7 Most common mistakes when skating backwards

Asha Kirkby from Skatefresh Virtual Skate School identifies the 7 most common mistakes that she sees with backward skaters of all ability levels. The problems identified here affect beginner backward skaters as well as intermediate and advanced level backward skaters and often one problem or mistake then causes another. This means that if you can fix one problem it will help you to correct others.

Can you identify which of these mistakes you are making? Ask a friend to film you so you can see what's happening.

00:18 - Insufficient knee bend
01:01 - Inability to steer
01:51 - Not lifting the skates
02:57 - Favouring one leg
03:51 - Incorrect body position
04:36 - Weight on leading skate
05:05 - Using continuous backwards crisscross

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[dannytwitch]

Wow, can we take a moment to really appreciate the elegance and precision of her skating. Even though this is a demo you can tell she is a master! Ty for sharing your knowledge 🙏

[IndieSoda-oipe]

I'm certainly guilty of putting my weight on my leading leg 😅. Asha with great tips, as always.

[SaccoBelmonte]

Asha to the rescue again. I had no idea how to stride backwards in a more elegant way and always keep my wheels on the floor. Nice! something new to learn!

[willmiao]

Awesome! Thank you. So much to learn. I can't wait to master all of them😊

[skatingsabine]

Love the cross over - push - cross under idea! Looks so fluent! Backwards skating on my power slides coming along nicely... thank you for that brilliant tutorial! 😃👍🛼🛼

[Safesaxjosh]

should have taught myself all this in my teens but back then there was no youtube like this. I was 15 when youtube first came out.

[masoodhussain]

Thank you very much …for taking time and zeal to share.

[zcftnwb]

Mad skills, am currently trying to learn to backwards skate but on quads, I will be honest, I am finding it really hard but I am not 100% sure if its easier on inlines/ices skates or not but I did find ice skating transitions from front to back unbelievable easy after quad learning.

[luisandrade]

Very informative and helpful! Thank you very much

[motivated]

I'm still struggling with backwards skating and tips really helped; thanks

[XdBGzStRC]

You're so professional! This video explains a lot. Very helpful. Thank you so much (;

[pablorc]

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge

[RichHayterSkater]

My backwards flow could defo use some work. But t’s nice to know that I use one of your preferred methods -the single crossover/parallel turn. Just need to start working that cross under in to it.
Great tips as always! 👏

[cristianoansome]

Omg I was missing this video completely, such gem!

[T-Ray-AllDay]

This miss, is bad A. Great coach! She makes me want to try 90’s in my next core 80’s I have the 273 frame. One day I’ll get some big 3’s really want to try the off road tire 3 with all of this coaching... imagine free skating on big tires in the Idaho snow :) take care all, I’ll keep dreaming.

[robertgiacomo]

I'm finding it hard it hard to work on backwards this year as being away a lot the places I'm skating there is always a lot people traffic and I'm not comfortable unless I know everything behind me is clear. Oh well, it 's good to get the theory drummed into my head at least!

[connergiven]

This is great, audio is a little funky tho?

[Charieskate]

Side note: if you have rockered *FRAMES* (e.g. nn frames, rockin frames, endless frames etc) (not to be confused with wheel rocker) then you can do that 'weird lemoning thing' she talked about. however, if you're skating flat or with wheel rocker, then this video is perfect.

[darren]

I love this but I can't do it unless I am turning, but the cross under is touchy so that might mean more practice or weight on trailing leg, but I will persist with it because I want so bad to do this in straight line. Thanks Asha!!!

[shahidahmed]

Thank you so much mor helping video Big Big fan 💓