Thanks Professor Will! Dude, I'm way behind my watch list too. There are new channels popping up every week on YT and I found out IG has a lot of great skating content like for aggressive, inline and especially quad skating (Not that I quad skate, but I still enjoy watching other quad skaters). The short answer is YES. I want to be careful with my word choices here. LOL In some aspects, the rocker and extra maneuverability unlock hidden moves I've never thought I could even do until I switched to the endless 84 trinity 255mm. Here are some examples: I can pivot my weight on the front wheels and shift my body weight to another angle (45 degree or more). It feels more natural. I'd never tried this movement on 275 frames. When going downhill slowing down speed by carving feels more natural (less efforts compared to the longer frame). 80 wheels feels slightly easier than on the 84s wheels. I haven't tried 100s on endless trinity 84 frames yet. Doing T-stops and cross overs feels a little bit harder on short frames as it's more unstable compared to longer frames. Over time, I'm sure I'll get use to the shorter frames. I also ordered longer frames (over 300mm) just to play around with it, but it's stuck in transportation. Hopefully, I will receive it before year end. LOL Cheers man. Hope everything is going well for you.

That's a good point about hardness. I never thought hardness level was the reason why I felt more fatigue skating on my soft boots. I thought maybe it was just the soft boots compared to hard boots. Very good point. On all my hard boots, I have at least 85a hardness. Funny you mentioned Powerslide Spinner 88a as I own it now for a few months before I read this comment. Love it! I Have the 90s Powerslide Spinner. The soft wheels are good for smooth surfaces like tennis courts. It's good for indoor rink, but not great for urban skating. 88a are more difficult to find compared to 85a. I've seen a lot of 85a on Amazon, but not 88a. So far, Powerslide is the only brand I know that makes 88a. I purchased some 100s 85a Skt HP mainly due to the cheaper price. LOL I haven't tried it out, but now I'm thinking I should had went with the 88a. Appreciate the comment.

​@@CatzzSkatesFamily Good hearing from you brother. Best wheels for speed outdoor... "Iqon aluminum core wheels" 80mm or 90mm, 88a. Instead of being plastic cores, they have solid aluminum spokes like a car wheel. Crazy amount of coasting... I definitely picked up another 2 mph average, using these wheels.

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Thank you watching the video!

Appreciate it man. I love the 84 wheels on the 275mm powerslide frames. The 80 endless Trinity (255mm) with 84 wheels makes turning easier. Been rocking the 84s for months now. Some areas are not paved so it makes the 84s not as enjoyable as the 90s. Now, I’m rocking the 80s for the past weeks for cardio purpose. I am planning to buy longer frames (at least 300mm) just to experiment with it.

Delaware River Trail is the best one in Philly. Schuylkill Trail is the best one at Conshohocken/Phila area. The park where I was has a lot of walking trails and some paths for skating.

Well said. On that day the truncated dome was not flushed to the ground like the other ones I was used to. I learned to always assess the truncated domes before skating over it.

I should start wearing some. LOL I only wear workout gloves.

Thank you for the wonderful comments. After bringing my kids to a roller-skating rink and seeing how much fun they had, it motivated me to skate inline. Since that day I started watching all sorts of skating videos on KZbin and many skaters influenced me to buy my own skates. I now own soft boots and hard boots skates. Welcome to the world of skating!

@kylepickle715 Thank you for the critique. I'll try to remember to bring my left foot back to the starting position more frequently. I'm getting used to hardboots and shorter frames. I was used to skating on K2 softboot setups. Actually, I watch couple of Joey Mantia's videos. That dude is a speed skating beast! I found him through Stuttering Skater's channel. Where do you normally skate at?

@@CatzzSkatesFamily I’m out in ct are you predominately in pa?

Yes, mostly skate in Philly and south eastern PA area.

Thanks Teshaun for sharing the editing software you use. I've never heard of that until now. I will research on it. Appreciate you watching it!

Thanks man! It's always nice to see people comment on my videos. I didn't think anyone would watch a beginner skater in action. LOL

Thanks Cliff for the heads up! I don't think I've ever skated around that area before besides Kelly Drive area with my soft boots. Do you go to those meet ups often?

@@CatzzSkatesFamily, I lead the Tuesday night Advanced Skate. I skate on Saturday with the Adventure Skate. If I don't skate on Saturday, I skate the Sunday Casual Crew. Sunday would be a great place for you to start. The Thursday night skate is more like an indoor rink skate but outside-it's fun! Come on out!

Wow, you are famous or at the very least, a well-known person in the Philly skating community area. Probably one day I'll stop by. I'd mostly skate solo or with my kids to spend time together. Appreciate the invite man!

@@CatzzSkatesFamily definitely try our Sunday skate.

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Never skated in NJ, but thought about skating there. I'm not too familiar with the areas in NJ. Are there good places to skate there?

Flyers, 76ers, Phillies and Eagles! It would be crazy if all 4 teams win championships in the same season!

@@CatzzSkatesFamily almost happened in the 80s a few times

Appreciate it! Do you skate too?

