How to Skate Backwards - Step by Step tips, Technique, and Common Mistakes 

Within the first 5 seconds I already know he’s a good coach by his voice lol

0:40 "Now there's a difference between going forwards and backwards. When going forward we're going this direction (points forwards)"

4:17 "by then... the other team's gone to sleep" hahaha I love this guy, such a pleasant coach! :D

I like how he always yells, he's good at yelling

This coach is excellent! Wish I could spend a few hours with this guy. My skating would improve immensely.

"By then, the other team has gone to sleep" *laughs*, I love this guy

I like how your ice looks so pristine and nice to skate on. hahah

Totally agree with Scott on the uselessness of the 'C-cut' as a visual aid to backwards skating. I had it explained to me with C-cuts and couldn't get it at all. What I ended up doing was watching how people skating backwards were moving their feet and hips, and I realised that actually what's going on is backwards lemons, staggered. So one leg starts its half of the lemon, but the other leg doesn't start its half of the lemon until the first leg is at the apex/azimuth/outermostpoint of its lemon. The rest is just shifting your arse about to get your weight in the right place and allow your desired range of motion. So I ended up spending one session doing backwards lemons, and then on the next session I was able to get the 'backwards wiggle' style going well.

Thanks for posting, Me and my son are both learning to ice skate. Thanks guys for your series on skating.

Thanks Canada!

These videos are a great addition to the lessons I am taking. We have a pro locally that teaches figure and hockey skating and sometimes confuses the two or gears a lesson towards figure when he is teaching hockey. I am 38 and started playing 5 months ago, not only playing but skating in general. Next year I hope to get into one of the lower men's leagues at my local facility. Keep up the great work and thank you!

Im a new skater and this is really helping! 😅

Best coach anyday!

My backwards is so weak! I'll have to try these tips out next time i'm at hockey!! Love this channel!

I taught myself to skate backwards :3 but i stopped skating backwards cause I fell on a couple younger kids :( I felt bad I said sorry and hugged them as they cried. Luckily their parents assumed they were just scared and shy.

me, barely getting started on the ice a few times every month, with little confidence away from the side rails: *interesting*

Thanks for your time with the videos. I'm a brand new ice skater taking Adult Beginner Hockey and your videos are an excellent supplement to actual ice time. Your presentation on the material is the best I have found.

Try to use the phrase, "push with your big toe" for the little ones. Also provide some resistance to develop the full stride perhaps by having the skater pull a partner who is either gliding forward or on their knees.

I'm good up until the backwards crossover part. That's a bit I just can't figure out.

Good tutorial, explained how I got on my toes when I leaned forward and how I ended up with my pushing foot in the front. I've been doing backward swizzle and now I need to figure out how to keep my balancing foot in a straight line.

One of the best presentations I have seen. Very clear. Excellent.

I’m a ice skater and love watching you guys! There’s a lot to learn from hockey too.

"As a newbie in a skating world... this helps me a lot. Thank you so much"

audible, clear, smart explanation, proud to be Canadian, thank you

Trust your edges trust yourselves 👍🏻 Thats a winning attitude for sure

Sadly, I can only click "like" button once

This series is just excellent!

Thank you. I just took up hockey, and this video was super helpful. Cheers!

I started skating a month ago and each and every one of these videos help a lot. I just wish you'd make one about stopping as it's the one I can't seem to get a grasp of. Thank you!

this helped me so much now I am the best backwards skating on my team

Amazing video guys !!!🙏🙏

Thank you so much this is really helpful with my posture for sure

These guys are really good. Forward and concise. Easy to understand

Good video with clear explanation. Helpfull, will try it soon.

Thanks a lot, this video really helped me a lot. It took me about an hour or so to grasp the idea, now it's up to practicing it.

amazing coaching

Hands down the best video out there. Ive learned to skate backwards with in 20 mins by using these tips and tricks

Love this coach! He's funny, and I loved the comment about falling on your nose. Just started out skating and playing hockey, been obsessed with these videos! Thanks for all the help!

Thanks guys. Its a greatest and easiest way that i have seen.

thanks guys ! good to try.

Thank you. This is such an excellent video. The best I've seen so far on backwards skating.

omg i was doing the C for so long and couldn’t go anywhere, then i did the teardrop and it worked!! thank you so much ❤️❤️

thxs sooo mch!

Great explanation! Gonna try that tomorrow!

