How to Ice Skate : How to do Backward Strokes on Ice Skates

When ice skating backwards, or backward stroking, it's important to keep your use good posture and form. Learn how in this free ice skating video lesson for beginning figure skaters.

Expert: Charlene Johnson-Dodge
Bio: Charlene Johnson-Dodge is a professional ice skater who has been skating in shows and competing for eleven years. She currently teaches ice skating at the Clearwater Ice Arena.
Filmmaker: Adolph Ramirez

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• ice
• skating
• skates
• figure
• instructions
• beginners
• techniques

[sophiex9]

i would probrably be able to do it with the amiounts of times ive gobne but evry icerink is sssssssoooo buisy u can hardly move!!

[octaviavang]

they make it look so easy

but its hard

:O

[haifa301]

how? i can't even stand.

[hhhunt777]

Bill, I just started ice skating at 58. I try to watch your vids B4 going to rink twice a week.

It helps! :D

[mrtooooooom]

why doesnt my backwards ice skating look like that?



[xBMD1]

@loveforever082202 lol i was like trolololol woman

[bubllgum1]

I'm going skating tomorrow and I'm going to try impress my friends with my backward skating! :3

[loveforever082202]

what happened to simone fisher???

[meganseavey]

i saw someone at the ice rink and no one really knew her name but she was excellent at doing tricks backwards and forwards so everyone called her "figurine girl" she was that good. SHE COULD ICE SKATE WHILE SITTING DOWN!

[sarabeth1410]

Am going to our local rink todays with my two sisters will try this and see how it goes 

[let0me0kiss0you]

oh, I was skating yesterday and I was losing the control all the time, but I didn't fell down, and that's because I was dancing to stop!!!!

Bbtw, nobody was laughing xD

[girlybabez101]

I am going ice skating today with my boyfriend and I am trying to find ways not to fall and show im good at it :P