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Hockey and Figure Skating Skills - Classes Start Soon!

New Hockey and Skating Skills classes offered at the Pingree School - Johnson Ice Rink. Get ready for winter!

Skating classes are now available for kids & adults looking to brush up on, or learn Hockey and Figure Skating skills.

Ice skating is an accessible and social pastime which offers a diverse range of health and fitness benefits. Whether you hope to improve balance, strengthen leg muscles or gain footwork skills -- it‘s something every New Englander should try. Beginning Ice skating is a low-impact exercise that’s great for building lower-body muscles including the hips, hamstrings, quadriceps, and calves. As well as offering a number of physical benefits, ice skating is equally useful for improving mental fitness. Requiring high concentration, strong memory skills and spatial awareness, mental attributes will develop the longer your ice skating training goes on.

Highlighted Class Offerings at the Pingree School - Johnson Rink are:

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The new ”Mommy & Me” class. It will be guaranteed fun for each adult & child who head out on the ice together. (Plus coffee and snacks -- how can you beat that?)

We also have a NEW special 7 Week “After School” Class on Thursdays at 4pm. Lessons are typically 50 minutes long with approximately 35 minutes of instruction followed by 15 minutes of free skate.

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Our classes and times are listed below. Any age, any level -- our team of Coaches will put students into appropriate leveled learning groups and have them gliding around like pros in no time.

Cape Ann Skating Club is a non-profit organization that has been teaching & coaching on the North Shore for over 30 years. All the instructors are seasoned skating professionals, highly certified, & fully insured. Enrollment is on-going. Year round!

Classes at the Pingree School Rink include:

  • “Mommy & Me” - Tuesdays at 9:30 am. Johnson Rink - Pingree School, 537 Highland Ave. S Hamilton.
  • Learn to Skate & Brush up on Skills - Wednesdays at 1:30p & Fridays at 10:10a. Johnson Rink - Pingree School, 537 Highland Ave. S Hamilton.
  • NEW! After School Skate - Special 7-week Session. Thursdays at 4p. SEPT 24 - NOV 5 ONLY. Johnson Rink - Pingree School, 537 Highland Ave. S Hamilton.

Classes at our Gloucester Location:

  • Learn to Skate & Brush up on Skills: Tuesdays at 6 pm. Dorothy Talbot Rink - O’Maley School, 32 Cherry Street, Gloucester.
  • Learn to Skate & Brush up on Skills: Saturdays 12 Noon. Dorothy Talbot Rink - O’Maley School, 32 Cherry Street, Gloucester.

FOR MORE INFO:
email: CapeAnnSkatingClub@yahoo.com

or alisaskates229@gmail.com

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