Valleyview Skating Club
353 Highland Drive V2B 7K6 Kamloops, BC, Canada

Here are some great pictures from Friday Night's Virtual Show thanks to Coach Jana! Great skating everyone!

TGIFF: Thank goodness it's a fun Friday:)!! Don't miss our live streamed StarSkate Sensation tonight at 7 pm PST right here on this page!! Featuring our Junior Star and Primary skaters, this special night will highlight the incredible progress they've made, and guarantees to put a big smile on your face:)!!!! Why not dress up to join us for a 'night out'?!?

Happy Family Day! Our skating family is going to make your next two Friday nights fun and exciting with live streamed StarSkate Sensation presentations:)!! Tune into our FB livestream on this page on Friday, Feb 19, at 7:00 pm PST to watch our Junior Star and Primary StarSkaters dazzle you with their super skills, live from Olympic-sized ice in Kamloops, BC... ...and then tune in again on Friday, Feb 26, at 5:15 pm PST to be blown away by our Intermediate, Senior, and Master... skaters, performing live from the Sandman Center!!!! Join us for these sensational celebrations of skating, and hear exclusive insights into the skills performed from our coaching staff. Fancy dress recommended but not required;)

2021 Skating starts tomorrow! 2021 Skating starts tomorrow!

Dancy Pants will be open in Kamloops this Saturday, January 2 at 11:00 am - think ahead to what you may need for the upcoming competition.Dancy Pants will be open in Kamloops this Saturday, January 2 at 11:00 am - think ahead to what you may need for the upcoming competition.

Happy 2021! See you back on the ice in a few days!Happy 2021! See you back on the ice in a few days!

Some pictures from before break

Merry Christmas Everyone!Merry Christmas Everyone!

Here are the Senior/Master Solos from Thursday's livestream.

Group time today!!! Quick starts and fun stops!

This is the last week to get your cookie dough and coffee/tea orders in. Hand in your form with cash or cheque to the check in volunteer. Or order online until Sunday, November 22. Thanks for your support everyone!

Courage, tenacity and resilience are three qualities the sport of figure skating promotes. Enjoy this '10-minute choreography' some of our Intermediate and Senior/Master skaters quickly learned to express the importance of always rising up to life's challenges:)!!

And now for our Wednesday CanSkaters

Great 3Lo attempts today Mataya!

With our CanSkate and Junior Star programs now in full swing, we are thankful to have resumed as much of our programming as possible at this time! We are also grateful for the opportunity to serve our community and provide programs that promote physical and mental well-being...and we hope to revive some of the programs in the New Year that had to be put on hold this fall, such as Power Skating and Adult CanSkate:)!! Happy Thanksgiving from our skating family to yours!!

Tuesday CanSkaters for Halloween week.

Help the environment and our skating club!

Monday CanSkaters kicking off Halloween week.

Our junior stars during Halloween week. Stay safe everyone!

Enjoy this skate alongside our Primary StarSkaters as they improvise movements to interpret the music:)!!

Researchers at the University of Alberta have created a 3-D model to analyze the movements of figure skating...and they have more studies in store!! Technology will continue to help us train and move more effectively on the ice...and could potentially be used as a judging tool in decades to come (tracking speed, height and distance of jumps, etc, to provide quantifiable measures in our sport beyond number of rotations)!!!! You can click on a link at the end of the article to see the study -- and if anyone can follow it, hats off to you;)!!

Thursday Halloween CanSkate. Happy Halloween everyone!

Yipppeee!!!! A new season of CBC's Battle of the Blades is starting on October 15th!! They are looking for 'virtual audience' members who are super fans of the show -- it's easy to apply, just write a quick email...see details below:)!!

We are excited to announce a return to Patch! Close to a quarter century ago, Skate Canada followed other skating organizations around the world and eliminated the skating of figure eights, or school figures, from being one of our sport's disciplines. Until then, skaters had faithfully and quietly skated around and around on circles using all of the edges and turns on a session commonly called "Patch", developing their edge and body awareness and alignment through focus and repetition. Now, with circle-on-circle exercises and turns in isolation using 'figure form' on all of the Skating Skills assessments, we've started skating short Patch sessions a few times a week!!

Congratulations to Hayley on this Axel and the others landed right before it:)!! This is figure skating's only forward-facing jump take-off, and a feeling like no other -- with the best feeling of all...a successful landing!!!! Although on this landing there's a little hop, she has achieved the required rotation, and if you slow down the video, you'll see the hop helps her absorb the momentum of the jump. The Axel is a tricky balance of many forces, and on this attempt, Hayley was adding speed, and demonstrates great instincts here to maintain her balance. Awesome job:)!!

Confucius said: "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall", and that is certainly a proverb for skaters! Watch our StarSkaters Rise Up to the challenge of creating and collaborating a musical routine in just 5 minutes:)!!

Creative collaboration on the ice is as cool as it gets;)!!

Our StarSkaters always 'Rise Up' to meet challenges, and for this one, as part of our team building sessions, they had to choreograph a short musical routine for their group in just 5 minutes. Enjoy:)!!

Delight in the Happy Feet of our StarSkaters doing a number they created themselves in just 5 minutes:)!!

Enjoy another of our StarSkaters' spontaneous, creative collaborations:)!!

During our team building sessions this week, we challenged our StarSkaters to choreograph a musical routine for their group in just 5 minutes! Enjoy their fabulous Happy Feet:)!!