A detailed guide for the first trip to the rink: from the lacing of skates to the ability to slide and fall correctly.
1. Sleep the skates well
Skill the boot to the end, bent the tongue and insert your leg. The heel should be pressed against the back of the shoe, and the fingertips should touch the sock slightly.
During lacing, increase the stiffness of fixation from the bottom up. On the foot you can not tighten the laces very strongly, but in the area of the ankle you will have to try: the ankle should be as stable as possible so that the leg does not dangle in the skate.
If you have too long ends, you can go down again, tie a bow, and tie the loops for hooks too.
2. Take the right position
Put your feet on your shoulder width or a little already, direct the socks of the feet and knees forward forward. Straighten your chest and lower your shoulders, pull your stomach, check so that there is no excessive deflection in the lower back.
Put your arms to the sides, slightly bent your knees and check how stable this pose.
3. Learn to walk on ice
Before you master slipping, practice just walking on the ice, like on the ground. This will help you feel more confident and maintain balance.
Take the correct position, put your arms to the sides and cross your feet several times. Then try to move forward with small steps.
First, perform this movement, holding on to the side or hand of a friend, and then learn to walk without support. Walk forward and backward.
4. Determine a safe fall
When falling, it is important to transfer the body weight to the side in time to sink to the thigh, and not on the back. Falls back on your back are the most dangerous, because you cannot turn your hands and the risk of getting your head injury.
Practice falling on the spot. Make a squat and transfer body weight to the side, dropping into one thigh. Put your hands in front of you, softening the fall.
Do not set your arms far forward, keep them next to the body. If you stretch out on ice, other skittors can drive on the fingers.
5. Learn to get up correctly
First stand on all fours, then put one horse on the ice. Leaning your hands on the knee, rise and substitute the second leg.
6. Try different sliding options
There are several leading exercises for beginners, and you better master them all: the more practices on ice, the more confident you will feel.
Flashlights
This is a simple exercise that will allow you to slide without tearing your legs from the ice.
Put your legs together, connect the heels and dilute socks – this is V. Bend your knees slightly and spread your legs to the sides, describing the circumference with your feet, and then reduce them again, unfolding with socks inside – into position a. After that, return the feet to position V and repeat everything first.
When you spread your legs to the sides, the skates glide on the ice on the outer ribs, and when you reduce it, on the internal.
Also practice moving the “flashlights” back. Here you first unfold the feet into position A, then describe the circle with your legs and find yourself in position V.
Snake
Another supply exercise without separating skates from ice. First, try to make a snake back.
Put your legs together, bend your knees slightly, place your arms to the sides and transfer a little forward so that they are in front.
From this position, expand the socks of both feet and knees to the left, and the shoulders – to the right. Then change the position to the opposite.
During movement, do not look at the ice, fasten your eyes in front of you. The lowered head will provide an unnecessary tilt of the case, which will prevent you from performing a snake.
You can start this movement at the side to give yourself inertia, and actively move your hands, turning the body.
The same snake can move forward, alternately turning both legs to the left or right.
Gliding with one foot
It is time to move to gliding with alternating repulsion of the right and left foot.
Put your legs together, bend your knees slightly. Expand the toe of the right foot outward by 45 degrees and push off from the ice, sliding forward on the left leg. Then repeat the same on the other leg.
It is important that when repulsive, you make a movement with your foot not clearly back, but a little to the side. Due to this, you rest on the ice with the inner edge of the skate and create a good impetus.
You can first substitute the second leg immediately after repulsion and go to 2. Then try to maintain balance a little longer, balancing on one leg and only then exposing the second to it.
Do not forget about the correct position: the shoulders and hips look forward, the stomach is pulled, the hands are extended to the sides and slightly taken forward, the look is fixed right in front of you.
7. Learn to slow down
There are three options for stopping movement. Try them and decide what is more convenient for you.
Hockey
Turn both legs with socks inside and arrange them wider. At the same time, skates switch to inner ribs.
With one foot in front
Put one leg forward and turn it out to the outside so that the blade rises on the inner rib across the movement.
T -installation
Turn the toe behind the standing leg outward and press the middle of the foot to the heel in front of the standing, making the letter “T”. Put the pelvis slightly forward.
8. Follow safety precautions
Here are a few rules that will help you not harm yourself and others skating:
- Move in a circle counterclockwise. So that the skittors do not collide, the movement on the rink occurs in one direction.
- First stay closer to the side. So in which case you can grab it for him and do not fall under the skates to drive skates.
- Do not look under your feet. Firstly, this spoils your technique: after your head, your shoulders and chest fall, and then it is more difficult to hold balance. Secondly, you do not see what is happening around, and you can stuck in other skitting.
- If you learn to move back, periodically look over your shoulder so as not to fly into other people.
Remember that everyone has different motor skills and coordination. One person will dissect on the ice already at the end of the first lesson, the other will need several visits to the rink to just move away from the side and go without support.
