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FIGURE SKATER FITNESS

NOTE FROM PUBLISHER

MAGAZINE

THANK YOU
TO EVERYONE
WHO HAS
CONTRIBUTED
TO FIGURE
SKATER
FITNESS!

• makes skating smoother
• improves feel and stability
• increases agility and speed

PUBLISHER/EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Signe Ronka
MANAGING EDITOR
Dawn Drummond-Hill
SENIOR EDITOR
Kristen Piche
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Angela Ronka
CONTRIBUTING
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Christian Bonin
Stephan Potopnyk
WRITERS
Charlene Bailey
Ricky Boudreau
Meghan Buttle
Becki Cosford
Brandon Crowe
Lauren Downes MSPT
Dave Drake
Rebekah Dixon
Emily FitzGerald
Karlee Gendron
Dr. Judy Goss
Kristen Piché
Signe Ronka
Calea Souter
Garnet Suidy

The new anti-shock system reduced impact shocks,
the major cause of overuse skating injuries.
Available in March

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Envinion

HAPPY 1 YEAR
ANNIVERSARY TO
FIGURE SKATER FITNESS
MAGAZINE!
I want to thank all of our readers,
supporters and everyone involved with
the magazine in the last year.

I

would like to dedicate this issue
in memory of my long time
skating coach Ellen Burka. She
passed away last month at the
age of 95. Ellen coached many great
skaters including, Toller
Cranston, Karen
Preston, Elvis
Stojko, Dorothy
Hamill, Petra
Burka, Tracey
Wainman and
many more.
She was a skating
legend, but most of all
my long time coach, friend and biggest
mentor. Ellen was very excited when
I was telling her about launching this
magazine last year- she said “Finally
the kids will have more knowledge of
off ice training.”
Welcome back skaters, coaches, and
parents to another amazing year of
training. As the skaters settle back into
school, they are also getting ready to
go into competition mode.
I hope you all had a great summer
and an even better off-season training.

I hope you were able to use some of
our tips from the off-season issue to get
you started for the new year.
I’m so excited about this pre-season
issue. We have so many experts writing
for us, giving us in depth knowledge in
all areas of training.
This issue we are spotlighting USA ice
dancers, Maia and Alex Shibutani, twotime World medalists, the 2016 Four
Continents champions, two-time (2011
and 2015) NHK Trophy champions,
the 2009 World Junior silver medalists,
and the 2016 U.S. national champions.
They were members of the US Olympic
team and competed at the 2014
Winter Olympics. Find out their off ice
training habits and how they plan to
strive for success this season.

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Signe

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