Skate Fresh Asha & Bill Stoppard, Miami Interview -PoweStops & Progressions

[@thiagoiluminado]

Following both for 9 years. Its a nostalgic feeling remebering watching Asha videos filmed in Brazil. Both were great inspiration when I got back to rolllerblade in 2015. Keep up the good work 👏👏👏👏👏

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Thanks for staying with us ❤️

[@BillStoppard]

Thanks so much for hanging with us T! Happy skating!

[@ironskates]

Asha & Bill the best team forever! 👏👏👏👏👏

[@jayhathaway4720]

two inline legends!

[@VarunSharma-km3wv]

I can't wait to hear the news about this Toronto June event Bill mentioned

[@michelefisher2072]

So agree with her about, “why not a two tennis court size tarmac” for people who want to practice drills and skate on a flat surface?

[@shannon.skates]

King and Queen of Skating 👑 incredible!!

[@CatzzSkatesFamily]

Very good interview. I normally skips those kind of stuff, but not when Bill and Asha teams up. Bill and Asha is like Peanut Butter and Jelly. It just goes well together. Skater Migration looks fun. I’m not skilled enough to join yet, but I do enjoy watching other skates. The settings and the combo stops conversations were articulated so well. I can tell they both have great skating knowledges by how they delivered the context. Bill is a gentleman for holding the microphone in the middle that long. You can see his bicep flexing. Okay Bill I see you. Asha gave the same respect by holding the mic the later half. Both skaters are in my top 10 starters for my Fantasy Skating League. One can only dream. ❤ Excellent video from start to finish.

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Very lovely feedback thanks.

[@dionoliveira4058]

Newbie and loving all this amazing inspiration from masters

[@sydneydbenjamin7468]

Loved it! Please make an annual interview update, even if its over zoom. So so enjoyable to hear skate talk! Ty

[@Glowtrey]

That was a very nice conversation Bill! I 100% agree with Sasha's take on why people are either relunctanct to pick up inlining or either stops early. And the ski comparison is so true... I've ski raced for 10 years, I'm a race coach, I like to spend time in the snowpark, and backcountry skiing and freeriding, sending cliffs. I have had epic crashes over the year, and basically have never hurt myself during those impressive fall. Yet I feel every single inline falls 😅 you know because... cement... 😂 I am trying hard to convince people to let me teach them how to inline, I'm getting there, its not still how I want it to be. And again, you two are right we need more flat infrastructures designed for small wheels users that are not skateparks. Like why am I always using empty parking lots or tennis court to practice ? (The ice rink asphalt is so old in Rimouski).

[@altruex]

Very excited for a new era of blading and this is a great moment to see Asha and Bill sit down and share their passion with us and their optimism for the sport. Though sales have dropped, the community is still vibrant and to keep inspiring others to get on wheels. Cant wait to get in my inlines once the weather calls for it. See you in toronto again Bill! Happy to see Toronto finally has a tradition of city skating along with montreal Canada scene added onto the international stage hopefully like London and new york skate. Really great to know Bill is one of our reps for inline internationally now

[@SaccoBelmonte]

I'm too immersed in the figure skating world (3, bracket, counters, rockers) to focus about my Powerstop :) . I'm recording daily just for me using it as a "mirror" (tiny cheap action cam with remote) , one thing is what you feel and another thing is what you're doing and how it looks. Counters are cooooool! ... I wholeheartedly agree, there should be a lot more just flat skating areas with drawn circles and patterns. They should do "Speed skating + mandatory transition moves at full speed" Yeah, i'd watch that! Full gear in case they mess up or is done over polished concrete so they can slide. xD

[@dogjuicejaxn2490]

Thanks Bill, brilliant interview. Been skating on tri's for a year, my brake block is on and staying on for a while yet as a back up to a failed t stop! Asher bang on wirh a lack of non aggressive skate parks.

[@BillStoppard]

Learning new stops but having a back up break is smart. Yes, the UK needs and deserves more flat spots...but Toronto needs more (1 real) skate parks.

[@Skate40]

Such nice and inspirational talk ⚡️ Got me motivated to get my "steps" in line and not wanting to progress too fast/ skip practices. Thank you both for being positive and up bringing 🛼💯

[@BillStoppard]

Big thanks! I still get a buzz out of refining fundamentals. Have a blast!!

[@raub710]

if any person gets close to these two at the same time , he or she would become an intermediate inline skater instantly doesn't matter if they haven't seen a pair of skates before... these two are an inline skating Supernova

[@SeniorDelinquentSk8s]

Oh, so good, you two should continue together with a series. I'm a South Florida local, 68, and skate Miami Beach often. Hollywood Beach is excellent too. Thanks!

