One of the most pleasant winter sports is skating. To explain what you derive pleasure from fast driving on ice to the person who never skated it is impossible. So if you learn how it is correct to skate, new feelings, a positive spirit and good health are provided to you.
The nobility as it is necessary to skate will not prevent each person. This sport not only is interesting after its development, but also is available financially almost to any.
What skates it is the best of all to study or easier to ride?
If you never stood on skates, to you it is not necessary to run right after emergence of desire to do this sport in shop and to buy skates. For the first occupations to you will be enough skates hired. To ride the easiest well ground and qualitatively stitched skates with boots from skin.
There are three types of skates: figured, hockey and for usual driving. These types differ from each other in structure and quality of material, depending on what they are intended for. For example, figured skates have cloves on the end of an edge, and hockey more dense, have a shock-proof basis.
If you want to learn how to learn to ride figured or any other skates you should use the general instruction "How to skate":
Choice of skates
Skates have to be well ground 1-1.5 sizes more than your footwear. Skates should be put on dense warm socks, to strong lace up boots. Legs should not "dangle" in skates. Heels are densely pressed to insoles.
Exit to ice
At all beginners to study skating before the first exit to ice there is a number of questions: whether it is difficult to skate? how it is good to skate? how it is necessary to skate a back?
It is not difficult to skate at all, the main thing, you need to feel a body, not to strain excessively a muscle of legs. Get up on ice, undertake a side and a postoyta some time, you have to relax and feel skates.
To begin the movement, you need to make a start the right leg – inside of an edge of an edge and to transfer all weight of a body to the left leg. You will begin sliding on the left leg, tighten the right leg and quietly you slide on both legs. After delay of the movement repeat action, making a start other leg.
Technology of the movement by a back forward the same, as well as advance by the person. To try to ride forward it is necessary to begin with a back near a side. Making a start a leg in the direction back, turn the head towards the movement.
During the movement of a leg have to be bent in knees, the back direct, is a little inclined forward. When you learn to ride a back forward, ask that somebody took you on the tow, then you will more accurately experience technology of driving by a back.
Turn and braking
To turn to the left, you need having made a start to give the right leg the right part of a body forward, twisting the case towards turn. Similarly arrive if you want to turn to the right.
To learn to brake on ice too follows you on the first occupations, without this ability the danger of falling appears, or you can even crash into somebody and be traumatized.
You need to put legs slightly more widely than shoulders, having directed socks at each other, begin to brake an internal part of an edge of an edge. You can develop also a little a body in one party, giving load of a front leg, to transfer the center of gravity to the leg standing behind.
In conclusion it is possible to note before studying correctly to ride figured, hockey or usual skates, do not forget that it is winter sport. Put on the warmest and comfortable clothes for active movements, it is better to remove a part of clothes on a skating rink, than to freeze and catch a cold.
Progress to you in new undertakings!
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