Adult Skating SOS™

System of Skating

Adult Skating Tips and Techniques is presented by Former US Team Ice Dancer, Mimi Wacholder. For the past 30 years, Mimi has advanced her passion for skating by coaching, choreographing and providing off-ice training for adults and youth skaters of all levels. She is based at the Olympic Center in Lake Placid, NY.  She also conducts specialized clinics for skaters and coaches alike. More recently, Mimi has mastered teaching remotely through Zoom and FaceTime lessons both on and off the ice and offering virtual courses and clinics.

System of Skating

The methodology of the system has 3 base categories:
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Alignment
balance

Counterbalance
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Core-rotation
From these simple and easy to understand base categories, all corrections can be made in a simple, applicable approach.
By following along with Adult Skating SOS, skaters will learn this layered system and be trained to diagnose the source of their issue(s) and make forward progress through integration and understanding of these concepts.  These concepts hold true whether you are a beginner skater or an elite competitor.

Adults are the most passionate and dedicated skaters out there--they challenge me to be a better coach because they are always curious to know why. – Mimi

Why Adults?

Adults are ardent and enthusiastic students and they have a lifetime of experiences written in their minds and bodies that affect the learning process. Children tend to skate viscerally and learn by modeling, while adults, seek understanding before application. In short, adults want to know WHY and HOW.  With that in mind, Mimi understands that teaching adults requires specialized skills including knowledge of kinesiology, physics and the ability to articulate in clear and personalized ways. To compliment, she also understands the importance of teaching adults to access ways of play on the ice to return to visceral learning and joy where flow and ease can manifest. In her unique style, Mimi does not teach to correct symptoms of a problem, she teaches in a systematic way to elicit understanding and personal growth.

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Mimi guiding adult student on proper alignment.
Images courtesy of Meleesa Gutierrez. Banner image courtesy of Michael Martineau.
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Mimi Wacholder

Meet Mimi

As a competitive skater she was known for her authenticity as a performer. After retiring from competition, Wacholder became a principal performer in the Ice Capades and also performed and choreographed with the Ice Theatre of NY; she later became an Associate Producer at ABC Sports.  She has BFA in Creative Communications from Emerson College and is a RYT/Structural Yoga Therapist (mimyoga.com) who works with many Olympic Teams in Lake Placid, NY. ​
The same authenticity that Mimi was known for in her performances continues in the ways she connects with her students.  As a lifelong student herself, she is humble, playful and continually finds ways to improve and educate herself and then share her insights and discoveries.
Mimi meets each student where he or she is in the learning process and she believes in her students’ ability to learn and improve.  Mimi understands the adult student:  intellectualizing, self doubting and sometimes fearful. Through her training methods she intills clarity, self-confidence, and inspiration. The concepts of laughter and play are not forgotten elements in her teaching methods as she connects on a personal level with all of her students.

When teaching physics professors from one of the most prestigious schools in the world how to ice skate, you learn the why of everything, for this I am eternally grateful. I was an elite skater when I started coaching, but I didn’t know how skating worked until I applied physics principals, it was fascinating and still is. – Mimi

Mimi credits her students at MIT Figure Skating Club in Cambridge, MA for setting her foundation as a coach as it was there where she learned, the physics of Figure Skating from her students.
Mimi continued to increase her depth of knowledge by studying yoga, barre, pilates and dance and she shares connections to many of these methodologies as she guides her students to better understand the structure and functional capacity of their own bodies.

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