Every skater, whether using inlines or quads, regardless of skill level, wants a faster, more powerful stride.
There are Kids Skating Lessons few workouts you should perform while not wearing skates to improve your skating stride with more force and efficiency. These drills will convert to solid technique and body placement back on the wheels.
Off skates, these kinds of minor tweaks are occasionally easier to detect and may make more sense, leading to that "lightbulb moment."
Skating posture and stride
- The skating stride is what? Let's dissect it.
- The push, lateral push, glide, and regroup are the four components that make up the stride.
- Your body's center of mass should be exactly over your support leg, which is the one that is on the ground, as you skate. Your other leg should not shift laterally (sideways).
- When skaters are attempting to increase their speed, a common mistake is to just push harder without paying any attention to their support skate and body alignment.
- While a longer push does, in fact, increase speed when skating, this only occurs if the push is delivered solely with the leg and without lateral body movement.
An issue with "over-pushing"
- Asha observed her online student was excessively pressing to the side during a private video coaching session.
- The support leg developed an inside edge pronation as a result, and the student's bodyweight was not properly supported by the support leg but rather was distributed across the two skates.
- This is a relatively typical error among intermediate and advanced inline skaters, and if over-pushing and pronation develop into habits, it could cause slow-onset injuries.
- Therefore, despite the misconception that "longer Equals faster," an excessively long push won't ultimately result in increased speed and efficiency.
How to Develop a Stronger Skating Stride?
- The issue of excessive pushing and how it results in pronation
- How the body then moves laterally off the support skate in response to the pushing leg
- These improper movements have a cascade of issues that all lower effectiveness.
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