Basic Ice Skating and Stability

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Summary: Before learning some intermediate skating techniques its important to review the basics. Learn the basics of skating and stability from our ice skating expert in this free video clip.

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Akos Kertesz Akos Kertesz has been skating since he was 6 years old and is an experienced skating teacher from Hungary, Budapest. He studied for 7 years at Piruett skatin... read more

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Basic Ice Skating and Stability

My name is Akos Kertesz and we are in Budapest. And I'll teach you the intermediate level of skating. This is the second training. Its about stable and continuous movement and stability on the ice, shoe techniques, shoe skating technique. Let's start, step and skate, step and skate, step and skate, step, skate. Okay, pay attention for the bended knees, shifting of the belly weight, and lean your body forward enough. And always watch out for this. Always close, close, close, always close your foot. Close, always close. If you don't do so, you won't be able to learn the correct technique. You stabilize your balance with side stretched arms. If you feel so, you don't feel this, you can swing your arms. Yes, swing. Just a little swing. Pay attention for the next thing. Don't skate on the inside edge. This is the inside edge. This is the sole. This is the outside edge. Don't skate just so, don't so. This is not a good technique. A good technique is all sole or on the outside edge. A little bit of the outside edge, a little bit. Just a little bit outside, outside. And after that it comes inside, but outside, outside.