How To Rollerskate - ADVANCED BACKWARDS SKATING - VARIOUS TYPES ~ USA ROLLER SPORTS Certified Coach

[@halehsh8694]

I couldn’t do backwards cross before this video, despite so many other videos about it. The no weight with the squint roll on the front foot was a game changer. Thanks so much ❤

[@appelusa]

Amazing! Thanks so much for the feedback!!

[@hell02023]

I wish I can learn with you in person, make it easier

[@appelusa]

Me too!!

[@johnnielewis9896]

hello...you have real quiet skates...thank you...because of your Missourian of approach (the show me state) I'm able to display what you've shown here!!! be blessed ...peace

[@appelusa]

Hi Johnnie! Thanks so much for connecting 😊🙏🏻

[@johnnielewis9896]

@Appelusa the pleasure was mine ..take care

[@islandgirlfiredancing]

Thank you! You have a calm, precise teaching style that I was looking for! I will definitely keep returning for more lessons!

[@appelusa]

Aw just seeing this! Thank you so much!

[@IAmAmbitious]

I practiced literally the entire day and now I know how to do it thank you

[@appelusa]

I love this! It does take tons of practice but I see your name reflects your drive 😊

[@davidalonzi2918]

Love the way you explain things and you have a nice voice. Some people have good info but I can’t stand listening to them .

[@candacefinlinson1144]

You helped me finally figure out the mechanics of this! Thank you for breaking it down so clearly. I got it!!

[@appelusa]

Whoooo! Yay! 😊👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@Haaayyyboo]

You deserve so many more views!!!! You’re so thorough and clear. Thanks for taking time to make these, they are so helpful.

[@appelusa]

I appreciate it so much!!

[@godjhaka7376]

She has to market and promote her videos to get those views. With people like Dirty Deborah and Dunbar who have great SEO and come up first on many videos. But appleusa can get there if she works hard and keeps at it!

[@donnasmith4952]

You make it look so easy

[@appelusa]

Started when I was 2! 😊

[@therealuni.]

I’ve been struggling with my backwards skating for a week now, and after seeing your tutorial, I got it in ten minutes!!!! Thank you so much, you are an absolute life saver!

[@appelusa]

Awesome! Yay! So glad you were able to find it helpful 😊🤗

[@aekkapontetsana1847]

It looks flawless

[@valvermeulen4087]

Thank you for making these!! You are a great teacher and so inspiring.

[@appelusa]

Thanks so much! It’s great to get feedback 😊

[@rizaldydiy5991]

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[@bette1336]

Thank you so much for this. I have been trying to wrap my mind around this for a couple months and I finally got it today! I kept moving my hips in whatever direction I was traveling so the tip about keeping them straight was so helpful. ♥️

[@appelusa]

Yay!! Thanks for letting me know you found this video helpful! 🤗

[@MonSport06]

That was a great tutorial, thank you 🙏

[@appelusa]

Awesome! So glad!!

[@jaitipkhenin7481]

The bests teacher I been following thanks so so much 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@appelusa]

awesome :)!!!

[@fisherchi]

You make it look so easy. Even in your small space! Thanks for sharing your tips.

[@appelusa]

You got it! The benefits of learning a skill at age 2!

[@jenniferbriscoe8392]

It has only taken me 2 years to fully understand how to skate backwards, due to your teaching method, breaking everything down and explaining where the body weight is. Thank you 😊

[@appelusa]

Super sweeeet! Yay! Get it!!

[@meljones3103]

Thank you so much for sharing! Very helpful! So glad I found your video tutorials. ❤️

[@felsig1]

Awesome!! your instructions and demonstration is very easy to follow. now I can skate backward properly and even do crossover😎🤘.

[@appelusa]

😁🥰✌️🙌🏻

[@vanettagaines3749]

Luv the control you have with Leg work, very relaxed. Thank u 4 sharing

[@vape_monkey]

love the tutorial. love the Catan too.

