Ice Skating

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Ice Skating Curriculum Overview:

Ice Skating Review Sheet (pdf file - 201.6kb)

Ice Skating at Brockport High School is an elective activity that is offered once during the school year.  Ice Skating takes place at the SUNY Brockport Ice Rink and addresses the aspects of the sports that students will need to participate outside of the school environment.  Each student who participates in Ice Skating receives five, 85 minute classes of skating instruction.  The skills that our students are taught begin with the basics, i.e.  How to fall correctly, basic forward skating, gliding and basic stops.  As the unit progresses, students are taught more complex skills such as advanced stops (i.e. Hockey and Snow Plow) and front as well as back cross-overs.  It is our goal to provide our students with the skills that they will need to engage in the activity of skating throughout their lives.  Students are encouraged to take advantage of skating opportunities in the community such as "OPEN Skates". 

Skating Skill Information

TYPES OF ICE SKATING:

• FIGURE SKATING:
• HOCKEY:
• SPEED SKATING

SPORTS OF ICE:

• HOCKEY

• CURLING

CROSSOVER SKATING:

• Inside foot slides back, pressure outside edge
• Outside foot comes to front, pressure on inside edge.

STOPPING:

Snow Plow Stop:

*1 or 2 foot

*Sit back, Hands out

*Knees bent

*Pressure on inside edge of skate

Hockey Stop:

* 2 foot

*Sit back, Hands out

*Knees bent

*Pressure on inside edge of front foot, outside edge of back foot.

Ice Skating History:

There can be no doubt that skating began in earliest times when necessity forced man to acquire some means of travel over ice and snow. What is more he had to be able to move over them at speed whether he was engaged in escaping his enemies, in hunting for food, or merely moving from place to place. Skating by origin belongs to the North, to the Scandinavians and Germans for there is no record that the Romans or Greeks knew anything about it, nor is there any word or term in their languages to express skates or skating. The skate in its most primitive form was most probably made of wood and was used on both snow and ice. In the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge and in the British Museum, however, there are found the bones of deer which have been ground down to be used as sledge runners and for the purpose of binding on to the feet. In April, 1869, during excavations at London Wall some of these were found with two Roman sandal shoes and are now exhibited at Guildhall London.

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