How To Skate Backwards And How To Transition From Skating Forward To Backward
How To Skate Backwards On Inline Skates - How To Skate Backwards On Roller Blades - How to transition from skating forward to skating backward on inline skates and rollerblades.
Skating backwards is fun, but be careful when you are learning!
IMPORTANT - Always keep your knees bent slightly when skating and especially when performing skate tricks. Keeping your knees bent helps you keep your balance by allowing you to adjust your center of gravity and can help prevent you from falling.
When you are just beginning to skate backwards, you can push out with both skates, and then pull both skates together to propel yourself. You can then push with one foot and and then the other. Eventually, you can cross the skates over one another and weave the skates in an S like formation.
Once you have learned the basic backward motion, you will want to learn how to transition from forward to backwards. There are a number of ways to accomplish a transition. Mastering the transition from forward to backward will allow you to start skating forward and keep your speed as your transition to skating backwards. In the videos that follow I use a basic spin transition or what looks like a spin transition - actually what I do is skate forward, start to turn slightly like I am going to spin and the lift up one skate, flip it around so it is facing backward, shift my weight to the backward facing skate, lift the other skate and flip it around so it is also facing backwards. (I may describe and create a video of other types of transitions later - check back)
HOW TO SKATE BACKWARDS VIDEOS - click here to watch and HOW TO TRANSITION VIDEOS - click here to watch.
In the above picture, I show you how to transition from skating forward to backward. (how to skate backwards with pictures)
1) In picture 1, I have just pushed with my left foot and am beginning to lift my left foot. All my weight is now on my right foot.
2) In picture 2, I am pivoting/turning my left foot so it begins to face backwards. At the same time, my right foot is turning to the left slightly.
3) In picture 3, I continue pivoting/turning my left foot.
4) In picture 4, I transfer my weight to my left foot.
5) In picture 5, I lift and turn/pivot my right foot
6) In picture 6, I place my right foot back on the ground and transfer my weight back to my right foot.
7) In picture 7 and 8, I skate backward using an S motion to push with my skates.
NOTES:
1) Skating backwards on inline skates is very similar to skating backwards on ice skate and skating backwards on roller skates.
2)Transitioning from Skating forwards to backwards on inline skates is very similar to transitioning from skating forwards to backwards on ice skate and transitioning from skating forwards to backwards on roller skates.
I hope this has helped you learn how to skate backward on inline skates and how to skate backward on rollerblades / roller blades - have fun!!
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