Ice Skating

How to Build Primary Muscles Used While Skating

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Ice skating is an excellent way to build leg strength and mass. Whether playing ice hockey or speed or figure skating, you can have fun while getting a great workout and stress release. Lace up a pair of skates and hit the ice... more »

How to Ice Skate Safely

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Having fun and being safe can go hand in hand during the winter months. Prepare for an ice skating trip by purchasing the correct skates and winter clothing. Find a safe spot to skate and avoid injuries... more »

How to Paint an Ice Rink

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When you look at the ice rink during a hockey game, you can see the boundary lines and team logos through the ice. Employees do this with brightly colored paint on a plastic or cement surface... more »

How to Pick Tights for Ice Skating

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Ice skating tights are an important part of your outfit. The tights you pick may vary depending on if you are at practice or competing. The right tights might not be able to make you skate better but the wrong tights may negatively affect your ... more »

How to Sweat

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An importance of sweating is to help prolong your life. Sweating is something that does not happen for me in a general exercise regimen. Dancing, however, and extremely strenuous exercise, like playing Dance Revolution, allows me to sweat ... more »

How to Dress a Child for Ice Skating

By Elizabeth McGuire

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Indoors or out, a young ice skater needs to be dressed mindfully. A warm, comfortable child will skate longer and whine less... more »

How to Have Fun in Winter

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When Jack Frost makes his appearance, it can be easy to become a couch potato to avoid the cold. That's okay sometimes, but here are some other things you can do for fun when it's cold outside... more »

How to Skate a Figure 8

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The original focus of ice skating was an intent to carve certain shapes or figures into the ice, such as the figure 8. All later existing ice skating patterns derived from the original figure 8. Considered to be the simplest ice skating pattern, ... more »

How to Buy a Figure Skating Dress

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Figure skating is one of the most watched sports on television. The skaters often wear beautiful and sometimes odd costumes. Figure skating judges care about how well you skate and how good or bad your figure skating dress looks on you. Your ... more »

How to Fit Ice Skates

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Fitting ice skates is quite different than fitting everyday shoes. Because of their use, ice skates must be durable and stable yet flexible. You can order ice skates online or via catalog if you want skates that fit your feet exactly. Otherwise, ... more »

How to Make an Inexpensive Ice Skating Costume

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An ice skating costume can be expensive. For the beginning ice skater or the frugal family, an inexpensive ice skating costume is simple to make. Here are a few ideas... more »

How to Dress for Ice Skating

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Your average ice skater is a novice who is simply looking to have fun on the ice. Novice skaters can dress in almost any type of warm clothing and hit the ice. Professional or competitive ice skaters have an entirely different type of dress. ... more »

How to Go Ice Skating at Millennium Park, Chicago

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Winter is a magical time in Chicago. Wander the city in December and you’ll see a Christmas fair in the Daley Plaza, lights floating above Michigan Avenue and Disney characters on display in the windows of Macy’s on State. One of the best places ... more »

How to Pick Socks for Ice Skating

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Every skater will have different reasons why they prefer picking different socks for ice skating. Each person's fit in a skate is unique to their foot and not all socks work well for everyone's needs. Follow the steps below for ideas on how to ... more »

How to Practice Ice Skating Etiquette

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Follow these guidelines to make your next trip to the local ice skating rink as enjoyable as possible for you and for your fellow skaters... more »

How to Tie Ice Skates

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Learning how to tie ice skates is simple. If you skate for fun, experiment with some of the different knots and find one that suits you best. If you are a more serious ice skater, stick to traditional methods like knotted lacing. Knotted lacing ... more »

How to Choreograph a Figure Skating Routine

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Choreographing a figure skating routine takes a lot of preparation and time to complete. Not only must you know the rules of your competition, you must also be creative in imagining an appropriate and beautiful routine. A few tips can help you ... more »

How to Complete a Lutz

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The lutz jump originated in Austria in 1913, when Alois Lutz initially performed the jump. During that time, many ice skaters took the lutz to an extreme level by practicing it in opposite rotation of their other performance jumps. Today, the ... more »

How to Complete an Axel Jump

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Figure skating jumps are an integral part of any ice skating competition whether it be at a local or national level. Different judges will often retain the same criteria for determining successful jumps. Foot placement, rotation, revolutions, ... more »

How to Do the Ice Skating One-Foot Spin

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Once you are comfortable on ice skates and have learned the basics, you may want to attempt some advanced moves such as a spin. Spins can be performed on one or two feet. After you learn how to spin on two feet, you can learn the one-foot spin... more »

How to stop like the pro's on ice skates

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Shave ice like the pro's! Stopping on hockey skates is used to change directions or as a tactical ploy. Stopping requires you to trust your limits, stay in proper positioning and remain in control of your body... more »

How to Teach a Child to Inline Skate

By Elizabeth McGuire

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Learning to skate is like learning to ride a bike: Once you get it, you get it. Then the rest is all about honing your skills. For kids these skills will come in handy for neighborhood inline skating, ice skating parties, future hockey teams--or ... more »

How to do a single/double/triple loop

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So you know how to skate backwards, do some basic tricks, and now you want to learn to do a loop..... more »

How to Make a Backyard Ice Skating Rink

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Ice skating is a great recreational sport that the whole family can enjoy. The main problem is that sometimes it's hard to find a convenient rink. And, if you play hockey, you know how hard it is to get ice time to practice. Building a backyard ... more »

How to Become an Olympic Figure Skater

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Olympic figure skaters are images of grace, beauty and power as they glide over the ice and twist in the air. It takes a lot of hard work to become really good at the sport, like the athletes you see on TV. It also takes a lot of practice, the ... more »

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