When to start teaching ice skating
BEST VIDEO FOR ICE SKATING BEGINNERS! || HOW TO ICE SKATE | Coach Michelle Hong
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welcome back to my channel everybody its
coach Michelle Hall I'm here with Sarah
and Mira today we're gonna teach you how
to skate for all those beginners out
there and all of you who want to have
fun this holiday season at those outdoor
rinks and just wanting to take your
people like your date or your family
members or your friends out on a nice
holiday activity
the first step to learning how to skate
is to March
so basically marching is lifting up your
knees and walking on the ice you're
gonna get steady and still and try to
keep your core strong but if you ever
feel like falling you're gonna put your
arms out and then grab your knees
believe it or not falling is one of the
most important parts of the sport so
when I first learn how to skate I want
to make sure that I fall on purpose as
you can see here Cyrus and Mira are
trying to get up and the proper way to
get up is to stand on both your knees
and hands planted on the ground like
you're a cat exactly like that and then
you're gonna put one knee up and you're
gonna put both hands on that one meat
and push yourself up now that we have
the marching and the falling down it's
time to test our marching skills to see
if we can balance on two feet for two
foot glide
it's really important for us to test out
if we tied our skates properly and we
want to make sure that we can balance on
those two skinny blades or bars by
putting our feet together and squeezing
our butt cheek so that we can March
March March and stay strong with your
core to glide now that we have that down
it's time for the one foot glide the one
foot glide starts out with a two foot
lied and then we're gonna pick up one of
our feet and we're gonna press that foot
against our ankle so we could stand up
like a flamingo
now it's on to swizzles swizzles are a
more advanced version to move both
backwards and forwards in skating here
we're starting out with forward swizzles
in which we're creating two different
shapes with our feet so the first one is
a V and the second one is an a Vita a V
- a now we're gonna start by bending our
knees and we're gonna push off
through our heels to create a circle
that closes off with our toes together v
2a v 2a now that we're going a little
bit faster it's time to learn how to
stop so this is called the snowball stop
this is a most simple way to stop when
you're first learning how to skate and
the best way to start is to create a
pile of snow like Cyrus is doing
so how do we create this now well we're
gonna bend our knees with our feet
together and then we're gonna push out
as much as we can it's really difficult
when you first learn how to skate
because you have to manage the pressure
on your blades so the best way to do
this is to stand still while you're
stopping when you get the hang of it
then you'll be able to do it while
you're moving just like Mira
okay so the next biggest thing that
we're gonna cover is skating backwards
so now that we learned the forward
swizzles it's time to learn the easiest
way to go backwards with backward
swizzles so cyrus is demonstrating the
same exact mechanics with the A to Z
positioning of the feet but the only
difference is that he's doing it from A
to B instead of B to a and the biggest
thing to learn about the backward
swizzles is to not lean forward too much
you have to have your belly button
upright so then you're not gonna be on
your toes to fall over the next way to
go backwards is with backward Wiggles so
here we're gonna do a C like motion with
our feet side-by-side and we're gonna go
from left to right left to right we're
pretending that we have a tail like a
dog and we're gonna wiggle backwards
with our arms moving in a washing
machine like motion as you can see Cyrus
and mirror are bending their knees
aggressively all this action stems from
the knees and the ankles in order for
you to get the backward wiggle correctly
now the next
is stroking so this is the way that you
ideally want to learn how to skate it's
not the basic version anymore this is
the more advanced version in which you
see pro athletes skate this way
so I'm utilizing a tee position when I
first start and I'm gonna bend my knees
in order for me to push off the inside
edge and I'm gliding on one knee and I'm
pushing with all my power from the back
leg so we're gonna sit and put pressure
on that back foot and glide forward
notice my posture in which my arms are
out to the side my chin is up and my
belly buttons up right you want to make
sure they have a slightly arched back
and you push forward in the direction of
where you want to go and one last thing
the bonus round is the two-foot spin so
the two-foot spin starts out with your
hands out with your two feet stuck
together you're gonna pick up your feet
and march in a circle and then you're
gonna stop moving and pull your arms in
that's the two foot spin thank you so
much mira and Cyrus for helping me out
today and we hope you have a great 2019
in this brand-new year and this new
season of skating
and having fun we love you all so much
and we can't wait to see you in our next
video don't forget to subscribe
okay a lot of people have been asking me
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stay positive
don't talk negatively like these two if
anybody should say something I literally
look like Harry Potter right now
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