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Striding Techniques for Skaters

Tutorials, tips, articles, and video tips demonstrating proper striding techniques for recreational, fitness, and speed inline skaters.

Striding Tutorials

The Basics of Speed Skating
An easy to understand striding tutorial for beginning speed skaters that covers the basics of developing an efficient and powerful skating stride.

The Double Push Advanced Striding Technique
Tutorials and video clips explaining how to do the "double push", an advanced striding technique that involves using both the outward and inward strides to increase power and speed.

5 Steps to Improve Your Skating Stride
A clear and concise guide to developing a better skating stride in 5 steps by long-distance speed skating champion and speed coach Eddy Matzger. Includes a video clip illustrating proper striding technique.

Squat Lower to Improve Your Skating Stride
This article by Canadian speed skating coach and fitness expert Barry Publow of Canda explains how skaters can improve their skating stride by skating low, but without overloading the knee and quadriceps (from FaSST.com).

Striding Techniques for Absolute Beginners
This article by inline skating instructor and book author Liz Miller introduces the beginning skaters to the most basic striding techniques (from GetRolling.com)



Striding Video Clips

The "D" Stride
A video clip on Eddy Matzger's Web site demonstrating how to get a good lateral push and the proper technique for the recovery phase of a skating stride. (from SkateCentral.com)

The Heel Carve Stride
Video clip on Eddy Matzger's Web site demonstrating the heel carve skating stride technique for improving the power and length of a skating stride. (from SkateCentral.com)

Double Push Video Clips
A collection of video clips demonstrating the double push striding technique.


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