![]() ![]() still keeping most of your weight on the left leg, let the right skate do a "sweeping action", moving to the outside the curve, and so crossing the other leg now spread the two legs apart this way: lift the right skate, move it towards the center of the curve, place it down applying very little weight at the same time rotate your torso toward the center of the curve, and your head even more (good if you can see where you are going) open your arms as if you should embrace the curve this leg is (mostly) your steering leg and it keeps your balance start the curve: put most of your weight on the left leg, external to the curve, and apply more force on the inner wheels get some backward speed you are confident with I assume you are trying to do backward crossovers on a counterclockwise path I don't like to suggest bad habits, but a "wrong" technique is better than nothing, and can be adjusted once you get the feeling. The difference stays mainly in the weight distribution among the legs and in the skates paths during the sequence. In fact there are several variants of backward crossovers: two wrong, one acceptable and one advenced. The technique for crossovers is the same for quad, inline skates and ice. The general sequence of movements can be grabbed an memorized from them. There are plenty of videos on YouTube etc. ![]()
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