Macquarie Ice Rink

Posted by Posted in About Sydney Posted on 08-04-2010

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ice-rinkAddress: Cnr Waterloo & Herring Rds, North Ryde, NSW, 2113
Phone Number: (02) 98881100

There are so many reasons why people take up ice skating. There are numerous varieties of this sport, as well as categories. The most popular types of Ice skating are offered at Macquarie Ice Rink.

For a day full of fun filled activity, the best thing is to don some warm clothing and head off to Macquarie Ice Rink with your children. It is very popular with the young ones!

Macquarie Ice Rink has a Kiddies Klub. This is run along with the coffee club three days a week in the morning. Here the children are first fitted with comfortable boots of their size. Some children actually come togged out in very fancy sequined outfits adding to the carnival kind of atmosphere at the club.

as there are many different varieties of skating. The list is pretty much endless of every category there is so it is nearly impossible to cover all of them at once. However, certain types are more popular and more well known than others.

Children can take a few lessons, even build things out with the snow that has been shaved off the rink for them, and even sing songs along with the friendly instructor who gets them into the rhythm of skating along with the songs.

Macquarie Ice Rink also runs a Coffee Club too. This Club offers skating lessons which include some choreographed moves that look very graceful. The warm up session is for fifteen minutes which is then followed by a half hour group session and another half hour of free style dancing. This is really fun and even if you are not the athletic sort, and it is great exercise that leaves you feeling invigorated. You can even make friends with fellow students after the class when every one gets together for coffee and sandwiches.

Macquarie Ice Rink is the home of Mcquarie Ice Skating Club

This is a club that has more than 240 members, many of them from various countries in the world and most of them are serious ice skaters with high level of expertise.

The 2006 Olympian, Joanne Carter is a member of this club and so are several other international and Australian champions. Members of the club participate in many Figure Skating Championships too.

As Macquarie Ice Rink is the home rink of the Ice Skating Club, they hold competitions often and one gets to view a lot of experts who participate. The skill and expertise one gets to witness is dazzling.

In case you want to learn Ice Skating or even just watch others skate, you must visit the Macquarie Ice Rink. We are sure that you will have a pleasant time and may be even get enthused enough to take up this sport. It is open to skaters of all levels and they welcome spectators to all competitions. Macquarie Ice Rink even offers private lessons.