How to Powerstop with Bill Stoppard & Asha Skatefresh. Bill helps Asha improve her Powerstop.

[@ildootch]

Two of my favourite skaters/teachers! What a great collaboration!

[@ajidarmaka218]

Mrs Asha always learning from everyone and then she teaching to everyone..,and Mr Bill..the best one...RESPECT two both of you

[@RichHayterSkater]

Ah, 2 favourites in 1 video! This is a treat indeed! Have to say, I’m sitting here extreme jealous right now, Asha, getting one to one Power Stop tuition from the guy who put it on ever skaters wish-list! 👏👏

[@SkatefreshVideos]

It really was nerve-wracking, but fun. We still have 2 more vids in edit featuring Bill.

[@WayOfHaQodesh]

Great to see and encouraging to not give up on skating if even Asha gets nervous still after many years. Thank you!

[@nigelbrown2274]

Amazing to see two inline superstars swapping tips 👏🙌😎

[@beverleysimpson]

Good to see Bill got the pink memo!! I was so worried for your hip, but you did wonderfully well!

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Yes my injured hip is the reason I don't use the Powerstop more frequently as it puts a lot of pressure on the hip joints. When he said "now you just need to go faster" you can see my reticence. Bless you for worrying about me x

[@SirPrancelot1]

@@SkatefreshVideos Does he know about your hip injury?

[@skipbaxley5097]

Tag Team Duo of EXCELLENCE

[@SkatefreshVideos]

We’ll take that thanks 😉✨

[@HockeyHawk]

Yeah! Bill and Asha! What a treat!

[@zxborg9681]

Hell yea, my two skate gurus come together! Now we just have to get Asha to Toronto in January to skate the ice-covered breakwaters at the Beaches :-)

[@dorotheusrex5564]

Is this real?! Two of my favorite skaters in the same video!? This is amazing!!!

[@FredHsu]

Love Asha. Always learning and sharing. Very respectable. Now, I’ll need to do the same.

[@gokaruna]

love it - two of my favorite skaters together!

[@BladeDan852]

Most of my power stop technique derive from watching both you and Bill skate tutorials. Such a pleasure to see the both of you together thanks for sharing!

[@SerialWheeler]

Curving before sliding is great if you know you'll be braking. Sliding directly from a straight line is something I do often when I'm taken by surprise with smth/someone popping in front of me or if I don't have a lot of manoeuvring space. Both good techniques. You guys are a cool combo.

[@fas8019]

great, the superstars of the scene,,You support our sport and always inspire,, th afs

[@mellenamanda854]

Ooohhh my God this is lethal..... My dear Asha how does it feel to be a student!?? You guys are jst a beautiful colabo.... The best learning from the best......

[@SkatefreshVideos]

I LOVE being a student. I love following a plan and being told what to do and trying things out guided by someone else.

[@rabkido2011]

Awesome asha good team up with bill

[@carlosroubert8646]

Bill: the master of powerstops!

[@SkatefreshVideos]

He is indeed

[@u.e.u.e.]

Wow! 😃👍 2 of the best and most skilled skaters of the world in one video! 🤗🤗 Thank you! Bill, how about a stopover in Paris for city skating with Thiago? 😉 Or a trip to Bavaria for endurance skating with Witch on Wheels? 😉 Or to Forst in Germany for extreme endurance training with Speed to Skate? 😉

[@SkatefreshVideos]

He's already back in Canada.

[@u.e.u.e.]

@@SkatefreshVideos What a pity.

[@GOLDCOASTROLLOUT]

If I could pick anyone to give a master class on the power stop it would be Bill Stoppard 👍🏼

[@TIJEY-BEG]

I am glad to see the first video again after a long time.

[@TheChaosElements]

This is my new favorite video

[@Lindeveld]

Wow, 2 legends in 1 video. this is very helpfull for me, thank you very much.

[@Lindeveld]

Can it be done on 125 mm wheels? I hope I can do it on sunday 23 April.

[@MarcinPetruszka]

Great to see Asha and Ken erm... Bill skate together! 🤩

[@mierimageaerials]

ABSOLUTELY love this!!! Two of the greatest!!!

[@amyrul685]

When two legends meet, I love this 😁👍🏻

[@SkatefreshVideos]

It was a fun day for sure. Glad you liked it.

[@joeponthetrails]

The Legends both together!

