Ice Mom's Adventures in Figure Skating

Welcome to Ice Mom's blog! You'll find lots of resources for figure skating parents here: reviews, how-tos, info. about competitions, and sewing ideas.

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Showing posts with label Accessory review. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Accessory review. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Accessory Review: Sk8Strong DVDs and Off-Ice Training Manual

Note from Ice Mom: All of my reviews are unpaid . All editorial content on Ice Mom is independent of advertising content. Another note fr...

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Accessory Review: The Stick

Thanks to J.C.U. for recommending this to Ice Girl. A few months back, Ice Girl was having trouble with her right hamstring. A gal in the...

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Thank You, Axels, Loops, and Spins!

Thank you, Aaron, of Axels, Loops, and Spins , for the $100 Dick’s Sporting Goods gift card. Ice Girl won the $100 Labor Day weekend in a...

Monday, August 24, 2009

How-to: Break in New Figure Skating Boots

Oh, how I love this tip. My favorite skate tech, Renee at Rainbo Sports, recommends that skaters break in their new figure skating boots by ...

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Accessory Review: Figure Skating Tights

This post is for the newbie ice mom who sends her daughter to skate in the same tights that she wears to Sunday services. Hey. We were all...

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Review: Blinkerz hard blade guards

You like the look of this beauty? Try buying eight of them for those darn Blinkerz blade guards – you know the ones: they have flashing LED ...

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Review: Chinese Figure Skating Dresses on eBay

Ice Girl’s friend, Ice Friend, has bought two figure skating dresses from China via eBay. Both were less than $50 each, including shipping...

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Battle of the Athletic Tights: Cheap C9 or Pricey Under Armour?

Ice Girl loves to wear stretchy, fitted lycra tights on the ice. You know, the kind of tights runners wear. She wears them like tight-fitt...

Friday, August 1, 2008

Stretching towards Biellmann: the Maxiflex tool

When Ice Girl competed at Skate Milwaukee in July, I was really surprised at how many girls at limited beginner level were hauling their fee...

Friday, May 2, 2008

accessory review: spin trainers

I've been putting off this review of figure skating spin trainers, or rotation trainers, because I was waiting for my refund for the ...

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Accessory review: PIC skates

I broke down and finally bought PIC frames and wheels and another pair of boots so Ice Girl can practice figure skating on the tennis cour...

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Accessory review: Silipos gel ankle sleeve

This Silipos gel sleeve isn't cheap. Rainbo Sports sells them for about $15. Why did I buy two of them? That's $30, Ice Mom! I k...

Accessory review: Zuca bags

Ice Girl is the luckiest girl in Madison, Wis. Last weekend we made the 90-mile trip east to the Pettit National Ice Arena and visited Rain...

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About Ice Mom

Ice Mom: United States; Hi, I'm Ice Mom. I write Ice Mom’s Adventures in Figure Skating as a guide for figure skating parents who want to spend their money wisely and understand rink culture. I started this blog in March of 2008 to share my experiences and blunders with other figure skating parents so that we all don’t repeat my many mistakes.

I am Mom to Ice Girl, the wife of Ice Dad, and the cat-food-giving and dog-food-giving human. Occasionally, I feed the fish. I spent 10 years in the classroom teaching high school English, French, English as a Second Language, and journalism. Then I decided to get one job: writer. When I’m not at the rink, I’m in my cube writing about teaching, learning, and education trends. I’m probably reading my Ice Mom e-mail, too. (Shh.)

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