[@TheHashtagHEROTV]

OMG this is EXACTLY how I needed this explained to me. Thank you so so so much I've been trying for months and I knew my weight distribution was wrong but I didn't know why. I looked just like your bad technique example lololol. You're the best

[@appelusa]

awesome :) (insert super big smiley face emoji here)

[@TheHashtagHEROTV]

​@@appelusa Update! I followed these instructions exactly and I can now do backward crossovers (Esp on the right side)! It still feels weird in both directions but I videoed myself and it looks 100% correct --FINALLY! I can't thank you enough!

[@appelusa]

@@TheHashtagHEROTV woot woot!!!!! 🙌🏼💛💛💛💛💛

[@michellesawyer3334]

This is a wonderful tutorial! Thank you so much! You told me EXACTLY what I was doing wrong!

[@appelusa]

Woot!! 😁

[@vivienbrowne3613]

I have heard of you previously and just this week found your videos. I think you are the best compared to all the others I've seen so far!

[@appelusa]

That’s so nice to hear, thank you so much for taking the time to comment 💙

[@2122Super]

Thanks this helped me get it down

[@appelusa]

awesome!!! :)

[@이도현-j7j]

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[@sunshinelemonade]

Thank you so much!! Your clear explanations and examples of poor form are helping me improve. I really appreciate your calm demeanor & concise descriptions of where/when our weight should be shifting!

[@appelusa]

So awesome to hear, thanks so much for letting me know 😊🛼 happy skating!!

[@vicentesanchezesteve3766]

The very best! Thank you

[@rochellea.9084]

Happy yelling thankyou !!!!!!!!!!!!! 365 Ohio skater !!! Wow your confidence smooth !!! 🦄🛼

[@appelusa]

Woohoo!!

[@rosol_polski]

Ohh, this is what I just needed. I'm practicing backwards skating now. You did very good tutorial! :) And I love your lightness of movement.

[@appelusa]

Yes!! Thanks so much 😊

[@drapetree]

This is so informational and thoroughly explained! Thank you ✌️

[@appelusa]

Awesome 😊

[@dawnjochum4185]

Love you watch your videos, so helpful

[@therealmamamellow]

Oh wow! I have so many bad habits 😫 Great tutorial thanks.

[@appelusa]

Oh no haha well glad you are correcting them? Maybe ? 😊😆

[@Tayda2001]

Success! Thank you so much!

[@cruzineau]

oh hey, i'm one of those skaters who has been doing this with the weight on the wrong skate! thanks for this video!

[@appelusa]

Oh no! haha- I'm so glad you tuned in! I hope these tips continue to help you progress to meet your goals. Let me know if there are any tricks you want to see broken down for future vids!

[@geraldinetam5368]

great video!! thank you for the detailed explanation and demostration! looking forward to more of your videos! Subscribing! :)

[@appelusa]

Amazing thank you!

[@jconline7204]

Great Tutorial ! Thx, subscribed!

[@appelusa]

Awesome glad you have you!!

[@alisa686]

I love how you explained it... definitely subscribing to your channel!

[@appelusa]

😊😊😊

[@fittomakeup9890]

As always, great tutorial.

[@AdventuresoftheSoul]

Love this helped a great deal… thank you

[@appelusa]

AWESOME!!!

[@Ataraxia_Atom]

I was trying this lastnight and having such a hard time. Thank you for the tutorial. Its hard just to lift my leg going backwards.

[@appelusa]

Hey! If it's hard to lift your leg, you probably have too much weight on it. It's important to be aligned over your standing leg so you have good balance. Hope that helps some!

[@amandasummers7881]

Love this!! I've only been seriously skating for a little over a month, and ironic enough I was skating backwards outside on concrete (forgot my wrist guards at home) and low and behold hit a crack, my legs flee forward in front of me, and I fell with pretty much all my weight on my right wrist, which resulted in shattering it, so I just had surgery 10 days ago and ready to get back skating! Although I'm terrified to fall again. How do you avoid falling flat on your butt and your wrists going automatically out to catch yourself? I know you've been doing this for a long time, but have you fallen and seriously got hurt? I'm obsessed with skating but I feel quite discouraged and disheartened about such a bad injury when I'm still very new!!

