News and Announcements

• New Tuesday Evening Session: We are pleased to announce a special Tuesday evening session at Ingalls Rink from 6:30–7:30 for 6 weeks beginning January 24th. This is sponsored jointly by the Yale Figure Skating Club and the Hamden Figure Skating Association. Details and instructions on how to subscribe may be found on the Tuesday evening subscription form.

• Registration for Spring Term: For returning members, we hope you will want to join us again, and we ask that you complete the attached Spring Registration Form for Current Members. Skaters who were not YFSC members in the fall should instead fill out the Combined Membership and Spring Registration Form and an Emergency Form.

• Volunteers: Volunteers are always needed to help with Club activities. Please indicate on the form how you can help, and feel free to approach any of our board members with questions or suggestions. Their names and numbers are listed in the brochure section of our website

• 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!

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.