Was skating the longest distance I've gone so far, and I started thinking through this logic. It really starts to become apparent over longer distances. You will exhaust yourself too easily if you are high, and have busy feet.

So useful Bill, you always put the technical info in context of where we actually skate...the streets! Thank you 👍

Something that really helped me get some power out of the extended stride was learning the importance of steering back in before transferring my weight. This keeps me from wasting my push on a skate that is just flying out to the side. "Feel it loading up" was the key phrase for me...

I love you brother. You’re so analytical and perfectionistic with your technique, and focused on performance, but in the short windows of time when You actually allow the audio of the ambient environment to make it into your videos, I can actually hear your bearings. If I may, I do have one suggestion… for me, my enjoyment of skating is greatly enhanced by extremely silent bearings. I love gliding along so quietly that nobody could ever hear me coming. Durometer of wheels etc are part of that but above all it’s about the bearings and not just the quality of the bearings, but how you service them. I won’t promote my favorite brand and model of bearing, but I will say this, even though I think they are the best, I don’t like how they come from the factory…oiled. Sure you can free spin them forever but this doesn’t make them faster than a bearing that is properly greased with the right grease and even if they were a bit slower greased, my enjoyment of that solid thump and silent glide is way better than 1% more speed with an oiled loud bearing that sounds like there is free play. They first thing I do is soak them in solvent and dry them, then I inject with a syringe a very small dot of ceramic bearing grease between each bearing. I chose bearings with a very tight tolerance and a deep race that is machined to the most exacting standards of smoothness. I cannot even begin to tell you how much this enhances my skating experience. It’s taking me years to find the best bearings and perfect how I set them up.

My "busy feet technique" usually looks like the "lame-duck feet..." Very useful video in fact. Haven't heard anyone talked about it before. That's why you're the best inline philosopher here, Bill.:)

Took me 2 months of skating 1-2 hours practically every day and I learnt the double push by just going out and skating, edge control came naturally and as such I naturally discovered the double push and realised I was doing a weird pseudo version and had outside edge control during pushes and I've been refining it.

Many skaters have more tricks and transitions, but Bill's stride is pure liquid power. Years back, even, when he wasn't rocking all that solid beef, the magic was in there, coiled.

Ever since this video I have been learning more about stride. Inside vs. outside edge, double push etc. It would be cool to see more videos about this sort of stuff.

Very instructive. This shows the correct position of the balancing foot and how to push with the other foot to make a steady and effective stride. Your technique is superb.

Big round of applause for your build, 11/10 gym effort. Tips were also handy. :)

Thanks Bill,helpful again

Watching you fly down the street through traffic without pads or helmet makes my elbows and knees hurt! I'm a beginner and I fall down after skating 20 feet. Great video. Subbed!

New skater here! I stumbled on your videos and they are hilarious - in a good way (also informative). Thanks for the content, I aspire to be like you!

Hey Bill This is James Mackey... I wanna say thank you very much... I have ordered two shirts from you which are the RED ROLL EVERY DAY and the Skater hunter shirts... VERY AWESOME!!!... I have been wearing them and rolling every day... So far I have lost 21 pounds in one month! Your truly are an inspiration... Thanks again. 😉😊

Great Vid 4 sure Bill, nobody puts in words and motion like you do!!! P.S sorry it took me so long was at my Dad's...

Thanks for all your inspiration. You push me to try my best and get better at skating. I recently feel on my skates and got a deep cut above my eye. I had to get stitches but I won’t let that get to me. I’ll learn wear a helmet and keep on skating. I am going to be like you one day, Maybe even better. Thanks for everything. Your the best

Jesus Christ you arms are jacked

Amanzing! Congratulations from Brasil Bill.....🇧🇷🙏

Useful tip for better stride & glide. Good description of busy feet🦶 but would have liked to see you demonstrate it.

Let's watch the master in action! ❤️

Man youre ripped! Thanks for the tip!

Great stuff!

Bill! Your videos are so insightful! You’re a blessing tot he community! Ps. Would you be open to making a short video of how and when you double push on a step by step basis? You’re one of the very few city skaters that teach how to think about how to skate and not just execute..

This is great, very few people break down stride and I know my own stride is often inefficient, so I'll try to incorporate this. I try to use longer strides when the terrain allows and my wheels can roll, debris free, but there are few stretches like this where I live. On the rougher stuff I try not to allow my feet to stride too far from my centre, to maintain balance, avoid slippage and that annoying skate rebound that kills your rhythm. Let's face it though, who doesn't love a choppy 'busy-footed' sprint?! ; )

Bill Stoppard - maintaining the same speed limit as a car on his blades since 2019

Me when I see the title: Oh this is definitely me

dang Bill you really ate your spinach

youre so shredded!

