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This is much easier as the other needed some core work. First you must bend your knees low and start to straighten out one leg behind you and just drag it for three seconds. Put it back afterwards, bend your knees and rise up.
Just as the name implies, you will be doing this trick as if you were shooting a duck. So take three steps and start bowing as if you saw a duck. Now put one of your feet, straight in front of you and bend all the way as if you were sitting. Put your hands in front of you to keep your balance or as ...
These are much easier than the three turns but need more control. All you have to do is start with a t-position, knees bent and push with the leg behind. Now leave this leg hanging from the back and once you're in the middle of your semi-circle put it in front, causing you to go back your axis.
The hockey stop is having your feet facing each other and perpendicular to the direction you are going. Another advanced stop that usually hockey players use, if it wasn't obvious.
They are called this way because if you could mark your trail, you'd look like you're making the number three. First, start in a T position with one foot on the back. Imagine an axis which you'll be gliding perpendicularly. Push with the leg behind and leave it straight, hanging behind, while the ...
This is a more advanced stop where while one foot goes north the other goes west or east once more but at the back. The ankle of your latter foot will be touching the heel of the foot going north, making it look like a T. Bend your knees and only straighten when you have stopped fully.
Backward crossovers are much easier, they are just harder to control. Now that you can skate backwards, try to do so in a circle and raise the leg outside-most the circle and cross it over with the other leg. Once it has touched down the ice, extend the other leg and put it back in the circle's ...
Backward stroking doesn't sound so hard especially when your balance is secure. What you will be doing is much like a swizzle, you will be pushing your feet to get power but you will raise that foot in front of you that pushed the hardest and push with your other foot as the other one comes ...
