Women teaching adults to enjoy ice skating

Aimée Ricca: learning with room for fear

Coach Aimée Ricca describes beginner private lessons and an adult curriculum for skaters who want to improve, including people who skate for fun. Her learn-to-skate page includes falling and getting up among the basic skills she teaches. She also describes an adult skating community that includes people skating simply for enjoyment, and links to her YouTube channel from her site.

References: Aimée Ricca / Coach Aimée Skating Academy · Aimée Ricca / Coach Aimée Skating Academy

For an adult worried about falling, Ricca is the strongest starting point here: her teaching explicitly includes the part that can make stepping onto the ice frightening. Her adult recreational focus also fits someone whose goal is a comfortable session at the rink rather than competition.

Rachel Liza: the first visit in stages

Rachel Liza publishes a complete-beginner ice skating guide on her YouTube channel. She organizes it around getting dressed, lacing skates, preparing off the ice and getting onto the ice, with a later section for trying skills.

References: Rachel Liza

Liza’s video is a useful preview before visiting a rink: the viewer can see the sequence of getting ready as well as the time on the ice. For a learner who wants a coach to address a specific fear of falling, Ricca’s adult lessons offer the more directly tailored starting point.

Pulenaz: taking a lesson into a public session

After her beginner lessons, Pulenaz returns to a public skating session with a modest plan: make a few passes at a comfortable pace and practice stopping with space around her. She starts near the barrier, waits for a gap in the traffic and moves onto the ice. When the rink becomes busy, she returns to the side and waits rather than trying to keep up with faster skaters.

On later visits Pulenaz works with a coach on basic edges and beginning crossovers. One crossover feels awkward, so she slows down and tries the movement again with the coach’s guidance. At another public session she returns to the same curve and repeats a few attempts, taking breaks at the boards when she wants them. She is not preparing a routine or a competition; she likes having a small figure-skating skill to practice as she enjoys her time on the ice. Her experience gives a picture of recreational practice after the first lessons, with improvement still in progress.

Sources and attribution

1. Aimée Ricca / Coach Aimée Skating Academy

   Learn to SkatePublication date not listed · Recorded Oct 29, 2026

2. Aimée Ricca / Coach Aimée Skating Academy

   Adult Figure SkatingPublication date not listed · Recorded Oct 29, 2026

3. Rachel Liza

   how to ice skate as a COMPLETE beginner from a professional figure skater and coachPublished Dec 11, 2024 · Recorded Oct 29, 2026