Warmly welcome

We would like to warmly invite you to our Figure skating intensive camp 2024 in Suolahti, in Central Finland. For the athletes, we are offering different practice packages for different levels.

We have following groups:

  1. Junior / Senior (minimum 2 A & 1-2 triple jumps)
  2. Intermediate novice / Advanced novice until 15 years (minimum all double jumps and working on 2 A & triple jumps)
  3. Junior B / Senior B (double jumps & working on 2 A & triple jumps)
  4. Basic Novice / Novice B / Junior C (double Jumps & working on 2 A & triple jumps)
  5. Chicks / Novice C (single jumps, axel and practicing /or including double jumps)
  6. Beginners until age of 10 years (only single jumps and/or including single axel and practicing double jumps)
  7. Hobby/ Beginners 10 years and older (only single jumps and/or including single axel and practicing double jumps)
  8. Development Group 3-5 years old kids (skating school level and do NOT need support on the ice, practicing basic skating, basic positions, starting to do the first jumps and spins.)

Practice

Duration & amount of the practice

Group 1 – 5:

  • Technique on ice, includes steps and spins (4 x 50 min.)
  • Skating Skills / Expression (2 x 50 min.)
  • Athletics (2 x 50 min.)

Group 6-7:

  • Technique on ice, includes steps and spins (4 x 50 min.)
  • Athletics (2 x 50 min.)

Group 8:

  • Technique on ice, includes steps and spins (2 x 50 min.)
  • Athletics (2 x 50 min.)

The size of the groups for technique training on ice, will be max. 6 athletes per coach. The minimum size of each group is 4. If there are fewer than 4 entries, we can not offer that group for that days.

Prices per group:

Group 1 -5:

  • 2 Days: 180,00 €

Group 6-7:

  • 2 Days: 130,00 €

Group 8:

  • 2 Days: 80,00 €

In addition, we are offering following:

Extra offers:

  • Extra Ice/Patch / per day (just possible with a coach) + extra Coaching costs (50 min./ 10,00 €)
  • Private Coaching on ice and off-ice (You can book this during the camp) (50 min./The price depends on the coach, excl. 10,00 € for the extra ice).

Important information

Registration and billing

After the entry-deadline 15.07.2024 you will receive the invoice for the camp.

Accommodation

Accommodation and meals are not included in the camp price and they can be booked separately.

You can book close to the rink https://www.wallila.eu/ or around 3km away at Hotel Uninen.

Insuranceat

All athletes must purchase health insurance (in the case you get injured or ill) for the camp. In addition, we recommend acquiring travel insurance as well which would cover the costs in case of cancellation due to injury. Please contact your own insurance companies.

Responsibility

The organizer is not held liable for you or your health on or off the ice. All skaters who are under the age of 18 years should travel with a parent or guardian. For emergency cases, we have a doctor, MD-PhD Valtter Virtanen, in the camp. He will take care of the first aid if something happens to you during the practice sessions and will bring you to the closest hospital, if necessary.

Cancellation Policy:

  1. In case of cancellation, a written form is required.
  2. After 15.07.2024 we will charge 100% of the booking.
  3. We will not re-fund your payments if you get injured or sick, for this use your travel or extra health insurance .
  4. For private coaching we will charge 100% of the booked patch and coaching fee if the cancellation occurs later than 48 hours before the planed session.
  5. Once the camp has started, there are no refunds possible anymore ( Participants who are sent home due inapropriate behavior, or leaving the camp because of illness, are not eligible for a refund).

Other information

If you have allergies or medical conditions, please let us know. Your data will be treated confidentially.

Entry deadline for the camp is 15.07.2024.

Coaches

Best of the best

“The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great at whatever they want to do.” — Kobe Bryant

Alina Mayer-Virtanen

Figure Skating coach

Alina Mayer-Virtanen is Master of Science in psychology. She was skating by herself for 24 years and represented Germany. The last few years of her skating career she skated at the international level in single skating. Alina is coaching single skating since 2013 in Oberstdorf-Germany and in Finland since 2017 as well. For the season 2022 & 2023 Alina is one of the responsible coaches for the area Middle-Finland and East Finland.

She speaks German, English and a bit of Finnish. 😉

Viveca Lindfors

Figure Skating Coach

Viveca is working as a coach since 2020 in two different clubs and was part of several camps.

She won the bronze medal at the Europeans 2019. She won the Nordics championships 2018 and is the Finnish champion 2019.

Viveca speaks, finnish, english and a bit of russian.

Monica Lindfors

Choreographer

Monica had a career in both ice dance and single skating. In singles she competed up to junior level and in ice dance she achieved a medal in Finnish championships and participated in junior world championships.

She started her career as a choreographer in 2017 and has choreographed programs for skaters competing up to senior level including skaters of the finnish national team. She also works as a coach specializing in skating skills.

Monica is currently studying architecture at the University of Oulu.

Monica speaks Finnish and English.

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