How Do You Stop While Roller Skating Backwards?
“Today I’m here to talk about how to roller skate, more specifically, how to stop while going backwards. Now, that you’ve gotten yourself into the backwards position, how do you stop? You’re going maybe a little too fast or maybe you’re not, maybe you just don’t want to fall, and that’s fine. What you need to do is make sure while going backwards you are in a comfortable stance, your knees are not locked, make sure you’re going at a comfortable rate of speed, or I suppose you may not be if you need to stop. The easiest method of stopping while going backwards would be to take your dominate leg, position it ever so slightly behind you and using the stopper, apply firm but solid pressure to the stopper, against the skating surface. This should bring you to a slow stop. Be careful though not to apply too much pressure because that can turn you around. The other alternative method to stopping and stopping quickly while going backwards would be immediately go up onto both stoppers of your s
