Skating Destination

You’ll Never Know Everything About Inline Skating
One of our younger club members was disappointed to hear that she would never know everything about her skating sport. She worried that if she didn’t know it all, she…

200 X Athletes Are Coming to the Maryhill Festival of Speed
Extreme athletes from around the world - including downhill skateboard, inline skating and street luge participants - are coming to Goldendale, Washington, USA from August 27-31, 2008. They re coming for…

Figure skating: Alexa Nazarko

Hackensack’s own little ice princess Alexa Nazarko skated her program to sheer perfection last month in the Girls Pre-Preliminary Freeskate event at the Central Eastern Regional championships held in …

FIRS Takes Care of Olympic Business in Beijing
Federation Internationale de Roller Sports President, Sabatino Aracu, has sent us all a letter from the XXIX Olympic Games in Beijing. The purpose was to let roller sports athletes, supporters…

Welcome to U.S. Figure Skating

U.S. Figure Skating announced today that icenetwork.com, a joint partnership between U.S. Figure Skating and MLB Advanced Media, has secured the exclusive U.S. broadband rights for the 2008-09 International …

200 X Athletes Are Coming to the Maryhill Festival of Speed
Extreme athletes from around the world - including downhill skateboard, inline skating and street luge participants - are coming to Goldendale, Washington, USA from August 27-31, 2008. They re coming for…

Olympic Gold Medalist Donates To Maine Cancer Center

The Harold Alfond Center for Cancer Care has received a $25,000 donation from Olympic gold medal figure skater Scott Hamilton.

Moscow Was Freestyle World Championship Host
On July 25-27, 2008, Moscow hosted the final event in the 2008 Freestyle World Championship series. This was the main event of the year for the International Freestyle Skaters Association….

Hitting the ice

Rachel Murphy, 13, of Westminster practices her routine before a figure skating competition Saturday, Aug.

Jones wins two gold medals at U.S. figure skating event (Honolulu Advertiser)
Honolulu’s Jennifer Jones earned two gold medals and a silver at the U.S. National Showcase Figure Skating Championships in Rochester, Minn., this month.

How to Really Fly on Small Round Wings
Coastal Florida is getting drenched as Tropical Storm Fay zig-zags through the state, but a couple of 15 year-old skaters found a way to use the energy from the storm….

YOUR TUBE: Special effects, pyrotechnics make for skating video even dad can like (Colorado Springs Gazette)
My teenage son is constantly trying to get me to watch skate videos - skaters jumping down staircases or flipping their boards in all sorts of ways and remarkably landing on them. Not interested. Then he played this one, a skate video full of pyrotechnics and special effects.

Larisa Builds Skaters and Paints Skating
Larisa Gendernalik is Master Rated by the Professional Skaters Association, and teaches figures, freestyle, field moves, and choreography. But her interest in and illustrations of recreational and technical inline and…

Olympic Gold Medalist Donates To Maine Cancer Center

The Harold Alfond Center for Cancer Care has received a $25,000 donation from Olympic gold medal figure skater Scott Hamilton.

Dance floods TV; Amateurs soft shoe to studios

Turn on the TV: There’s Comfort, lunging backward like it’s the forward thing to do, and Gev twirling on his head, b-boy style.

Dance floods TV; Amateurs soft shoe to studios

Turn on the TV: There’s Comfort, lunging backward like it’s the forward thing to do, and Gev twirling on his head, b-boy style.

Hitting the ice

Rachel Murphy, 13, of Westminster practices her routine before a figure skating competition Saturday, Aug.

Skate club gets racers up to speed

Local members grabbed titles in a national competition. His name is Jordan Felter.

Moscow Was Freestyle World Championship Host
On July 25-27, 2008, Moscow hosted the final event in the 2008 Freestyle World Championship series. This was the main event of the year for the International Freestyle Skaters Association….

FIRS Takes Care of Olympic Business in Beijing
Federation Internationale de Roller Sports President, Sabatino Aracu, has sent us all a letter from the XXIX Olympic Games in Beijing. The purpose was to let roller sports athletes, supporters…

March that could bring back skating

THOUSANDS of you have backed calls for a new ice rink in Southampton and now campaigners are urging everyone to show their support by marching through the city.

Welcome to U.S. Figure Skating

The second annual Lake Placid Figure Skating Basic Skills Weekend took place Aug.

Welcome to U.S. Figure Skating

At least 13 U.S. synchronized teams will compete in five different international competitions this season, traveling to Czech Republic, France, Italy, Hungary and China.

Get Tips From Your Own Olympic Personal Trainer
Pole vaulter Sergey Bubka, runner Hicham El Guerrouj, swimmer Rania Elwani and swimmer Alexander Popov are not inline skaters, but they have valuable advice to share that can benefit any…

The Games Have Started Wish Inline Skating Was There
The 2008 Summer Olympic Games have started and I wish inline skating was included in the events. The Beijing Games will showcase the Olympics as a gathering of many bright…

Judging even worse than figure skating

As I’m sure all of you know, watching gymnastics is my life. I sweat gymnastics.

Dance floods TV; Amateurs soft shoe to studios

Turn on the TV: There’s Comfort, lunging backward like it’s the forward thing to do, and Gev twirling on his head, b-boy style.

Let’s start a new ice age

That is the message as the Daily Echo today launches a new bid to bring ice skating back to Southampton - 20 years after the city’s Top Rank rink closed down.

Get Tips From Your Own Olympic Personal Trainer
Pole vaulter Sergey Bubka, runner Hicham El Guerrouj, swimmer Rania Elwani and swimmer Alexander Popov are not inline skaters, but they have valuable advice to share that can benefit any…

Dance floods TV; Amateurs soft shoe to studios

Turn on the TV: There’s Comfort, lunging backward like it’s the forward thing to do, and Gev twirling on his head, b-boy style.

Hockey floor presents a challenge unto itself (Rapid City Journal)
RAPID CITY Putting together an arena to house an expansion hockey team is one thing, but construction of the skating surface is nearly as complex.

Burning up the ice

Figure skaters Jessica Radzak and Mariah Burroughs warm up before their practice session Wednesday afternoon.

Judging even worse than figure skating

As I’m sure all of you know, watching gymnastics is my life. I sweat gymnastics.

Skate club gets racers up to speed

Local members grabbed titles in a national competition. His name is Jordan Felter.

City ice rink could help us discover new Torvill and Dean

PURE GOLD: Torvill and Dean, and left in 1984. SKATING experts say a new ice rink in Southampton could help find future Olympic heroes like Torvill and Dean.

TRIVIA: More to Olympics than gymnastics, figure skating

We are in the midst of another Olympics. Yippee. I used to be a big fan of the Olympics.

Figure skating: Alexa Nazarko

Hackensack’s own little ice princess Alexa Nazarko skated her program to sheer perfection last month in the Girls Pre-Preliminary Freeskate event at the Central Eastern Regional championships held in …

How to Really Fly on Small Round Wings
Coastal Florida is getting drenched as Tropical Storm Fay zig-zags through the state, but a couple of 15 year-old skaters found a way to use the energy from the storm….