Welcome to the 2024-25 Skating Season!
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Skills, Tests, Achievement, Recognition – this is what STARSkate is all about!
Semi-Private and Private Lessons
All STARSkate registrants follow by the STAR Stream Assessment model and you are agreeing to incur the cost of Junior/Intermediate/Senior StarSkate lessons provided to your StarSkater by individually contracted Professional Coach(es) within the Akasaka Figure Skating Club. These Lessons are invoiced privately by each contacted coach separate from Registration Fees charged by the Akasaka Figure Skating Club.
Dressing Room Guidelines for STARSkaters
As a guideline for Intermediate and Senior levels, if a male parent is required to tie a skater's skates, they should do so outside of the dressing room. If a male must enter for anything else, they must announce themselves before entering to ensure all skaters are dressed and permission is given to enter the dressing room. Thank you in advance for your understanding.
Program Assistants
As a part of our skating program, STARSkate skaters must help out with the CanSkate program by assisting the coaches during weekly practices. Our Program Assistants (PA’s) dedicate their time to help our new and young skaters learn and develop new skills on the ice.
STARSkate Music Playing
Each month, the coaches will post a music schedule that will require someone from each family to play music for different skating sessions. This ensures that coaches and skaters are making the most of their time on the ice during lessons and not worrying about changing songs when required.
It is the responsibility of each family to reschedule and/or change a shift with another family if they cannot cover their day(s).
Testing & Assessments
If you have been contacted by a Coach to indicate that your skater is being tested for a STAR skills, free skate (also freeskate, free skating) or dance level, you are required to pay the testing fee for the assessment as well. This fee is collected by Skate Canada, and is the responsibility of the skater.
The Four Areas of Figure Skating Skills
Skating Skills
Skating Skills are a combination of fundamental skating movements, executed on a pattern and skated solo. The basic components of all disciplines of figure skating are incorporated into the program. The movements are derived from former compulsory figures, free skating and ice dancing. The objective of the Skating Skills program is mastery of the basic fundamentals of skating - edge quality, control, power and speed.
There are eleven Skating Skills tests in the STARSkate program:
- Star 1
- Star 2
- Star 3
- Star 4
- Star 5
- Star 6
- Star 7
- Star 8
- Star 9
- Star 10
- Gold
Free Skate
Free skating consists of the execution of jumps, spins, footwork, field movements and stroking, either in isolation or performed in sequence to music. Each test consists of 2 parts - Elements in Isolation and a Free Program.
There are twenty Free Skating tests in the STARSkate program:
- Star 1
- Star 2 Elements & Program
- Star 3 Elements & Program
- Star 4 Elements & Program
- Star 5 Elements & Program
- Star 6 Elements & Program
- Star 7 Elements & Program
- Star 8 Elements & Program
- Star 9 Elements & Program
- Star 10 Elements & Program
- Gold Program
Ice Dance
Consisting of fourteen levels of tests, the Dance Test program teaches timing, musicality, rhythm interpretation, structure as well as basic skating skills such as edges, flow, control and unison.The dances in the STARSkate Program can be tried in any order but a candidate must pass the required number of dances in a dance test before proceeding to the next level. In addition to the traditional compulsory dances, there are also Creative Dances to challenge skaters' creativity, artistry and originality.
The Dance Tests are as follows:
- Star 1 Elements
- Star 2a Dutch Waltz
- Star 2b Canasta Tango
- Star 3a Baby Blues
- Star 3b Elements
- Star 4a Swing Dance
- Star 4b Fiesta Tango
- Star 5a Willow Waltz
- Star 5b Elements
- Star 6a Ten Fox, 14 Step
- Star 6b Fourteen Step
- Star 6c European
- Star 7a Foxtrot
- Star 7b Tango
- Star 7c American Waltz
- Star 8a Kilian
- Star 8b Rocker Foxtrot
- Star 8c Starlight Waltz
- Star 9a Paso Doble
- Star 9b Blues
- Star 9c Silver Samba
- Star 10a Cha Cha
- Star 10b Westminister Waltz
- Star 10c Quickstep
- Gold A Viennese Waltz
- Gold B Argentine Tango
- Gold C Open Solo Rhythm Dance
- Diamond - Rhumba, Tango Romantica, Yankee Polka, Ravensburg Waltz
Artistic
The objective of the Artistic program is to encourage and develop skaters' creativity, expression, musicality, movement, interpretation of music, as well as the use of space, rhythm, line and style. The program provides skaters with the opportunity to explore the performance aspect of skating without focusing on technical elements.
- Star 5
- Star 7
- Star 9
- Gold
The Three Levels of Skating Tests
The STARSkate program consists of figure skating skills in four areas - Skating Skills, Ice Dance, Free Skate and Artistic.
Coach Assessed
Skating Skills:
Star 1, Star 2, Star 3, Star 4, Star 5
Free Skating:
Star 1, Star 2, Star 3, Star 4, Star 5
Dance:
Star 1, Star 2a, 2b, Star 3a, 3b, Star 4a, 4b, Star 5a, 5b
Artistic:
Star 5
Evaluator Assessed
Skating Skills:
Star 6, Star 7, Star 8, Star 9, Star 10 and Gold
Free Skating:
Star 6, Star 7, Star 8, Star 9, Star 10 and Gold
Dance:
Star 6a, 6b, 6c, Star 7a, 7b, 7c, Star 8a, 8b, 8c, Star 9a, 9b, 9c, Star 10a, 10b, 10c and Gold A, B, C
Artistic:
Star 7, Star 9 and Gold
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