Cool. To talk about technique bill. Good job with all the video. I hope we can meet and skate together one day for a video.

Being a beginner, this video gives me sweaty palms

Hey Bill, when I skate my lower back muscles fatigue the fastest. Is this because: 1. Bad form 2. Back muscles just out of shape 3. Over compensation for a weak core 4. Other

Bill, can you make someday a skatepark video on your 3x100? I get adicted to them and my 4x80 are on a box :)

i unlocked double push by accident. when i train my outer edge balance, i compress my hips and pivoting my foot back to catch my balance when my body falling to the outside. i feel 'whooop" like sensation when i do that. i don't know is this the right thing about double push but yeah but maintaining speed now become less tiring.

My left knee without cartilage wouldn’t cooperate. Started skating 2 weeks ago. I’m also built and rip like yourself, gym addict by nature. I noticed skating works some lateral muscles that stabilize the knee. I tried to work those out on the gym but been unable till now that I discovered skating. How long does it take to develop a good stride technique?

Bro your legs look like you pull the Budweiser wagon! I really miss skating like this.... I used to pull the wagon also! LMFAO👍

I like all thinks skating, even the skateboards and rollerskating, but way more the open smooth unimpeded & unchallenged by traffic hazard inline skates where the speed is generated hip and thigh. Pushing from the all the muscles from the waste down until the sweat sprays from my pours and my on-board water bottle reserves run dry.

I have no happy feet at all. Im a self-taught endurance skater at 50, and I'm just amazed by those short steps. I just mentally cant get it down.

Bill, what skates do you use? Thanks

Skate Fresh Asha talked about this already. She's the best.

I never really pay attention to your arms but ...... *look at those GUNS*

Im planning yo buy a skate. Could you recommended me some models? Thank you.

What skate do you wear here?

Ok I wanna look like Bill...I’m gonna skates more now🙄

What's the wheel size here? 3x90? Looks smaller than 100s

How do you do those quick steps at 0:05 secs? Thanks

👍 👍 👍

Hey has anyone had the mission fz-3s or 2s? What do u think of them?

got to tell you honestly and without trying to be offensive, the depurated technique of a speed skater is to be able to utilize the best equipment using the absolute less energy and keeping a peace of 38 to 40 k per hour, in your particular case the problem is you are using extra heavy skates, and sluggish wheels, with that it is impossible to make use of the really best technique ! about the double push yes it is a way to accelerate but not necessarily all of the top skaters in the world double push there are quite a number of speedsters who have a technique of their own, and they are competitive and win races, so the point to make here is, the speed maintained over a period of along distance, and the way the skater accelerates. Chad Hedrick introduced the double push technique, but with the advent of sophisticated boots frames and wheels and bearings the technique has changed and we have a large variety of styles not necessarily a particular one equally good! but there is something in common in the area of depurated techniques all of the skaters have to use the same equipment, My advice to you is get a decent pair of speed skates and go back to the drawing board, then try to skate 20 k at a speed of 38 km per hour then you would be in a position to share a really useful comment at that point. have the fun of course, and please excuse my frankness,

What upper body excersize do you do ?

My ice skating coach taught me this. As said, it’s far more efficient, why else do speed skaters do this.

You’re really great & an inspiration but you aren’t doing the double push at all.:-) You are ‘snaking’ along and not setting down your hanging skate ((after)) a full UNDER & OVER skate edge push from the opposite leg. I was the same when I started double pushing. the famous Eddy Matzger had the best method to get the leg timing & double push correct you simply say to yourself SET DOWN either skate!... then straight away you UNDER PUSH then OVER PUSH that skate to a full stride, only then SET DOWN (the other skate) / RECOVER (the first skate behind you). then repeat UNDER OVER PUSHES again for the other leg you just SET DOWN. That way when you set your skate down you must transition onto the outside edge which is the UNDER PUSH. & once that outside curve is complete you transfer to an OVER PUSH which is the inside edge to a full push out, and CRUCIALLY you must do a full leg push out BEFORE you SET DOWN with the other skate. Otherwise you get the classic bad snaking where both legs follow each other in unison rather than one leg UNDER PUSHING & OVER PUSHING to a full stride while the other skate remains in the air behind you. Only then do you get the distinctive double push look..ok. You can just stay on one skate doing a constant under to over push keeping one leg behind all the time. It’s very hard as you must transfer body weight like a skier. But improves double push technique the best..Practice. watch the speed skate pro’s..

is ALL of that from skatin'?!

I wanna see bill get lower than that

Guazo why dont you skate like leon basin You skate like afrechudo and brusco