this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
363 points (99.2% liked)

Asklemmy

43858 readers
1707 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] the_football_maestro@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha freeline skates are quite amusing. Never have witnessed them in real life yet though.

[–] nic@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Could always start learning them yourself? Then you'd get to see them in action first hand 😉.

It's quite cheap to buy an off-brand pair on eBay. I got a pair (they're branded "Drift Skates") for £12 and have been using them for almost a year now. I also have JMKRIDE skates, but haven't used them yet. If you do go for off-brand skates, you should probably also get higher-quality bearings and grip tape. The stock bearings didn't last long for me and I wear down the Jessup Ultragrip I use so quickly that I have to replace it about once every 2 months.

For actually learning to ride, JMKRIDE has a great tutorial playlist for beginners.