[@SkatefreshVideos]

You lucky man!

[@Eugene32852]

What an amazing video ! Thank you !

[@Snifffski]

Great to hear you both. Fascinating views and opinions. I feel that the drop-out rate you mentioned is in part due to skaters hitting a progression ceiling and getting demotivated/dispirited/bored. I've seen that happen plenty of times. Having no skating community locally is another.

[@BillStoppard]

Yes! Community and people to share and learn with, are so motivating.

[@defj660]

Some more: cost, foot problems + skate boot makers who seem to know nothing about feet, and bad experiences while skating in bad neighbourhoods. They seem like separate things but in the reverse order, one leads to the other and you end up with all three.

[@piotrekmaryjka]

Thanks for the inspiration, you are great. I watch both of you. I rode with a wheel brake from the beginning, for several years. It gave me confidence even when I was good at T-stops and other simple stopping methods. I unscrewed it last year when I fell while doing criss-cross :D This year I started riding backwards and finally put on a helmet :D

[@anthonybanker6479]

Both of you talking about the heel break and breaking with a new heel I can relate and the swift innovative heel break adjustable angle design I have that design on my Swell 110 three wheel but my bladrunner 4 wheel 80s has the old design heel break. 😮😅.

[@Goddrum]

I agree taking time to, really learn the parts that make up a whole/ balanced skater. I see lots of different moves/tricks on social media that looks good but not realizing the person doing that has been skating for years before that skill became what it was

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Yes the stuff that looks really good is probably decades old 😂

[@MPFben]

24:18 totally agree!

[@joeschmo2693]

I didn't realize how deceptive and incorrect it is to refer to 'edges' on inline skates until I got ice skates and found out that they actually DO have edges, 2 of them. As a result, some techniques are done in precisely opposite ways because inline skates have a bead, 1 (assuming you rotate your wheels semi-regularly), not edges. You lean over further on inline skates to slide, or hockey stop, where on ice skates that causes you to dig in harder and maybe go head over heels. I tried to use my favorite stop on my ice skates, not realizing that the 45 degree lean angle that makes it work on wheels doesn't work on ice skates because of the actual edges skate blades have.

[@BillStoppard]

Totally agree, stopping on ice is so different and much easier. The traction that edges give you on ice is crazy!

[@kirby131313]

I'm really upset I missed the event this year. I've been watching both asha and Bill for a long long time and has always been a dream to meet both. I was planning on attending the Miami event and sadly I became ill and had to cancel the trip I'm well now thankfully but still upset that I missed out 😢

[@BillStoppard]

Next time!!!

[@youfakou]

greetings to the inline-skating community ❤

[@CarlFlex]

what a treat, could listen to you guys for hours!

[@Will-tm5bj]

21:50 it has been difficult to advance. My first time out in my new inlines at the rink i sprained my ankle. 3 months later i was back in skates. Skated a couple trails. The flat ones are no problem, hills are terrifying but im working on the edges and stops. I can almost balance on one foot enough to try a T stop😂

[@sultanabran1]

that's a good point. there's no where for inline skaters to go and just skate. in my city anyway. or a nice envrionment to skate in. in Adelaide, Australia. there's a place called Tonsley Innovation District. it's a big big commercial area with wide open spaces and it's undercover. heaps of skaters go there. that's what we need more of.

[@javierantoniovarasgenestie5313]

Hey bill, loved the video. Seeing both of you talking about skating. Awesome. I can work as a translator for your amigos. Jajajajaja. Greetings from Patagonia

[@nickybateleur]

Just starting my skating journey again after almost exactly 20 years. Interestingly, my very first lesson was with Asha way back then, so I am coming full circle. I hope to be good enough to join next year's skater migration. Thank you both for your inspiration and refusal to compromise on the attention to detail of your instruction ✌🏻. Without a strong foundation, there is no building.

[@BillStoppard]

Your first lesson was from the best in the biz!?! Nice! See you in Miami!

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Welcome back!🎉🎉🎉 I love that skating comes back into people’s lives when the times is right. Like an old friend. Hope to see you rolling soon.

[@techjeff2083]

I have been watching both of your videos and it has made me want to get into inline skating. I got some skates a few days ago. The biggest issue has been finding a flat piece of tarmac! Currently in a quiet carpark, unfortunately there are cars to watch out for 😜 as well as stones and other debris. Love your videos, keep up the great work 😀👍

[@shifuugincii]

loool I took the heel brake off about my second time wearing my skates. but I was super careful in the beginning. I think I feel only 2 times. when I started teaching myself to skate backwards is when I started being more daring and ok with falling. by then I had already worn off my wheels. and I could skate more or less

[@filipivan5125]

3 years of skating in london, i saw asha once 😂😂

[@BillStoppard]

You got lucky! She's in a different country every week it seems!!

