Programs
Learn to Skate – CanSkate
Using the nationally acclaimed Skate Canada CanSkate program as the foundation, the Ancaster Skating Club offers beginners the opportunity to learn to skate on various days and times. Skaters are grouped according to skill level, and progress through seven stages of learning. A portion of each week’s session is spent in group instruction provided by our professio
nal, Skate Canada certified coaching staff. Once all skills in a stage have been acquired, the skater obtains a Skate Canada badge, and begins working on the next stage. The following programs are offered for Learn to Skaters:
• PreCanSkate – Ages 3 to 4
• CanSkate – Ages 5 to 12
CanPowerSkate
CanPowerSkate is an action-packed, high energy instructional power skating program geared to hockey and ringette skaters that focuses on balance, power, agility, speed and endurance. Skills, techniques and conditioning drills are taught in a progressive format that emphasizes how the skills apply to game situations. CanPowerSkate provides an alternative to figure skating and is an excellent complement for those athletes playing on hockey or ringette teams. Its unique skill award program provides incentives and motivation for skaters to continue to achieve.
• CanPowerSkate, ages 9 and older
• PrePowerSkate, ages 4 to 8
StarSkate – Test Programs
StarSkate is the name for the Skate Canada Test Program that has been the mainstay of figure skating in Canada for more than four decades. The Skate Canada StarSkate program is a high quality program that teaches the fundamentals of figure skating in a progressive & sequential manner, in four main areas: freeskate, dance, skills and interpretive. The Ancaster Skating Club offers StarSkate to three groups: Junior, Intermediate and Senior.
• StarSkate
• StarSkate Qualifications; Junior, Intermediate A/B and Senior
• Adult Synchronized Skating
