Skating backwards is pure joy for me and teaching others the safest, most efficient pathway to #backwardsskating helps me share that joy. I’ve just shared a new Blog Post highlighting 7 Mistakes to Avoid for great backwards skating tutorial. This applies to inline skaters and roller skaters alike. The Blog posts links to a video tutorial showing the 7 mistakes and more importantly how to fix them. www.skatefresh.com/blog What are/were your biggest issues with backwards skating? Let me know in th

I bet when you learned backwards skating you didn’t do this. A slow-motion backwards stride, mimicking the normal forwards skating movement. Almost everyone starts learning #backwardsskating keeping both skates on the ground all the time (doing lemons/bubbles or half lemon/bubble shapes. I call that the “Backwards Butt Wiggle”😬 Imagine being a beginner and trying to skate forwards keeping both skates on the ground. It doesn’t work well forwards. To get going from scratch, this lifting stride is

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