[@sarek8472]

Grace/elegance meets Power/Force

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Very good summary.

[@abdallah2892]

Mrs Asha e Mr Stoppard Zerei o patins!!!!! Como tem sido ah evolução nesta configuração rockered?! Sinto saudades sua nos triskates...... 🇧🇷🙏

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Estou gostando muito dos @endlessblading e @nnskates roqueados porque adoro o wizard skating….. mais cuido e suave. Sinto falta também dos Tris pela velocidade e na rua com asfalto ruim….. mas tudo na hora 💕

[@abdallah2892]

@@SkatefreshVideos 🇧🇷🙏

[@netaverse7694]

Cool seeing a teacher learn

[@mohamedsaeed1938]

Two skating legends💪💪

[@SkatefreshVideos]

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@jettbran4446]

two great people 😁🌀🌀🌀🌀😎

[@julskechap]

Omgosh this is so awesome!

[@loyalkeyboardcoolkid-co-le782]

Great to see Bill Stoppard and Asha Skatefresh team up. Two of my favorite skaters!

[@wildrice8199]

Awesome video and very helpful advice. I'm still trying to learn the powerstop.

[@SkatefreshVideos]

It’s not an easy skill. I see many skaters trying to learn to POwerstop before they’ve got some of the necessary prerequisite skills such as the Lunge stop which comes from the lunge turn….. if you don’t have those then I encourage you to start gaining those skills first. I can help with a free lunge turn video class (link in description box to this video). Good luck 😉👍🏽

[@rafael2212]

ok, this is a wet dream for us skaters! dream collab vibes

[@SkatefreshVideos]

🤣🤣🤣there’s at least 2 more videos in edit from me and bill (we’re each doing our own from the raw footage). In edit….. I got a bit busy in Holland last 2 weeks and wizard online course is keeping my 2 editors busy. Thanks for your patience.

[@liudizzle]

Now do an urban skate flow collaboration next please!!

[@SkatefreshVideos]

It's in edit.... coming soon.

[@LeviathanCove]

So good!

[@JoshAronoff]

Bill's runs are what I watched during the pandemic that got me back into rollerblading.

[@SkatefreshVideos]

I'm sure he's responsible for many mens' return to skating!

[@SaccoBelmonte]

Now that's a highlight.

[@ArinaThomsen]

Great collaboration. I haven't been watching skating videos for a while, but it was really good feeling to see Asha and Bill again!

[@ianhaslett2403]

The best learning from the best! I was in Brighton two weeks ago, so sorry I missed you both, think you were doing lessons in Hyde park while I was there

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Ahhh that’s a shame. Yes I’m in London and Brighton. Next time let me know beforehand! Hope you enjoyed Brighton.

[@PlantbasedRunners]

I started out on asphalt and now find perfecting the set up for parallel and magic on a rink floor due to it being soooo smooth.... I am enjoying Bills kerb drop powerstop/parallel 'stops'.

[@liudizzle]

Holy smokes never expected to see Bill Stoppard here!

[@marybayos1221]

Wow amazing collab 😁

[@grantwithers]

great stuff guys

[@skatingsabine]

That’s such a cool stop! Practising today …. 😆👍

[@oscarflores7750]

Epic crossover

[@eelkeaptroot1393]

Cool collab!

[@meghantilson133]

I didn’t know how much I missed the sound of your voice!! x

[@SkatefreshVideos]

OMG Meghan!!!!! How amazing to see you here. How I'd love to get to Canada and visit...... How can we catch up? Are you on any other social media channels (IG or FB?)

[@mohamedsaeed1938]

Next skating with flow skating , 👍

[@SkatefreshVideos]

I’d love to skate with Shaun and talk wizard skating. I’m planning perhaps to do a small USA tour in April 2023. I need to get back to uk for the spring season so Canada looks unlikely. If I go to Canada I need more time as have family in Vancouver who I’d love to see….. so many places…..

[@kobicaz]

@@SkatefreshVideos so many places to go and so little time!

[@JapLomm]

Inline Legends together

[@mikeanimes]

You both together! wowwwww =)

[@1nnu3ndo]

The colour scheme in this video is so 90's

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Unintentional but yes you're right.

[@vincentc2466]

When he didn't say "perfect!" after 2:20 she knew she would never be good enough for him!!!

