Skating (2)

Skating lessons teach you to move confidently on the ice: balance, pushing off, stopping, turning and skating backwards. The coach starts with falling and getting back up, because once a fall is no longer frightening, a skater dares to move more freely and learns faster.

Skating is learned by children and by adults who want to feel more secure on the ice, sometimes also as preparation for hockey or figure skating. In the first lessons people often hold on to a support, later they practise gliding freely and in different directions. After a few months many pick a specific discipline or stay recreational skaters.

Ask beforehand whether lessons take place at an indoor ice rink or an outdoor one, whether skates and a helmet can be rented and how big the group is. Also find out whether the coach teaches adults too, whether the family can take lessons together and when the season starts, since outdoor ice depends on the weather.