Skates and Planes

I took the plane last weekend. All my little habits came back to me, but it had been a (relatively) long time since my last visit at the airport and a flash crossed my mind: I definitely don’t understand the efficiency of their security system.

• 1. LUGGAGE CHECK-IN

First of all, you have no choice but spending your whole trip away from your baby-skates: they will be choking in your luggage under a pile of suitcases in the trunk of the plane, while you will be (comfortably?) seating on a chair. And why is it so? Because your frames/plates are weapons.

True, I’m so into stabbing the eyes of the pilot or exploding the windows of the plane with my trucks.

Although I think that it’s a little extreme, I suppose that there are no distinctions in the rules for the different kinds of skates, and that ice skates could be enough to crash a plane. (!!!)

Bad Habit...

My good habit turned into bad habit.

When I feel myself falling, I anticipate before I touch the ground in positioning myself in a secure position. It's instinctive. I've acquired this habit along my dozen years of inline freestyling without pads. I'm thus used to land with optimal positions to preserve my knees, buttocks and wrists.

Good habit, right.

My Top-3 landing techniques:

• American Splits: (my fav. by far) it's the best one to disguise your fall into a super-stylish cartwheel at low height ending up with smooth American splits... and up!
• Push-ups: using my arms like springs to smoothly get lower as possible and get up.
• Save-Yr-Ass Technique: That's the very one about which this whole article is about...