[@TheRollingRaptor]

This is just great! Well done, _both_ of you. 🙂

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@melvindelacruz6847]

Two masters🎉🎉🎉🥳🥳🥳

[@deechar6908]

I love you both, I watch you both! haha Well done to both!

[@flomagar8919]

Great!!! 2 teachers...please more again

[@SkatefreshVideos]

More vids re coming

[@flomagar8919]

Genial Asha!!

[@Arhanatif02]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 superb

[@takohma1056]

This is an amazing video. Would love to see more!

[@SkatefreshVideos]

There's 2 more coming.....

[@NavalhaML]

Uau, que legal assistir vocês dois no mesmo vídeo!

[@studentoo]

Wow greate! :)

[@awweee6568]

Its important for teachers to be students. Basically you will always be student. Many times you learn when you teach.

[@aninhacarvalho9011]

Parabéns 👏👏

[@markandrewpiano]

Thanks for this video! Gotta work on my power stop.

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Glad it motivated you. Have you already got it and need polishing or does the quick turn and stop still elude you? It's not an easy move. I've observed that skaters who are trying the Powerstop but who haven't yet mastered the Lunge Stop, struggle for a long time. The Lunge stop is a less aggressive, lower speed, non sliding stop that I think all intermediates should have in their repertoire. If you'd like my help with getting the Lunge Stop, here's a free lesson on the Lunge Turn (and how to make it consecutively smaller and tighter)..... I promise this is the pathway to getting the Powerstop, and on the way you get a few more core skills (like Lunge Turn & Stop). Click here for the free class and good luck; skatefresh.com/product/how-to-skate-intermediate-level-free-trial/

[@markandrewpiano]

@@SkatefreshVideos thanks for the information and the link about the lunge stop! I'll check out the class.

[@anischab]

Asha, you didn’t stay low! (Bill bends his upper body and the knies more to lowe his center of gravity and calls that „staying low“ in his tutorials). I am in the intermediate level in your course (App)

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Hahaha yup we all need to get lower. I have longer legs than Bill so have to bend them even more!

[@CatzzSkatesFamily]

Damn… I had no idea they both collaborated. I will stick with soul slides. I treat it like a stock investment. The risk outweighs the reward. Having said that, those were some badass stops!

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Hi. This is Sergio from Skatefresh Team. I love the soul slide and I agree the power stop and hockey stop are intimidating. Anyway, my recommendation is that you keep growing up as a skater so it's always nice to accept a new challenge. May not be this stop, but the magic slide or the wheely soul slide could be a good step forward. The two of them are based on the soul slide you already got so they will not be that hard.

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Hi this is Asha. I love your line about he hickey stop " treat it like a stock investment. The risk outweighs the reward." I totally agree. The TIME it takes to learn the hockey stop and the forces it puts on the body are pretty extreme (compared to other stops and slides like Powerslide and Powerstop....which are much more worth the effort, or bring faster returns. Great analogy!

[@MrJinsilverx]

Humble Asha! Like if you agree

[@bladingisdad]

🙌

[@Phjghh]

I was doing this same thing to turn at corner as a beginner. Unknowingly i was actually doing power stop.😂

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Wow that's very unusual to be able to Powerstop naturally. I've actually never seen that. It's probably the most frustrating skill for the most number of people. It's more tricky than most people think.

[@stephenklump7615]

Asha, get lower into the slide. Centre of gravity drops so you can 'push' through the heel on the back (inside) foot, keeping it under the hip at all times. The front (outside) foot is the part that you see, but the details in the back foot make the slide work.

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Agreed. I'd be able to go lower if it wasn't;t for the fear of over edging on that inside skate and falling sideways onto my already injured hip. I'm just not allowed to fall like that or it could mean the end of skating for me. So without being able to really go for it, I have to take it easy and that's a slow learning curve..... but will keep trying.

[@stephenklump2421]

​@@SkatefreshVideos You might want to work on your other side then - because if you work on the hockey stop, you _will_ fall on the inside hip. Nobody gets out unscathed! It feels awkward at first but in time it becomes ambidextrous. Concentrate on what muscle groups are doing what, to make it so fluid, on the strong side, and consciously mirror all of it for the weak side. If you're like me you favour one oblique no matter what and you'll have to train that out, consciously. In any case, there are loads of other stops.

