News and Announcements

• Tuesday Evening Session: There will be one additional Tuesday evening session at Ingalls Rink from 6:30–7:30 on March 6. This session extends the prepaid season. Subscribers pay $20 at the door; guest fee remains $25. This is sponsored jointly by the Yale Figure Skating Club and the Hamden Figure Skating Association.

• Test session: There will be a test session on March 15 from 4–7 pm. Click here for an application form.

• Year end recital and party: Our year-end celebration will be on March 25. Watch the calendar for times.

• Volunteers: Volunteers are urgently needed for two end-of-season events.

  • Help with the test session March 15.

  • Help with the show on March 25.

  We need people to help as runnners and to help with the food and music. Please contact Bobbi Nesheim or Mary Lee.

• Coaches: If you haven’t already, be sure to check out the new Club Coaches section on our website, www.yale.edu/yfsc/coaches.html. Kudos to Bobbi Nesheim and Alice Fischer for doing a beautiful job of putting this information together!

Hello YFSC Members, Parents, and Skaters!

Welcome for New and Returning Members

We have had a wonderful fall season and are happy to announce our “spring” schedule, which will begin on January 7th. A printable calendar is attached.

Elsewhere on this web site you will find a wealth of information about the Club and its programs. For questions, please contact us by email at yalefsc@gmail.com, leave a message at 203-432-1233, or contact one of the officers. Please be sure to look over the website before registering, and especially note the following:

• Basic Skills sessions: The format and times are the same as last year.
• Saturday morning advanced sessions: For those who like to get up early, we will continue to have our mixed Moves, Freestyle, and Dance session from 8:15–9:35. Note that higher level Basic Skills skaters are welcome to subscribe to the last half hour to get more practice or to have private lessons.
• Sunday sessions:
• • The Sunday evening sessions have been reconfigured into three 1-hour Moves, Freestyle, and Dance sessions (MFD). During MFD1, optional Bridge and Dance group lessons are offered. All skaters in this session are expected to be especially cautious; double jumps and fast-moving, high level skating are not appropriate.
  • The Bridge group lesson will be held during the first half hour (5:10–5:40) of MFD1. Bridge is an introduction to advanced skating: freestyle, moves-in-the-field, dance, and synchronized skating. Those enrolled in Basic Skills and who have passed Level 4 or Adult 2 should seriously consider enrolling for the extra half hour. Those who have completed Basic Skills will want to enroll in both the hour MFD1 session and the half-hour Bridge lesson.
  • The Ice Dance group lesson will be in the second half hour (5:40–6:10) of Sunday MFD1. As with Bridge, it can be taken as either a half-hour stand-alone session, or added to MFD1.
  • Space permitting, the option of adding an additional half hour is available to those subscribing to MFD2 or MFD3.
• Private Lessons: We encourage all skaters to consider taking private lessons. Please email Bobbi Nesheim at bk.titles@comcast.net for advice on finding a coach, or for coach contact information.