<p>Which foot leads when you pull on a pair of pants, start up a stairway or kick a ball? Do you have an injury that changed your original habits? Could you be one of those oddballs who is right handed but left footed?</p>
<p>Knowing the answer to this question is very important to the first-time skater. Since new skates are always sold with the brake mounted on the right, left-footed beginners never find out that swapping the brake would make it ten times easier to learn the essential safety skills of <a title="Learn to Love Your Heel Brake" href="http://www.getrolling.com/orbit/heelbrak.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">braking and preventing unwanted speed</a>. <span class="post-teaser-more">&nbsp;<a href="http://getrolling.com/blog/2010/05/18/brakeswap/" title="Permanent Link: Lefties! How To Swap Your Heel Brake" rel="bookmark">Read more...</a> <i>(331 words, 9 images, estimated 1:19  mins reading time)</i></span></p>{"id":10,"date":"2010-05-18T22:21:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T05:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2021-01-07T12:46:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T19:46:39","slug":"brakeswap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/18\/brakeswap\/","title":{"rendered":"Lefties! How To Swap Your Heel Brake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which foot leads when you pull on a pair of pants, start up a stairway or kick a ball? Do you have an injury that changed your original habits? Could you be one of those oddballs who is right handed but left footed?<\/p>\n<p>Knowing the answer to this question is very important to the first-time skater. Since new skates are always sold with the brake mounted on the right, left-footed beginners never find out that swapping the brake would make it ten times easier to learn the essential safety skills of <a title=\"Learn to Love Your Heel Brake\" href=\"http:\/\/www.getrolling.com\/orbit\/heelbrak.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">braking and preventing unwanted speed<\/a>. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/18\/brakeswap\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Lefties! How To Swap Your Heel Brake\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more...<\/a> <i>(331 words, 9 images, estimated 1:19  mins reading time)<\/i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[9,12,10,11,13],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gear","category-skating","tag-brake","tag-brake-mount","tag-heelbrake","tag-lefties","tag-switching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2288,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/2288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}