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Love to see this. Way more freeskiiers should try aggressive skating and vice versa

60mm wheels will work on those Aeons, but the frame will be unnecessarily tall, which makes balancing a little but more tricky. But at this stage it really doesn't matter. It's probably very similar to when you first started skiing; I imagine at first, you started with skis and boots that were simply comfortable. Then, as you improved, you developed your own personal taste and change your setup accordingly. BTW, great start! I hope you keep skating!

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The new stall is Mizou and the next one you did was almost an x stall I think. And it was already said, but your front sides are just facing too forward. Your speed is good enough to slide though. I really would recommend trying front sides on a p rail or flat rail vs a ledge. I think your balance from skiing will help you out more to get the feel for the frames sliding. You’re already doing so good! Welcome to the blading community👍

Ask yourself - what do you enjoy more? The skating itself or the grinding? That’ll help you decide whether to go flat or anti

When approaching the ledge for the frontside grind it helps to have your shoulders turned towards the ledge so they're approaching parallel with the ledge. This will help your body turn sideways for the grind. It also helps to point your toes upward a little to avoid that front wheel bite.

For the frontside grind on the ledge your form is going to be super important with such large wheels. First it'll help if you fully turn your torso to face the obstacle, this will make it easier to get your legs in the right position. Also try to avoid leaning forward into it, this is going to push your front wheels down onto the obstacle and bite. Keep your balance directly over it or slightly away from it. Then squat more, and tilt your knees slightly inward to make an "A" shape. This will help keep your wheels out of the way more, and lower your center of balance. Not to mention it just looks cooler the lower you can go, and it will set you up for learning the next trick. Still, really impressive progress for just a couple sessions. Keep it up!

You could put 65mm wheels in those skates and it would make it less likely to get wheel bite. Don’t put in wheels smaller than 65mm though because it will cause other issues. Also when you are grinding ledges on skates remember that you need to lock with your feet slightly angled. You can’t lock on ledges “flat based” like you can on skis, the reason your back foot was getting wheel bite is probably because your foot was too on top/flat based.

Nice I had my journey the other way back in 2000. I started blading and then wanted something to do in the winter. I'm still stoked I got a grind and a 540 on my first day.

That's so interesting to watch! Try a Soulgrind on the ledge first! Easier that Slide tricks on a ledge. Once you do your frist grinds you will realise how much fun it is! Especially if you grind longer.

Soul Stall and a Mizu Stall 👍

Clean video! Not only has your skating improved a lot but also your videography skills! Keep at it🤘

Place your feet In a V SHAPE … push off heels , release off toes - no matter what set up . ❤

60 mm wheels will fit on frames designed for 72mm wheels. However you are not going to get the full benefit since your frame is still higher then it would be if it was designed for 60 mm. Also you might get issues with the frame touching the ground when you lean heavenly with skates in sharp turns. That depends a lot on the shape of the frame. Since you bought the Aeon skate, you can not change the frame of that skate, you would need to buy a totally different skate. The plus side is that if you want to skate 72mm, this skate maximizes how low your frame can be with that wheel size. Since the frame is not mounted on the boot, it can be way lower since the wheels can go into the boot and no space is needed for the mounting hardware. I actually skate a flat setup with 72mm wheels and while it is harder its still fun. For me I want the 72mm wheels because they are WAY better for general skating on the street to get to the skate-park. I skate 9km to get to the park and I would die if I had to do it on 60mm wheels. Its just that bad. But when you are in the park, on the smooth surface, small wheels are no problem. It seems like you use your bike for transportation and you don't plan to skate outside the park at all, that's why smaller wheels skate seem to be a better option for you. Small frame and wheels make it easier to do tricks for sure. Small wheels are lighter and anti-rockers additionally reduce the weight of the skates. The closer your foot is to the ground the more balance you have. You also don't have bend your legs as much to get into the position of some grinds like royals and topside tricks. (But these tricks look way better on bigger frames.) However, there is still enjoyment to be had when it comes to skating a more challenging setup. It might make some of your tricks look cleaner since the setup does not allow you to do it the sloppy way. If you want to have the easiest time skating you can buy Razor SL-s with the ground control FL3 frame and anti-rocker setup. I see so many people that start doing way harder tricks as soon as they get that skate. It almost feels like they are cheating :D Some people say that 72mm wheels are also better for vert skating, since you don't loose as much energy for each jump you do. But IDK if that is still relevant since you can also buy metal core wheels today to maintain your speed on huge ramps like vert ramps.

So what you're saying is you can learn to rollerblade in a couple hours.

Nice man, solid Makio stalls at the first day 👍 keep your center of gravity low.

Phenomenal Journey! Stay Low, stay save. 👍

Great BRoll and editing!

