# School me on stopping... **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [June 26, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/school-me-on-stopping/50666 "2008-06-26T18:01:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![Adictd2b00st](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/adictd2b00st/32/7625_2.png) [@Adictd2b00st](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Adictd2b00st)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/school-me-on-stopping/50666/8 "2008-06-26T18:59:04Z")
> [@eclipsed](#): > > :tup: GREAT info guys, i appreciate it. > > jay, i actually had the same problem. i used to play roller hockey as a kid, just pickup street games, and i only ever had those recreational crappy skates. i always took the stoppers off for crossover purposes. and i just used to spin around to stop, which was wildly inefficient and shitty. > > now that i started playing ice hockey for the first time 8 months ago, that spinorama stop has been a tough habit to break. so i know what you mean. i have been slowly re-learning the right way to skate on ice, now i need to do it on blades too. yea, thats the wierd thing tho, i can “ice hockey” stop on roller blades, but when you try to apply that same technique on ice skates its actually a bit different of a motion, who’d of thought haha it was definitely frustrating for a while, i still have a ways to go but atleast i can get by now --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/school-me-on-stopping/50666)._