Everybody starts somewhere — and kids start SAFE. Spark is the club's beginners' program, built for kids first: real classes, real instructors, helmets on every head. Grown-up beginners start here too. Just lace up.
Spark is training wheels done right: kids learn to skate in a coached class, on real safety gear, before speed ever enters the picture. Safety isn't a section of Spark — safety IS Spark.
Helmet on every head, pads on knees and wrists — and falling is taught FIRST: how to go down soft and pop right back up.
Skate trainers for the wobbliest first laps, cones and floor markers for drills, and trainer skates sized for little feet.
Structured classes inside the rinks' lesson blocks — warm-up circle, skill stations, games on skates. It's fun — and it IS a class.
Every Spark class runs under a coach's eyes, in small groups. Kids learn balance, stopping, and falling before they learn speed — and the class moves at its slowest skater's pace until the basics hold. No skater is ever on the floor unsupervised.
The instructors: club coaches teach inside the rinks' own lesson time on Thursdays and Saturdays. Corey teaches as a junior instructor under the registered coach, and Spark assistants from the junior crew help on the floor — real people, real supervision. Grown-up beginners: same safe basics, same coaches — Spark is still your door in. Rentals $5.50, helmet required.
Laps together and balance games — helmets checked before the first roll
Stopping, turning, falling soft — one skill at a time
Relays and follow-the-leader — the fun is the training
Class ends rolling with the crew, music up — the part they talk about all week
Beginners — learn to skate, first steps, first speed steps
Club racing under the lights, Wednesday race nights
The travel team — USARS meets up and down the coast
The ladder is the club's patch ladder, too: SPARK → LEAGUE → ELITE. You earn your way up it one rung at a time.
Join the club — the first 50 mailer sign-ups get membership FREE (after the fifty, $10 for the year), with the welcome kit: lanyard, stickers, badges for your skates. Sign up on the club home page and start in Spark. Then pick your door when you're ready: Delaware Ignite for speed, Sticks & Stones for shuffle, and gear up at The Speed Shop on the way.