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Although our feet lack the opposable thumbs required for whittling, our mirrored appendages prove their worth through other activities. Today's Groupon displays your walkers' talents with admission, skate rental, and $5 worth of concession refreshments from Arcadia Ice Arena for $7. Once you learn the rules of the rink, you'll be able to dole out such mixed compliments as "You really Yamaguchi'd that one."
Ice is nothing more than water that won't let people swim in it. Such stubbornness deserves comeuppance in the form of sharp metallic blades that merrily criss-cross to and fro across the frozen surface. Arcadia Ice Arena is Phoenix's only full-service ice center, and the arena offers public skating on weekday mornings and afternoons, and Friday and Saturday nights, with additional times depending on the day. See the full calendar for public skating times.
While pundits may doubt your double lutzes and be fickle toward your figure eights, the rhythmic glee of ice skating will negate the naysayers. Fuel your body at the concession stand before impressing friends, strangers, and that cute red-haired girl you've been trying to woo since 1950 while proving the efficacy of your skating ankles and the charm of your Olympic Bengal leotard.
On the slim chance that global warming actually refers to the Earth cooling into a chilly ice-ball, the city's ice-skaters will be our social and political champions. Test your sudden stopping skills and create fistfuls of shaved ice to bring home to your collection of flavored ice syrups at the Tiki Bar.
Concessions are open on Friday nights and all day on Saturdays. If the stand isn't open when you visit, your Groupon will still be honored with ice cream and candy bars.
Reviews
Four Insider Pagers, a lone Judy's Book reviewer, and multiple Yelpers all agree that Arcadia Ice Arena is worthy of a solid four stars:
- It was a fun family atmosphere, clean building, reasonable prices, and great snack bar food!! – Jason S., Insider Pages
- Its [sic] so much fun to skate there in the torrid Arizona summer. The skate rentals and the fee is so reasonable and the arena itself is nice and well maintained. – Prachi M., Judy's Book
- This is such a fun place to take the entire family, regardless if they can ice skate or not. – Lisa M., Insider Pages
Groupon Says
Figure-Skating Tricks for You and Yours
Today's Groupon can start you on the path to becoming a professional figure skater, but to go pro, you'll need to master the moves. Here are some top-level figure-skating tricks you can work on:
Double Axel-Split: This tricky move requires the skater to be very sad, because an unhappy frame of mind adds impressive difficulty. The move looks like a normal spin, but the judges, who are trained to read emotions, can tell if the skater feels crushed by disappointment. The double axel-split was first performed in the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics by Devlin "Sadness Prophet" Scherzin.
Desert Wind: After beginning with an athletic leap, skaters must transmogrify into a pile of sand mid-flight. Now scattered all over the ice, the sand is allowed up to 15 minutes to turn back into a person; otherwise, it is scooped up by the skater's next of kin and used to light an eternal flame.
The 1962 Buick Skylark Roadster Premier Edition Half-Loop: The first ice-skating trick to be sponsored by a major corporation, figure skater Eileen Ray-Arnold was paid $10,000 each time she performed the trick during her routine at the World Skating Congress in 1997, provided that she also screamed the words "Skylark is king!" each time.
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