I bet when you learned backwards skating you didn’t do this. A slow-motion backwards stride, mimicking the normal forwards skating movement. Almost everyone starts learning #backwardsskating keeping both skates on the ground all the time (doing lemons/bubbles or half lemon/bubble shapes. I call that the “Backwards Butt Wiggle”😬 Imagine being a beginner and trying to skate forwards keeping both skates on the ground. It doesn’t work well forwards. To get going from scratch, this lifting stride is