Warmly welcome

We would like to warmly invite you to our Figure skating summer camps 2025 in Peurunka, 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 (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 3-6 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

Group 1 – 5:

  • Technique on ice, includes steps and spins (10 x 50 min.)
  • Skating Skills / Expression (5 x 50 min.)
  • Dancing / ballet / dance workout (4 x 50 min.)
  • Athletics (5 x 50 min.)
  • Body recovery / Stretching / Yoga (2 x 50 min.)

Group 6-8:

  • Technique on ice, includes steps and spins (11 x 50 min.)
  • Dancing / ballet / dance workout (4 x 50 min.)
  • Athletics (5 x 50 min.)

Group 9:

  • Technique on ice, includes steps and spins (6 x 50 min.)
  • Athletics (6 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 week(s).

Prices per group:

Early bird discout until 15.12.25 available! -5% off the weekly price per group.

Group 1 -5:

  • 1 Week: 585,00 €
  • 2 Weeks: 1.120,00 €
  • 3 Weeks: 1.600,00 €

Group 6-8:

  • 1 Week: 435,00 €
  • 2 Weeks: 830,00 €
  • 3 Weeks: 1.185,00 €

Group 9:

  • 1 Week: 200 €
  • 2 Weeks: 380 €
  • 3 Weeks: 550 €

The prices include 100€ registration fee (non-refundable) which will be charged directly after the entry form has been sent.

If you are interested in all 6 weeks (3 weeks in June and 3 weeks in July) contact us directly for a special offer.

In addition, we are offering following:

Extra offers:

  • Extra Ice/Patch / per day (just possible with a coach) + extra Coaching / Choreography 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 (50,00€ – 110,00€) excl. 10,00 € for the extra ice).
  • Extra Off-Ice at the group (Stretching, Body recover etc.) (50 min./ 10,00 €)

Choreography is possible with Pipsa Tuppela (from Beginners to intermediate Novice).

Important information

Registration and billing

The 100€ registration fee is non-refundable in any cases. By paying the registration fee the registration is confirmed. The registration fee will be reduced from the total camp price. The final camp invoice will be sent in the beginning of March 2025 . If the registration has been done after 01.03.2025 the camp invoice including the registration fee will be sent immediately after the registration. IF THE CAMP INVOICE IS NOT PAYED UNTIL THE PAYMENT DEADLINE, THE ORGANIZER RESERVES THE RIGHT TO GIVE THE PLACE TO NEXT SKATER!

Accommodation

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

We get some special offer from Peurunka Spa Hotel www.peurunka.fi, bookings over peurunka@peurunka.fi

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 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. The 100€ registration fee is non-refundable in any cases.
  2. In case of cancellation, a written form is required.
  3. We will charge 50% of the booking when the written cancellation is done 01.03. – 31.03.2025. After 01.04.2025 we will charge 100% of the booking.
  4. We will not re-fund your payments if you get injured or sick, for this use your travel or extra health insurance .
  5. 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.
  6. 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.

There is also a possibility to book massage and physiotherapy in the camp. Please contact us directly.

Skating equipment and sharpening.

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 to Peurunka takes between 3 and 4 hours.

Entry deadline for the camp is 31.03.2025.

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

More coaches will be announced later.

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. 😉

Valtter Virtanen

Team Doctor and Allrounder

Valtter has participated in several European and World Championships in single skating. Valtter works part-time as a doctor in Terveystalo  Jyväskylä. But his main focus is still on figure skating. He is also the team doctor of JYP ice hockey team.

Valtter Virtanen will support the team as well.

Valtter speaks Finnish, English, German and Swedish.

Isabella Piippo

Figure skating coach

Isabella has competed in figure skating over ten years. She is the assistant coach of Alina Mayer-Virtanen at Peurunka Skating Academy Laukaa. She also coached earlier during her own career.

Isabella speaks Finnish and English

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.

Pipsa Tuppela

Choreographer and dance teacher

She is a dance teacher who graduated as Master of Arts at the Theatre School of Helsinki in 2017. She is working with figure skaters in different clubs around Finland, on- and off ice, sharing her passion for music and movement after her own figure skating hobby turned into professional dancing career. In her dance lessons focus is on holistic teaching methods and finding positive pedagogy ways to bring the best out of every athlete. She is mainly doing choreographies for Beginner until intermediate novice.

Of course you can book her like every coach in our camp for privat sessions.

Pipsa speaks Finnish, Swedish and English.

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