How to Register Your Figure Skater for Their First Official Test
Testing A Skater's First Test Session Your child has gone through all the Basic Skills courses, they've been taking lessons with a private coach, and now comes an important milestone:…
Champion figure skater Czisny will coach camp at BGSU
Alissa Czisny will be holding classes with on-ice and off-ice instruction, as well as private lessons, during the figure skating camp July 15-18. Skaters must qualify for special instruction. A…
International Pairs Seminar Develops Skills
International Pairs The International Skating Union (ISU) is hosting its annual pairs seminar in Novogorsk, Russia, this week, organized by esteemed Russian coach, Nina Mozer. Fifteen teams from seven nations…
Deeside Synchronised Skating Club
Among the best in the UK after season of extraordinary successes The Deeside Ice Rink based teams competed in competitions across the UK and Europe proving themselves to be a…
How to Do a One‐Foot Glide in Figure Skating
A one-foot glide is a beginning skill in ice skating. It is important in learning other skills, such as edges. Glide on two feet. Once you get to your desired speed,…
National Championships in Salt Lake City prove you’re never too old to figure skate
This will be the third time San Jose resident Connie Curry — who, at 80, is the oldest competitor — has participated. Curry was 60 when she bought her first…
Isabella Hesselton finds joy, success as synchronized skater
What is synchronized skating? The response is pretty much the same whenever Isabella Hesselton’s friends find out that she’s active and successful in synchronized skating. “They all say that they’ve…
Is age restriction for young figure skaters a good thing?
Told they're too young, several key skaters will be absent at this week's figure skating world three women on the Russian national podium, American women's champion Alyssa Liu and Canadian…
How Gracie Gold Healed from Secret Depression & Eating Disorder
Gold, an Olympic figure skating medalist, is opening up about healing from the deepest part of her clinical depression, when she felt nothing at all Darkness closed in on Gracie Gold for…
What Are the Costs of Figure Skating
I remember when I was 14 years old standing around at the rink, looking at the results of a skating test I had just completed, which I passed. I was…
