I was counting my blessings having access to an ice rink only 5 minutes from my house. Another happy day of smiling skaters achieving new things and me being challenged by their skating needs – I was living the dream as I had been for over 10 years.

I remembered the news, they said: “We will be going into lockdown”.

 “What does that mean for ice coaches? What about the skaters?” The short-term shock of “what were we going to do??” While trying to explain the situation to my confused and worried kids’ faces, while hiding my own, and feeling a huge responsibility to help them and my skaters.

Only a few online resources existed, it was clear, as I spent time online that the skating community was so grateful for any off-ice help, motivation, and positivity we could bring!

 The next year was spent on Zoom, teaching, learning from coaches I never had access to before, motivating the community and posting constantly new content to help. Online skating was possible and I was on a mission!

 But the hero of this story is NOT me. The heroes here are the skating community!

 A request came in from them – “Can you make a video showing us how to do all the jumps off ice?” I thought, “why not?”.

When I put it out there it went really well – people were so grateful!

When people had seen that training they asked again – “Can you make a video on how to get from singles to double jumps?”

So I did, and that went crazy too! I’ve hosted 3 courses now on my website and all have done well, in total over 250 skaters have learnt from them and that is mind-blowing to me!

 I’m just a passionate coach, I’ve had a journey like many other coaches but here are 250 skaters from around the world learning from me! “Wow!” I thought to myself!

 Ugh! Technology!

 With my website, I ran into endless problems, “how do I get these courses out there?”, “how do I take payments?”, “how do I get this plugin to work with that plugin?” – If you’ve ever built a website you’ll know the stress I’m talking about here! Skaters told me they could only access this information on their PC, they wanted an APP!

So now thanks to an online App builder it has been easy for me to bring all the learnings to you guys in an easy-to-use, easy-to-manage, easy-to-build-on App!

Now skaters can have these courses and knowledge, and community, and motivation and workouts in the palm of their hand, at the rink, on the bus and at home! With less headaches for me with tech and more benefits for you!