[@SkatefreshVideos]

@@stephenklump2421 Thanks for the suggestion. The problem with my hip doesn't just mean I can't fall on the injured hip, it means I can't fall AT ALL! With my pelvis having a crack in it, any fall could dislodge my pelvis so I basically have to reduce my risks of falling. This means that pushing my comfort zone has to be done very, very carefully. It's a strange place to be as a life long skater but I just have to be grateful that I'm still skating and at nearly 50 and injured for so long it's kind of a miracle. But if you ever wonder why I don't come out with new skills all the time, that's why. I'm in the preservation game.

[@FinnBjerke]

Telemark skiing is the same technique more or less.

[@ryanyepp50]

When you are doing power stop, does the hardness of the wheel matter? Currently I am using 85A with HiLo 80mm and 76mm hockey rollerblades.

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Hi. This is Sergio from Skatefresh Team. With that hardness you should be ok.

[@andreaseber3585]

Nice Video, can you tell me wich size you use? and do you use 90a ore lower? I drive with 90mm and 85a. Can i do a powerstop on this?

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Hi. This is Sergio from Skatefresh Team. Yes, you can! For this video Asha was riding NN frames 4x90mm/85A.

[@maloneycraig]

This is great! But a nice concise set of bullet points of tips that bill gave Asha would be useful. Seems like there are two: 1) Less carving of an arc and more “direct pivot” (but even bill is carving at least a little bit of an arc on the inside skate) 2) More weight on the inside skate entering the pivot. Any other bullet points? I’m confused about how to unweight the inside skate if you do a direct pivot without any arc carving. I always thought it was the carving of the arc that allowed the inside skate to unweight and lose grip.

[@FranciscoTornay]

a) What Bill said was that it's not necessary to do a "pre-curve" to the opposite side before launching the powerstop, but you do start the stop itself by turning Asha was carving to her left before carving (pivoting) to her right, where she was launching the stop. I even think that in her first attempt she actually turned right, then left, then finally to the right for the final stop. Bill just carves to his right and launches the stop as he carves b) The "backy" (to quote Bill) loses grip when you invert your ankle (turn it in to create a strong outer edge, stronger than what you need for a simple turn). Think of it like this: in a lunge stop you turn on your inside weighted leg and the outer leg slides and stops you. To turn this into a powerslide you pivot your inner foot 90º on your toe as you turn. To turn it into a powerstop, instead of pivoting the foot, you invert your ankle as you turn

[@SkatefreshVideos]

I agree with you Craig on your final point about the carving and I've always taught the prerequisite Lunge turn/stop from a curve which progressively over time you make tighter and smaller (until eventually it becomes Bill's straight line entry). But I did find it very difficult to mimic that straight line and "just pivot" into it, especially at the slightly higher speed later on in the class...... Your bullets are good. The "unweighting of the inside skate" in a sliding Powerstop that you mention is not what I think Bill is saying. He says (2:28) to get more weight there and create more of a shallow angle with those wheels and the ground by bending the knee more and out. That's the part I still feel reticent about doing because I have a long-term hip injury and getting that weighted inside foot over on its outside edge is a risky place to play as overdo the outside edge and get it wrong and the next thing that happens is your inside hip hits the ground. One far like that and I could be out of work (I have a cracked pelvis and am not allowed to fall). So I wasn't perhaps the best student at being able to follow the instructions. My body likes gentle, slow changes with minimal risk. But I'll keep working on it.

[@SkatefreshVideos]

@@FranciscoTornay That's a great description of the differences between a lunge Stop and a Powerstop.. " To turn this into a powerslide you pivot your inner foot 90º on your toe as you turn." For me the useful thing here is that when you say pivot (as Bill does) it is actually a mini sharp 90degree turn. I noticed again that Bill's Powerstop occurs on an arc after his pivot so fluent and consistent turning needs to be in the learning progression (for those not yet getting a stop). The pre curves that I are to monitor and control my entry speed as I know I can't Powerstop too quickly. But I do believe the Powerstop needs to be learned and instigated from a turn which over time and practice become consecutively smaller and tighter entry turns. Kinda like a Lunge/Powerstop hybrid...... I think I'm at that intermediate level stage with it and my work is to make it less curvy and more straight so it looks like Bills. I'm always interested in the different and unique ways of teaching a skill differently depending on who is learning it and if they are at zero, or already have the mechanics but need it better, faster, polished etc. I see this a lot in speed skating discussion. What's appropriate for an athlete doing the double push is usually very different to someone wanting to learn the double push......

