CanSkate Program returns to Neepawa

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Neepawa Figure Skating Club

Are you new to Canada? Are you interested in learning one of Canada’s favourite pastimes for our long winters? Canadians love to skate, both indoors and outdoors in the winter time! Neepawa is very lucky to have a wonderful facility, The Yellowhead Centre, where you can learn to skate!

The Neepawa Figure Skating Club organizes and runs a program called CanSkate.

The CanSkate program is Canada’s best and longest

running Learn-to-Skate program. The well-organized and extensive curriculum as laid out by Skate Canada introduces a healthy, lifelong sport to kids at any age whether you want to start at three or 12 or whether you just want to

just learn to skate or improve your skating skills. The curriculum for this program is based on Sport Canada’s long term athlete development (LTAD) principles and was designed with all ice sports in mind.

Contrary to popular belief CanSkate is NOT a figure skating program, it is a learn-to-skate program. CanSkate teaches the foundation skills that all types of skaters need to be successful in their sport. Whether you want to be a hockey player, a ringette star, a speed skater, a figure skater or you just want to learn to skate, the CanSkate program teaches the basic skills one needs to learn in order to be able to skate. You learn to balance on your skates by falling down and getting up, doing slalom around pylons or learning proper forward and backward crossovers.

You learn how to be in control on your skates by skating backward, gliding on one or two feet and how to stop a variety of different ways. You also learn how to be agile on your feet! Whether you are doing a quick turn, a step turn, turning forward or backward or glide turns, any type of turn is vital in ice sports particularly hockey!

If you are interested in giving CanSkate a try, come on out for a free session on Friday, Oct. 10 from 5:45-6:30 at the Yellowhead Centre. If you already know you want to join our CanSkate program, head over to the Neepawa Figure Skating Club’s Facebook page and register your child today! Deadline to register is Oct. 28.