WPCNR RINKSIDE. February 20, 2008: It’s vacation week for White Plains Schools and Kristen Fuerst’s Camp Chill in perfect skating weather at Ebersole Rink is goin on. Over thirty youngsters from  tots to teens are skating from 8:30 in the morning to 12:30, working on power speed classes, in jump and spin clinics, Choreography and instruction in Moves in the Field the footwork patterns and edges required at the escalating United States Figure Skating levels. The day starts with complimentary donuts and juice, then the ice is theirs -- with inside exercises -- and plenty of ice time with the professional Ebersole Figure Skating School Staff.

Jump Class in Session, Chillin Out at Ebersole Rink Camp Chill Wednesday morning.

As the Big Skaters handle the big jumps, the younger skating apprentices practice choreography in side the Warming House. 

Hey Mom! I landed it!  Allison Fuerst, demonstates her new Axel for Ebersole Skating School director, Kristen, her  mom. Allison landed her first clean Axel jump in Jump Class Wednesday – a great moment in a young skater’s life -- that she will never forget.

The Camp Chill program complete with T-shirts and plenty of individual one-on-one instruction is much better than watching television, and the concentration on skills over an extended series of classes introduces skaters to the nuances of the sport, corrects, polishes, and moves them to “the next level.”

Chill runs every winter break at Ebersole, and has been going for at least fourteen years.

Skating School Director Kirsten Fuerst congratulates her daughter, Allison on landing her first Axel jump.