THE JOY OF LETTING YOUR FEET ON WHEELS

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I hope you read my latest article related to my life lately. If you haven’t, you can read it HERE and yes dear, you'll never walk alone, I’m sure we can get through this even I'm still learning to understand people’s thoughts as well! I believe that we should respect others’ life decisions, give other people spaces to be themselves to be the best they could be, embrace only the positive things without badmouthing others’ uniqueness. There’s only one thing I want now, it is I am surrounded by people who are willing to see and accept newness even ugliness in everything yap we should not only appreciate the beautifulness so that the most irrelevant object becomes relevant and becomes an idea that is grand and pleasant it so much touches our hearts :) Stay inspired.

Years passing, we could have believed that the reputation of the roller would have evolved a lot. I am happy, I finally have a chance to introduce you guys about this sport I’ve been practicing lately, yap I am one of Manado City Rolling members now and I’ve actually been doing slalom since 3 months ago, I am still a newbie. Freestyle slalom skating is a highly technical field of skating that involves performing tricks around a straight line of equally spaced cones. Skaters tend to use a full rocker wheel configuration. Some skaters prefer to use a 'full hi-lo' rocker, which means the largest wheel is the second in from the back with the smallest at the front. I am using Seba skates “SEBA FRM Purple frame” which I bought from Alka Skate Shop. Seba skates are sized unisex but displayed in men's sizing. So for you guys (both men and women) should reference the Seba specific size chart to locate your size before buying Seba skates. If you’re looking for new skates for practicing Slalom, you could buy it from Alka Skate Shop, it’s located in Tangerang, Jakarta. They have so many great products from various brands such as Seba, Weiqiu/Labeda in many colours with best quality, they also sell accessories for you inline skate, last month I bought new bearings from them too. I’ll give you the contact person below.

I’ve been practicing basic moves; forwards parallel (fish), forwards monoline (snake), forwards criss-cross, alternating forwards cross, double cross and forwards one foot using cones (big thanks to my friends Brenda, Hanre, Ka Eldy, Alfa, Ka Grey, ka Jun for teaching me some moves). Mostly, I’m learning moves by watching other people and copying it. I am still learning those moves and need to learn another harder moves.
I was pretty angry and frustrated when I practiced some new moves I’ve never done before so the members would often see me scream all the way through, yeah I’m putting everything I’ve got into them and I feel great afterwards.
If you curious about my slalom sessions these days? Hmm to be honest, I don’t really practice much at all anymore. Been travelling to Japan and having too much school tasks don’t offer me the opportunities or motivation to do so. I have a list of things I want to improve, I’d go through technical moves everyday if I could. Nah if you are looking new sport to do, you should try this sport too, let’s do crazy stuff with our feet on wheels and makes freestyle more fun & interesting. Good luck <3