Thread: Best place to learn to skate

Skate as much as you can at the rink, get yourself able to stop on one side and then go to a Robbie Glantz power skating clinic. Its about 175 bucks for three nights, but you'll learn the right way to skate. I think the Robbie Glantz hockey clinics are at TSC (and other rinks) every summer.

Originally Posted by Hockey Girl

Skate as much as you can at the rink, get yourself able to stop on one side and then go to a Robbie Glantz power skating clinic. Its about 175 bucks for three nights, but you'll learn the right way to skate. I think the Robbie Glantz hockey clinics are at TSC (and other rinks) every summer.

Robbie G is the way,,my son can skate better than I can walk,,roller or ice,,he goes to at least one of Robbie's camps every year...

I'll give another endorsement for Robbie Glantz:
http://www.robbyglantz.com/

There is a rink in Torrance/Harbor City. It is called The Skating Edge. It is a bit run down but you can rent hockey skates.

It is on Western, South of Sepulveda on the east side of the street. It has public skating Friday and Saturday night. It is North of Narbonne high.

This is where I play hockey in their league. It is pretty friendly.

They are supposed to remodel it in a month or 2.


http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid...=1&sa=N&tab=wl

Originally Posted by pkd88

There is a rink in Torrance/Harbor City. It is called The Skating Edge. It is a bit run down .... They are supposed to remodel it in a month or 2. .....

Does that remodeling include a re-build of the ice sheet and a fix for whatever causes the chronic "frozen waves" in the corners?

Originally Posted by pkd88

http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid...=1&sa=N&tab=wl

Where's their website? ..... with their schedules for sticktime, pickup hockey, public skating, adult league info, etc., etc.,

I'm not sure if the rumor of the Bay Harbor remodel is fact or fiction.

Originally Posted by beingbobbyorr

Does that remodeling include a re-build of the ice sheet and a fix for whatever causes the chronic "frozen waves" in the corners?





Where's their website? ..... with their schedules for sticktime, pickup hockey, public skating, adult league info, etc., etc.,

I am not their representative, I was just referring someone that wanted to go ice skating. You don't have to go there, means nothing to me either way. If you don't like it there or had a bad experience, then do what you want. The guy wanted to go ice skating.

I don't notice any waves in the corners. CC had this. The ice here is sometimes soft for the figure skaters but for learning to skate, seems fine for me.

They don't have a website as far as I know. Here is the hockey league http://www.westpachockey.com/

Originally Posted by SirJW

I'm not sure if the rumor of the Bay Harbor remodel is fact or fiction.

I am told they are doing it and the current hockey season is short to accommodate the closing.

I coached the midgets there a few years ago and now they seem to have lost a lot of players due to the poor quality of the rink. They have no higher age group teams at all.


We shall see

Originally Posted by pkd88

I am told they are doing it and the current hockey season is short to accommodate the closing.

I coached the midgets there a few years ago and now they seem to have lost a lot of players due to the poor quality of the rink. They have no higher age group teams at all.


We shall see

I don't think bay harbor is necessarily all to blame there. The same thing happened to Marina Cities hockey club in the later years of the 90's era. That place was actually a hockey powerhouse but slowly with newer rinks popping up the older rinks lost attention. Bay Harbor also had quite a program as well. However those programs were run by parents of players etc. When rinks like westminster and healthsouth in el segundo opened up they one upped the older clubs by providing paid staff and making the programs a lot more 'official'.