WHAT IS IT?
Freestyle skating involves free form movements performed in your own creative style. If you think about figure skating being like ballet on ice, then Freestyle would be closer to hip hop.
From learning how to move all the way to free form skating to push the limits of balance and edge work.
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This is a cool new approach to skating that is exploding at the international level and Melbourne Freestyle is introducing it to the local skating scene.
Lead Instructor
Daniel Shaw
Hello everyone! I'm a passionate skater who loves to teach others. I've been skating since I was about 3 years old. Along my skating career, I have been teaching the joys of skating for over a decade, held formal teaching and skating qualifications and even worked with Olympians.
I now create my own movements and combinations on the ice with inspiration from the online "freestyle" ice skating communities as well as from slalom rollerblading. I have been at O'Brien Icehouse pretty much since it opened, and I'd love to show you some of the cool things I have learned on ice and to connect you in with a great group of supportive skaters that is our Melbourne Freestyle team.
Classes Available
Train for Success
Skating Beginner-Intermediate
All the fun, all the skill, but none of the pressure of competition skating. Our Beginner-Intermediate Lessons take you through the basics of skating: balance; edges; forward and backward movement; stopping; etc, to create a solid foundation. Practice makes perfect, but there is no perfect… so keep practicing. Schedule a class today.
Freestyle Level 1
This is where we throw some more advanced elements to the mix. Now that you are comfortable on the ice, its time to learn your first freestyle moves. Focusing of transferring your weight and mastering your balance here!
Freestyle Level 2
This is where we start to get seriously funky building up the moves from Freestyle Level 1 with some really crazy moves on ice, advanced edges, stops and your first taste of choreography!
Freestyle Level 3
After graduating from the last two sessions this is where we put it all together. The targets for these classes are some crazy stops and finalising some of the most well known "tricks" to get you in the game and confident at our party sessions. From here we will help you specialise in finding your own "FREE-style"
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