The plow (plough) is a great stop for anyone.
For beginners it's one of the easier ones to learn. Avanced skaters can use a plow stop to trigger a power slide.
Let's start with beginners.
Keep your legs far apart. Both skates shall be on the inside edge.
Try to push out a little with your heels.
Careful!
If your legs are too close or you are not bending your knees enough, your skates will move inward and you will fall like this.
When you get more comfortable, try controlling speed on a small descend.
Be safe! Find a place like here with no cars and where you can just roll onto a flat area if you fail to control speed.
As you improve you'll find that the plow is a very effective stop!
However, you may experience that one skate starts vibrating.
At this point it's better to trigger a slide!
I think you'll acheive that by staying a bit lower and pushing more with the heel.
Once you reach this level, the plow stop is a really effective and fast stop even at high speeds.
[Comments]
I want to thank my viewers hyperiuSupern0va, BELAL Mansour, budus2 and Stephan Daniels for making me aware of this stopping technique.
Before they taught me othewise, I was of the false perception that the plow were a terrible stop for beginners who hadn't learned how to use the heel break yet.
(With the exception of speed skaters, perhaps, whose special long frame skates don't give them much choice but to stop like this.)
But after reading their comments, I got curious, watched tutorials, and decided to give it a try.
As this was something new to me today, for the first few tries the stop wasn't much to brag about.
If I had done this downhill I would not have been able to control speed. Or, I would, but only after switching to another stop and saved myself that way.
This mistake of having the toes collide, I, well, made on purpose. When else will I have an excuse to dive onto a pile of snow?
I did see other tutorials warn about this though, and it does makes sense. And this is why it's super important to practice at low speed in a safe environment.
Wrist guards and knee proteticon are recommended!
I also worry about the impact it can have on joints. Maybe I'm exaggerating, but if you mess up somehow, the ancles, knees and hips are in a vulnerable position.
I constantly focused on not having my weight on my toes. I tried to keep it over the third wheel.
When I noticed a skate vibrating, I understood a slide was possible.
Vibration is a actually just the skate getting stuck, jumping, getting stuck again, and so on over and over again very fast.
By tweaking the physics a bit, like I think steeper angle and more push through the heel, the skate slides instead.
Learning to control this is one of the most satisfying things a skater can do!
And that's just what I did today! I just discovered a new way to stop.
I think if I learn to even roate some more and have the sliding skate in front it's called the magic stop or UFO stop.
Or I don't know, maybe just call them powerstop or powerslide?
Anyway, what matters is that the plow is a great way of triggering a slide.
With both skates on the inside edge, this enables an entire family of slide stops.
What's your experience? I really appreciate your feedback. Today prooves that.
I'll practice this a lot more and perhaps make proper tutorials for beginners AND advanced skaters once I get a better hang on it.
(I hope you also learned something from this video.)
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