Roller Skating Backwards Tutorial #rollerskating

I just finished a really skeddy, skeddy-sweat session? No. I just finished a really sweaty skate session, but I was thinking about a question someone asked about how I skate backwards smoothly, and somebody at the rink asked me too, and I was trying to remember how I started skating backwards because I didn't learn from anywhere, I just kind of did something instinctually. But I see a lot of people teach bubbles to start with, so I'll show you what bubbles are. So bubbles are just where you start to make a bubble shape, or a lemon shape with your feet. This is frontwards, but then they teach to do the same thing going backwards to get yourself going. And in a way it makes sense because to get yourself going backwards you need a little pressure, so I'm kind of like pushing into the middle, like the inside edges of my skates to get going. But I don't want to make a bubble shape really, I kind of want to just get to a straight shape. So I just push a little bit, and then I notice I just go like this, kind of. Triangle, heel. Whatever heel just came in, then lean on this leg. Heel came in, lean on this leg. Heel comes in, lean on this leg. Heel comes in, lean. Heel, lean. Now I'm not leaning that hard, like eventually it will just be very subtle with how much you lean, but you kind of then get the feel of how you need to move your feet to keep moving backwards. So here are bubbles. You can try these. Then a little mini beginning of a bubble, but get them straight. Heel. Then. Lean. And then eventually you can start to cross a little bit more in front. So you're kind of doing. Hope this helps. This is just sort of how I instinctively figured it out. I'm sure there are a lot of other ways, but definitely when it comes to getting smooth, I think it's just doing it a lot. And also probably a factor is keeping your feet on the ground, not doing a bunch of picking up your feet. I mean, eventually you can learn to do crossovers and things like that, but I think an aspect of what makes backwards skating or any kind of skating look pretty smooth is that you can't really see the shifts of lifting up the feet because they're doing it so minimally. But really just learning your skates and learning where the edges are. And the more you do it, the more it just becomes second nature. Bye.