iSkateCoach was founded by a passionate ice skater called Paul Crocker. Paul has over 35 years of ice skating experience (without a break!). He has competed at a Senior competitive level and has been awarded multiple achievements such as British Ice Teachers Associations (BITA) “Young Coach of the Year” 2017 and Inclusive Skating’s highest “Master Coach” award for coaching practice, he also had the honour of attending 2 major world games and most recently as head coach for Team GB at the Special Olympic world winter games. He has also performed in many shows, and has experience to a high level in freestyle skating, ice dance, synchronised skating and pairs skating. He became a coach in 2006 now with over 20 years experience. It was a natural progression to move his coaching online.

“In 2020 when the rinks closed and lockdown hit I started producing content for skaters on social media for off ice training. This was received with so much gratitude! The solution to this came as DMs to me requesting this content in depth! So many people had no experience of off ice training and even more skaters reached out without a coach at all!”

After working for 20 years teaching 1-2-1 in person and now with experience of 5 years on zoom. Finding the best way to present this information and TEACH what people needed was the challenge for Paul as a coach. It was clear from the feedback the courses he created that it worked for skaters like you around the world. 250+ skaters enjoyed these courses and sent Paul messages saying how they had landed the jump they had been trying for years, passed dance tests without a dance coach, and learned a way of progressing, while saving time and money from their home.

Now all that and a full future plan for more content is going in to the app with loads more.