Originally Posted by Bothcoasts

In order to improve your stroking so that you're more comfortable skating on one foot, practice one-foot glides that do not involve pushing/gliding at the same time:

1) Stroke around the rink to pick up speed.

2) Glide on two feet with your feet no more than shoulder width apart, your knees bent, and your arms out.

3) Lean your weight to one side while remaining on two feet.

4) Pick straight up the foot that you're not leaning on. Do not push it or attempt to stroke with it--just imagine that you're a puppet, and someone is pulling that foot up vertically.

The longer you're able to hold one-foot glides as described above, the better you'll be able to hold stroking pushes as well.