Beginner roller skating
How to Get Up on Roller Skates
The first thing to practise, because you'll use it constantly. Get onto all fours, bring one skate flat under you so the knee points up, press your hands on that knee and push up to standing - weight over your feet.
You will use this dozens of times in your first month, so learn it before you learn to roll. It is not a fitness move — it is a sequence.
Onto all fours. Bring one skate flat under you so the knee points up at the ceiling. Both hands on that knee. Press down through the hands and stand, weight over your feet.
On a slick floor, set your toe stops (quads) or your heel brake (inline) first so the skates cannot slide out from under you halfway up.
Keep going: this is one section of the full Roller Skating for Beginners guide — sizing, gear, stopping, and where to skate, in one page.