Ages 6 & Up

  1. Basic Skills
  2. Free Skate

Classes teach the FUNdamentals of ice skating and provide the best foundation for figure skating and hockey. Six progressive levels introduce forward and backward skating, stops, edges, crossovers, and turns. All classes will be well-structured with a focus on proper skill development taught in a positive, FUN, and social environment. After the completion of Basic 4, skaters are encouraged to purchase their own figure skates and enroll in our Aspire class if they wish to pursue training as a figure skater and transfer to Learn to Play if they wish to pursue hockey.

Basic 1

Beginners with no previous instruction or experience are introduced to basic skills, including falling, standing, marching, dips, basic gliding, rocking horse swizzle, and backward wiggles. On-ice and off-ice instruction is used to build confidence.

Basic 2

Skaters learn moving dips, basic gliding, backward wiggles, forward swizzles, beginning snow plow stop motion, and two-foot hops in place.

Basic 3

Skaters learn beginning forward stroking, forward pumps on a circle, forward to backward two-foot turns on a circle, backward one-foot glides, backward snowplow stop, and forward slalom.

Basic 4

Skaters learn forward outside and inside edges on a circle, forward crossovers, backward pumps on a circle, backward one-foot glides, T-stop and T-push, and forward lunges. After the completion of Basic 4, skaters are encouraged to purchase their own figure skates and enroll in our Aspire class if they wish to pursue training as a figure skater and transfer to Learn to Play if they wish to pursue hockey.

Basic 5

Skaters learn backward stroking, backward outside and inside edges on a circle, backward crossovers, forward outside three-turn, and hockey stop. Skaters are encouraged to enroll in our Aspire class along with Basic 5.

Basic 6

Skaters learn forward inside mohawk, forward inside three-turn, backward to forward two-foot turns, two-foot spin, and bunny hop. Skaters are encouraged to enroll in our Aspire class along with Basic 6.