One foot Skills

Derby Requirement: Picking up your feet and skating on one foot is a foundation skill for lots of other skills.

Lifting Feet while standing

Objective: Skater will understand the weight distribution needed to enable them to pick up their feet.

Suitable for: L1

Action:

• Balancing on 1 foot while standing still

• Coach to demonstrate how in derby stance weight is central but to lift leg must be able to shift weight to opposite leg first.

• Skaters encouraged to pick up each foot a little and then put it back down.

One foot glide introduction

Objective: Skater will start to pick up their feet for longer and longer periods while skating.

Suitable for: L1

Action:

• Skaters on track - start to get speed up first with normal skating - then shift weight and then lift leg.

Coaching Points: If skating in derby direction, turn your upper body into the track to help distribute your weight on the right edges.

Progression: Skaters to work out distance they can lift each foot and challenge themselves to get further.