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National Skating Month 2025

Basic skating techniques

A one-page tip sheet from U.S. Figure Skating's National Skating Month: falling and getting up, edges, swizzles, glides, crossovers and stops. Click or tap the sheet to see it full size.

National Skating Month 2025 flyer from Learn to Skate USA, titled Basic Techniques, with tips for new skaters

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Each one takes a skill from the sheet and walks through it step by step, written for adult skaters.

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A skater gliding low in a deep knee bend, arms out for balance

How to fall safely on ice (and get back up)

Bend your knees, get low and go down to the side, then the steps for getting back on your feet.

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A figure skating blade on white, seen from the side with the engraving showing

Inside and outside edges

What the inside and outside edges are, and why so much of skating comes down to them.

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Two adult skaters in Adults Skate Too tees standing on the ice at a rink

How to skate backward

Backward wiggles, backward swizzles and the stages after them, for adults learning to skate backward.

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Two adult skaters stroking across a practice session at a rink

How to do crossovers

How skaters carry speed around a curve, forward and backward.

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