This channel is a way of documenting my progress as a skater, and to develop a new style of inline skating.
My set up: Powerslide HC EVO PRO boots, 4x80mm frames with a 2mm rocker, and sometimes a 3x90mm with 2mm rocker.
Instagram: @solidheaston
TikTok: @solidskates
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Subscribed! Dude this reminds me so much of my college days-- what you said about going out by yourself or with your girlfriend and training hit close to home for me. I filmed a lot of parkour content back then and made some great memories! Now getting into inline skating (urban cruising mostly) and came across your channel. Lots of respect for what you're doing. Keep it up!
Dude you rock. How long have you been skating for?
@@andrewcomerford2338 haha thanks! Roller skating for 1 year while working at a Sonic Drive in, and then 2 years on in-line skates, and I got into figure skating about 6 months ago!
this is awesome keep it up!
Thank you!! I will.
First of all, you are unbelievable. What you do on those inline skates is crazy. Before I bought my ice skates I started learning the elements of figure skating on inline skates (I did my first waltz jump on asphalt) and I know the difficulties. For practical reasons, I am still learning most things on my inline skates and then transferring this to ice. My ultimate goal is to learn an Axel, but I was stuck and scared, thinking it was impossible. So I have to thank you cause you got me inspired and motivated to try again. I hope to return to your channel with good news. Let's keep going!
@@giadadaga2743 I really appreciate hearing all this!! The axel has been very frustrating and difficult jump for me to learn, every time I try to fix something about my form, it gets significantly worse, so it’s like a very slow progression with massive ups and downs. Keep practicing! I’m excited to transfer over what I have to ice some day, let me know how transferring over works for you
your progress is great! I hope you get better at skating even more! :)
@@rubytroublemaker thank you, I will. I’m practicing everyday!
Lets gooo!
Great vid again! Your getting like amazingly good! keep it up! Weather here still sucks so im just waiting till the weather gets better.
@@ThatBiGirl13 I hope you can get skating soon, thank you!
The salchows look amazing now lol, also maybe u can try landing like a 360° first before the axel, i think its like the flip jump tho yea it is limited since u need a toepick but i think its doable Goodluck with moving and transferring to ice tho😮
Thank you! And I think they call those bell jumps where you do an axel but only 1 rotation and land forward, and they don’t feel very useful to me, I could definitely be doing them wrong though 😅
I also started figure skating on normal inline skates and you really are limited by the absence of a toe stop. I recently got artistic inline skates and I can say that the toe stop really helps with jumps. I haven't been able to skate all that much with my new skates because I've been getting nasty blisters while I break in my new boots. So far, I've been able to do waltz and salchows. Still working my way up to a single axel. Once I get used to the toe stops, I might start exploring one foot spins. Hope to see more content from you! cheers
Let me know if you post some videos, I’d love to see some of your jumps or spins! I think I’ll get an artistic pair eventually!
Hi i clicked this video from the recommended section and im like 20 seconds in but lemme just say what you said about it becoming your favorite thing in the world is so freaking relatable! Thats exactly how i feel about skating , its wholesome exciting and just makes me happy (: Subscribed!
LMAO THATS NOT HOW I LOOK ONE YEAR INTO SKATING😂 how are you sooo goood brooo! Keep it up this is amazing 😭
@@linak2667 you clicked on my very first video ever haha, I’m glad I found another person who truly loves skating!!
@@linak2667 I was roller skating a year before this, at a sonic drive in, so definitely didn’t start from ground zero 😅
Hold up hold up, so youve only done roller and inline skating?! No ice skating whatsoever?! Nah bro we're witnessing a prodigy over heree
Nice man! and can i say from one who is trying to combine more figure skating into my slalom/wizardskating your tutorials are very nice :)! im also at the point with the voiced tutorial that ill stay as far away from people or crowds as possible to the point that ill only record voiced tutorials where it is certain nobody will come around.. sucks it needs to be like that.. and again your tutorials are very appreciated :)!
@@wheels_in_balance thank you!! I love hearing other people incorporating figure skating into their different styles
@@wheels_in_balance hey man, your videos are awesome! You’ve achieved such a flowy wizardry look for such a tight frame! It opens up a lot of options for you
@@SolidSkates thank you man :) ! Yea im really just down right bad on 5 wheeled frames haha! All the love for My slalom setup!