I do indeed skate. But I’ve been a bit inactive for a couple of months because I haven’t been able to get a new pair of skates.

Very good points. Hard Boots and Soft Boots are common terms used in the past and present. Technically, floppy vs stiff makes more sense based on the material of the boots.

Really appreciate it! There are so many things to learn in inline skating. I also like watching other skates too from beginners to experts. What kind of skates do you own?

What up man! I'm from Philly, but I do travel to NYC to do tourist things. LOL Are you from NYC? Sure, maybe one day we can skate together. I'm still getting used to my Powerslide Next. I started with fitness skating and now trying to do more urban skating.

LOL Appreciate the compliment! My goal for this summer was to get closer to 207lbs, but couldn't make the weight cut. I need to cut out all the yummy food from eating out.

Very good point. The biggest wheel size I'd tried are the 100s. Like you said, it takes more initially to get the big wheels going. What wheel size do you normally skate on?

Nice man! Do you have family at Bensalem? I'd skated at Bensalem area a few times at one of the shopping plazas. I'm not too far from Bensalem.

Thank you for pointing it out. I thought if the wheel size physically fits on a 90 frame it should be okay. I did noticed the extra spacing using the 84s on the default 4x90 frame. I will look into the Powerslide Combat 80. Endless was the other brand I was thinking of buying eventually. I haven't tried rocker axles yes. I'm just getting my feet wet on hard boots. Price wise, I think the Powerslide frames are cheaper than the Endless.

How do you like the 5x80 frames? I don’t see too many people on YT rocking the 5x80 frames.

@@CatzzSkatesFamily hmmm, a bit too much to write about in a youtube comment but I'd say that my 5x80 setup is my most fun setup. If I'm going to be skating all day, it's the one that'll keep me entertained the longest!

Catzz: Same here. I'd tried both, high tops and low tops, at the skating rinks. Not that I'm an experienced quad skater, high tops seem to offer better control for me. Appreciate the 1st comment! Bunn: I like low tops.

Thanks Will! I believe it's the 1st non-black color skates as well as my 1st hard boots. I'm sure I'll buy more in the future, but it's good enough for the type of skating I'm currently doing. There are so many brands and models, I went with whatever was on sale at that time. LOL We love the summer time for traveling to water parks, beaches, shopping mall or any places that's family oriented. My kids are still young and like to spend time with me. BTW, Bunn also got her 1st official quad skates so we'll probably stop by our local roller rink more frequency on Sundays. Sunday morning is meant for more beginners/family. At night time, that's when all the pro quad skaters comes out. Also, morning time seems to be cheaper for admission. Actually, it's almost back to school time for NotDollie and Bunn. This means everyone will sleep before I sleep so I can get some rest. There were a lot of nights during the summer time I woke up because the kids were playing around at 2am!

haha Another Comment of the Year award! Really appreciate all the kind words. The intro logo took me some time to explore with the color palettes. At first, I had blue and purple, but it didn't pop out like the green and purple combo did. Good point. To be honest, I haven't skated on my K2 V2 for quite some time. It's like once you go HARD, do people go back to SOFT (In terms of Skating context)? I feel more confident skating in unknown environment on Hard Boots. I'm just doing basic movements, but I noticed my forward strides got more efficient compared to my older videos. I got more videos recorded and carving out some time to review and edit the videos. During summer time, it's very tricky as we tend to travel to different states and cities. Today I dedicated some time for my skating videos. I also recorded a lot of non-skating videos, but not sure if it's a good idea to upload here on this channel or not. I like both K2 and Powerslide brand for different reasons. For K2, I see most of their commercials focus more on fitness or casual skating. For Powerslide, I see a lot of skilled skaters pulling off very technical moves I can only dream of doing. LOL Appreciate the conversations we have on YT and IG. Hope your summer is going well.

Appreciate it, man! I spent some of my weekends watching all sorts of video editing videos and learn how other vloggers record their content. I wanted to enhance my video editing skills for skating and non-skating content.

Good idea. First, I looked up the term to make sure I'm familiar with the movements. I skated at my local skate plex about 1 week ago. In your opinion, let me know if I did any parallel turns or not in the link below. Sorry, I wish I had recorded it with my insta360, but Big Momma recorded it on her iPhone. I was skating with the kids =) This is my IG account instagram.com/p/C-sruUpRmFT/?next=%2F Do you skate too?

Yes sir. The weirdo is back! How you been man?

@@CatzzSkatesFamily busy grinding, a lot..glad to see you back in action 🎬 😉

Very nice! Hope everything went smoothly with the foot surgery. That is good. I feel like muscle memory’s kicks in for things you used to do often. Appreciate it. I haven’t been uploading 3 times a week like I used in (it took up a lot of my spare time), but I still skate weekly.

Thanks dude! I love hard boots. I switched from 90s to 84s to get a better workout. I actually skated on the streets last week on hard boots for the 1st time and it felt great. Have you been skating? I know you mentioned you don’t have much free time. Keep up all the good work with the artworks you posted on IG.

