If you are comfortable standing and "walking" with skikes on your feet, then you can now practice braking!Go to a preferably even and paved path to:1. put on your skikes and poles2. place feet at shoulder-width and parallel to each other3. keep your legs straight, you should feel the brake touching the rear wheel4. place the both poles tips next to the outer side of both front wheels5. bend your knees and push using the poles, you are now moving6. to brake, just straighten your legs again slowly until you feel the brake touching the wheel7. repeat steps 2-6 until you are comfortable braking at about 8 km/hYour confident with the brake when you can roll down slopes and control your speed!