Inline Skating tips and tricks.................................
Crossover
1. When you approach the start of a wide, curved section of the trail, lift your outside skate about 6 inches off the pavement.
2. To cross the outside skate over top of the inside skate, keep your weight forward and hands out front.
3. Bend slightly with your inside knee.
4. Cross your outside skate over top of your inside skate while keeping your skates about 8 inches apart at all times. The movement should be like drawing an arc of a circle with the tip of your outside skate. Be careful to keep your skates a safe distance apart so you don’t clip the rear of your outside skate with the front of your inside skate.
5. Let your outside skate land flat on the pavement about 12 inches out in front of your inside skate. Now, the outside skate is leading and the inside skate is trailing.
6. To move the inside skate back in front of the outside skate, lift the inside skate, which is the trailing skate, about 3 inches off the pavement.
7. Move it straight ahead.
8. Place it flat on the surface in front of the outside skate.
9. Drop into a staggered stance to complete the crossover. The inside skate is now the leading skate and the outside skate is now the trailing skate again. You are now back at the home position. The heel of your inside foot should be aligned with the toes of your outside foot and about 3 inches apart.
10. To link three crossover turns, repeat this leading and trailing exchange of your outside and inside skates at least three times around a sweeping bend in the trail.