@CatzzSkatesFamily Hey man, good to hear from you. Yes, as it turns out I'm finally able to get back out there. Ontop of my digital work, I've been custom painting all of my blading gear, it was a hassle because it had to be done outside, but our weather here had been pretty terrible for the past month. So in-between being indoors with the tablet, I've been trying to slowly get everything painted. Ended up going through a couple color changes before deciding on the shade I wanted. So now, finally, I can hit the streets with my new custom gear. Will definitely be posting the finished work when I can. It's been a long time in the making, but it's such an amazing feeling when you've had an idea/concept in your head for so long & now it's finally finished & you can take it with you whenever you head out. Really glad to hear you're loving the hardboots, & yes 84s will definitely give you that extra required workout. Hope you get your camera situation fixed & can get back to making that awesome content we all adore. Take care!

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Hey! I’m doing very good. Skating weekly and enjoying my summer! How you been?

Hey Professor! I’d tried different usb cables, outlets, hubs and the red light doesn’t turned on with or without the battery. I also tried praying to Jesus and that didn’t worked. Hopefully they will not be charging me extra to repair it as it’s an internal device issue. Thanks man. I really like the budget camera’s video quality except the audio. I’ve been using it on my vlogging channel Catzz Life.

glad ur back! but also you are right the audio quality on this new cam is atrocious 😢

Thank you!

Nice! I’ve seen the mustard 125 on a few YT channels and that’s one of my favorite colors. I’m too chicken to try out 125mm. LOL If I have money, I would buy more from Powerslide. So far, I like Powerslide as a brand,

@@CatzzSkatesFamily you definitely choose a good brand powerslide is so good on feet i am just a beginner and i skate powerslide next charcoal 90 and the mustard 125 i bought and tbh 125 mustard stability and agility is so good try it you will love it

That’s awesome to hear! I own 3 soft boots from K2. I will say soft boots are great on the following: 1. Very Comfortable. The best soft boots will feel more comfortable than the best hard boots. Not to say hard boots are not comfortable, but just more comfortable relative to hard boots. 2. Micro meshes that provides maximum air circulation in the boots.

@CatzzSkatesFamily thanks for this! I've gotten a couple lower end skates to try and based on if I like it I can invest in something better suited to my style and environment. I'm in NJ so watching you is giving me hope I can try to take crack at branch brook Park trails.

Thanks for letting me know. I don’t feel the pressure point as much anymore after wearing it several times. Nice. I’ve heard good things about FR and Seba. I didn’t know about the hockey shop offering that. Very good information. How long have you been skating?

@@CatzzSkatesFamily Almost 5 years now.

Excellent. I didn’t know you could do more customizations to it. So far, the only thing I changed was swapping out the 90s for 84s for fitness purpose. I know it’s probably not optimized to put 84s on 90s frame, but it feels good. Powerslide allows me to jump more, which I don’t normally do on my soft boots. Have you ever adjusted the position of the frames?

What’s up Neon! Thanks for those tips and answering Bunn’s question. I will try the two fingers width between the cuff and shin area. So far I love it. There are some things I like soft boots better than hard boots, but overall I feel like there are more benefits with hard boots over soft boots. Like you said specially in urban areas, wow, it makes a big difference. After wearing it several times, I don’t really feel any angle pressure. I’m saving up money to try other hard boots, frames and liners. Rollerblade brand is next on my list to try out. I wanted do a full video on soft vs hard boots, but my camera does not charge up anymore.

Thank you. Ah that makes sense. The liner is the secret to having a perfect fit. I will experiment with different liners in the future.

Thanks bro. Good point about keeping left foot straight when turning left. Skating is fun!

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Good tip about properly securing the laces and straps. I tried it with a more tighter fit and it did released some pressure points from the ankles. After wearing it for over 5 hours, I don’t feel any pains. Maybe I molded my feet into the liners and boots over time. I’m a big fan of hard boots now.

Thanks! Hard boots gives me more control. Good point about the length of the frame. I will experiment with different length sizes. Eventually, I will buy some endless frames. I need to set aside some money to fix my house. LOL It’s like never ending debt. It feels good to be back. I will need find a set day of the week for editing video’s consistently. I would to at least upload 1 video per week. At one point, I was publishing 3 videos a week, but it took a lot of my time away from other things. I got another issue. My Insta360 would not charge up anymore. I’m not sure if it’s due to the heat in my room without AC turned on for weeks. How you been?

@@CatzzSkatesFamily Endless frames are where it is at 😎 hope you get things squared away with little stress! House/car troubles is the worst! For me I have been trying to do one video and short a week but haven’t been too stressed about it! Helps to do everything on the phone so as to cut down edit time for me Wonder if your battery is dead, have you tried other batteries? If none charge may need to send it in, or get charging hub to charge batteries outside camera. I assume already checked the usual cords and charge block 😅 Been alright! Fractured my toe doing a flip last week (not in skates lol) but it is almost healed enough to skate again 🎉 9 days ago and was clean fracture with no dislocation