Summer Camps????

Hello everyone.

I am writing a quick update to let everyone know what is happening with Focused Skating and our obvious lack of Summer Camp Information. When i got my Summer Ice Contract several months ago, I had been given essentially the same amount of ice that I had last summer. Last summer I had several camps that did not fill and with the addition of 4 or 5 people in the area branching out into power skating, I assumed that numbers would be small again this summer, so when groups and teams started to reach out to book me for long term contracts and semi-private group sessions, I of course jumped at the opportunity.

The unfortunate offshoot of this is that what started out as one or two groups quickly turned in to 4 and 5, bringing us to the current situation, which is that I have only one hour of ice per week here in Kingston to run a camp on. even worse the ice is Wednesday nights at 8:30pm, which will only leave me a very small group of skaters that I can draw from. The camp I will run on that ice would likely be U13+ and it would likely be Rep. players and up. One solution is "buy more ice"! the issue with that is that in the Kingston area, no more ice exists. Sure, I could find some hodge podge hours here and there but I try not to confuse people and have them come an hour early one week or miss a session because this was the week it was started at 6 and not 7. I have aquired some ice in Napanee but they aren't opening until August, which would mean any camps that I will run out there, wouldn't be until later in the summer.

The bottom line is that (barring finding some form of regular ice) the only camp I will be running in Kingston this summer will be from 8:30pm to 9:30pm on Wednesday nights from July through August. I could break this into a July Camp and an August Camp, giving me the ability to run 2 camps, but I don't know what the numbers at U13 and up would support. If peoples 10 and 11 year olds can make it to 10:00pm bedtime during the summer, great, reach out and let me know.

Because this news hasn't been great and you have read all the way to the end of this post, some of the ice I have in Napanee is in 3 day blocks, so I will be using those two blocks to run an older and younger group of my extremely popular SPEED CAMP!! Also, because the Wednesday evenings in Kingston hit the older crowd, my morning Napanee camp will be geared towards the younger players. Sorry for the bad news but unfortunately its all the news I have.