How to stop on Ice Skates, Forward Snowplow Stop

So today we are going to learn how to

stop

a snow blower. Let me show you what it looks like. It's pretty simple, but to learn this, we'll start over as we go. I want you to put both hands on the wall. We're going to bend our knees and practice pushing our feet outward to form a small mound of snow on either side of our feet. We will use our inner edges to push. I'll show you that, facing you, you push but don't lean very hard. on the inside edges they're just a little bit on the inside edges, they're mostly flat, if you dig down on the inside edges you're going to end up right

forward

and that's not what we want for this so once again we're going to face the wall, put your weight right over your arches, okay, not too far

forward

and not too far back, just over your arches, bend your knees and slide your feet on the ice.

Every

stop

you make has the same basic premise: We create friction with our blades against the ice and that is what makes us stop, so for this stop, when we push our feet out, we scrape the top layer of ice off of this friction and that snow creation on the side is what makes us stop so you can stay here and practice pushing and pushing over and over again until you get a nice smooth push and the friction created isn't so choppy, okay it's going to be hard to stop , so once you've gotten up from the wall, come. to the middle of the ice, bend those knees, push out until you're comfortable with that move, then we'll take it a step further, once you have this move really comfortable in a dead stop, we'll add some speed, okay? okay, because when you stop, you usually do it with a certain speed, so to start we will take a couple of steps, bend our knees and push our feet out, but when you do it with movement, your feet will not move.

To the sides, the way we've been practicing, your toes will tilt inward and your heels will tilt outward. Let me show you that one more time, that's where you get that

snowplow

move where your toes are pointing in and your heels are pointing and you're pushing forward a little bit to this side once again bend your knees push through your heels. further than your toes and there you have your front snow plow, this is a little more difficult so don't try it. this until you really master both feet, let me show you how this is done, just like when we do any other movement with one foot, we will need to align our head, our hip and our knee up with our slide. foot for now I'm using my left foot, so we're going to bend our knees, line everything up with that sliding foot and then push the stopping foot forward.

It's not straight and it's not to the side, it's more like a 45 degree angle. okay, it's almost like the shape of a seven, let me show you what it looks like again, let's fold, line everything up with our sliding foot and push to the side again, you want the heel to tip outward and the toe to tip in, and you're pushing lightly with that inside edge, let me show you what that one foot snow blower looks like with full speed ready. Bethenny's alignment with the left side and thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed. If you have any questions, you can leave them in the comment below and of course don't forget to subscribe