Zigzag Knee Bend Double Pole – Beginner

The zigzag knee bend double pole drill might be the very best way to start skate skiing. It’s prefect for beginners who struggle with balance and learning their very first skate pushes. You can even use this drill to learn “Cheating One Skate (V2)” which is a fun way for beginners to get started with skate skiing.

Zigzag Knee Bend Double Pole – Advanced

Use the Zigzag Knee Bend double pole drill to develop the preload, enhance edging power and improve timing.

Learn Diagonal Skate

A simple progression for learning diagonal skate, a climbing technique where the poles and skis work in opposition. Diagonal skate is useful for keeping your heart rate down when skate skiing uphill and can improve your uphill skate push.

Diagonal Skate – Offset (🇺🇸 V1) Mixer

Alternating diagonal skate and offset (V1) can improve body position and help balance out your uphill skate push. Try this drill if you feel that one of your legs works much better than the other when you offset up hills.

Emmanuel – Diagonal Stride Technique Feedback

This video explores Emmanuel’s diagonal stride, highlighting key landmarks, a late kick, and simple cues like the invisible wall and stride triangle to keep the stride moving forward.

Framework for Assessing One Skate (🇺🇸V2) Timing and Rhythm

Timing issues in One Skate often show up as “legs too fast, hands too slow”. This video walks through 6 places in the stride where you might have a timing-related issue and helps you understand where you have room for improvement.

Kyle – Diagonal Stride Technique Feedback

Kyle’s diagonal stride is already very strong, which shows how solid fundamentals open up new options for refining technique. This video explores how to move beyond the basics by deepening shin angles to increase forward positioning and eliminating the “pop” that wastes energy during the kick. By focusing on directing all your power into forward momentum rather than upward movement, you can develop a more efficient, energetic rhythm and better control over how you set your wax pocket.

The Outside-In Skate Push

Use an imaginary line in the snow to set a better pushing angle in one skate. If your skate push is too sideways, this can help you develop a stronger backwards angle to your push.

The Arrow Cue

A trouble shooting strategy for working on the details of your skate push by deconstructing the beginning, middle and end of the skate push and working on the details of each component before tying it all back together.

One Skate (🇺🇸 V2) Explainer and Guide

This course is our most important One Skate (🇺🇸V2) video and resource page because breaks down the technique into easy to understand phases, explains what matters most, and serves as a navigational hub to help you quickly find drills and other other content specific to your needs.