Scooter pushes are a great warm up exercise for inline skaters and a good tool to help take basic striding to the next level of gliding on one foot with each stroke. Be sure to use a good skating posture baseline, short evenly timed strokes and bent knees.
How to Do Inline Skating Scooter Pushes
- Start with the inline skating ready position with your weight supported by the left skate.
- Angle the right skate slightly (like the duck walk) and push away from the stationery left skating foot. This should propel you forward on the left skate and will feel like the left skate is scooter "scooter" and the right skate is the pushing foot.
- Propel yourself around in a large counter clockwise circle with the left skate planted firmly on the skating surface on the circle and the right skate doing all of the work by pushing outside and away from the circle.
- Repeat the exercise in the clockwise direction using the opposite foot as the "scooter."
For a more advanced and balanced inline skating exercise, scooter pushes can be done in a figure eight pattern. Just connect the two circle exercises described above in an eight pattern, using the intersection of the two circles as the point where the pushing foot changes. Remember that your "scooter" will ride on the circle and the pushing skate will work outside of the circle.