Bro that axel at 4:23 is so good, Im trying to do one too and just stumbled upon ur breakdown vids on it, sooo cool, keep it up need updates xd
@@roki4336 thank you! My axel needs some work, I’ve been in a huge plateau for a while now, I’m hoping to breakthrough and start landing some clean ones soon!
@@SolidSkates yeeeeaaa gooo for it
Dude it's so relaxing to watch your videos while high lol
That's a cool idea
@@Keepit-nq3id thanks, this is kind of like my first attempt at making some transition videos between the different types of skating I do
i wonder if u got actual inline figure skates if you would excel even faster with all this
I wonder the same thing, I’ll probably get a pair relatively soon
Really like your videos. I've starting to learn inline skating since last year and love this technic so much. But only see someones did this on Snow White. It is really what I'm looking for, I hope some day I can get this like you, I'm 36 already. Thank you so much for bringing me more motivations. Keep your great work!
@@nguvan7 thank you!! It makes me happy to hear this, keep skating as much as you can!!
You really deserve Edea snowhite inlines !💗✨ What an amazing skill!!
@@marluvss7 haha thank you! I think I’ll get some eventually, but one of my main goals is to be able to do these moves on my urban skates so I can go out in the streets.
lmao i relate to the exhaustion after trying to run a program. I always think i could do a long program and then I skate full out for a minute or two and feel like im gonna vomit 😅
@@user-kh9ki3kq8m I don’t even know how I’m supposed to train for it because I already go on runs and skate all day 😭 I’ll just keep pushing it further each time I guess haha. Let me know if you post any videos of your skating I’d love to see some!
Cant accuse you of slacking. Man is putting thw Hours in! Everything is looking more and more natural smoother, neater. Interesting to hear you talk about people's attitude and comments about what your doing. It's pretty standard to get stupid remarks from Teenage Boys. They are just hardwired to behave that way. Girls will join in if they are with the Boys but love you when it's just them. What girl doesn't like a dancer. I have noticed a massive switch in attitude towards me and what I'm doing Vs a year ago. It was all nice comments and positives vibes a year back but the better I've become the more negative the attitude. Even members of our local rink group's have made snide diggy comments about posing and showing off. It's all down to fragile Ego's and people feeling inferior etc. All it does it make me skate harder mother fuckers...💪🖕😁
Looked pretty good! keep it going!
@@ThatBiGirl13 thank you! Are you gonna post some more skating videos anytime soon?
@@SolidSkates weather here sucks atm so hopefully asap!
HEYY!!!! ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO!!!1 How do you turn though??? like before I broke my leg I didn't really know how to turn too, like do u mive your body or feet?..... I used kinda walk to turn around.
@@rubytroublemaker I would use the same walking motion to turn from forwards to backwards too, just a very smoothed out version of it. But now I’m learning all of the figure skating turns which are only in one foot. Three point turns are the easiest of them all. I’m not too knowledge about turns yet so I can’t really explain them my self but if you watch a video on three point turns I suggest learning them soon after your leg heals up because they aren’t too hard and they open up a lot of options, but hey, I did the walk to turn around thing for about two years and it will eventually look pretty good if you keep practicing it!