Thank you so much for this! I’m taking lessons that way I can play hockey and this is so much easier than what my teacher was trying to teach me! He got mad at me for trying to take steps backwards when we first started. This is going to help me out so much!

This looks so smooth and amazing! Best how to backwards Video I've seen. Thank you ^^

These guys are the absolute best!

This helped me so much. This was explained so well. My hockey friends have tried to teach me and they would just tell me to "just do it" which obviously didn't help.

Such a great coach I might start a hockey career just to put his advice into practice

Hey guys, great videos. It would be nice to see an example of the full technique at the beginning of the video. It's a bit hard to grasp the concept from only a few strides. Thanks again guys, much appreciated!

Great tips for figure skaters too! Thank you!

Scott is a great coach.

Thank you sir!

Thanks! That's helpful.

What a great coach. Nice video.

Get in there Scotty. Good vid 👍

Thank youu for the tips😊

I love these guys!!!!!😊

unbelievable easy, to watch lol, go and do it is another story, i can barely stand on the ice rink with the skates on, but if im watching your video, i want to learn, hope is not to late for me, thank you so much , amazing teachers

Great teachers!!! Fast and completely!!! 🤗🤗🤗👍👍👍👍👍👍

Now that I watch this video again and think back to what I've been taught not only by myself and instructors it seems so simple now. I've already trained myself to be comfortable using the outside edge and moving backward. That aside its just a matter of training my body to remember the technique. This video was a great wake up call. It's within reach I just need to take that step.

Cool tips. Thanks guys.

This is really helpful thank u

I don't skate on ice but all these tips are extremely good and will come in handy. You are both great teachers, thank you!

Thaks a lot easy explanation to improve my skills 👍

For me as a beginner figure skater this was also useful. I’ll have to change some things here and there but the essence is there. Thanks!

That was sooooo helpful. I was naturally doing the half teardrop and never could get the C.

Love it!

Yup that was awesome!

I dont know how to skate but I love to watch hockey. This was a great video and your explanation makes a lot of sense.

Taught my self how to skate, except this. This really helps!

So helpful

This makes total sense! I spent a lot of time last night trying to get the backward stride going and couldn't get more than two pushes. C cuts are horrible and I know that USA Hockey teaches it in their curriculum but it just doesn't work for me. Can't wait to get back on the ice and give this a go. Thanks Jeremy and Scott, maybe I can pick this up before the season ends.

0:38 I love how he gets to the point

Thank You sooo much for your video ! I just went backward for the 1st time , thanks to your posting!

This is the best channel on youtube

You guys do a great job, thanks for those videos! I just subscribed. @ Scott, "17 million crossovers" *lol* - love the way you talk. Greetings from Germany from a Hannover Indians supporter

Cool coach!

Perfect vid

Sunny side up - good quick tip!!

Great thanks for half teardrop tip and keeping pushing leg in a bit if front..that "c cut" metaphor was not working for my body when I tried to do it in my mind

sweet video

I don't play ice hockey, but thought this was great!

Awesome

awesome

04:20 when he cracked by his own joke 🤣💀gotta love this guy

After a four year break from hockey, I needed this video lolll

I wanna click the like button a million times please xD This guy is great hahah

I skate with Scott he's great

Thanks i got benched lastnight because i was having trouble with skating backwards

I can skate forward but not backwards yet. This is on my cheap bucket list. Thanks for helping

How good is coach Grover?! Awesome

Scott is a HOCKEY coach!

A touch of chris farley. Love it ahah

It took me 1 hour to barely do it by myself and 1 min to do it with this badass coach

Looks like rink in Baysville, ON. I think it is.

The guy on the left(Jeremy) used to be my coach because i remember him and this is at my local hockey arena. :)

I'm thirty years old and just moved to America's Midwest (Chicago) and i've always loved hockey and been curious about learning to play. That said, I have a "fear" of skating backwards and really need to learn how to do it... but idk... everytime i try i almost fall and go into panic mode... i'm sure it's just a confidence thing because I used to have the same problems in general but it takes a lot of time to trust the blades just to go forwards. It would be nice to have time to practice on ice, but alas without being in a program or already playing hockey, public skate is it, and it doesn't really lend itself too much to idiots trying to learn to skate backwards, at least imho

I was thought the C and then went to hardcore hockey (amazing people) and it took me 1 month to getting to we're it is now

When doing the backwards tear drop, is your foot supposed to come right Bianca to your other foot or a few inches away?