Warmly welcome

We would like to warmly invite you to our Figure skating New year Camp 2025 in Peurunka, in Central Finland. For the athletes, we are offering different practice packages for the different levels.

We have following groups:

  1. Junior / Senior (minimum 2 A & 1-2 triple jumps)
  2. Intermediate novice / Advanced novice (Debytantit / SM-Noviisit) 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 (Silmut A / Noviisit) (double Jumps & working on 2 A & triple jumps)
  5. Chicks /(Silmut B) (single jumps, axel and practicing /or including double jumps)
  6. Pre-chicks (Minit/Tintit) until age of 10 years (only single jumps and/or including single axel and practicing double jumps)
  7. Late starters group 11 years-17 years (only single jumps and/or including single axel and practicing double jumps)
  8. Adults from the age of 18 (only single jumps and/or including single axel and practicing double jumps)
  9. 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 per week

Groups 1 – 5:

  • Technique on ice, includes steps and spins (10 x 50 min.)
  • Skating Skills / Expression (4 x 50 min.)
  • Dancing / ballet / dance workout or body recovery (4 x 50 min.)
  • Athletics (5 x 50 min.)

Group 6 & 7 & 8:

  • Technique on ice, includes steps and spins (10 x 50 min.)
  • Dancing / ballet / dance workout / body recovery (4 x 50 min.)
  • Athletics (5 x 50 min.)

Group 9:

Technique on ice, includes steps and spins (5 x 50 min.)

Athletics (5 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 cannot offer that group in the camp.

Prices per group:

Group 1 -5:

  • 1 Week: 525,00 €

Group 6 & 7 & 8:

  • 1 Week: 415,00 €

Group 9:

  • 1 Week: 190,00 €

In addition, we are offering following:

  • Private Coaching/Choreography on the ice and off-ice (You can book this also during the camp)
  • The price depends on the coach/choreographer. More information you will get upon the registration.
  • In addition, extra ice patch fee is charged (10,00 €/50min) for the privates and choreography lessons on the ice.

Important information

Accommodation

Accommodation needs to be booked separately and is not incl. in the camp price.

We get some special offer from Peurunka Spa Hotel (next to the ice rink) www.peurunka.fi. and Varjola (around 4km – 5min. drive to the ice rink) www.varjola.com

Insurance

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. 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

In case of cancellation, a written form is required. After 1.12.2024 we will charge 100% of the booking. We will not re-fund your payments if you get injured or sick, for this use your travel or health insurance.

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.

Other information

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

How to get to Peurunka?

  • By car
  • By bus until Jyväskylä and then with the Bus 41 / or Taxi to Peurunka
  • By train until Jyväskylä train station and then with the Bus 41 or Taxi to Peurunka
  • By plane to Helsinki Airport (car or train to Jyväskylä and then with the Bus 41) or Jyväskylä Airport (just 20 min. by car or taxi away from Peurunka)

The drive from Helsinki takes between 3 1/2 and 4 hours.

Entry deadline for the camp: 30.11.24

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 2023 & 2024 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 wons the bronze medal at the Europeans 2019. She won the nordics championships 2018 and is the finnish champion of the season 2018/ 2019.

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

Petra Palmio

Figure Skating Coach

Petra is part of the coaching team at Peurunka Skating Club Laukaa. She competed at an international level for Finland in the category senior Ladies. At the moment she is studying sports pedagogy at the University of Jyväskylä.

Petra speaks, finnish and english.

Johanna Matthies

Dance teacher

Johanna Matthies is a dance teacher, dancer and choreographer currently working at Jyväskylä Educational Consortium Gradia. She has BA in dance pedagogy (Stockholm University of the Arts 2012) and a Subject Teachers Degree in dance (BA/Karlstad University 2017). Year 2013 she studied at Peridance Capezio Dance Center in New York. Currently she is studying at the MA program for contemporary dance didactics at SKH/Stockholm University of the Arts.

Johanna has worked internationally as a dancer, teacher and choreographer. She was also head teacher in ballet and ballet pedagogics at the Karlstad University 2017-2018.

She is fluent in Finnish, German, English and Swedish.

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