How To Ice Skate

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Follow this advice and you will soon be gliding like a champion.

To complete this How-To you will need:

An ice rink
Padded pants
Ice skates
Patience

Warning: Skate only in areas that have been approved as ice-skating rinks.

Step 1: Practice falling

Practice falling with your skates on. Tuck in your arms, land on your rear, get up on your hands and knees, and place your feet underneath you one at a time.

Tip: Practice falls onto the ground before entering the rink.

Step 2: Learn how to stop

Practice stopping techniques while standing still. Drag one foot behind the other at a 45-degree angle, and shift your weight to the back skate to stop.

Step 3: Stand and relax

Once you're on the ice, stand with your feet six inches apart, toes straight ahead, knees slightly bent, arms out at your sides, eyes forward, and your weight evenly distributed between your skates.

Step 4: Glide

Turn your right foot to the two o'clock position and your left foot to the ten o'clock position. Keep your weight evenly distributed and glide, keeping both skates on the ice.

Step 5: Shift your weight

Shift your weight from one skate to the other once you feel more confident.

Step 6: Practice the one-foot glide

Lift the skate opposite to the one your weight is on slightly off the ground. Keep practicing this technique and you will soon master the beginning steps of ice skating.

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Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Recreation
• ice
• skate
• skating
• winter
• sports
• athletics
• cold
• weather

[Jagwa3]

I am going ice skating for the first time in my life today. i will probably die

[Toothlesslover98]

I tried to ice skate....i STAYED ON THE WALL

[stsofiawiseguy]

First-time ice skating today! goodbye cruel world... xD

[YLCC23]

lol howcast is so dumb!! To stop: put your feet beside eachother with the foot that you are strongest with in front (usually the same leg as the hand you write w/) then, push your weight onto your front foot an you will stop almost instantly, and you also won't hurt yourself as bad as if you try dragging your foot.

[DjsamNo1]

Im from finland and i know how to ice skate, why am i watching this?

[thechocopuppie]

@Jagwa3 same... i wont die but i will fall and have a frozen butt

[coveredinsevindust]

Looks like a slow version of me rollerblading in the 90s

[lowhigh000]

really? a "summer" sport?

[emrox41]

I love how it is telling you about figure skating but the guy is on hockey skates....

[everythingnice789]

This really helped and I'm now quite good :)