Double push

The double- push technique is a variation of ice step, which is mainly used for inline speedskating. Here, the skate is initially not as laterally issued during normal skating step, but under the body to allow an additional mark on the outside edge before the normal imprint on the inner edge. Chad Hedrick has this technique first used in 1993 in a competition and in 1994 dominated the international competitions for several years. Whether Hedrick has invented the technique itself or it has not already been practiced by the Dutch in the rain, is controversial. Today, this technique is used in inline speed skating by all runners of the world's best.

A successful transfer of this technique to the speed skating has not yet succeeded. For skating cross-country skiing the double- push was adapted, the use is due to the high technical requirements, but only a very limited extent.

Double -Push inline skating

The Double Push inline skating can be divided into the following phases that follow when considering a leg on each other in roughly:

The phase sequences of both legs overlap. While the imprint on the inner edge of the fitting of the other skates done. Then the patch Skate describes an S-shape. In contrast to the classical technique of skate describes a small arc inside. During the now following impression on the outer edge of the other skate is lifted. Rolling the skate will now describe an arc towards the outside, where the effected "normal " imprint on the inner edge.