What advice would you give to somebody who has never ice skated before?
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I recommend making time and join an adult beginner skating class and keep signing up for the next level session until you top out at the part where it's figure skating stuff.
Practicing on ice with an instructor is better than youtube/yourself could ever get it.
Practicing on ice with an instructor is better than youtube/yourself could ever get it.
Find a skating coach
or join a Learn to Skate class.
Having a coach look at your skating will help you not develop any bad habits as you're transitioning from rollerblades to ice skating. It's very hard to unlearn bad habits. Also, a skating coach will be able to help you make the micro adjustments that will help you gain skills faster.
Figure skating coaches are all about edges and stopping. Hockey stops are part of figure skating curriculum, as are all turns on all edges, backward and forward, as well as power skating. No one will make you wear sparkles, I promise.
If you do take a skating class, the coaches will give you something else to work on during spins (although, my hockey kid can spin and jump now, too, and it's very difficult to get him off balance during a game.) I'd stay stick with classes or a coach until you can do back crossovers confidently in both directions and do one-foot turns on either foot.
or join a Learn to Skate class.
Having a coach look at your skating will help you not develop any bad habits as you're transitioning from rollerblades to ice skating. It's very hard to unlearn bad habits. Also, a skating coach will be able to help you make the micro adjustments that will help you gain skills faster.
Figure skating coaches are all about edges and stopping. Hockey stops are part of figure skating curriculum, as are all turns on all edges, backward and forward, as well as power skating. No one will make you wear sparkles, I promise.
If you do take a skating class, the coaches will give you something else to work on during spins (although, my hockey kid can spin and jump now, too, and it's very difficult to get him off balance during a game.) I'd stay stick with classes or a coach until you can do back crossovers confidently in both directions and do one-foot turns on either foot.
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One thing that helped me is if you are an intermediate skier it's a lot like stopping that way you've got to trust the ice and make sure your inside edge is always scratching the surface. But tak that from me I'm a godawful skater who couldn't stop til I was 13.
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