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Your inability to maintain control is not indicative of a problem by a child. If a child doesn’t move, you need to learn how to deal with it.

It’s good to meet a fellow in-line-skater on this site. So tell me, where do you do most of your skating? In your neighborhood or is there a convenient bike/hiking path that you skate on?

Based on your comment, it appears you are experienced with the bike/hiking paths. So tell me, what kind of speed do you attain while you are skating? And assuming you are on a path that is probably 8’ wide at best, what do you do when you approach from behind a family of maybe 4, two adults and two children, and the children all over the path in front of you? You have already announced your presence behind them by yelling “passing on your left” and yet there is no response from the children. So what do you do?

So here’s another scenario, same family ahead of you, this time the kids DO move to the right but unfortunately there is a guy coming at you from the opposite direction on a mountain bike that refuses to veer off the path onto the grass…….So what do you do?

Bicycles can ride on grass, in-line-skates can not. Bicycles have brakes, in-line-skaters do not. Common sense and common courtesy would grant the skater right of way considering all the options I have listed above.

What say you skate pro?

I skate the old fashioned way . . . 4 ‘squarely’ on the floor on each boot.

Once skated from SKS MEMORIAL TAPEI up to my home at TIEN MOU WEST ROAD the long way around Da Yeh Taka Shi Maya one Chinese New Year’s evening. I think it took more than an hour and a half to cover . . . 5-7 miles. I should look up the distance some time.

Thankfully, there was little traffic and given the . . . tiles . . . on most of Taipei’s sidewalks . . . the side street parallel to the main street, but separated by a treed island, was the much better surface. Was one of the best experiences I had over there. Loved it. Passers by loved it, too.

I skated elsewhere in Taipei and Mainland China.

My limited experience with inline skates is that the old fashioned kind are much easier to slow or stop with.

I usually just slowed to a very slow pace around children or pets. Then, I could stop on a dime, if needed.

It would be fun to live in a scenic area with well paved paths exclusively for skates. Not going to happen this side of Armageddon unless some super wealthy skaters create their own village.