Give yourself time, start carefully and train more often, and soon skating will become no less familiar and comfortable for you than walking.
1. Sleep the skates well
Skill the boot to the end, bent the tongue and insert your leg. The heel should be pressed against the back of the shoe, and the fingertips should touch the sock slightly.
During lacing, increase the stiffness of fixation from the bottom up. On the foot you can not tighten the laces very strongly, but in the area of the ankle you will have to try: the ankle should be as stable as possible so that the leg does not dangle in the skate.
If you have too long ends, you can go down again, tie a bow, and tie the loops for hooks too.
2. Take the right position
Put your feet on your shoulder width or a little already, direct the socks of the feet and knees forward forward. Straighten your chest and lower your shoulders, pull your stomach, check so that there is no excessive deflection in the lower back.
Put your arms to the sides, slightly bent your knees and check how stable this pose.
3. Learn to walk on ice
Before you master slipping, practice just walking on the ice, like on the ground. This will help you feel more confident and maintain balance.
Take the correct position, put your arms to the sides and cross your feet several times. Then try to move forward with small steps.
First, perform this movement, holding on to the side or hand of a friend, and then learn to walk without support. Walk forward and backward.
4. Determine a safe fall
When falling, it is important to transfer the body weight to the side in time to sink to the thigh, and not on the back. Falls back on your back are the most dangerous, because you cannot turn your hands and the risk of getting your head injury.
Practice falling on the spot. Make a squat and transfer body weight to the side, dropping into one thigh. Put your hands in front of you, softening the fall.
Do not set your arms far forward, keep them next to the body. If you stretch out on ice, other skittors can drive on the fingers.
5. Learn to get up correctly
First stand on all fours, then put one horse on the ice. Leaning your hands on the knee, rise and substitute the second leg.
6. Try different sliding options
There are several leading exercises for beginners, and you better master them all: the more practices on ice, the more confident you will feel.
Flashlights
This is a simple exercise that will allow you to slide without tearing your legs from the ice.
Put your legs together, connect the heels and dilute socks – this is V. Bend your knees slightly and spread your legs to the sides, describing the circumference with your feet, and then reduce them again, unfolding with socks inside – into position a. After that, return the feet to position V and repeat everything first.
When you spread your legs to the sides, the skates glide on the ice on the outer ribs, and when you reduce it, on the internal.
Also practice moving the “flashlights” back. Here you first unfold the feet into position A, then describe the circle with your legs and find yourself in position V.
Snake
Another supply exercise without separating skates from ice. First, try to make a snake back.
Put your legs together, bend your knees slightly, place your arms to the sides and transfer a little forward so that they are in front.
From this position, expand the socks of both feet and knees to the left, and the shoulders – to the right. Then change the position to the opposite.
During movement, do not look at the ice, fasten your eyes in front of you. The lowered head will provide an unnecessary tilt of the case, which will prevent you from performing a snake.
You can start this movement at the side to give yourself inertia, and actively move your hands, turning the body.
The same snake can move forward, alternately turning both legs to the left or right.
Gliding with one foot
It is time to move to gliding with alternating repulsion of the right and left foot.
Put your legs together, bend your knees slightly. Expand the toe of the right foot outward by 45 degrees and push off from the ice, sliding forward on the left leg. Then repeat the same on the other leg.
It is important that when repulsive, you make a movement with your foot not clearly back, but a little to the side. Due to this, you rest on the ice with the inner edge of the skate and create a good impetus.
You can first substitute the second leg immediately after repulsion and go to 2. Then try to maintain balance a little longer, balancing on one leg and only then exposing the second to it.
Do not forget about the correct position: the shoulders and hips look forward, the stomach is pulled, the hands are extended to the sides and slightly taken forward, the look is fixed right in front of you.
7. Learn to slow down
There are three options for stopping movement. Try them and decide what is more convenient for you.
Hockey
Turn both legs with socks inside and arrange them wider. At the same time, skates switch to inner ribs.
With one foot in front
Put one leg forward and turn it out to the outside so that the blade rises on the inner rib across the movement.
T -installation
Turn the toe behind the standing leg outward and press the middle of the foot to the heel in front of the standing, making the letter “T”. Put the pelvis slightly forward.
8. Follow safety precautions
Here are a few rules that will help you not harm yourself and others skating:
- Move in a circle counterclockwise. So that the skittors do not collide, the movement on the rink occurs in one direction.
- First stay closer to the side. So in which case you can grab it for him and do not fall under the skates to drive skates.
- Do not look under your feet. Firstly, this spoils your technique: after your head, your shoulders and chest fall, and then it is more difficult to hold balance. Secondly, you do not see what is happening around, and you can stuck in other skitting.
- If you learn to move back, periodically look over your shoulder so as not to fly into other people.
Remember that everyone has different motor skills and coordination. One person will dissect on the ice already at the end of the first lesson, the other will need several visits to the rink to just move away from the side and go without support.
Give yourself time, start carefully and train more often, and soon skating will become no less familiar and comfortable for you than walking.