Thinking about learning to skate on cross country skis? Watch this video first.

If you want to have success skate skiing then learn to classic ski first. If you want to find out if you are ready to skate ski then check out my on line cross country skiing programme at http://keithnicol.blogspot.com/2021/0... If you can classic ski with good weight transfer and can do a solid double pole then you will likely have far more success learning to skate ski than a person that has never classic skied or a classic skier that shuffles or lunges. The video links below might be of interest in terms of improving your classic skiing    • Correcting common double poling errors in ...   double poling    • Shuffling vs Striding in Classic Cross Cou...   Do you shuffle or stride?