I just found out a couple weeks ago, the
Aliso Viejo Ice Palace opened an extension facility in Lake Forest last September!
Lake Forest Ice Palace
Less than 3 miles from home!
This is great news, as my son is almost 4 years old, and he has been talking up learning to skate!
Looks like I'm going to have to get myself on a pair of skates as well if I want to fully enjoy the time with my boy. I haven't been in ice skates in 22 years.
My questions to the players on the board, what would be the best route for picking up the sport? Beginner skate lessons? I don't want to just jump in and start any bad habits off the bat.
And what is the average learning curve for an adult beginning skating, to actually learning to play hockey?
I'm assuming everyone is different, and practice, practice, practice is the real answer?
I figure I can invest about an hour for 3 days a week for the foreseeable future. I wasn't too bad at skating with roller-blades in the 90s. But that was jumping stairs and grinding waxed up planters, not hockey. I've been a skateboarder my whole life, so I'm not intimidated by speed or aggressive maneuvering.
No matter what, I'm excited and I figured some might not know there's an relatively new facility in South OC!