Ice Skating Coach in Acacia Ridge, Queensland, Australia | Sport & recreation

Ice Skating Coach

Locality: Acacia Ridge, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 424 107 242

Address: 1179 Beaudesert Road 4110 Acacia Ridge, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.phillidabarden.com

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25.01.2022 more from the younger kids

24.01.2022 Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner wow the audience at the 1979 NSA Centenary Gala. Video courtesy of floskate: https://www.youtube.com/user/floskate

23.01.2022 Wishing all my students past and present a Happy New Year, stay safe and enjoy

22.01.2022 So this young lady passed her Intermediate Novice technical free skate tonight, now onto bigger things. Well done Sarah, you always give it 100% effort

21.01.2022 Finally got it back!

21.01.2022 Reasonable effort in a short time

21.01.2022 this weeks training for the younger students

16.01.2022 Alice & Alisha, my twins might be struggling here with attempts at flat cross ft spins but they both did a good quality Advanced Novice technical patterns test tonight, well done girls!

15.01.2022 Well done to this young lady on passing her Elementary technical patterns test tonight. After over a year off due to a knee injury/operation a good end to the year

11.01.2022 Classic beauty on and off the ice

11.01.2022 Happy Christmas to all my students past and present, eat drink and be merry, wherever possible in this strange year we are living in. xx

10.01.2022 My edge control and ability to do clean turns I attribute to my earlier years of compulsory figures, which I am thankful I learned before they left. I loved practicing figures as a young skater they also greatly focused the mind. For anyone not familiar with them, they are circles we had to repeatedly skate over - and they helped us learn all the various turns, and when tested, each circle/turn had to be traced 3 times, with as little deviation as possible from the first tim...e around. The turns had to be executed as clean as possible (meaning on the correct edge going into and out of the turn). Clean turns come from correct arm/shoulder/hip and free leg placement over the circle print, enough tilt of the boot on the correct edge and proper knee action before/during/after the turn. Most found them boring, but they were our BASICS - our fundamentals necessary to learn how to be good SKATERS. In ballet, it’s the barre work in kung-fu, it’s the horse stances, and in skating it used to be the compulsory figures. Hours and hours are spent on the fundamentals, to make the skill look effortless. There’s no other way - they say 12000 hrs are needed to master something, that is very true. You never stop working on the basics either, no matter how high of a proficiency level you’ve attained. Removing figures was a big mistake in my opinion, but I’m glad they’re somewhat making a comeback, and many coaches still teach them. See more

10.01.2022 Past men’s Olympic champions

08.01.2022 Working on new spin features

07.01.2022 Its back on the harness but not quite without yet

06.01.2022 Had to share this with you all. Here is my lovely coach of 8 yrs during her amateur skating days.

02.01.2022 Remember I will be back working from Monday 11th January guys... HNY!

01.01.2022 3 Different level students spinning