> Home > Parks & Recreation > Arenas > Program Information > Rollerblading
Program Information

Rollerblading

Rollerblading lessons take place at the Richmond Ice Centre in the spring and summer seasons only.

Preschool: 4-5yrs
School Age: 6-16yrs
Adult: 17+yrs

The Rollerblading Lessons program at Richmond Arenas is designed in conjunction with the Premier Sports Awards Program and is intended to provide a fun and safe introduction to rollerblading (inline skating).

Participants are evaluated on their skills at each individual level and may progress to the next level when all skills taught are performed successfully. Each level helps build confidence while introducing the skills of recreational inline skating.  

IntroGirl on Rollerblades

  • Able to participate actively 
  • Stand on own
  • Bend to pick up objects
  • Skate in a circle around cones
  • Fall down/get up
  • While standing, turn in a circle
  • While standing, lift right foot
  • While standing, lift left foot
  • Skate from cone to cone
  • Balance objects while skating
  • Walk backward from cone
  • While alternating feet, skate forward

Magenta

  • Two foot glide
  • Skate with hands behind back
  • Skate in and out of cones
  • Skate in a circle
  • Skate and lift left foot
  • Skate and lift right foot
  • Skate and touch toes
  • Skate two foot jump
  • Sufficiently speed skate the width of rink
  • While alternating feet, skate backwards

Silver

  • Skate around rink forwards
  • Know class safety rules
  • Know hill safety/traffic
  • Left and right turns 
  • Parallel turn stop
  • Two foot glide touching toes
  • Glide half width of the floor
  • Gliding two foot jump
  • Two foot gliding circle
  • Glide lift left foot
  • Glide lift right foot
  • Complete heel brake
  • Sufficiently speed skate backwards

Teal

  • Complete heel stop
  • Forward slalom
  • Scissors stop
  • Backward stop
  • Side steps on line right
  • Side steps on line left
  • Backward skating width of floor
  • Backward two foot glide
  • Backward two foot jump
  • Backward slalom
  • Glide on right foot (5 feet)
  • Glide on left foot (5 feet)

Purple

  • Backward two foot glide half-width
  • Backward glide touch toes
  • Crossovers clockwise
  • Crossovers counter clockwise
  • Backward scissor
  • Forward to backward mohawk turn
  • Backward to forward mohawk turn
  • Backward crossovers clockwise
  • Backward crossovers counter clockwise
  • Back one foot glide left
  • Back one foot glide right
  • Forward to backward jump
  • Backward to forward jump