Du skulle har skydd på arméns och kne👍

I've got Aeon 72s as well. I love them! I come from the "bigger wheel, no grinds" era!

Let's go !!

My biggest general advice is just to stay low! Bend those knees and keep your hands in front of you. This will keep you compact, stable, and from flailing around. If you keep that in mind while learning and taking in other tips for specific tricks it will go a long way! Those are big wheels for aggressive skating too, so if you get your stalls learned on those you will have them down on any pair of skates! Good job, have fun!

You need to lean your soulplates right over otherwise you’ll slip off

Very good first day. Worth learning some simple grinds on a small ledge or coping edge such as soul, mizou and frontside then stalling will seem much easier.

Very good for the first day.💪💪💪PS: The USD Aeon is a good skate for learning aggressive skating. But the much better choice for you had been the Aeon 60 with 60mm wheels because 72mm is not optimal for aggressive skating (you will get a lot of wheel bite while learning all the different groove-grinds and this is not helpful and also quite dangerous for a beginner). The Aeon 60 has a much wider groove in the middle of the wheel-frame and the wheels are smaller, so they will not touch the ledge if you do a groove-grind. As an alternative it is also helpful if you use a skate with an antirocker-frame and -setup (two wheels up from 57mm to 65mm on the outside and two plastic-wheels for grinding in the middle). This will make your grinding-experience much, much better and you will progress ways faster in aggressive skating. There is a reason why about 90per cent of all aggressive skaters use an antirocker-setup.😉By the way: The Aeon 60 is an exception, because it is not a UFS-skate like all the other aggressive skates. That means you cannot change the frame of the skate (you need to change the whole shell if the soulplate or the frame is damaged). This is a big disadvantage of the Aeon-Skates; especially if you prefer streetskating on rougher ledges. But the advantage of the Aeons is that you are due to this construction a little bit lower to the ground and this creates on the Aeon 60, despite you are riding a flat-setup with four wheels touching the ground, a similar good grinding-experience as you would ride an antirocker-frame while you can enjoy the little bit smoother ride with a flat-setup. As you can see chosing the right gear for aggressive skating is at the beginning a little bit challenging because it is a science and the danger is high that you buy the completely wrong stuff and get unnecessarily frustrated from the first day. Another important point in this context is the right choice for the right skate for narrow or wide feet because there are huge differences in fitting between the different skate-models. So, in summary what you need to get the maximum fun and progressing-experience: A UFS-skate with a good antirocker-frame (e.g. Kizer fluid 4, Groundcontrol featherlite, Seba CJ-Frame, Create Originals etc.) that is not too stiff (Roces M12 or FR Ufr for example are pretty stiff, Seba/Razors/USD/Gawds/Them/Icon-skates are softer), has a wide soulplate which makes locking-in easier and fits good to your (narrow, normal or wide) feet. The only alternative with a flat setup is as said the USD Aeon 60. UFS-flat-frames are for you at the beginning not your best friend because your focus is at the beginning learning all the grinds and not to find the right technique to deal with wheel-bite. That is all you need. Have fun!😉

Keep it up man. Once you master rolling around I imagine it will feel just as cool as skiing.

that's a lot of progress, wow. definitely try stalling frontside or backside!

The two sports I love most, thanks for the video ! You have chosen a good pair of skates, put an intuition liner in it, the feeling should come closer to your K2 ski boots. You probably should have gone with the 60mm version if you spend most of your time in the park. I undestand you wanted to keep some freeroll coming from a downhill sport, but this 72mm makes stalls and grinds in general a lot harder, like by a big margin, especially for a beginner, but if you master it with these, means your a better skater, so...

yes sir~ keep going at it! You will get it

Cool. The easiest stall to learn is the front-side stall. It's the stall where you go forward, put both skates H-blocks on the coaping, and come out of the stall fakey. However I recommend you to practice pumping the miniramp without doing 180 jumps (going forwards and fakey) more before doing it. Make sure that you don't have to switch the skate that's in front and behind when transitioning from going forward to fakey. Make sure that you look where you are going while skating backwards (look over the correct shoulder, the shoulder of the leading skate). When you are conferable going backwards you can start increasing the height with pumping. Gradually increase the height until you can touch the coaping with 1 wheel on the skate thats infront while going forward. After that you gradually increase speed untill foot can touch the copaping with the H-block. (You are still returning backwards after touching.) You can first try to touch the coping lightly, and then try to put more and more weight on it. Just be careful cause the H block to coaping contact can be slippy so if you put too much weight on it and your balance is not on point you can slip out of it. You will pretty quickly get the confidence to put both skate's H blocks onto the coaping and exit out fakey. And just like that you did the stall. After that you can try to stall it for longer and longer and after you feel like you have full control you can stall it, hold it a bit, and jump out of the stall with a 180 spin into the ramp going forwards.