Adult Figure Skating Clinic - Nottingham

[Iced Cookie]

Just wondered if anyone had been to one of these?  there's one on Sunday 20/01/13 and I'm a little  tempted

[schnapped]

I went a couple of times last year with my husband. 

The format for both was similar, but they varied the sessions a little.  There were 4 hour long sessions, 3 on ice and 1 off ice, with small breaks in between.  Trying to recall now - I think 1 was general skills, 1 was a choice between jumps or dance, 1 was spinning and a wrap up and for the off ice, the first time we went it was artistic expression stuff and the other was stretching.  Hard work, if like us you're only used to being on the ice for a couple of hours max, but well worth it - we gained so much from them.  Good coaches and there are enough of them for the groups to be quite small & you're divided out into ability levels.  For the first one, we'd both just passed Skate UK Level 10 and coped fine.  The other people taking the clinic were very friendly and welcoming too.

Hoping to go to the next one, but we've just had kittens and we need to get someone to pop in to feed them as we live quite a way away!  Hopefully we'll see you there!

[skatey]

I've been to quite a few of these and can highly recommend them.  Certainly the best value for money adult camp there is.  Although it helps that it's not too far for me to travel!


On ice sessions are usually split into 3 groups by ability.  Typically, the easy group will cover Skate UK levels and the hard group will have people who are learning lutz or axel.  The groups are split per-session on the ice, for example, in the jumps session they will ask you what jumps you want to work and and put you in a group accordingly.  In the other sessions you will be re-grouped, so if you're jumps are weak you won't be "stuck" in the lower group for the other sessions.


The only thing I would say is that they do seem to be geared more towards free skating than dance.  Although at some of the camps, some have specifically requested to do dance and the coaches are happy to accomodate that - it may depend on numbers.  If you wanted to do dance, you might be best to see if you can speak with one of the coaches for more info.


Hope that helps.

[Iced Cookie]

Thanks for your replies guys Sounds good especially for the cost so I'll get my name down tomorrow whilst I'm there.  I'm hoping that my house purchase completes by then so i'll only be 0.8 miles away so not too far to travel!

[Summershaz]

I went to one last year and it was great fun, it is more centred to free and I second what skatey has put about assessing what you can do but changing it if you're better at spins than jumps.


Enjoy, I'd be going but from where I've moved to its now too much of a trek 

[LolaRose]

There are 3 sections:
*skills/basics (exercises to enhance jumps/spins)
*technical (steps for jump/spins, sequences for free, moves & exercises for dance)
*off ice (body conditioning/strengthening & jump rotation exercises
there's 3 hours on ice 2.30-3.30, 3.45-4.45, 6.15-7.15 and 1 hour off ice 5-6

[Iced Cookie]

I went to one last year and it was great fun, it is more centred to free and I second what skatey has put about assessing what you can do but changing it if you're better at spins than jumps.


Enjoy, I'd be going but from where I've moved to its now too much of a trek 

My spins not including back spin really need attention and so do my jumps so hopefully it will do me some good

There are 3 sections:
*skills/basics (exercises to enhance jumps/spins)
*technical (steps for jump/spins, sequences for free, moves & exercises for dance)
*off ice (body conditioning/strengthening & jump rotation exercises
there's 3 hours on ice 2.30-3.30, 3.45-4.45, 6.15-7.15 and 1 hour off ice 5-6

Have you done one LolaRose? 

ps welcome back!  have you made it back into lessons yet?

[LolaRose]

ar thanks I think I have a lesson on Tuesday... but even if my coach cant do it I will get some group lessons booked and when the feb course starts i'll either book on passport plus or dance silver annnnnd if the snow lays off im thinking of doing adult dev on wednesday so iv got some lessons planned! I was meant to come sat/sun morning to get back into it, but im jetlagged and got up too late both days! was gutted!

im behind with where everyones at so how's the lessons going? and no iv not done our adult clinic yet, its always clashed with other stuff iv got going off unfortunately, but I checked the schedule for you and the online info I know people that have done them and they always have good things to say about it, not sure who is doing the coaching but i dont think it would matter, we have some lovely coaches. did you book on?

[Iced Cookie]

ar thanks I think I have a lesson on Tuesday... but even if my coach cant do it I will get some group lessons booked and when the feb course starts i'll either book on passport plus or dance silver annnnnd if the snow lays off im thinking of doing adult dev on wednesday so iv got some lessons planned! I was meant to come sat/sun morning to get back into it, but im jetlagged and got up too late both days! was gutted!

im behind with where everyones at so how's the lessons going? and no iv not done our adult clinic yet, its always clashed with other stuff iv got going off unfortunately, but I checked the schedule for you and the online info I know people that have done them and they always have good things to say about it, not sure who is doing the coaching but i dont think it would matter, we have some lovely coaches. did you book on?

Jet lagged? you lucky thing!   I forgot to book onto the course totally went out of my head whilst I was at the rink lol  I'll do it tomorrow

I'm not doing the group lessons at the minute I'm taking a breather and waiting for my daughter to catch up. I did go to my first adult dev on Wednesday which was fun but really difficult I'm really looking forward to the next though so i may see you there