hey guys I'm Mary and and welcome back to my channel
today is the first video I'm so excited about my learn to skate series it is a
series as I'm putting together for all my beginners learn to skate is an amazing
way to make new friends and perfect your skating skills
I hope these videos can help everyone out let's get to our first lesson they
I first feel we're going to learn today is how to fall and stand up on the ice
try to practice the skill off ice first if possible when we fall try to lower
your center of gravity slide on the ice on one hip and use the arms to control
the upper body to stand start off on all fours like a puppy dog position place
one skate between your hands then kneel and place your hands on the raised knee
and push back up to a standing position
our second skill is how to march across the ice two different things here
balance and momentum we're gonna try not to fall arm slightly in front of you
slightly below the shoulders I feed a parallel and hip-width apart
some common errors are only pushing with one foot or the inability to properly
push you can practice this by holding onto the wall or pushing away from the
coach just getting used to that pushing off the technique
be sure to never look down at your feet always stand nice and tall like a
pineapple also don't be afraid to lift up your feet don't be scared of falling
guys falling makes you a better skater our third skill is a forward two foot
slide the goal here is to glide for 4 seconds
slow count not fast count we're not cheating here we're gonna
focus on picking up more speed now this move the speed is going to be our friend
don't be afraid to take big steps because the more speed you have the
farther you're going to glide speed will also prevent us from getting stuck and
falling down same as our marching our feet are parallel and hip-width apart
common errors again or the ankles collapsing and not staying upright don't
be afraid to push guys the biggest error is not having enough speed here also for
beginners if your feet are too wide you will have some difficulty controlling
your glides our skill is beaten the dip is a combination of a squat and a
two-foot-wide we're gonna focus on the important skill here which is bending
the knees bending the knees is skating it's gonna help us as power and
speed and edges let's warm up with a simple squat into the dip position chest
up eyes forward arms parallel to the ice we're going to use our two foot glide
get some nice speed feet parallel and dip as low as you can
a common mistake is not getting low enough into your squats another common
mistake is looking down and putting our hands toward the ice next up we have
forests whistles our goal is to do six to eight in a row this is a great time
to talk about inside and outside edges so if this is my blade inside edge are
inside this ski is always be closer to the ice cube like so outside edge our
outside of the blade is going to be closer
I think of starting the Swizzle by bending the knee turning the toes out
and pushing the feet apart to initiate the forwrd movement
once that push starts and the legs are straight focus on turning the toes in to
bring the feet together the common error again is not using your inside edge
staying flat or being on an outside edge will strain your thighs and also slow
you down so really focus on the inside edge pushing your ankles inwards so that
you are a nice strong edge start small and then work your way up to bigger
swizzles if your swizzles are too big you might just get stuck into a split
also remember to complete the swizzle toes and heels are tapping no cheating
because I'm watching you guys another friendly reminder about our knees knee
bend is our friend in skating you guys are doing fantastic time to go backwards
now we are going to start learning how to skate backwards by doing back
their goals I think of it as a fun dance move our goal is to do six to eight
wiggles in a row consecutively going backwards the secret here is balancing
on the balls of our feet our knees are bent chest up we are wiggling the hips
against our shoulders shifting our weight side to side the common error is
wiggling our hips too much that we're stuck in place and not going anywhere
another common error is our rhythm being off
remember the shoulders are moving opposite of the hips
our first beginner stop that we are going to learn is called the snowplow
stop you can either do as one foot or two leads we're going to start in a
glide slowly push our feet off in the V
position pushing out like this until we come to a place
practice this movement at the wall first hold on while pushing the heel of your
skate upwards at an angle like an upside-down V you will be on the flat
side of your blade common errors are catching too much of an edge or not
pushing out with enough of an angle you can also do the snowplow stop on one
foot a common error is bending at the waist looking down which throws off your
balance our last skill is a bonus skill we're going to learn how to do a 2-foot
properly every level in learn to skate has a bonus skill I think of it as extra
credit a more advanced move that gets us ready for any event from a standstill
position do a small jump in place we're going to bend their knees to jump up and
then land first on the toe then to the ball of the foot land with a slight knee
bend as well thanks so much for watching guys remember to Like subscribe and save
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