Premium Classes for Ice Center
Adult Freestyle
Ages: 16+
Description:
Adult Freestyle
Skills Taught: Basic skating skills for stroking, backward skating, footwork, and spins.
Goal: Progress at skater’s own pace within a class.
Prerequisite: Age 18 years
Adult Hockey
Ages: 18+
Description:
Adult Hockey
Skills Taught: Forward skating, crossovers, back C-cuts, power turns, edgework and drills.
Goal: Adult skater learns beginning through advanced hockey skating skills. Progress at skater’s own pace within a class.
Prerequisite: Age 18 years
Cosmic Skater
Ages: 4+
Description:
Cosmic Skater
Previous lessons required
Skating for older beginners or younger beginners with skating skills. Skills Taught: Forward glide, stroke, crossovers, one-foot snowplow stop, T-stop, backward swizzles, one-foot glides, pumps, three-turns, lunge, forward spirals, pivots, one-foot spin (4 rev.), waltz jump, forward inside and outside edges.
Goal: Skater demonstrates understanding of the form of the element, with correct body positions and use of edges.
Badges: Six badges earned.
Prerequisite: Completion of Critters Can Skate
Critters Can Skate
Ages: 3+
Description:
Critters Can Skate
For children 4 and up
Skating for beginner skaters. Skills Taught: Fall, get up, stand, walk, march, glide, table top, frog hop, snowplow stop, beetle, backward wiggle, stop, dip, two-foot spiral, scooter, pivots, forward swizzles, airplane turns, backward skate, forward skate into one foot glide, bunny hops.
Goal: Skater demonstrates understanding of the idea of the elements and how to complete them.
Badges: Five badges earned.
Prerequisite: Age 4
Hockey Trax 1, 2 & 3
Ages: 0+
Description:
Hockey Trax 1
For children 4 and up
Hockey skating skills for first-time hockey skaters through first year Mites. Skills Taught: Basic skating skills, back C-cuts, hockey turns, stops.
Goal: Skater demonstrates understanding of the idea of the elements and how to complete them.
Badges: Five badges earned.
Prerequisite: Age 4 years
Hockey Trax 2
Previous lessons required
Hockey skating skills for second and third year Mites. Hockey equipment worn. Skills Taught: Focus on edge work, balance and increased strength for power skating.
Goal: Skater demonstrates understanding of the idea of the elements and how to complete them.
Badges: Four badges earned.
Prerequisite: Completion of Hockey Trax 1 curriculum or equivalent skills.
Hockey Trax 3
Previous lessons required
Hockey skating skills for fourth year Mites through Squirts. Hockey equipment worn. Skills Taught: Intense edge work, fine tuning of body positions while performing elements and increasing speed through turns.
Goal: Skater demonstrates presentation of elements with power and agility.
Badges: Five badges earned.
Prerequisite: Completion of Hockey Trax 2 curriculum or equivalent skills.
Parent and Little Skater (PALS)
Ages: 3 - 7
Description:
Parent and Little Skater (PALS)
For children age 3
For young child with adult. Both learn basic skating elements. Adult is shown teaching methods. Skills Taught: Fall, get up, stand, walk, march, glide, table top, frog hop, beetle, backward wiggle, stop, dip. Skills taught first with the adult assisting the child and then with the child sating independently.
Goal: Independence on the ice.
Badges: Five badges earned.
Prerequisite: Age 3