Learn To Skate Outside

12/13/2025

We have TWO: Wild Ice Skating 101 - A Basics Workshop’s in California’s Eastern Sierra’s this weekend! Mammoth Lakes & South Lake Tahoe! — Share with friends who may like to attend ☺️

12/08/2025

Analyzing fresh large grain crystal ice vs. fresh small grain crystal ice. There can be a big difference in how it behaves, especially when the sun hits it!

📚Wild Ice Skating Education: Learn To Skate Outside • Upcoming In-Person Workshops: bit.ly/LTSOWorkshops

12/06/2025

Glenwood Springs, CO workshop Tomorrow! The last Colorado workshop of the season. Tickets Still Available: bit.ly/LTSOGlenwood25 — See you there!

12/06/2025

South Lake Tahoe, you asked for it and we were able to make it happen! 🤗 Register Here: bit.ly/LTSOTahoe25

11/30/2025

‘Wild Ice Skating 101: A Basics Workshop’ is coming to Mammoth Lakes, California!!
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For those who have been following us since Learn To Skate Outside’s inception it will be a “homecoming” for us! We are excited to finally be able to travel back to LTSO’s roots and share live-saving information with those looking to try wild ice skating and better their knowledge. Registration for our popular in-person ‘Wild Ice Skating 101 - A Basics Workshop’ for Saturday December 13th • 5:15-9pm in Mammoth Lakes, California starts Today Nov. 30th at 10amPST! Spots are limited.
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🔗 Sign-up link: bit.ly/LTSOWorkshops will be live at 10amPST Sunday 11.30.25
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This will be the only in-person workshop we’ll have this season in California. And as always we are open to traveling, so If you would like to be apart of bringing our workshop to your area please let us know!
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During this 3.5 hour wild ice skating workshop, you’ll be introduced to key insights and methods to safely enjoy skating on natural ice! Through a 2hr in-class-like setting & one hour on-ice practice at the indoor ice rink: Laura will be teaching you, how you can predict, find, assess, and travel across wild ice by skate. We’ll be going over basic rescue techniques through hands-on scenarios (on the rink) & we’ll be reviewing a slew of wild ice hazards and anomaly imagery/videos with you!
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✨Continued this season - ➡️ This is an adult intended workshop however, on ‘trial’ we have workshop attendee exceptions for teens w/ a parent/guardian.
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Show us your wild ice photos this season by using the hashtag: 🤗
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11/01/2025

We are back! And the Wild Ice Season has started with a bang! — Friday Nov. 14th ‘Wild Ice Skating 101 - A Basics Workshop’ are on sale now!

Friday Nov. 14th • 5:30-9pm
Apex Center Ice Arena • Arvada, CO

🎟️ Sign-up Today! (tickets are halfway sold out since launch this morning! 🤯)
👉 bit.ly/LTSOWorkshops

08/05/2025

Tickets still available here! bit.ly/BladeMasteryAug25

(By request, we’ve added a “Day One Only” Saturday ticket option as well)
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We are testing out a greater multi-day format this year… 8hrs of edge and blade nerdiness over the course of two days! (August 9th-10th, 2025) — One U.S. Figure Skating Gold Medalist and coach last year said it was “One of her best skating experiences!”
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You could be a pro skater or just passed your intermediate moves, the “playing field” is leveled. In this super fun environment we will all be humbled and laugh at ourselves A LOT and be baffled at how the history of our sports (figure skating & hockey) came from these incredible edge maneuvers and humans back in the day. It’s a workshop you won’t want to miss!
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In this jam-packed workshop you’ll learn the art and roots of ice skating for better blade control and advanced skating creativity (think complicated turn sequences and more-than-Cale-Makar-advanced edge work). This workshop is for those looking to achieve mechanical precision with their edges whether that be for the purposes of advanced and elite competition or a new outlet to take their skating further into life: creating incredible blade art on wild ice, competing in the World Figure’s Championships or staying active on the ice with the skills you built earlier in life.

We hope to see you in two weeks!

08/05/2025

The final days to sign-up before this weekend’s Advanced Edge Workshop! Built straight from the history books and made to inspire, educate, challenge, and entertain the nerdiest and obsessed skaters out there ➰🤓

See you soon!
Tickets still available here: bit.ly/BladeMasteryAug25

By request, we’ve added a “Day One Only” Saturday ticket option

Minimum edge/turn requirements to have fun are: 3-turns, brackets, and power pulls — But if you aren’t there yet and want to learn and lot, have fun, and still nerd-out with us, most things we’ll be doing can be modified to two feet as well!

10/22/2024

Registration Starts Today! 🗓️ For our popular in-person Wild Ice Skating 101 - A Basics Workshop (for Saturday November 9th • 6-9pm in Arvada, Colorado). Spots are limited. 🔗 Sign-up link: bit.ly/LTSO-Fall24 – Ice time has been hard to secure in the Denver area so this might be the only in-person workshop we’ll have this fall sadly. As always we are open to traveling though, so If you would like to be apart of bringing our workshop to your area please let us know!
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During this three hour wild ice skating workshop, you’ll be introduced to key insights and methods to safely enjoy skating on natural ice! Through a ~90 min. in-class-like setting & one hour on-ice practice at the rink: Laura will be teaching you, how you can predict, find, assess, and travel across wild ice by skate. We’ll be going over basic rescue techniques through hands-on scenarios (on the rink) & we’ll be reviewing a slew of wild ice anomaly imagery and videos with you!
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🚨Further Announcements: New This Season! — We are testing: Special attendee exceptions for teenagers with a parent/guardian, based on skating abilities… Wild ice skating can be a highly dangerous activity if not taken seriously, so we are mostly offering this workshop to adults currently. Many mature teens that are skilled skaters have reached out in recent years including students of Laura's, so this year we will 'trial' accepting teens with a parent/guardian that will attend the workshop together on a case-by-case basis. Please reach out to [email protected] for this approval prior to purchase (LTSO reserves the right to turn attendees away if the safety of participants is in question).
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Lastly, (and this has been in the works since day 1!) we are finally launching our online classes! We will first start with our popular in-person ‘Wild Ice Skating 101 - A Basics Workshop’ later this month for those that cannot attend one of these workshops in-person this month and our goal is to launch a "201" class that dives deeper into the topics we cover in the 101 course later this season as well.

We hope you’re able to join us in-person or online this season!

https://www.bit.ly/LTSO-Fall24

10/10/2024

Ice time is tight this season, so this might be the only one… We’ll make the most of it! More details to come!

06/25/2024

First workshop this Friday! - Sign-up Today: http://www.bit.ly/LTSOWorkshops (And Yes, you can sign-up for both! Option to add-on either one or both on-ice classes in July as well at checkout for the June 28th workshop).

06/17/2024

Come learn about the history of skating and challenge your blade skills this summer with us! One and two-day workshops. For intermediate-to-elite figure and hockey skaters. Limited tickets available. On sale now! - www.Bit.ly/LTSOWorkshops

Formed in November 2022, Learn To Skate Outside is an educational entity centered around all things ice skating on wild unmaintained natural ice, and is a lover of all disciplines of skating!•The founder of Learn To Skate Outside, Laura Kottlowski, is a Colorado, USA based human-powered high al...