Spread eagle/side stance is such a fun way to skate. It’s how I usually air out at the skatepark. If you get really good at it you can get on your outside edges and turn like the “wrong way” I guess. it feels so weird I love it
@@bebepastiche9105 I can turn the wrong way a little bit when I get low, have you tried straightening your legs out like I’m doing? It’s so much harder but that’s how they usually do it in figure skating so I’m trying to get used to it, but I lack a bit more flexibility to make it look right
@@SolidSkatesdoing an outside spread eagle requires insane turnout like more than 180. My hips are really feeling it after trying this morning. I kept slipping into an Ina Bauer because I felt more stable with one bent knee
hey buddy you're clear determined, nice to see this :D but these skates will only take you so far in artistic inline skating, have you ever thought about getting proper inline artistic skates, like snow white or Jackson mirage, golden horse is also i good option, if you like the extra length and the 4 wheels setup you can look into pic skates or golden horse 4 wheels frame that's even better than pic skates bc pic skates has the problem of the non adjustable and proprietary toe stop. Whatever the option you would definitely like a proper artistic inline skate with a proper figure skating boot, a very hard one preferably XD
@@nekohuntress99 thanks for the suggestions. I might end up getting a pair eventually, but I do all types of in-line skating like down hill and urban. I want to be able to do all of these moves in a pair of urban skates so I can do them anywhere, including out in the streets once I get better
@@SolidSkates cool! Pretty hardcore doing all of that, looking forward to see what you're gonna find of a shine pair of artist inlines, and you can take them with you to the streets too people do it all the time, they perform on pavement, concrete, public parks, just put on soft wheels in those babies and you're good to go 👌
@@nekohuntress99 they are defiantly next in the list for my skating collection, I have literally every other type, even aggressive, but I don’t use them 😂
@@SolidSkates i heard people saying that aggressive are hard to use they are good for skating park tricks but hard for everything else XD but i would say maybe get the 4 wheels artistic skate i think it will be an easier transition for you, golden horse ones are excellent and they use standard american screw toe stops so you can buy any toe stop you want to replace yours when it gets worn out, pic skates are also good but their toe stop is proprietary : ( and it wears out extremely fast especially in pavement
the transition ws perfect 😎👌
@@Renatottk next one will be better 🙏
On normal inlines its insane!✨
@@marluvss7 thank you!! It’s gonna allow me to do these jumps on any surface eventually
can you show us you rollerskate skills on quads?
@@tkforever I’m working out the details of a short video that I’ll use my quads in for a little bit, but it’s nothing special, I can do the grapevine, but besides that my spins are even worse on quads haha, I lost a lot of my coordination on quads after switching to inlines
@@SolidSkates I'm sure you're better than you think. I'll be looking forward to see you on your roller skates. Your videos are fun to watch and motivates me to keep going🤙
@@tkforever I love to hear that! Are you mostly a quad skater then?
@@SolidSkates I did on-line as a kid and am trying quads currently
In-line I mean
Hell yeah
Do you have any plans to make a skate video like ilia savosins Heat or Street Fighters? Those videos always get me pumped as hell to skate and I feel like you’ve already got such a unique style it would be a killer mix
@@bebepastiche9105 thank you! And yes I do plan on making an urban skate mix where I’ve got someone filming me do some tricks downtown off some real features. And to make a program video as well!
Landing jumps with no toepicks is very hard tbh so good effort
@@maverich217 thank you, many many falls in the process
The first domment on this😂 made me laugh, but he is right haha. Anyways, great vid again!
@@ThatBiGirl13 me too 😂 thank you!
Bro, you have good strong biceps and triceps. Mines are puny.
@@darksider7791 haha thanks, I’ve been lifting for a long time.
Yippee Solid Heaston upload !! Getting close to 400 subscribers !!
@@beauzes1564 love it beauzes, I’m about to head out to make another one 😁
So sick!!
Aye man, awesome videos, just subscribed!
DAAMNNN YOU GOT 744 LIKES PROUD OF YA
@@ThatBiGirl13 thank you !!
OMG you're sooo good at this, the way you easily and confidently go around in circles is awesome!!!! is it important to skate only on smooth surfaces?
@@rubytroublemaker I skate on rough surfaces a lot in my other skates with a 3x90 mm set up, but for figure skating specifically if helps a lot if the ground is smooth so it’s more consistent and there’s less to mess up your balance.. I’m hoping that once I get better I can do these moves out in the street and the rough surfaces won’t trip me up as much
@@SolidSkates GOOD LUCK when you do it on the street!!!! i believe in you, I know you can do it!
Another great vid! Watched this one in class once again
@@ThatBiGirl13 You don’t have a summer break from school in the Netherlands? Or is it college over the summer?
@@SolidSkatesmy summerbreak will begin in 2 weeks!
Hahahahaha that did take many attempts, but you got it! Awesome iob! 🎉
@@OlgaMalykhin I only showed a handful of them 😭 thank you though!
"Brackets" are cool, but by far the coolest are the "Counters". I learned the forward outside counter and feels so good when it works. Also easy to slam if you don't time it correctly.