[@appelusa]

Hi Amanda, oh gosh I’m so sorry to hear. I have beginner tutorials which go over safety position. I usually recommend skaters pace themselves while learning tricks and skills. Outdoor skating has a lot of obstacles. I would encourage you to practice safety position a lot- like 100 times- to get that into your muscle memory so that helpfully next time your won’t Immediately use your hand to break your fall. Unfortunate falling is a part of skating. I leaned to fall at a very young age and have probably fallen hundreds of times while competing. I have broken a wrist but it was on a synchronized team and my skate got kicked it from under me while I was skating backwards. My arms were being held by two other skaters and my free leg was also being held by a skater - so all my limbs except the foot I was standing in was being held! Anyways I’m so sorry but I’m stoked you are willing to get back at it. Start slow- and be careful outdoors! Do you have any coaches in your area?

[@amandasummers7881]

@@appelusa I've never heard of a safety position, but that's a great idea that I need to be practicing because besides the broken wrist, I've fallen 3 other times on 3 separate occasions prior to that, and every single time I fell directly on my butt, legs straight in front of me and wrists taking the weight! I don't know why I keep falling in that one same position, and it happened even when I wasn't just going backwards. It's happened going forward also when my front wheels on both feet got locked together. I've watched videos on how to fall correctly, but it seems like my falls happen so fast and hard, my mind doesn't even have time to tell my body to fall correctly. I hope that made sense lol. But I have learned that my issue initially was not bending my knees and staggering my feet outside! That was one of my major issues. And that's crazy about how you broke your bone!! I always wondered how skaters can do those synchronized stunts and not fall all over eachother lol! As far as a coach, I'm in Kansas City and don't know of any, but then again I haven't dug very deep online to check it out lately! I think I will actually look into that tomorrow ☺

[@appelusa]

Knees bent for sure. I always start skaters off in beginner basics just to make sure there are no bad habits. I taught beginner- national champions for decades. I uploaded beginner tutorials just like I would teach beginner classes on KZbin so you may wanna check them out for that safety position I mentioned. There’s a beginner 1 and 2 video. Same with intermediate series- try to go over all those as well, it also contains backwards so that’s your level. You have a big desire to skate and be good so besides tutorials you probably want to have some eyes on your alignment, especially since you are falling backwards. No pressure here but I do offer zoom one on ones. I’ll drop my email: [e-mail] My recommendation would be watch my beginner series and some intermediate ones and look into an instructor in your area, if not maybe hit me up for a zoom 😊🙏🏻

[@amandasummers7881]

@@appelusa that sounds great!!! I will definitely check those out as after this fall it shook my confidence and I think I need to backtrack a little and watch the beginner ones!! And yes that would be awesome regarding the zoom classes!!! I've made it a mission to only do drills and focusing on mastering balancing on both feet and legs for quite a long time and I'm working on crossovers for the next couple weeks also. Things that I'm very confident in and do them in my soft ground kitchen just in case there's a fall (which I've never fallen there yet, fingers crossed lol!! I think once I get my leg and core strength to an extremely good and confident spot. If I've learned anything, balance and shifting weight are two huge keys to being successful and keeping falls to a minimum.

[@appelusa]

@@amandasummers7881 that all sounds 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 speedy healing ! And happy skating! I have a mailing list for zoom classes on my linktree (IG bio) 💙

[@AdventuresoftheSoul]

Can you do a crazy leg tutorial please

[@appelusa]

Hi Goddess Sage! Yes, I did a few zoom classes on Crazy Legs variations and will be posting them publicly hopefully this week.

[@Badmomsclub]

I was really good with in-line skating but have never been good at the 4 wheeler skates??

[@appelusa]

Ya if you’re used to inlines it def feels more squirrelly!

