How to Do a Front to Back Roller Skating Transition

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Hi, this is Rahel Cook, on behalf of Expert Village and today I'm here to talk about how to roller skate, more importantly, doing front to back transitions. Front to back transitions are quite tricky and the first thing that you need to know is that you need to be in the proper stance, knees need to be unlocked, slightly bent, and you need to be at a comfortable momentum, speed, so that you're not going too fast nor are you going too slow. Then what you do is get very comfortable and you pick up your dominate leg, being either your right or your left, whichever leg that you feel confident being able to pick up and move around, without losing your balance. You would pick up your dominate leg and you would bring it slightly behind you in an exact opposite position to your front leg and then transfer all of your weight to that foot. It has to be very fluid otherwise you will fall, so transfer that weight and then bring your other foot, your non-dominate foot, around to be able to face the exact same direction that you have just turned your other leg in. Going backwards, so that would be a front to back transition, going the other way you would do the exact opposite. You would bring your non-dominate leg around, or your dominate leg, whichever you feel comfortable with, turn it in a completely opposite direction, in the momentum that you're going, and then gently apply all of the weight to that leg and then quickly bring your other leg around so that now you're facing in the appropriate and same direction. And that is how you do front to back transitions.

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