    i can do the one where u put ur feet in a "T" position.. but i don't wanna wear out my wheels.


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    circle stop if you arnt gonna try to hockey stop with blades, just open your feet up like a duck and doing a circle get used to it and you can brake pretty fast... dont worry about your wheels or if you do buy some labeda's i have them on my hockey skates i do hockey stops on the roads all the time and they barely lost the line from manufacturing in the last month from 4 months skating.

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    aren't hockey stops the ones where you just move your feet perpendicular to where you're going? I dont think concrete's going to shave off and let you stop nicely...

    T stops or the ones where you just go in a small circle is doable with inline skates...

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    Originally posted by sho.gun
    I dont think
    <drowning mona> thats the problem, you dont think </dm>

    no but anyway it does work because wheels slide to a certain extent and with the friction you stop pretty well, though ive been skating a while so...

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    Normally I am skating so fast that I either need use the brake to slow down a bit or hop onto some grass before I can either circle stop or hockey stop. Otherwise, converting such linear momentum into angular momentum with a circle stop would throw me on the ground... and trying to hockey stop just isn't smart at 20 MPH.
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    Originally posted by coleslaw
    Normally I am skating so fast that I either need use the brake to slow down a bit or hop onto some grass before I can either circle stop or hockey stop. Otherwise, converting such linear momentum into angular momentum with a circle stop would throw me on the ground... and trying to hockey stop just isn't smart at 20 MPH.


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    well maybe i like eatting ground

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    Try dragging your feet (sort of like a t-stop). It wears your wheels out tho, but its better than scrapping your face off the concrete.

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    Originally posted by xsiled2
    circle stop if you arnt gonna try to hockey stop with blades, just open your feet up like a duck and doing a circle get used to it and you can brake pretty fast... dont worry about your wheels or if you do buy some labeda's i have them on my hockey skates i do hockey stops on the roads all the time and they barely lost the line from manufacturing in the last month from 4 months skating.
    you're right. the circle stop is the way to go. i can only circle stop well in one direction tho...
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