Speed Skating & Double Push For Beginners Step 9

In essence a double push is a controlled fall. By kicking your back foot across the back along with steering your plant skate inside you start your body falling in the opposite direction of the inside steer. Then at the last second (this is the timing you will learn after doing this thousands of times) you turn your plant skate back out and that will pick your body back up. The hardest part is to let yourself start falling outside while your plant skate steers inside. Eventually you can push the limits further and further, fall more to the outside before you turn the plant skate back to the outside to pick you back up.

If you don't steer the plant skate inside long enough you will never get the double push, if you steer the plant skate inside for too long before you turn it back to the outside you will hit the ground. Somewhere in-between those two extremes is the proper double push. I use the words steer inside multiple times on this page because when your learning the double push you will initially be steering the plant skate inside. Eventually you will turn the inside steer into an inside push hence the words double push.

What a great demonstration...thank you for this instruction...now I have something to work on the rest of my life. The Yak.

Thanks a lot for the video instructions on the double push. I'm finally getting it thanks to you. Rlee.

I am absolutely pleased to inform you that your DP tutorial is magnificent. I will be practicing my DP with your tutorial over and over for the coming weeks, I am starting to get it right though ;)! Yours sincerely, Maikel R.

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