Practicing

Clothes should be tight so I can see your body lines. Leggings, tights and skirts are preferred and tight fitting tops.
Do not wear baggy sweatshirts or shirts with hoods.
T-shirts are okay if they are tucked into your pants.
Clothes should be clean and neat. Do not wear clothes with holes, stains or that are smelly.
Wear tight fitting gloves.
The Inver Grove rink gets cold. Wear several layers of warm clothing and wear mittens if you need. Headbands that cover the ears are good, but do not wear hats.
Hair should be pulled back and neat and out of your face. It is dangerous to have your hair in your eyes when you are skating with other people.

Competition Practicing

At a competition, you need to wear black leggings, your club or gold medalist jacket, neutral colored gloves and a tight athletic shirt under your jacket. You may need to wear your competition dress for practice ice if you have an event soon or you can wear a dress during practice ice.
Your hair should be neat with no flyaways and pulled out of your face.
No holes in any piece of clothing or dirty or stained attire either.
Earrings should be small.
You are representing your club and who you are as a person on practice ice so make sure to look presentable.

Testing

Wear your dress for your freeskate test with nice hair.
For skating skill tests, you can wear black leggings, black gloves, a black long sleeve tight shirt and a black jacket. Please make sure your hair is pulled back and out of your face.

When we do your season planning meeting, we will discuss your dress for the upcoming competitive season or for any high level tests.
The dress does need to help tell the story that program music is trying to convey.
At the higher levels of skating, you score can be affected if the dress doesn’t make sense with the music.
If you use a dress designer, contact them early in the year, and plan anywhere from 1-6 months to have the dress made.
Myself or the choreographer should be involved in the dress designing process, especially when skaters are younger.
Not all skaters need super expensive dresses. It really depends upon the look we are going for, the level of skating we are at and what the family and skater wants.
ALL COSTUMES MUST BE APPROVED BY ME BEFORE PURCHASING! Skaters who wear dresses that violate the rules of skating, are distasteful or of questionable design do so at their own risk, and coaches may not want to be by the door to help your skater at a competition.

Please make sure you are wearing deodorant if you are older.
Do not walk around ice arenas, the lobby or bathrooms in your socks or be barefoot in those spaces.
Wash and change out your skating tights, socks and gloves regularly.
There will be more about foot and skate care in the Resource page, but please make sure you are airing your skates out thoroughly each day to avoid any foot funguses.