Slide gloves are a crucial yet often overlooked piece of kit for every skater for fun and for safety. Using gloves will have learning how to slide faster than any other method and sliding is your brakes, making them the most important piece of safety gear after your helmet. Being able to balance on your hand makes it easy to learn how cause your wheels to lose traction, without the risk of high-siding and going splat when trying to do stand-up slides. Falling onto your gloves means no torn up palms as the extremely hard pucks will slide along the road – if you fall into a push-up position, the only parts of your body touching the road will be the pucks and your shoes.