Let us know how it goes :)

Glad you're enjoying the content. When done correctly, this move should feel smooth and effortless!

Haha great comment, you made me laugh with that one. Thanks for your kind words 🙂

You're welcome! Let us know if it helped you after you next practice session.

Let us know after your next practice session if the video helped!

@@IceCoachOnline Will do! Thus far I've been practicing the forward cross rolls tips you had about posture, the edge switch and foot turn out of the free leg... it's getting there! :) Please keep this channel up! I'm an avid follower :)

Thanks! glad you enjoyed it :)

We're happy to hear you're finding out tutorials useful! We have a video covering the backspin here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iqinbNd-ntuZmmQ.html There is also a backward entry into spins video coming out soon that will also help. The lutz video is available on Patreon at the moment, but it will be coming to KZfaq in the future!

That's an interesting point! I too have problems with the weight shift and am realizing that I too have been doing what you did - cross fully before transferring. I'm re watching that part in the vid about weight transfer and the push. I find I dont have the leverage to push one I cross the foot back.... shifting the weight backwards. I'll keep that in mind with this vid. Love learning small things like that because someone can tell you to do something but not really teach you how to think about what you're doing or where to put the weight on the blade or how to use your knees to make something work.... This channel and comments like yours are helping with that. Thanks!

@@MsLadyFuchsia RIGHT?!!! I'm the same. When things don't work but look easy and are clearly not labelled expert level, it's usually some minor detail. Something that the pros do without even thinking. While a beginner may be lacking some little step on their way. And then you either are lucky and accidentally stumble into "it feeling right" (followed by the painstaking search of how to reproduce it and what made it work) OR someone did the analysis already an cares to share it where you can find it 😂. And sometimes the answer is so simple that I don't know if to laugh or cry. Like: "Get a pro to sharpen your blades" or "practice pick-heel-pick-heel sideway steps, it helps your Twizzles" or "Don't press into the ice when you're trying to get your 3-turn to work". A community is needed for such matters. Every group of ppl encounters another problem within the same exercise. 🤣

@@KxNOxUTA omg exactly! It took me well into years of adult skating when I finally realized the importance of pick-heel and weight transfer in 3 turns (I stumbled upon that one). No one explained that to me, so backward 3 turns were hard and scary (thanks @Ice Coach Online for that exercise on pick-heel sideway steps!). And I think that the same goes with jumps....they just say, pick your toe in and jump, without really explaining the feeling you should be feeling to make it work - the draw back, weight, momentum, leverage to make the jump happen, etc. Totally agree with you on all points!!!

Glad to hear you're enjoying the videos. I have never heard the term backward cross strokes myself. It could be due to there being a different name for it in your country. Where are you based? That rip noise is like the ice telling you "good job" 👍 .

I am an adult skater from Wyoming, USA. I am working on the Adult Silver Moves in the Field. They are call forward and backward Cross Strokes in the Moves booklet. I really think they are the same as your tips have helped me hear the rip noise.

Sorry I missed this one before! You need to deepen your knee bend as soon as you move your free leg back. you do this because you are trying to generate more pressure into the ice to get ready to push. Doing so is what creates that crunch sound as you grip the ice and push. Does this make sense? If it doesn't i can try to explain it again! - Lloyd

Backwards crossovers are completely different and much easier. I can do them quite well, but backwards crossrolls scare the life out of me, mainly because I can’t figure out where my feet should go!

You're not alone in doing that!