HowTos Index
How To Get Started Speed Skating
Getting started at speed skating does involve some planning and preparation.
How To Choreograph Your Own Figure Skating Routine
You've worked hard on mastering a number of figure skating moves; now it’s time to set a program to music.
How To Do an Attitude
An Attitude is a beautiful figure skating move that comes right from ballet. This article gives simple directions on how to do the move.
How To Get Along With a Pair Skating Partner or an Ice Dance Partner
Some people say that figure skating partnerships are like marriages. There is a difference though. Marriages are commitments for life, while figure skating partnerships are temporary and also are business arrangements. This article gives suggestions on how to get along with a pair or ice dance partner.
How To Do a Bunny Hop
The bunny hop is a fun and easy ice skating jump. It is one of the first jumps new figure skaters learn and master.
How To Take Care of Your Figure Skates
There are some guidelines to follow regarding the care of figure skates.
How To Do Michael Jackson's Moonwalk on Ice Skates
Doing Michael Jackson's famous Moonwalk step on ice skates is easy and fun.
How To Spin
Learning to spin on ice skates is not easy, but is so much fun!
How To Fall and Get Up on Figure Skates
Knowing how to fall and get up correctly on skates is very important for all figure skaters.
How To Find a Pair Skating or Ice Dance Partner
This short article gives some ideas about how to go about the difficult task of finding a figure skating partner for either pair skating or ice dancing.
How To Lace Figure Skates
Lacing figure skates correctly will make the ice skating experience more enjoyable. Correct lacing of figure skates is very important and must be done a certain way.
How To Become a Figure Skating Judge
The judging of ice skating is done by volunteers and is a wonderful way to help skaters. This short article gives the basics on how to become a figure skating judge.
How To Find an Ice Skating Teacher
Once you make this important decision between serious recreational or serious competitive skating, then begin your search for the coach that fits your needs.
How To Get Started Figure Skating
Getting started in figure skating is simple. Most ice arenas offer weekly group lessons that usually run from six to twelve weeks. These group lessons cover many figure skating basics.
How To Become an Ice Dancer
There are certain steps involved in becoming an ice dancer. It takes quite a bit of preparation to be able to do free dance, which is what most young skaters interested in ice dancing want to do. Figure skaters must first learn some ice dance basics and master and pass compulsory dance tests. This article explains what is involved.
How To Fall on the Ice Without Getting Hurt
No one wants to fall while ice skating, but if you are going to skate, you are going to fall. How can a figure skater, especially an adult who doesn't want to fall, fall safely? This article addresses this issue.
How To Do a Layback Spin
A layback spin is a beautiful figure skating move. Most ice skaters can master this spin with practice.
How To Do a One Foot Glide on Ice Skates
Gliding on one foot on ice skates is a basic figure skating move that all figure skaters must learn and master.
How To Move Forward on Ice Skates
This article will help teach beginning skaters how to move forward on the ice.
How To Do a Shoot the Duck
A shoot the duck is a fun ice skating move where the skater bends all the way down to the ice and glides on one foot while kicking the other foot completely forward. Directions on how to do the shoot the duck on ice are given in this article.
How To Do an Axel
The axel jump may be the hardest jump for many figure skaters. Once ice skaters master an axel, the double jumps come quickly. This short article outlines some steps that will help a figure skater master an axel jump.
How To Do a Snowplow Stop
Stopping on the ice is essential for every figure skater. This is the first and easiest stop a skater must master.