3 Roller Skating Tips for Beginners to Improve Balance

  Whether you want to impress your friends or you are simply having fun, learning new tricks in roller skating can enhance your skating potential dramatically. While there is no pre-defined recipe for roller skate tricks, what remains true is the more you practice, the better you get. And once you learn backwards skating, you can perform more complex tricks faster. But before that, it is important to improve your balance, so you can push the limits on your roller skating safely. Skating backwards To learn how to skate backwards, find a flat surface and equally distribute your weight on each leg. You should be in a comfortable, squatting position. Push your legs to the side and bring them back in, making a figure 8 shape. This is how you begin moving backwards. Moonwalk Once you can skate backwards, it is easier to moonwalk on skates. But you need toe stoppers on the skates to perform the moonwalk. Keep one skate flat and the other upright with the toe stopper on the g...