[@SkatefreshVideos]

😂well since the pandemic life has changed a lot and I’m now able to stop commuting to London every weekend and being away from home 40% of the time. It was a tough schedule. Then my father died last year and everything changed again. Life is nothing but unpredictability and learning to flow with it.

[@PlantbasedRunners]

I'm a closet skater....my last two pairs were bought from people that fell over and sold their new skates which were put in their closet 🙂

[@TheSpeedySparrow]

I bought my first pair of skates from a lady who had wrote male skates in the ad, so I asked her and she said she had bought them for her husband who obviously fell hard the first time he tried and yelled "you either get rid of me or these skates" I am glad she chose him.

[@aimreadings]

I love this content so much! Thank you! I personally been skating and biking since my child days, got back into it about 10 years ago, but I still can't stop without my heel brake. 😮 These past few months I've been trying actually the t stop, and I've been constantly injured in very serious ways lmaooo 😅 I live in a very mountainous area, so in order to get out of my home or even go around here, It is nothing but very extreme hills, and when those hills turn downhill, That's where it gets really dangerous for me. I'm not going to stop trying, but honestly getting hurt is not worth it at this age, lol I'm in my mid 30's but still can feel everything, it's crazy. I definitely see why people bicycle more, lol but I'm not gonna give up, because skating brings me so much peace 🧿🧿🧿 it's so hard! 🤣

[@BillStoppard]

Hill skating takes a toll, keeping your brake sounds smart. Try the drag stop (T stop) for little moments at a time increasing gradually over weeks. Learning it on both sides early can prevent injury. I hope you find a good spot for practice!!

[@aimreadings]

@@BillStoppard thank you! I'm definitely going to try that method daily! I appreciate it 🙏🙏Your skating is so amazing! I'm heading to ciclavia this weekend with my skates! Wish me luck 🤞😆🧿

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Steep hills are really challenging. Try this. Make sure that ANY time you apply the brake on a downhill slope it is always in FRONT of the front wheel of the back skate. You’ll need to bend your back knee to achieve this. Hills and heel brakes don’t work when the scissor is too short and the brake is applied next to the wheels of the back skate. The heel brake needs to be ahead of the back skate for it to get enough pressure to slow you down. At first you may need to look down to ensure you apply it in this correct position. As you slide down the slope with brake engaged try to push the brake away from you forwards elongating the scissor position a little more. This will put even more pressure down on the brake and bring you to a stop. Most people don’t apply the brake with any consciousness of where it is. I hope this helps you. Let us know.

[@aimreadings]

@@SkatefreshVideos thank you 🙏 I will try to take note of my positioning and let y'all know 🙏🧿I appreciate it very much

[@Анатолий-п3т]

where is twister xt?))

[@nige]

Love inline. It is the falling and the learning curve that keeps the community smaller than I'd like to see it. Where I live, everyone ice skates, but we have the smallest inline community. It's infuriating. 😠

[@BillStoppard]

I hope you manage to get a little momentum for your scan this year. Go poach some ice skaters!

[@dickensrivers9862]

bill needs to be wearing red shorts and a black belt...or asha have on khakis...jus sayin

[@jeffs4483]

1st

[@michelefisher2072]

40- 50-60%?!?! Wow, they both agree that this the the percentage of people that start then quit because of falling and difficulty of learning.

[@BillStoppard]

Would love to know the real stat! So many closet skates out there!

[@lukalot_]

second...

[@julianpenfold1638]

All predominantly skill based sports are much harder to become proficient at than they look and that people think, so the dropout rate will always be high. I think there are a few reasons why skating and in particular outdoor skating probably have an even higher dropout rate - 1) Failure to perform a skill competently results in falling over with the risk of pain, injury and humiliation 2) At least in the UK, the weather and the surfaces in the built environment are far from ideal for outdoor skating, and indoor venues are limited in number 3) Lack of structured learning - a consequence of the sport being relatively young, and fragmented - there's no single national governing body and no culture of having lessons, apart from artistic skating which is mainly an indoor sport. It's a wonder so many people do struggle on. People are deserting tennis for pickleball - because it's much easier. Mr Stoppard is an outlier who learns intuitively and is prepared to put lots of time and effort into working stuff out - most people don't have his drive and those people should get lessons from someone like Asha because they will get where they want to go much more quickly.

[@SkatefreshVideos]

I agree with all 3 of your points. Well put.

[@shifuugincii]

Aisha kind being snobbish about skating. its just fun end of...