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Advanced Figure Skating Moves : Backward Crossovers in Ice Skating

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Uploaded by on Nov 14, 2007

Ice skating trick moves. Learn how to become a better ice skater in this free video lesson, including how to correctly do backward crossovers in figure skating.

Expert: Dmitri Olympiev
Contact: www.pinesicearena.com
Bio: Dmitri Olympiev was born in Moscow, Russia, and has been skating since he was 4 years old.
Filmmaker: Paul Muller

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  • This guy demonstrates well. The best I've found here on youtube.

  • ive been trying to figure out how to do this. although only from videos seeing as i havent skated in years :(

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  • @IoMoon Then the issue are you ice skates, the skate shoes themself, need to slipper them.

  • The only way I can do backward crossovers is to glide my foot! I fall over if I pick it up. XD

  • @CamOfficialMusic my problem is the know - how! :D I see so many beautifully done cross overs... my problem is to coordinate everything... i'm starting to lift an to cross... but so far what i think is just to move my outside leg... i don't understand how the inside leg gets in to the game...

  • @zazzolina As you get more advanced, you'll learn to glide your foot into the crossover, instead of picking it up, and crossing it over. If you watch professional skaters, say Sasha Cohen, you'll notice that when she does her backwards crossovers, she glides the foot into the crossover, instead of picking it up.

  • @CamOfficialMusic I have a question.... so how does it switch to the advanced technique? I mean he's saying that after a while u don't have to lift the leg... how does it work there... what do i have to think? cause i'm looking at videos, for example hockey video... and they say the speed is given by the inside foot going the further possible toward the centre of the circle... but i don't understand...nobody talks about moving the inside foot...can anybody explain that to me?

  • @marthkid1 Yes. The foot thats pumping (the outside foot) is always the one that crosses over:3 You just pump towards the back, and not towards the front like you do in forwards crossovers.

  • i have a question is the backward crossover the same as forward with the footing??

  • @aggressioncity because its freezing over there and they need some frost based activity to do that will warm them up!

  • @aggressioncity because their russian to do everything else before any other country can :P haha im only joking.. i don't actually know.. :}

  • why are russians so into ice skating?

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