Plan the session. Log the glide.
You have an open skate tonight and an hour on the ice, or a free afternoon at the roller rink. Open Skates turns the skills you are working on into a timed practice plan you can carry in your pocket, then keeps a private Skate Card of how each skill is going.
Plan a session See the skill ladder
- For grown-ups and kids teaching themselves to skate
- Ice, inline and quad
- Free
- No account, no email
Example plan
30 minutes on ice
- 0'Warm-up5 min
- 5'Forward stroking7 min
- 12'Forward swizzles7 min
- 19'One-foot glide6 min
- 25'Review: forward stroking3 min
- 28'Cool-down2 min
One loop, every session
Choose, skate, log. The card remembers, so the next plan starts where you left off.
The night before
A ladder of 20 skills
From falling safely and the ready position to crossovers, T-stops and backward crossovers, in four levels. Each skill has three practice cues, one drill and a plain check of when you have it.
At the rink
A plan that fits your time
Pick 20, 30, 45, 60 or 90 minutes and up to four skills. The plan splits the time into warm-up, one block per skill, a review and a cool-down, and prints as a pocket card.
After the session
Your Skate Card
After the session, log the minutes and rate each skill shaky, getting it or solid. Rate a skill solid in two sessions and it is marked solid; the card then suggests what to work on next.
Four levels, one rung at a time
Work from the first level up: each one leans on the one before.
- 1Find your feet6 skills: Fall and get up, Ready position, March, then glide…
- 2Moving with control5 skills: Forward stroking (push and glide), Forward swizzles, One-foot glide…
- 3Edges and stops5 skills: Forward curves (edges), Two-foot turn (forward to backward), Forward crossovers…
- 4Flow and backwards4 skills: Backward one-foot glide, Backward crossovers, Forward-to-backward step turn (mohawk)…
How a skill becomes solid
After each session you rate the skills you worked on. Until a skill is solid, the latest rating shows.
- ShakyRating 1 of 3
- Getting itRating 2 of 3
- SolidRating 3 of 3, given in two different sessions
Prices
| Free$0 | Skate Pass$1.95 / monthor $19.50 / year (two months free) | |
|---|---|---|
| The full skill ladder | Included | Included |
| Practice plans of any length, as often as you like | Included | Included |
| Printable pocket card | Included | Included |
| Skate Card | 10 sessions | Up to 1,000 sessions, full history |
| Minutes-per-week chart, last 12 weeks | Not included | Included |
| Printable season report of every skill | Not included | Included |
| CSV export of your sessions | Not included | Included |