Ice Skating Training Facilities
San Diego Figure Skating Communications
The Ultimate Ice Rink
Have you ever dreamed of winning a mega million dollar lottery? If you did win a fortune and could afford to build your own ice skating rink, what amenities would you equipped it with?
Would you go green to protect the environment, reduce the facilities'
carbon foot print, and conserve energy?
The increasing power costs requires conservation measures such as insulation and efficient refrigeration equipment. Some concepts involve using the off peak hours to run the refrigeration equipment at full power to supper chill the coolant and store it for use during the daytime peak hours of electric usage. Some other ideas include the green generation of power on site such as photovoltaic panels.
How would you market such a facility?
Broadening the client base to include multiple ice activities and related services would help to maximize public and private participation necessary to generate revenues over a 24 hour hour, 7 day a week, 52 week per year operating basis.
Providing support training facilities for weight training, body conditioning, flexibility, and agility has a broad interest in the community besides the basic contingency of skaters who patronize the skating facility.
Many families include members who have interests besides skating. These include gymnastics, swimming, handball/squash courts, plus dance - ballroom, modern, hip hop, and ballet.
A Rink Organization Committee
The process of developing a plan to construct a rink funded with public funding starts with forming a planning committee.
World Class Skating Training Centers
A figure skating training center usually have at least two to three sheets of ice, elite skating coaches, top skaters, off-ice training, and special programs geared towards creating skating champions.
The programs at skating training centers
are designed to
meet the needs of first time skating competitors, intermediate
and advanced skaters, and national, world, and Olympic ice
skating champions. There generally are weight training, fitness, and
conditioning rooms, plus ballet, modern and ballroom dance studios for
Elite skaters are drawn to facilities where
they can experience comprehensive training in
one place. Prominent and famous ice skating coaches also are necessary
to attract and retain skaters to the
facility. The desire to training at the facility usually start with
attending important skating events or competitions at the skating venue.
Examples of the more famous skating
training centers in the world include the Colorado Springs World Arena
Ice Hall, University of
Delaware's Ice Skating Science Development Center, the International
Skating Center of Connecticut, and Lake Placid International
Training Center in Lake Placid, New York.
These ice skating training centers have as their primary focus, the experienced athlete. The ice time for figure skaters is scheduled to allow freestyle, ice dancing, and pair skating practice sessions arranged by the skill levels of the the skaters. Jump harnesses, video and/or Dartfish stop motion videography is usually available. Power skating classes and off-ice conditioning classes are offered. Other activities include specialty ice skating classes, programs, seminars, or figure skating workshops.National Hockey Center - St. Cloud State University
Dec. 14, 2009 ... The National Hockey Center, which is located on the south end of the SCSU ... and fitness center and the National Hockey Center Athletic Training.
Mid-America Speed Skating - Links
It is one of the few indoor 400 meter speed skating ovals in the world and is the official training center of the US Olympic Speed Skating Team.
The following internet links have been gleaned from personal communications
combined with information from public institutions and athletic organizations/
associations that have a web presence with information concerning team and
individual sports programs:
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