Backward two-foot glide
The same flat glide travelling the other way, where you cannot see where you are going.
Not checked yet. The mechanics on this page are a first draft by a non-expert, and no coach has seen them yet. Read them as a starting point and check them with a coach. Corrections are very welcome.
Both blades flat on the ice, parallel and about hip width apart, running backwards. Ice Skating Australia measures it at about a metre; New Zealand’s KiwiSkate teaches it on a straight line and then on a curve, the same progression as the forward glide.
Australia teaches it after backward wiggles and swizzles, which give the skater the backwards travel to glide on, and before the backward one-foot glide. None of the documents this guide holds says where the weight sits, or how the head and arms are carried, while a skater glides backwards. Those are the details a coach watches here, so this page does not guess at them. What the programmes agree on is the order: the forward glide, backward wiggles, this glide, then the backward glide on one foot.
Leads to
3 elements in the guide are built on this one.
- Backward one-foot glideThe same straight backward glide on one foot. New Zealand and Ice Skating Australia both teach the two-foot glide first.
- Backward slalomBoth feet stay on the ice while travelling backwards, as here, and swing from one pair of edges to the other.
- Backward strokingEach backward stroke finishes in a backward glide.
Appears in
No test syllabus recorded yet.
Where it sits in one country's grades is on that country's copy of this page: UK, USA, Australia or New Zealand.