[@FranciscoTornay]

@@SkatefreshVideos Great points, Asha! In my reply, I was trying to clarify what Bill was saying, but I personally agree that it's not bad at all to launch the powerstop from a pre-curve and it may probably be the wisest choice in some circumstances (e.g. fast downhill in less than perfect surfaces), as explained in the video I'm linking below (the demo is with a magic slide, but the same point applies to powerstops or parallels). It may also be a way to learn the slide for some people, as you mention. I personally learned the powerstop and parallel the way Bill recommends and I do think that being able to slide directly is a good skill to have but I also slide from carving when I'm going downhill and from a T-stop in other cases (as Bill often does). Link to video showing why you may want to slide from a pre-curve, even if you're good at sliding directly: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZqTIhZiXgqanbc0

[@FranciscoTornay]

@@SkatefreshVideos And Natan, from the swiss rollerschool teaches the parallel in the context of downhill skating from a carving action, just as you propose. Anyway, you must keep on carving most of the time when you're going downhill. Natan is great just as Bill and may be just as opinionated :-) Btw, Asha, I love that you are so open to try new things and even become a "student" after all your experience and expertise Link to Naan's great sliding playlist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5ikgaVoaMiDqpo

[@manpreettrainer]

Is this Nn frame in your skates ?

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Hi. This is Sergio from Team Skatefresh. Right, it's the Ninja frame.

[@handcoding]

Can I ask what hardness your wheels are? I ask because I’m trying to get the hang of doing this power stop, but I seem to have trouble getting my skates to pivot from 0° (straight ahead) to 90°, and I’m not sure if my wheels might be contributing too much friction to the process?

[@SkatefreshVideos]

I'm on 85A, don't know about Bill.How is your Lunge stop? I find that skaters who haven't mastered the Lunge stop from medium speeds really struggle with that full commitment Powerstop because the body hasn't;t learned the physics of tight turns reducing speed.....I think without that it's really hard to learn the Powerstop. If you don't have the Lunge Stop yet, do start the process with my help in this free lunge turn online class. A super useful skill in its own right, the lunge turn when small enough creates the lunge stop and that then gets easier to tweak and make a straight line to give you the Powerstop. Her sit is if you want to get started. skatefresh.com/product/how-to-skate-intermediate-level-free-trial/

[@twistfire74]

Bills a goof.

[@gansogames4927]

More like Bill Stopper, amirite??

[@lukegraham558]

After years of running a teaching business, how have you not learnt this trick? Is this all for demo purposes?

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Hi. This is Sergio from Team Skatefresh. Yes, she knew how to do it but here she was perfecting it with Bill. We instructors always keep learning.

[@SkatefreshVideos]

I was quite pleased with my first attempt and Bill confirmed dit was a Powerstop (as I always thought that if there was sliding then it wasn't a Powerstop, but I've been corrected). Anyway the Powerstop is not my favourite stop and I wanted Bill to help me improve it and make it faster. But my hip injury does stop me from really going for it as if I slipped out and over-edged I'd then fall on my injured hip which could be disastrous for me. So I'm a bit shy with it and not really able to give it my all because of this hindrance. Even though I can't do the Powerstop mega fast I can teach it no problems at all.

[@lukegraham558]

@@SkatefreshVideos no disrespect meant at all, I was just surprised you you didn't know the trick is all. I have have followed many of your videos and even revisited a basic video you did about the importance of a good stride, which after 20 years of skating really helped improve my technique.

[@orandilu989]

I hope Bill picks up some teaching skills from you, Asha. He's a great skater and a good teacher, but the clarity and effectiveness of his lessons pale in comparison to yours.

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Well that's possibly because I've spent the last 22 years mainly teaching skating while Bill teaches a lot less. Practice is what makes us good at anything right? I wish I could accelerate like Bill hahahah

[@jonatan_1991]

Does this work on super high speed, when you lost control and are in an emergency and have to stop immediately?

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Hi. This is Sergio from Skatefresh Team. I'd say it doesn't work at super high speed. In that case the powerslide is safer. The powerstop is good but also has a particular effectiveness threshold, which is quite tricky, so if you "lose control" as you say, this stop will make it worse indeed. The magic slide and soul slide are other good and safer alternatives, which are widely used by those who practice downhill.