Offset (🇺🇸 V1) Explainer and Guide

This is the most important Offset (🇺🇸 V1) video because it explains why offset works the way it does and what matters most in this technique, plus it serves as a reference guide, helping you navigate to the offset videos that best match your needs.

Jump Skate: How to Lift and Redirect Your Ski

Jump skate is a sprint variation of one skate where the ski lifts off the snow and redirects between the glide and push phases. Follow along with a step-by-step progression from single-ski hops to the full technique. For experienced skiers.

Matt – Offset (🇺🇸 V1) and One Skate (🇺🇸 V2)

An examination of Offset (🇺🇸 V2) to One Skate (🇺🇸 V1). Topics covered: hand position and use of upper body in Offset and balance and timing in One Skate.

Judy – One Skate (🇺🇸 V2)

Judy has a strong skate push and now it’s time for her to work on getting her body positioned over her glide ski more fully.

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.

Before you give up skate skiing, watch this.

Tips and words of encouragement for struggling skate skiers. Reviews how gear and foot pressure can hinder learning. Charts a learning journey that balances practicing pushing and edging along with balance and gliding.

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.

Ashley – First Time Skate Skier Learns One Skate (🇺🇸 V2) Poling

Watch first time skate skier, Ashley, learn the basics of One Skate timing, pushing the poles with every leg push. She learned 3 skate techniques in 2 days: Free Skate, One Skate and Diagonal Skate.

Jackie – One Skate (🇺🇸 V2) Technique Feedback

This video explores Jackie’s one skate (V2) with side and front views, from compact arm angles to cleaner pole plants at the front and a smoother follow-through.

Lori – Diagonal Stride Technique Feedback

This video explores Lori’s diagonal stride, highlighting weight-forward balance, a right-left difference in tail lift, and what that says about timing and glide. Coach Dasha leads a short at-home progression with to sync soft knees, ankle flexion and opposite arm-leg swing.

Update & Simplify Your Double Pole

Refine your double poling technique for more efficient, simpler movements and greater comfort. Learn how to adjust weight distribution, shin angle, and hand positioning while avoiding unnecessary movement. Simple doesn’t mean easy—it takes practice to make every motion count.

What are the Best Cues for the Diagonal Stride Leg Push?

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How to Grab Another Skier’s Pole

Do you watch ski racing? Have your noticed a skier in a downhill tuck grab onto the pole of the skier in front? Learn when and how that’s done and then try it next time you go skiing.

Klæbo vs. Chanavat: What Makes Klæbo’s Double Pole Tempo Faster?

Comparison of double poling technique in 2 world class athletes in a sprint race, looking for insights into differences in tempo.

Learn to Adjust Your Double Pole Timing

Learn to adjust the recovery phase of your double poling to either speed up or slow down the hands. Different timing strategies can help you optimize your technique for different situations.

Pro Glide Striding (Advanced)

Advanced classic skiers have a unique feature to their classic stride that extends their glide and helps set them up in a better position to grip the snow for the next push. This video teaches a drill that more advanced skiers can use to learn this skill.

Brent – Diagonal Stride Technique Feedback

Brent does an excellent job of getting the tail of his ski off the snow. The next steps are to work on his overall position and how his leg recovers. This video references the “Anchor and Swing” cue the concept of the “Pendulum Way” versus the “Running Way” of recovering the leg.

Give a Feed, Take a Feed

Advice for both volunteers and racers to help make feed stations speedy and spill-free.

What’s the best way to edge a skate ski?

In One Skate (🇺🇸 V2), Two Skate (🇺🇸 V2 Alternate) and Free Skate the ski works through two stages: first it glides flat and then it edges for the push. How should you transition the ski onto it’s inside edge? There are 2 options: the easy way and the hard way.

What’s the best way to push a skate ski?

Both force and leverage contribute to the skate push, but you can adjust them to better suit different situations. Learn how.

Courtney – Offset (🇺🇸V1) Technique Feedback

Topics covered: Stepping up the hill, pole positioning, powerful use of core and poles, how much to rotate.

Serial Skate Drills

A 20-30 minute structured practice session, suitable for intermediate to advanced skate skiers. A series of 4 drills, each with a different focus, then time to integrate the skills into smooth powerful skate skiing.