Prerequisites

Skaters must be working on Stage 6 (Speed) or Stage 7 (Pre-Preliminary or 7) of the CanSkate stream.

Lesson Format

Group lessons for Freeskate, Dance, Skills and Stroking at specific times with the club coach(s).
Private lessons with a freelance coach are strongly recommended.

Skills

Skating Skills: a combination of fundamental skating movements, executed on a pattern and skated solo. The basic components of all disciplines of figure skating are incorporated into the program. The movements are derived from former compulsory figures, free skating and ice dancing. The objective of the Skating Skills program is mastery of the basic fundamentals of skating - edge quality, control, power and speed.

Ice Dance: teaches timing, musicality, rhythm interpretation, structure as well as basic skating skills such as edges, flow, control and unison. There are both traditional compulsory dances, and Creative Dances to challenge skaters' creativity, artistry and originality.

Free Skate: the execution of jumps, spins, footwork, field movements and stroking, either in isolation or performed in sequence to music.

Interpretive: to encourage and develop skaters' creativity, expression, musicality, movement, interpretation of music, as well as the use of space, rhythm, line and style. The program provides skaters with the opportunity to explore the performance aspect of skating without focusing on technical elements.

Evaluation

For each discipline, skaters participate in testing to progress through sequential levels.

Skating Skills: preliminary, junior bronze, senior bronze, junior silver, senior silver, gold

Ice Dance: preliminary, junior bronze, senior bronze, junior silver, senior silver, gold, diamond
*Note: The dances in the STARSkate Program can be tried in any order but a candidate must pass the required number of dances in a dance test before proceeding to the next level.

Free Skate: preliminary, junior bronze, senior bronze, junior silver, senior silver, gold
*Note: Each test consists of 2 parts - Elements in Isolation and a Free Program

Interpretive: introductory, bronze, silver, gold
*Note: The Interpretive tests consist of skating to and interpreting a piece of music 2.0 to 3.0 minutes (+/- 10 seconds) in length. Skaters can take Interpretive tests as individuals and/or as a couple (male/female, female/female or male/male)