Arenas

Warm Clothes

• Long pants, jacket, long socks, gloves or mittens.
• Knee & elbow pads (optional)

Helmets

• Available to rent from our skate shops.
• CSA approved hockey, ski or snowboard helmets are mandatory for all participants.
• Helmets with face shields are highly recommended.

Skates

• Available to rent from our skate shops.
• Figure skates, hockey or recreational skates are recommended.
• Skates should provide good ankle support.
• Sharpen skate blades prior to the first day of lessons. New skates do not come sharpened.
• Skate sharpening is available at our skate shops.

Arrive 30 minutes before your lesson, to allow enough time to get your child’s equipment on or secure rentals. We ask that a guardian remains in the building during all lessons. For safety reasons staff are unable to leave the ice and assist your child.

Please meet instructors in the skate lobby.

Please bring any previous skating report cards on the first day of lessons to help place your child in the appropriate lesson level.

Husky Pup

No previous skating experience; enjoy the ice with your child through activities that focus on an introduction to ice, balance, marching, falling down, and standing up.

Harp Seal

No previous skating experience. Introduction to standing unassisted, toe touches, and marching steps.

Penguin

Stand and balance unassisted. Introduction to side steps, scraping one foot, gliding, and two-footed jumps.

Arctic Hare

Focus on forward skating, gliding, scraping two feet, and introduction to backward walking.

Arctic Fox

Focus on forward skating with speed and control, snow plow stop, and backward skating. Introduction to forward sculling.

Snow Leopard

Learn backward skating with speed and control, 1-foot gliding (left and right), sculling consecutively, and introduction to backward gliding.

Polar Bear

Build backward skills in stopping, skating in circles, and introduction to pumping and side stopping.

Arctic Wolf

Develop skills on inside and outside edges, side stop, forward crossovers and backward side stop.

Snowy Owl

Build skills on inside and outside edges, 2-footed turn-in-motion, backward pumping and forward crossovers.

Skate Kids Level 1

Beginner level for children who have never had lessons. Introduction to forward and backward walking, falling down safely, turning, 2-footed jumping, side steps, and scraping.

Skate Kids Level 2

Focus on 2-footed forward skating, backward skating, and introduction to stopping, v-pushes, forward sculling, and gliding around cones.

Skate Kids Level 3

Introduction to forward and backward sculling, pumping, gliding, and snow plowing.

Skate Kids Level 4

Focus on backward stopping, pumping, sculling, and 1-foot gliding. Introduction to forward crossovers, inside edges, and turn-in-motion.

Skate Kids Level 5

Focus on inside edges, crossovers, stopping, transitioning from forward to backward, and backward gliding.

Skate Kids Level 6

Build outside edges, backward crossovers, single-foot parallel stop, figure 8 crossovers, power pushes, and forward Mohawk.