HOW TO STAND
- Stand in the ready position.
- Place your hands out in front of you.
- Bend your arms at the elbows to a 45-degree angle with your upper body.
- Bend at the knees, so that your weight is on the balls of your feet. You should feel your lower shins pressed against the tongues of your skates.
- Bend forward slightly at the waist as if sitting in a chair. That's it! You’ve now established the correct skating stance to maximize your balance. Your center of gravity is now centered over your skates.
- To establish a staggered skating stance, repeat steps 1 through 5 from the above procedure. Now, let’s take it a step further and add a staggered positioning of the feet. This works to improve your stability and allows an inline skater to absorb bumps and vibrations while remaining in balance at all times.
- When you’re ready, separate your feet until they are about 10 to 12 inches apart.
- Position your right skate out in front of you while your left skate remains behind.
- Adjust this staggered positioning until the heel of the front skate is about even with the toe of the back skate. There you have it!
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