[@antoineaaron3754]

Thank you 🙏🏿 this helped me sooooo much not to look like a rookie skater😂😂😂

[@appelusa]

You got it!!! Whoo! :)

[@NevaScaredHo]

Can you do a video on alternating backwards cross pulls? When we go backwards but alternate between the left and right side to maintain speed going backwards? I hope that made sense lol. It's what you did at 10:01 but a more detailed video. I see people do this at the rink and can't get it.

[@appelusa]

Gottcha, sure !

[@nomadichomebody4230]

Which skates are those?

[@appelusa]

Hi Nomadic, I missed a bunch of comments somehow- even though I answer all of them! I apologize- I wear Edea Classica boots and Rolline Variant plates. I also have Golden Horse Street Noble skates.

[@tracyheath6076]

The entire session here will help me with my open Mohawks and the crossover or are they called crossrolls of the Collegiate dance? Thank you

[@appelusa]

Crossrolls yes 🙌🏼

[@josephgolden9703]

Hi are you wearing any socks with them skates now

[@appelusa]

Yes I prefer socks

[@josephgolden9703]

@@appelusa ok

[@andreaisrael1726]

You just taught me so much. Thank you. What skates and wheels are you using?

[@appelusa]

Edea Classica and Rolline Variant Plate with Bones Elite 101a wheels indoor and Sure Grip Aerobic or Sure Grip Fame 98a wheels Also recommend and have Golden Horse Skates discount code Appel10 😊

[@andreaisrael1726]

@@appelusa Thank you

[@Stellarainn]

Is this the same as a crosspull?

[@appelusa]

yup!!!

[@amandasummers7881]

You touched on it a little bit towards the end of this video, but could you show us a few more styles of backwards Skating? Seems like there are quite a few that I see ppl do, but not many actual tutorials explaining how to do them. I mostly see just the basics of backwards skating tutorials. You're the only one I've seen that touches on backwards skating for intermediate to advanced.

[@appelusa]

Great idea! I will queue that :)

[@amandasummers7881]

@@appelusa yay!!!! Thank you so much!!! I can't wait to see it!!

[@MallyMalTries]

My brain can’t compute the directions

[@appelusa]

I hope you get it soon! Maybe another instructor will click for you 🙏🏼😊

[@MallyMalTries]

@@appelusa update I figured it out. Just was frustrated that day since it was a new technique. I still struggle with finding that balance point on my weak side so that it doesn’t feel awkward to initiate

[@briandixtyree]

It looks like she is going to break her knee?😮

[@bluecavemen]

Someone skip leg day lol

[@appelusa]

ha

[@roieverettkellyizaguirre7186]

This is a nice tutorial, but I think if this is an advanced backward skating class, these moves should be done at speed in an open space, preferrably in a roller rink. If you want to learn advanced techniques watch the olympic speed ice skaters, short track and long track, and, of course, the professional hockey players. Also go to a roller rink which is known for its really, really good skaters, and ask management when these guys skate. Then watch them closely. You can learn so much from them.

[@appelusa]

This video was recorded during the pandemic when my family roller rink, where I’ve taught for 20 years closed. Skaters wanted to learn and KZbin was the only platform for coaching, as well as IG live. They were learning in their kitchens, basements, and living rooms. Sadly Skateland never re-opened and my family rink closed permanently due to the pandemic. If I had a choice I would be coaching in a rink indoor or outdoor. Now that things are re-open that’s where I teach ✌🏻 These videos can be used to practice anywhere by the way.

[@BucketsOfCool]

Love revisiting your page as my skating evolves! Thanks for being a great teacher and source of inspiration! 🎉🛼

[@appelusa]

Hey EJM!! Thanks so much for letting me know! It truly makes my day 😊🙏🏻 happy skating!!! 🛼

[@Azirrmain]

You kinda look like elon musk if he was a she.

[@appelusa]

That is quite the comment! I can't say I disagree?

[@Azirrmain]

Lol sorry if I insulted you or anything I meant it in a good way

[@appelusa]

@@Azirrmain Aw thanks for clarifying - I didn't really think it was an insult, just unexpected haha! It's definitely a new one!