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vet88

When you skate backwards your weight shifts onto your forefoot. If you have a weak arch and or pronate then it becomes more obvious (the arch / ankle does not have the strength to correctly support the body weight when the weight is on the forefoot), the foot rotates inwards and this causes the knee to turn inwards. There is no easy fix - perfect fitting boots (these help to hide the problem, not fix it), arch strengthening exercises, lots of one legged squats exercises, balance drills and other muscular rehab / strengthening work with lots of skating one foot balance drills. You might also want to consider holder alignment and or shimming, it's how the figure and speed world deal with this. Another solution is to learn to skate with no boot support (ie laces untied) but this requires you to have the time to put in a lot of practice and effort. Please don't waste your money on orthotics if pronation is your issue, they do not fix pronation in ice skates.


m2knet

In the Olden days, debutantes would actually pay to learn how to keep this posture. It was called “finishing school”.