@@SaccoBelmonte I’m super excited to get counters and rockers down, next session will probably be focused on those two, hopefully not too many falls on the counters 😅
oh men, I want to learn how to go backwards. I need to practice and find a park that is not crowded.
@@darksider7791 sooo much easier without many people around, I wake up early and go to public parks with basketball courts to be totally alone usually. Keep practicing!!
Goated as always !!
@@beauzes1564 thanks beauzes!!
Also skateboarding?! I alos tried skateboarding turns out i suck at it😅😂
@@ThatBiGirl13 Me too, that’s the best trick I can do, and it took me many months to learn, my progress on the skateboard is so incredibly slow compared to in-line skating
@@SolidSkates still pretty ook
@@SolidSkates i followed you on instagram btw
Teach me how to go backwards. I move so slow when I try. My legs probably weak for going backwards.
@@darksider7791 it definitely works some different muscles, keep pushing out with your heels and your legs will get used to it! Once you learn your back crossovers you’ll feel like a whole new skater! I skate backwards more than forwards now, back in the day I would force myself to skate only back wards for 5 minutes at a time and it really helped me feel comfortable
Remember me when you became famous 🙏🏾
@@zedemex_zx zedemex, keep commenting and I’ll remember you forever ❤️
OMMMGGGGGGG!!! YOU'RE SOOOO GOOD AT THIS!!! I AM SOOOO IMPRESSED!
@@rubytroublemaker thank you so much!! I’m going to get a whole lot better I promise!
2:22 Tru that, I also get thigh soreness when I continuously try lifting my leg for a jump or twist. This is another great video, motivated me to go out and skate.
@@adamyascreations6802 do you practice jumps on in-line skates or are you on ice? I’d love to see some videos
@@SolidSkates Currently in-line, because ice rinks are wayy too expensive here
YOU'RE AMAZING!!!!!!
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Very good jump!! As a figure skater I’ll tell you that you’ll probably get a carrot on that jump! A carrot means that it’ll count just - GOE. My piece of advice for double sal, ofc on ice is diff than inline skates, but my advice for on ice if u wanna do it there you gotta wait on your entrance a bit. When you do it try and keep your right arm upwards. Sometimes when jump with your arm scooping down you’ll reach the ice with that arm. Something I do with doubles is I hold my hands together. I land with holding my hands and it helps with me not falling.
Thank you for the advice! I’m gonna try holding my hands, do you mean holding my hands sort of making a hoop with my arms?
@@SolidSkates When you hold ur hands hold them as they’re tucked onto your chest like you are in your title image. Sometimes people will make fists and put them side by side, in the middle of their chest. What helps me a lot since im prone to just put my hands down is holding them together and pressing them up to my chest until my foot hits the ice and then I put my arms straight out.
@@yannah81851 thanks, let me know if you make any videos I want to see some of your jumps!
@@SolidSkatesif you wanted to see my double sal on ice I just posted a video of it.
@@yannah81851 that looked great!! With a single axel right after! Keep posting!
The jumps at 9:57 and 10:35 kinda look like the toeloop to me! Only they are on the edge instead of the toe pick, since you don't have toe thing
It's funny how at first I had no idea about the difference between the jumps, then I learned the theory of each of them, and now I'm seeing a lot of similarities I didn't expect. Salchow looks like an Axel entering backward or with a very quick forward entrance. And now this "toeloop on the edge" might also look similar to the salchow. And then I remember that quad skates use the toe stop on both the toeloop and the salchow 😂
I need really good form to use only the edge since I don’t use a toe stop, so I fall a lot on these. And if I didn’t pre rotate my salchows so much they probably wouldn’t look so much like an axel. 😭 Figure skating gets sooo much more entertaining once you learn all the different jumps and names of everything they are doing!
Hellll yah
@@jonasranslet6587 just got new downhill frame, it’ll be much faster next time
At speed, it's worth considering getting slider gloves (slider pucks on fingers, thumb, palm). I've lost a month and counting on a broken finger. Without wrist & elbow pads I'd have broken all those things and more.
@@stephenklump2421 I bought sliding gloves yesterday and they arrive today actually!! I’m gonna be as safe as possible because I want to stay healthy for figure skating