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Basics of Intermediate Ice Skating

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Summary: Combining your arms, legs and body weight together is the first step towards intermediate ice skating. Bring your skating to the next level from our skating expert in this free video clip.

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By Akos Kertesz
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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

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"Now we will see the combination of all of the steps together. O'kay let's try this. Bend your knees and step and skate, body weight shifting and pay attention for the pushing too, pushing, pushing, yes. You can raise your arms a little bit but just so. Raise your arms and push and push and push. Raise your arms and push, shift the body weight, bend your knees. Here starts the professional technique. If you do this you have the chance to be a professional skater. It is easy, not so difficult but you need to practice. Pay attention and you must not use the inside edge. The outside use let your body fall forward and raise your arms but not the shoulder, just the arms, just the arms. That was the combination of all the steps together."

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