Learning how to skate backwards is the ultimate challenge for many beginner skaters, and it can be much harder to master without professional guidance on the best exercises and techniques to keep you rolling safely.

Most skaters teach themselves how to skate backwards with some kind of “backwards butt wiggle” keeping both skates on the ground as they try to propel. Imagine skating forwards in the same way – it wouldn’t be efficient or at all stylish!

In this new video on our YouTube channel I demonstrate the best way to learn backwards skating and explain why this method shown works for all ability levels – beginner, intermediate and advanced. It may look simple to just recreate how we all skate forwards, but it requires solid backward balance, steering and weight bearing on each leg.

Nothing will improve your backwards skating like this one exercise in the video and as you improve and get faster, the exercise gets more challenging. Using this exercise you’ll learn how to skate backwards faster than using any other method and you’ll also develop your weaker side more efficiently, reducing risk of injury and imbalances.