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Coaching Marika & Vitaliy are both NCCP licensed skating coaches. Based at the Deeside Ice Rink in North Wales, a facility which boasts the only full Olympic sized rink in Wales, as well as an excellent Sport Physiotherapist, a fully equipped Fitness Suite, Ballet Room and Gymnasium. We coach all types of skaters from complete beginners taking their first steps on the ice through to highly trained competitors. Figure skating and Ice Dance can be recreational as well as competitive, and first and foremost participation at any level should be enjoyable......and that's what we aim for in our lessons. |
Marika
A level 3 NCCP Ice Dance coach, Marika has extensive experience coaching ice dance and synchro skating and is also an ISU International Championship level Technical Specialist for Ice Dance.
Vitaliy
An NCCP level 2 coach best known for his expertise in the field of ice dance also trained in Free style and Pairs back in his home country, the Ukraine, before turning his focus to ice dance.
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Together High fliers We train British Championship medallists and international competitors, as well as Welsh Champions in Novice, Primary, Junior and Intermediate age categories. Newcomers Taking your first steps on the ice at the learn to skate classes in Deeside? We'll see you there! Deeside Ice Rink offers the National Ice Skating Association Skate UK programme to give skaters the skills to be safe and have fun on the ice. |
Dedicated to coaching excellence
We believe that knowledge makes the skating world go around and have both completed Honours degrees in Sport Science at the Glyndwr University (formerly NEWI) to expand our knowledge beyond pure figure skating technique and into the exciting realms of Physiology, Psychology and Biomechanics. (Read more)
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Mark Horner from n-ice kindly donated a sheet of synthetic ice for Marika's dissertation research on ice dance lifts.
