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Summary: Skate circles around your friends while keeping your balance. Learn how to shift your center of gravity on skates from our ice skating expert in this free video clip.
Akos Kertesz has been skating since he was 6 years old and is an experienced skating teacher from Hungary, Budapest. He studied for 7 years at Piruett skating school and has taken...read more
"Okay, skate, steps on ice and skate. And now lift your knees and touch with both hands. Lift your knees and touch with both hands, lift your knees and touch with both hands, and if you can hold this, that's the right way, that's the good way. Try to do it, steps on ice, skating, lift the knee and touch with hands, and hold, hold if you can. If you can hold this, yes, and now yes, bend your body forward, yes. Pay attention for the standing leg, for the standing leg, this is bended. It must be bended. If you don't bend your standing leg, then you will fall down, you will fall down. Okay, now I will show one more the correct technique one more. Lift and touch with both hands. This is a exercise to practice how you can shift your body weight the center of gravity."
eHow Article: Ice Skating Balance